Guests with august anger--the shame of changing masters: In 1843, after the British East India Company had broken the Ch'ing Dynasty's monopoly of Chinese trade, the British pursued profits by forcing the opium trade on China, which eventually resulted in the outbreak of the Opium War. Unable to defeat the foreign guns, the corrupt Ch'ing court had no choice but to pay an indemnity and sue for peace.
客途秋恨，易主為恥一八四三年，英屬東印度公司喪失與清廷貿易的專利後，英國為圖暴利，竟搶著加入鴉片煙販售行列，終而爆發中英鴉片戰爭；腐敗的滿清打不過洋槍洋砲，只得割地賠款乞和。