The British East India Company

The english were trying to get a piece of the china trade. The wily portuguese, having a long head arton them, had been pretty successful in greasing the right palms in the south of china to keep the english out. They tried and tried to find all kinds of ways to break down the door and fan out across china to trade. Chinese porcelain was all the rage in europe. And both royalty and aristocrats in all the palaces and great estates just couldn't get enough of all these absolutely incredible and unique products that ch China had to offer. So this is how it was for almost a hundred years, china traded silks,