林则徐于1832年补授江苏巡抚，其中两度出任总督。他在江苏任职的五年中，处理了清代极为棘手的钱漕、灾赈、水利、盐政、货币等实际事务。他面对地方上水旱频仍、经济残破、官场腐败、民生凋弊的现实，进行了“兴利除弊”、“损上益下”的改革，试图“利国便民”，发展农商业 Lin Zexu replenished the governor of Jiangsu in 1832, of which twice served as governor. During his five-year tenure in Jiangsu, he handled the extremely difficult realities of money supply, disaster relief, water conservancy, salt politics and money in the Qing Dynasty. In the face of the frequent drought in the water market in the People’s Republic of China, the economic downturn, the corruption of the officialdom and the livelihood of the people, he carried out the reforms of “prospering the benefits and reducing profits” and “benefiting the interests of others”