What caused the Taiping uprising?

The reasons for the Taiping uprising, which began in 1850, were: the economic and military expansion of the Western capitalist powers, which led to the import of huge amounts of opium into China and, as a result, drug addiction to a significant part of the country’s inhabitants and a catastrophic outflow of silver, which led to the impoverishment of the population and an increase in the tax burden, the relocation of trade centers with foreign countries to coastal cities located in the Yangtze River basin from the southern provinces, which led to the loss of sources of income for the poorest part of the population of these provinces, as well as natural disasters (floods, droughts) that provoked significant human casualties and crop failures.