Thereafter this map was used as reference for the signing of Treaty of Shimonoseki.

The Treaty of Shimonoseki alone earned Japan 230 million taels of silver in extortion money, about four and a half times its annual national revenue.

After the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895 and the 1901 Treaty was signed, the (semicolonial) and semifeudal society took shape in China.