With fast changes of political situations in the second half of 19 century, Shandong Tuan' lien, which appeared to resist Taiping Army at the very beginning, experienced springing up, flourishing, declining, rebounding, flourishing again, declining again, until it was changed into police and finally went out of history stage.
Therefore, to put the foreign debts in the theoretical framework of political control , the essay analyzes the influence on power conflict and reform in late Qing China, and furthermore, delves into the reason why politics situation lost control in late Qing Dynasty.
Their activities in Shanghai were the link between the two most developed areas in modern China, which influenced the social development of Shanghai and Canton, and even affected the political situation of the late Qing period.