Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled to xi 'an via Taiyuan. Before fleeing, Li Hongzhang was sent as a representative to make peace, but the invaders were in no hurry to hold discussions immediately. After repeated discussions, countries decided to make peace with the Qing government and continue to maintain the rule headed by Empress Dowager Cixi. 10 10/4, France submitted a memorandum to all countries, including six requirements, such as punishing the perpetrators, paying reparations, stationing troops in and around Beijing, and dismantling Dagu Fort, as a prerequisite for peace talks, which was approved by all countries. Britain, Russia, Germany, Japan, the United States and other countries supplemented the French proposal and expanded it into twelve articles of the Outline of Peace Talks, which was forced to be accepted by the Qing government on February 24, 65438. Since then, they have drawn up detailed terms according to the outline, and on September 7th, 190 1 year (July 25th, the 27th year of Guangxu), they formally signed the Peace of Xin and Chou with Li Hongzhang, a representative of the Qing government. In addition to the formal agreement, the treaty has 19 annexes. Its main contents are as follows: ① China paid 450 million taels of silver to other countries and paid it off in 39 years, including interest, totaling more than 982 million taels, which was called "boxer indemnity" in history. Designated tariffs, conventional tariffs and salt taxes at trading ports as compensation. Russia claims the most, reaching1.300 million yuan, accounting for 29% of the total; Followed by Germany, accounting for 20%. (2) Demolition of Dagu Fort and establishment of an embassy district in Beijing, where China people are not allowed to live. In addition to troops stationed in the embassy district, foreign troops are stationed in 12 places along the railway from Beijing to Shanhaiguan. (3) China people will never be allowed to form or join anti-imperialist organizations, and offenders will be put to death; Local officials, from the governor to below, will be "dismissed immediately and never reused" if they do not punish foreigners or defaulters within their jurisdiction in time; For officials attached to the Boxer Rebellion, the central government has imprisoned, exiled and executed more than 100 people from princes and ministers to governors. All towns where anti-imperialist struggles have taken place will stop scientific research for five years. (4) The Foreign Affairs Department of the Prime Minister was changed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the "class ahead of the ministries", headed by the princes of the Qing Dynasty, and there were two ministers, one of whom was the Minister of Military Aircraft. ⑤ Revising the new commercial contract, the Qing government will "discuss the terms of commercial shipping with a view to simplifying it" and dredge the rivers in Tianjin and Shanghai. The amount of compensation and harsh conditions stipulated in the Xin Chou Treaty are unprecedented. It was a great blackmail and humiliation to the people of China, and also made the Qing government completely lose its independent status.

The Boxer Rebellion is a spontaneous mass anti-imperialist patriotic movement. Without unified organization, centralized leadership and concerted action, failure is inevitable. However, from their personal experience, the Boxers realized that foreign invaders were the main enemies of the people of China. Proceeding from this perceptual knowledge, they bravely fought against the imperialist aggressors and showed the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation.