Beacon Fire Tower

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation was turbulent. Due to the defeat in the Second Opium War, various powers began to launch large-scale aggressive wars against China. In addition, the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government at that time forced it to sign the Sino-British Yantai Treaty with the United Kingdom, which was humiliating and humiliating. In the treaty, the British required the Qing government to unconditionally open treaty ports in the northern coastal areas, mainly Yantai, and in the southwest, allowing British merchant ships to flood into China in large numbers. At the same time, they also began to impose large-scale monopolies and economic sanctions on China at that time. Since the opening of foreign trade ports in the coastal areas of Yantai and other places, a large number of foreign forces or civil organizations have begun to influx, which has had a great impact on the family business of the two major local merchants in Yantai. Some relatively small family forces began to fall apart in an instant. Rumors spread all of a sudden, and people everywhere in the city became panicked.