Although later, under mediation by British envoys, the Qing court would have to pay 52,000 taels in compensation to Japan and silently relinquish claims to Okinawa as a result of the Mudan Incident, Shen's policy of "developing the mountains and pacifying the aborigines" blazed the trail for Liu Mingchuan to follow with his "new policies."
雖然後來清廷在英國使臣的調停下，以賠償軍費五十萬兩言和，琉球主權默認為日本所有，但沈葆楨來台後所擬的「開山與撫番」並進的政策，為後來劉銘傳的「新政」開了先路。