After the People's Army successfully occupied Qingdao, Xiao Jianjun, the commander-in-chief of the front line, ordered the Qingdao front line commander to immediately dispatch troops to various key areas of Jiaozhou Bay to complete the People's Army's comprehensive occupation of Jiaozhou Bay. ⊙Dingdian Novel,...

Although this battle mainly occurred in Qingdao, according to the Jiaoao Lease Treaty signed by Germany and the Qing court, the areas rented by Germany actually included the entire Jiaozhou Bay coast, with a total area of ​​about 5,500 square kilometers. This is also the general scope of the entire Qingdao city in the old time and space. Qingdao is commonly referred to as just a peninsula area on the east coast of Jiaozhou Bay, that is, the area where the battle took place.

Even though the People's Army paid a significant price to defeat the German army and occupy Qingdao, of course, it was necessary to accept all German leased areas, rather than to only be limited to Qingdao. Therefore, Xiao Jianjun ordered the army to seize the entire Jiaozhou Bay as soon as possible to avoid long nights and dreams. If it was occupied by the Qing army, it would be a little troublesome. Although it is not very likely to take the opportunity to seize Jiaozhou Bay with the Qing army's urinary nature, it is necessary to guard against it. After all, the time travelers do not want to completely break up with the Qing court.

Luo Yue's first battalion received an order to station the entire west bank of Jiaozhou Bay, which is a narrow and long area on Yinghai Town in the north and Huangdao in the south. The widest from east to west is only 7 or 8 kilometers, while the length from north to south is more than 30 kilometers. It is also the largest area in the garrison area.

During the Qingdao Battle, Luo Yue's first battalion lost 92 people, including 73 people killed and 19 others injured, and was unable to participate in the battle in a short period of time. After the Qingdao Battle, the first battalion was also supplemented by 65 soldiers, some of whom were new recruits transporting supplies from Tianjin, and a small number of local residents collected in Shandong. For example, among the twelve people taken in Laoshan, 5 were assigned to the first battalion.

Despite this, the number of troops in the first battalion is less than 400. Of course, it is not easy to station in such a vast area. However, there is no way to do so, because there are only so many people in the People's Army now, and the First Battalion is the strongest combat power among the People's Army, so naturally it has to undertake the most difficult tasks.

Of course, garrisoning does not mean defense, you only need to maintain control over this area. In addition, most of the areas where Luo Yue wants to station are wilderness areas and not a large population. In fact, the entire Jiaozhou Bay area was underdeveloped in this era and had a very small population. According to the household registration statistics of the Qing court, the Jiaozhou Bay area rented by Germany reached 5,500 square kilometers, but only more than 80,000 people. Even though there are some uncounted populations, the total is only about 100,000 at most, and the population is mostly distributed in Qingdao. The population on the west coast of Jiaozhou Bay is less than 20,000, roughly distributed in the three areas of Yinghai Town, Hongshiya Town, and Huangdao. Therefore, it is enough to control these three areas. Moreover, the time travelers have advanced communication equipment, and the connection between each other is not a problem.

Luo Yue stationed three company horses in the battalion to Yinghai Town, Hongshiya Town, and Huangdao. The distance between these three areas is within 15 kilometers. If an emergency occurs, other troops can come to support the troops within about 1 hour. The command center also knew that the responsibilities of the first battalion were arduous, so he also transferred three warrior vehicles to facilitate the communication between the stations.

The battalion of the first battalion is located in Yinghai Town by Luo Yue. The northernmost part of the first battalion is also the northwest corner of the entire Jiaozhou Bay area. It is the deepest in the inland area and has the largest population, with a population of about 7,000. It is adjacent to the Red Station District in the south and Jiaozhou in the north, which is an important node on the Jiaoji Railway.

The People's Army's entry into the Jiaozhou Bay area did not cause much reaction in the local area. Not to mention the news about overseas Chinese, many local people didn't even know about the incident of Germany's forced rental of Jiaozhou Bay. This is mainly because the news of this era was blocked, and the Jiaozhou Bay area was not a developed area, so the transmission of information was even more delayed. On the other hand, Germany's rental of Jiaozhou Bay was not long and had not established effective management in the Jiaozhou Bay area. For areas outside the island, the local former Qing court officials or local gentry were basically appointed to manage it.

For ordinary people in the local area, their lives have not changed. Those who manage themselves are still those who rent and pay so much, nothing has changed. It doesn’t matter whether this land is under the jurisdiction of the Qing court or the Germans. Anyway, you can just live your life.

However, the officials and local gentry are of course much more informed than ordinary people. They not only know that the Jiaozhou Bay area has changed hands now, but also heard about some overseas Chinese. They know that this is a group of descendants of former dynasties living overseas, but are Chinese ethnic groups, and they are very powerful in wars. Even foreigners have been defeated by them. Now they have driven away the Germans and replaced Germany to rule the Jiaozhou Bay area.

But these officials and local gentry were not very afraid, because no matter who ruled here, if they wanted to effectively manage this land, they had to rely on their own grassroots management. Because during the Qing Dynasty rule, no matter how local officials were, local officials and gentry were almost unmoved for a long time. This is also a characteristic of ancient China, that is, no matter how local officials change, local grassroots were always in the hands of officials or local gentry. Every local official must have a good relationship with local officials and gentry, otherwise they would not be able to play locally. In Chinese history, because they could not have good relationship with local officials and gentry, countless people were squeezed away by local officials and gentry.

Of course, if you encounter an honest and upright official like Bao Zheng and Hai Rui, you may be able to kill a few local officials and gentry who committed evil, but you are unable to shake the entire local officials and gentry class.

Even if there is a dynasty change, as long as there is no class-related massacre like "Yangzhou Ten Days, Yongding Three Massacres", even the new rulers must rely on local officials and gentry to manage the grassroots of the new dynasty. Local officials and gentry often transform into the situation and become the cornerstone of the new dynasty's rule.

After the Germans rented Jiaozhou Bay, although local officials and gentry were nervous for a while, they found out that the Germans also needed to manage the place themselves. Although overseas Chinese drove the Germans away, they were no exception, not to mention that overseas Chinese are also Chinese ethnic groups. They also need their own group of people to manage the place well.

When Luo Yue led the army to Yinghai Town, local officials and gentry took the initiative to organize some people to welcome Luo Yue's troops, and also delivered 200 taels of silver, 50 stone meters, 10 jars of wine, 20 chickens and 2 pigs, which were regarded as a gift for Jin to meet.

This is also another major feature of this era. When the army enters a certain place, the local area will send some gifts of money and food. After the army receives these gifts, as long as it is not an army with too poor military discipline, it will generally not invade the place. To put it bluntly, it will damage money and eliminate disasters. However, Yinghai Town only has more than 1,000 households and a population of 6,700, so it is indeed not easy to be able to gather so many things.

When Luo Yue met local officials and gentry, he only said that he was ordered to station in the west bank of Jiaozhou Bay. In the future, the People's Army took over this area and asked them to obey the orders of the People's Army, and then he did not say anything else. After all, Luo Yue was just a soldier and did not take responsibility for local administrative affairs. In the future, the Tianjin Executive Committee would naturally send administrative officials to manage the local area. The task of the army was only to ensure the actual control of the People's Army in this area. Luo Yue politely declined the gifts sent, saying that the People's Army had discipline and could not accept these gifts.

These local officials and gentry were also very surprised. They had seen local officials who did not accept gifts before. Although the Qing Dynasty had already reached the end, there were still a few local officials who maintained the style of Qinglian. The army that did not accept gifts had never seen them. Of course, it is not ruled out that Luo Yue pretended to be arbitrary. This kind of thing was not rare before. Many local officials said it was hypocritical and refused the gifts they sent again and again. They had to accept them until they seemed to be unable to refuse. Moreover, they still looked helpless when they accepted the gifts, as if they were reluctant.

So the local officials and gentry repeatedly begged Luo Yue to accept these gifts. In the end, everyone knelt in front of Luo Yue, claiming that if Luo Yue did not accept these gifts, he would not be able to kneel down.

Seeing that Luo Yue really refused, he had to promise that they could accept rice, wine, chickens and pigs, but they would never accept the silver. He insisted on paying the silver corresponding to the local officials and gentry at the market price.

When the white silver was stuffed into his hands, the local officials and gentry were really stupid. Only then did they realize that Luo Yue was not pretending to behave, but was really not accepting it. Therefore, he had to take Yin Jie back.

The people were quite excited along the way back, because generally speaking, officials who do not accept gifts are mostly good officials, at least they will not be bad officials, and the army that does not accept gifts is mostly good, so they will be much better this day.

However, all the local officials and gentry were not happy. Their views were exactly the opposite of ordinary people. Because according to past experience, those officials who did not accept gifts were often difficult to deal with. So what about the army that did not accept gifts?
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