The fleet arrived at Qingdao Bay at around 6 a.m. The Kunming and Sanya ships entered the port and anchored, while the Changbaishan ship only sent the soldiers of a battalion ashore through two steamboats, and then continued to sail into Jiaozhou Bay, sending the soldiers of the two battalions to their replacement defense station. Before the fleet left, the Military Commission had notified Qingdao that the first and fifth battalions stationed along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay were ready to change defenses. As soon as the troops who replaced their troops arrived, they would immediately hand over the defenses, and then boarded the ship and returned to Tianjin.

Wang Yunpeng, who arrived in Qingdao in advance, brought Wang Sheng, ***, who were left behind in Qingdao, and Qin Zheng's daughter Zhou Weiying and others to welcome Qin Zheng and his party at the Qingdao Bay Wharf.

After getting ashore, Qin Zheng, Wang Yunpeng, Wang Sheng, ***, Zhou Weiying and others had breakfast together, and then immediately listened to everyone's work at this stage in Qingdao.

During this period, the main thing for Qingdao was to further consolidate the rule of time travelers in Qingdao. In fact, the threat of real shaking the time travelers in Qingdao is not to be borne. The countries in Shanghai have basically given up their plans to fight against time travelers by force, and Shandong Governor Yuan Shikai also strictly ordered local officials in Shandong to prohibit conflicts with time travelers, and actually acknowledged the control of time travelers on Jingdao.

However, the Wang brothers colluded with bandits to counterattack Wangjiazhai Village, which also made time travelers realize that the biggest threat in Qingdao area is bandits. Although bandits cannot shake the time travelers' control in Qingdao, they can cause considerable trouble for time travelers, because the purpose of time travelers is to completely control the grassroots level in their own control area, and the bandits' activities are mainly at the grassroots level of the people. Therefore, time travelers must eliminate bandits in Qingdao and the coastal areas of Jiaozhou Bay to ensure that time travelers control the grassroots level.

So after shattering the counterattack of the Wang brothers colluded with bandits to counterattack Wangjiazhai Village, Qingdao immediately launched a special operation to eliminate the surrounding bandits.

Shandong has always been a region where bandits have not been born in Chinese history. There are more than 30 small bandits in Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay coastal areas, 3,5o small bandits and 2,3o large bandits, some gather or disperse, some split or merge, some people or bandits. Some occupy mountains and set up villages, while others are hidden in remote villages, doing things like robbing families and kidnapping roads. The targets are basically ordinary farmers, mainly villages. After all, these bandits are not strong enough to provoke wealthy families and can only oppress ordinary people.

However, after the special operation was launched, the People's Army also divided into platoons and platoons to clear out the bandits along Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay. The combat effectiveness and equipment of the bandits are naturally far from being compared with the People's Army. The only advantage is that they are familiar with the geography. If they can fight, they will fight, and if they can't fight, they will leave. Anyway, they can hide in the mountains and go lightly, cross mountains and ridges, and they will not have to bring food to the place, so they act quickly. In the past, the bandits relied on these advantages to deal with the Qing army, and even the German army.

However, facing the People's Army, these advantages no longer exist. Although the People's Army is indeed not familiar with the terrain, there are drones covering the sky, crossing soldiers and infrared detection equipment. Therefore, as long as the bandits targeted by the People's Army, they are almost impossible to escape. Moreover, the soldiers of the People's Army have undergone special marching training. Although they cannot be compared with crossing soldiers, they can use drones and infrared detection equipment to deal with bandits in the deep mountains and forests. As a result, the bandits are either caught up and wiped out by the People's Army, or they are desperate in the deep mountains and forests, and they actively surrender to the People's Army, and starve to death, and are also exhausted.

The bandits who were arrested by the People's Army or surrendered were taken to the village where they had been harmed for public trial. The bandits who were extremely guilty were executed on the spot, and the bodies were hung at the entrance of the village to display them. The bandits who were more innocent were taken to Qingdao for hard work and forced labor reform. However, those villages that did not distinguish between the people and the bandits, who were bandits when they were out, and when they were in, were investigated first, and the bandits and the main forces were found to be executed. Other villagers were forcibly taken away, reorganized with other villages, and land was opened under the supervision of time travelers.

Moreover, the time traveler's clearance behavior is not limited to its own control range, because the activities of bandits will not be restricted by regional restrictions. Therefore, as long as the bandits pose a threat to the time traveler, even if they run out of the time traveler's control range, or if the bandit suppression is outside the time traveler's control range, the People's Army will not hesitate to cross the border.

First, Shandong Governor Yuan Shikai had strict orders to prohibit local officials from conflicting with time travelers in Shandong; second, some bandits did cause major dangers to the local area. Now some people are helping to clear the situation and are happy to go with the flow. Therefore, when the People's Army crossed the border, local officials in Shandong either pretended not to know or provided some help to time travelers in secret.

As a result, after more than a month of special purge, the People's Army cleared out a total of 26 bandits, of which several bandits were quite famous in Shandong. They were wanted by the Qing government for several years, shot dead, executed 1,187 bandits, captured 941 people, and scattered 16 villages and 12 towns. Some bandits along Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay that have not yet been attacked saw that the situation was not good, and they gave up their cliques and garrisons and moved to the interior of Shandong. Therefore, in the range of controlled by the travelers and surrounding areas, the bandits suffered greatly and public security improved significantly.

The time travelers took advantage of the opportunity to suppress bandits, not only gave the army a certain amount of training, but also further expanded their sphere of influence and entered Jimo, Gaomi, Zhucheng, Jiaonan and other counties, and successively completely included Jiaozhou in its sphere of influence, almost covering the entire southern region of Laizhou Prefecture. On the one hand, it also expanded the influence and deterrence of time travelers. For ordinary people, they may not know the power of foreigners, but they know the terribleness of bandits. However, these bandits that the Qing army and the original could not clear out in the past were awarded under the guns of the People's Army. In addition, the strict military discipline of the People's Army was unscrupulous to the people, and also provided some help, which naturally made these ordinary people feel awe of the People's Army and enhanced the prestige of the Time Travelers and the People's Army.

Qin Zheng was also very satisfied with the result of the bandit suppression, and this was a good excuse for time travelers. Of course, time travelers would not be satisfied with only Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay, but would control the entire Shandong region. However, now we cannot break up with the Qing court on the surface. Then taking advantage of the bandit suppression and expanding the sphere of influence of time travelers is a feasible solution. Anyway, time travelers just need to occupy the countryside.

On the other hand, the factories established by Germany in Shandong have basically been completed, or the parts that can be completed have been completed. Qingdao Arsenal has begun to be put into production, and Qingdao Shipyard can basically start repairing ships. Only Sifang Locomotive Factory still lacks some facilities and has temporarily stopped work. However, the Jiaozhou section of Jiaojidi Road has also started to be laid again. Another key project is the salt production industry in Yindao. Now the crossing has invested in and built a 1oo douzi in Yindao, which can produce about 1oo douzi per month. In addition, the crossing also plans to invest in the construction of a 1oo douzi in Yindao within this year, with an annual salt production reaching 20,000 tons, making the salt production a pillar industry for the crossing.

Another point is the educational situation in Qingdao. In fact, after Germany forced to rent Qingdao, in addition to carrying out infrastructure construction, it also actively established schools in Qingdao. On the one hand, it was to cultivate available talents for itself. After all, if you want to manage Qingdao well, locals are also needed; on the other hand, it was also to train pro-German personnel from Qingdao to assist Germany in the rule of Qingdao. In the old time and space, most of these schools were retained, but the names were changed.

The schools that were founded were basically members of the church. In this era, this is not surprising. The church has always been part of the education and hospital functions in European history, of course, mainly to impart theological and medical knowledge. After the Reformation of Europe, the education of the church began to develop into secularization, teaching nature and scientific knowledge, and medical knowledge also tended to modern medicine. Many European universities had predecessors of church colleges.

Of course, Germany did not rule in Qingdao for a long time, so there were not many church colleges at this time, mainly two. One was in 1898, a missionary of the Berlin Evangelical Missionary Church, Aidao Court, founded the first religious school in Qingdao, which was divided into two departments, men and women, mainly recruiting children from poor families, with a total of more than 100 students. The other was in March 19oo, Richard Werheim (Chinese name Wei Lixian), a missionary from the German Tongshan Association, founded Lixian Academy in his own residence in Jiaozhou Street (now Jiaozhou Road), and recruited 20 students. This was the predecessor of Qingdao No. 9 Middle School in the old time and space. It turned out that Wei Lixian planned to build a new school building next to his apartment in 19o1, but unfortunately Qingdao was occupied by time travelers, so the construction project of Lixian Academy stopped.

There is also a non-church school in 1898. In order to solve the problem of the German children studying in Qingdao, Germany opened a German Boy School in Qingdao, which is a German primary school. The school was located in the former Dabaodao Village, and rented several Chinese houses to start classes. In the old time and space, the German Jiaoao Academy Committee officially took over the school and was renamed the Jiaoao Governor's Office School. A new school building was built on Bismarck Street (now Jiangsu Road), which was later Qingdao Experimental Primary School.

In addition, Germany has also opened some metropolitan schools for the Chinese in Qingdao, all of which have been improved on the basis of private schools, plus emerging courses such as mathematics, history, geography, and German.

However, after the time travelers occupied Qingdao, they did not stop these schools, and all students and faculty members were retained. The teaching work continued, and even the German language teaching calculation was not cancelled. They only made some adjustments to the textbooks and course arrangements, and political classes were added, and time travelers were sent to supervise the teaching work of these schools.
Chapter completed!