In the beginning, the local population was still very wary of the KPA. Wherever the KPA patrols went, the people closed their doors one after another, lest they could avoid it, and because they were young women, they hid in the back rooms and did not dare to come out.

However, after a long time, the local people found that this army was completely different from the Qing army, not only the spiritual outlook was different, the morale of this army was high and vigorous, although the Qing army was also protruding and raising eyebrows, but it was dull and could not see a little vitality.

Moreover, the attitude of the People's Army towards the common people is very kind, and it does not have the arrogant appearance of the Qing Army when it treats the people. Not only do they not grab things, but they will also help the people do what they can, when they see vehicles on the road, there will always be people who go up to help push the carts, and when they see people who carry heavy burdens, there will also be people who go up to help. Asking the villagers for directions will also be rewarded, and what they borrowed will definitely be returned, sometimes they will spend the night in the villagers' houses, but they will never eat at the villagers' houses, and when they leave, they will also leave some money, and help them carry water, chop some firewood, and so on.

Soon after, the attitude of the local people towards the KPA changed greatly, although they were still cautious and wary, but the attitude was much more cordial, at least when the KPA passed by the door, every house would not close the door, and the brave would greet the KPA.

Just two days after Luo Yue was stationed on the west bank of Jiaozhou Bay, the advance team of Tianjin arrived in Qingdao and immediately began its work, first setting up the Qingdao Provisional Management Committee to take charge of the administrative affairs of Qingdao and to begin to clean up the projects invested and built by Germany in Qingdao. At the same time, an expedition team was formed to conduct geological surveys on the coastal areas of Jiaozhou Bay, and also carried out some social research activities.

The expedition team consisted of 12 people, of which five were in charge of geological investigations, the first of whom was Lu Fushan, 53 years old this year, who was a geologist and had the title of professor. Strictly speaking, he was not a formal engineer, but only four assistants to help the oil project team survey the geological conditions, and as a result, their team traveled to this era with the public.

In the past, when they were in Tianjin, this geological team did not play a big role, because Tianjin did not have any mineral resources, and they only collected some soil samples in the Tianjin area for testing and kept them for archives. Later, the traverser obtained the Kaiping coal mine, and the geological team transferred to Kaiping to survey the largest mining area of the traverser at present.

Now the traverser is based in Shandong, many projects will be carried out, Shandong is also a relatively rich resource area, so the investigation of mineral resources in Shandong is naturally an important work, so the geological team finally has a place to use, with the advance team to Qingdao, and immediately began to carry out the geological investigation work along Jiaozhou Bay.

The other seven people were responsible for inspecting the social and mainly rural economic development in Shandong, as well as the people's livelihood, so as to prepare for the administrative work and formulate policies in Shandong in the future. The seven people were headed by Wang Sheng, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, who had participated in agricultural inspections in Tianjin and had been working in rural areas, and had relatively rich experience in rural work. The other six also have some experience working in rural areas.

However, although the number of people in the geological team is small, this expedition team is mainly based on the geological team, mainly because the population along the coast of Jiaozhou Bay is not large, and the social investigation team has relatively few things. Therefore, the captain is Professor Lu Fushan. Of course, the Qingdao command also notified the garrisons in various places, ordering them to protect the expedition along the way, and equipping each member of the expedition with a Type 92 military pistol.

The expedition team set out from Qingdao, advanced along Jiaozhou Bay, first went north, passed through Xiaogang, Dagang, Shuangdun and other places, turned westward at Baisha River, passed through the Yindao area, and came to Yinghai Town. At this time, it was the fourth day of the expedition's departure from Qingdao.

Regarding the arrival of the expedition team, Luo Yue did not dare to slack off personally leading the troops and taking the expedition team into his garrison area. Yinghai Town is considered to be a large population concentration in the coastal area of Jiaozhou Bay, so the expedition team is going to stay here for two days, the two investigation teams will act separately, and the social investigation team will be divided into two, and they will set off with the two patrol teams, and their safety will also be taken care of by the patrol team.

The geological team specially sent a squad of soldiers, and the platoon commander Qian Guoyu and Luo Yue also took four guards from the battalion headquarters, a total of 18 people to accompany them. Since the geological team is working in the deep mountains and old forests, there is no warrior car this time.

The other members of the expedition team were associate professor Lu Wanxun, who and Lu Fushan were old partners for more than 10 years; and staff member Zhang Yao, who was originally a student of Professor Lu, stayed on to teach after graduation and worked with Professor Lu, and the other two were two students just brought by Professor Lu, Deng Jiajia and Li Silin, who were both in their early 20s, and Deng Jiajia was the only woman in the group.

Of course, there are many special instruments and equipment for geological investigations, that is, they are accompanied by soldiers, and some of the heavier instruments are of course carried by the soldiers, while the geological team only carries some delicate and easy equipment.

A group of people set off, all the way to the north, in fact, the geological data of the Jiaozhou Bay area has a geological group, after all, as a geologist, the geological data of the whole country will definitely be collected. Of course, it is only a large distribution data, and it will not be very detailed, but it also brings a lot of favorable conditions to the geological team. In addition, although the mineral resources of Shandong are relatively rich, but the minerals in the coastal areas of Jiaozhou Bay are not much, and most of them are non-metallic minerals, the main advantageous mineral resources are graphite, granite, marble, mineral water, diopside, gold, talc, zeolite rock, etc., in addition to barite, dolomite, bentonite, potassium feldspar, quartzite, perlite, fluorite, geothermal, etc. also have great potential.

For traversers, these minerals are basically useful, graphite, gold, not to mention, granite, marble, diopside, talc are building materials, and zeolite rock can improve water quality, and fish feed, but the real national economy, industrial development of minerals are only graphite, gold, and such as coal, copper, iron and other development of industrial resources are basically not.

Although the mineral resources of Shandong Province are relatively rich and complete, most of them are concentrated in the northern and southwestern regions of the Shandong inland continent, while there are not many minerals in the Shandong Peninsula area. In the old time and space, the main reason why Germany wanted to build the Jiaoji Railway was to expand its influence to the inland areas of Shandong, so as to plunder the resources of Shandong.

As he walked along the way, Professor Lu kept telling his students to pay attention to the geological features they saw along the way, and instructed them to collect samples of soil and ore. Although these geologies are not very significant, it is important for beginners to gain experience.

After walking for about half an hour, the group came to a small hill, the hillside was densely wooded, and there was a clearing on the top of the mountain, Lu Fushan looked left and right on the top of the mountain, nodded, and said, "This is it, start working?"

When the other members of the geological team heard this, they took all kinds of instruments and equipment from the soldiers and began to set them up on the top of the mountain. And Lu Fushan walked around the mountain, observing the situation on the ground very carefully. Except for the soldiers who helped the expedition carry the instruments, the other soldiers were on guard all around.

Before the geological team could work for 10 minutes, they heard a few gunshots in the distance. The personnel of the geological team heard the gunshot, and they were also a little surprised, stopped working, and looked around, and at this time the gunfire rang out again, and several people were suddenly a little nervous, because it was Deng Jiajia, just a girl in her early twenties, her face was a little pale, and she subconsciously leaned on the back of her classmate Li Silin, while the other four people were still stable, and they pulled out the pistols assigned to them and opened the safety bolt.

At this time, Luo Yueji rushed over and said, "Don't panic, everyone, the gunfire is coming from the north, and I have ordered someone to be on guard." Don't move around here, put away all your instruments, and find a place to hide. Then he looked at the pistols that everyone was holding, and said, "Close the safety bolt first, it's not time yet, be careful of misfire." "In fact, the effective range of the Type 92 pistol is less than 50 meters, and it can only be used for self-defense, not combat.

After a few people heard this, they were a little relieved, and Zhang Yao, Li Silin and others also closed the pistol insurance again. And Luo Yue assigned the four guards around him to be responsible for guarding these five people, while he rushed to the north, at this time, Qian Guoyu had already commanded a squad of soldiers, using trees and stones as cover, and arranged a defensive line.

Luo Yue came to Qian Guoyu's side and said, "What's the situation?" ”

Qian Guoyu pointed to the north and said, "Over there, there are two groups of people chasing each other, and it doesn't seem to be coming for us. ”

In fact, at this time, Luo Yue had already seen it, and saw that in the direction of about 3 or 4 hundred meters in the north, there were indeed two people chasing after me. The group of people who fled in front of them numbered about 10 people, dressed in different colors, but all in tight clothes, some of them wrapped a red cloth around their heads, some empty-handed, and some with swords and other weapons.

About 150 meters behind them, there were a little more people chasing them, about 20 or so, also tight-fitting suits, but a dark blue color, most of the pigtails were coiled on their heads or circled around their necks, and each of them had a rifle in their hands, and about half of them had bayonets on them, and they were shooting while chasing. However, judging from the action of their shooting, it should be a single-shot gun, and after a shot, it needs to be reloaded.

Although these two people did not rush in the direction of the People's Army, the general direction was still leaning towards Long.