This military academy is called the East Asian Fleet Naval Officer School, which was only established in Qingdao in 1904, and at the beginning, the school site was placed in the East Asian Naval Headquarters, and later, because of the increase in the number of East Asian naval garrisons and the increase in all aspects of things, it moved out, and is currently on the northwest side of the military port, very small, with only two small buildings and a large playground, and the training ship is also an old mine strike boat.

Because of the lack of school running and limited funds, the principal, Colonel Federrog, is an officer with unique considerations for naval education, originally the captain of a cruiser in the East Asian Fleet, in the case of the lack of officers in the East Asian Fleet, he took the lead in establishing such a naval school, the enrollment number is not much, only dozens, the vast majority, or in the German diaspora, is to serve the German East Asian Fleet, but there is no result, in the past almost 10 years, only a few lowest-level posts have been added, The support for the East Asian Fleet is not high, and it is also extremely unimportant, which is the most fundamental reason why they moved out of the East Asian Fleet Command.

This allowed the northwest to see the opportunity, began the process of contact, in the continuation of the investigation, found a more surprising place, this naval school is located in Qingdao lease, the object of enrollment is not limited to Germans, but the Chinese are very small, 10 years, almost more than 400 graduates, only 2 Chinese, do not know whether it is discrimination sea trials and other relations, have not entered the East Asian fleet, have gone to run cargo ships.

For these two Chinese, Yang Yuanzhao was very concerned about being able to graduate from the German naval school. These two people should be good in the Chinese navy. These two were later recovered and entered the sequence of the Northwest Navy. It can be regarded as a bonus, China's naval military talent is too small.

After reaching an intention with the German Foreign Ministry, he did not enter Qingdao, but the cooperation in the civilian field gradually deepened, and the cooperation of the Navy was also one of them.

Of course, Scheer agreed, Qingdao had little to do with him, as long as he could ensure that the battleship was delivered on schedule, it didn't matter. What's more, this little thing, Vice Admiral Spee thought about it, and seemed to confirm what this school was, but after thinking about it, he didn't come up with it, Spee only became the commander of the East Asian Fleet in the past few years, and this officer school had moved out a few years ago, and within two years, he had not applied for funding from the East Asian Fleet.

Or a subordinate who has been in the East Asian Fleet for at least 10 years. Thinking of the origin of this naval school, he briefly told Spee, and Spee smiled slightly and sued Yang Yuanzhao. They will not object to this, and will set aside a site for the construction of the new school building. It's just that they need to talk about cooperation themselves. Because since 1910 this naval school has been self-supporting. It is no longer part of the East Asian Fleet.

In Yang Yuanzhao's view, a military academy with operational difficulties, even funds are a problem, and even whether it can continue to be opened has a problem, and there is a problem with the injection of a large amount of funds, which should be taken naturally, but when it was contacted by the naval officer school, it was obstructed, and the principal of the naval officer school, the German naval colonel Fedrog refused, the request for cooperation in the northwest.

Yang Yuanzhao's first thought was Germany's obstruction, but then he thought that it was impossible, the 9 capital ships delivered to Germany, only 2 were initially delivered, these two were still in the dock to replace the barrels, and then 4 Orions would be launched.

It turns out that Fedrog is an orthodox naval officer, in his opinion, it takes time to train a successful naval officer, in the current situation, do not agree to expand the scale of the school, and even for the recruitment of Chinese cadets, there are concerns, in his opinion, the study of the navy is gradual, step-by-step, such a simple training, only to cultivate the lowest level, supplemented by the most ordinary posts of the East Asian fleet, all of a sudden establishment of a comprehensive naval academy, but also a short course, such a person will board the warship, this is irresponsible for any navy, such a weak officer or seaman, on a battleship, it is a desecration of the fleet, or even ruin.

After hearing this reason, Yang Yuanzhao really couldn't cry or laugh, and thought it was a small move by Germany, and the two sides had friction, but he didn't expect the opposition of a stubborn old-school officer, which was a little difficult to do, he inherited the rigid machinery of the Germans, and if he wanted to persuade him, he had to start in the part he cared about, in order to convince this stubborn principal, the northwest took a lot of effort, not only moved the place of the school, promised to expand the school building by more than 10 times, and from the former Mawei Naval School, It was only after the officers of the Beiyang Naval Division who had teaching experience, and the German and American recruits some of them, were enough to support the shelves of a large-scale modern military academy, and they succeeded in convincing Colonel Federrog.

Fedrog is an orthodox soldier, very well aware of the important role of military schools for a navy, which is the fundamental reason why he is still engaged in naval education even after he goes to Asia, running schools for so many years, there is not much income, but the debt is high, and even because the graduates do not have many outlets, so that many people stagnate, this time, the northwest not only solved the problem of funding for his school, but also solved the faculty, not to mention those teachers of the Mawei Naval School, that is the naval school of the Chinese, he does not know much, He has heard of many names to recruit teachers from the United States and Germany, and after these people are hired, the level of teachers in this naval school has been greatly improved, and it should be able to support enough students.

However, after these problems were solved, Yang Yuanzhao thought that the opening of the naval school could not only train a large number of qualified officers, but also conduct short-term, special project training for the navy, and when it was very good to increase the strength of the Chinese navy, Fedrog put forward the last request, if he wanted to continue to teach, and recruit Chinese students on a large scale, as long as it was a student who entered the military academy, he needed to be treated equally, and the students must be allowed to graduate. You must pass the exam, otherwise you will not be able to graduate.

This requirement is a bit fatal, China has not had a naval tradition for many years, and even from the ocean of China, among the population of 450 million, there is simply no way to find a group of people who have operated battleships, and they all need to start from scratch, the navy and the army are different, there are too many technical equipment, although the northwest with the help of Germany, with the design and help of Yang Yuanzhao, designed the fantasy class, a powerful and incomparable battleship, but the people who operate the battleship did not.

In the next period of time, because of the relationship between Qingdao Shipyard, a large number of capital ships and warships will appear like a blowout, and there is a huge gap in personnel.

Federrog's request almost blocked this road, and according to a conservative estimate from scratch, it is basically impossible to have new forces to replenish it in two to three years, and can only rely on the existing ones. The Northwest tried to persuade Federrog, but the stubborn old man didn't talk about it at all, and finally Yang Yuanzhao compromised, for the Northwest, a naval academy is a must, and it also needs to be sparked by this, even if Fedrog put forward relatively harsh conditions, the Northwest had to agree, and finally the cooperation plan was decided, and this military school was also temporarily named Qingdao Naval School, temporarily hanging under the East Asian Fleet.

The first batch of 2,500 students entered the school, carefully selected from the army and a part of the fishermen, before joining the naval academy, after up to 4 months of physical fitness and military training, in order to save time to enter the military academy, because Northwest and Fedrog one of the requirements is mentioned, no matter when, after a subject is completed, they can freely enter the next subject, and do not need a fixed time and course requirements.

Federrog is a rigid person, it doesn't mean that he can't be flexible, he refused to merge before, more because he was worried about the strength of the faculty and the students, as for teaching, he is not limited to one style, the development of Qingdao Naval School in recent years is also advancing with the times, a lot of new things have been added, which also makes the strength of the personnel he trained relatively solid, although he entered the East Asian fleet, they all started from the bottom, but the highest has done the first mate, although only the first mate of the destroyer, However, he joined the East Asian Fleet as an ordinary boilermaker.

In just a few years, reaching this height has something to do with his opportunities, but if he doesn't have enough strength, how can he sit in this position, for this former East Asian naval academy, if you wait another year or two, after the outbreak of war, these personnel will immediately flood the fleet and become regular soldiers of the German Navy, and the reputation of this school will also be greatly boosted, but unfortunately it was cut off by Yang Yuanzhao, all the teachers of this school will be retained, and the graduates of the previous years, if they do not have a job, or if they have a bad job, They were also hired by Yang Yuanzhao in every possible way, the identity of the teachers is noble, and the money given by the northwest is not low, most of them have come, plus the teachers of the Mawei Naval School and recruited from Germany and the United States, the scale of teachers in this school has reached about 750 people, which is more than enough for a school with only one grade and 2,500 students. (To be continued......)