Liu Ziguang went to Shandong to hang the title of Qincha supervised by the Beiyang Naval Division, and he was already a member of the prince Shaobao plus a first-class marquis, so he could only hang the temporary title of Qincha, and all officials on the ground in Shandong must unconditionally obey his orders, transfer personnel, materials, money and silver to cooperate in the creation of the Beiyang Naval Division.

The so-called Beiyang Naval Division is a large naval division corresponding to Taiwan's newly established Nanyang Naval Division, based on the Shandong Peninsula, with the Manchus, Goryeo, and Wa as potential enemies, including several docks, supporting batteries, and infantry defending 6 facilities, and of course, a powerful ironclad fleet.

The foundation of the Beiyang Naval Division is the three ironclad battleships led by Liu Ziguang, and the battleships have no names, but they are marked on the bow with black paint

"Zero-Zero-One"

Of course, the fleet to the north is not the only one that brought ten steam ships to carry supplies and personnel when they came out of Nanjing, and when they arrived in Shanghai, they added thirty ships to carry machinery and equipment, skilled workers, Ma Shiying, the governor of Shanghai, personally went on board to comfort the people who went north, and the army would give whatever it needed, and he even wanted his daughter to go north with Lord Liu, but he was once again politely declined by Liu Ziguang, and Governor Ma sighed regretfully, and sighed that his daughter did not have this good life.

Sigh to sigh, should cooperate with Ma Shiying, as if he has already regarded himself as Liu Ziguang's loyal team, Shanghai is Liu Ziguang's powerful logistics base, grain, grass, cloth, food, drinking water, machinery and equipment, and the settlement fee of the personnel going north are all allocated by the Shanghai Provincial Yamen, the cost of purchasing canned Merlin alone is tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the purchase of paper cigarettes and cigars of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company also has a large amount of silver, and these money finally fell into Liu Ziguang's pocket.

The fleet went north from Wusongkou to Shandong, riding the wind and waves, stopping in Haizhou for only one day along the way, and the next day it reached Jiaozhou Bay, which is located in the south of the Shandong Peninsula, and is fed by the Nanjiao River.

The mouth of Jiaozhou Bay is narrow, wide inside, 30 miles wide from east to west, 40 miles long from north to south, it is a semi-enclosed bay that stretches into the natural deep-water channel of 6 inside, the water depth is about 5 zhang, and there is no sediment accumulation.

The inner harbor of the bay is wide, the water is deep, the wind and waves are calm, and the sea water is not frozen all year round, making it a natural and excellent harbor. Liu Ziguang ordered the establishment of a naval base in Jiaozhou Bay, and the location of the base was set at the mouth of the bay, and this small fishing village did not have a name, and Liu Ziguang pondered for a moment and said: "Just call it Qingdao." "The construction of Qingdao is in full swing, the migrant workers of Jimo County and Jiao County rushed over to help the workers under the leadership of the county, Liu Ziguang, the great god here, even the governor of Shandong did not dare to sit in Jinan, panicked to rush over, please An was ordered by Liu Ziguang's telegram, the governor came is useless, it is better to stay in Jinan to allocate personnel and materials.

The task of building Qingdao City was handed over to the people of Shandong, and the people of the whole province came from all directions, Liu Ziguang did not send them in vain, each laborer gave enough wages, and there was no supervisor with a whip, only a supervisor with a ruler, you think, the workload is placed there, and if you finish it, you will have the silver, and if you finish it, you will not be able to drink the northwest wind, who is still lazy and slippery, so the construction of the wharf is unusually smooth, and the progress is faster than that sent by the government, I don't know how many times.

"A pavilion is to be built at the end of the trestle." Liu Ziguang stood on the beach in Qingdao and pointed and said that in front of him was a long trestle bridge that stretched to the sea, and the sea breeze was blowing on his body, although it was already summer, the temperature in Qingdao was only about 25 degrees, very pleasant.

"What kind of pavilion will be built?" An engineer asked.

"Well, I want to think about it...."Liu Ziguang tried hard to recall the trademark on the bottle of Tsingtao Beer, then took the carbon bar and white paper in the engineer's hand, and showed the writing skills he had practiced in the Children's Palace, brushing a few strokes to outline the trademark of Tsingtao Beer: "It was built like this." "There is more than one base of the Beiyang Naval Division, Liu Ziguang is also in the Changshan Islands of Penglai in Liugong Island in Weihai, and the location is to build a wharf and Yamen, and the Beiyang Naval Division needs to recruit a large number of sailors and soldiers, and the fishermen on the peninsula give priority to other Shandong children who are not good at water, and they can also sign up for 6 troops such as the Sailor Patrol Battalion, since the Jinan Campaign last year, the Shandong people in Liu Ziguang's troops account for a considerable proportion, not only the Red Shirt Regiment, but also the Nanchang and the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, Shandong soldiers are the backbone of the force, and the Shandong people also like to follow Liu Dashuai to eat food, not only pay the silver in full, but also feel very face-saving in front of the villagers。

The construction of the city of Qingdao not only used local labor, but also mobilized prisoners from all over Shandong, and these criminals were often responsible for the hardest work, they had no money to work with, and they were punished with whips if they were slow to work.

Many of these prisoners were prisoners from the Manchu Dynasty, and for serious criminals, they would always remain prisoners no matter how the regime changed.

The use of prisoners for hard labor was not a big deal, and Liu Ziguang did not pay special attention to it until a serious case was born, which brought his attention.

An official in charge of guarding the prisoners' camp was knocked unconscious with a stick, and the bows, arrows, and knives he was wearing were lost, but the strange thing was that none of the prisoners were missing, these prisoners were all heinous criminal offenders, including Jiang Yang thieves, flower thieves, mountain thieves, sound horses, and bullies in the township, none of which were good characters, but when they arrived at Liu Ziguang's land, they dared to make trouble, it was a bit rampant, and Liu Ziguang immediately ordered Nanchang to interrogate.

Now, with Liu Ziguang's northward business, the business of the south factory has also expanded to Shandong, and there are offices in the whole province, Qingdao is the top priority of the security work, they took over the case and made every effort to investigate, and the prisoners were tortured one by one, but there was still no follow-up, even the missing bow and arrow waist knife could not be found, and the use of police dogs with a keen sense of smell was useless, which made Liu Ziguang even more annoyed.

The urban construction work is being carried out in an orderly manner, and all the affairs are capable and capable, and Liu Ziguang, as the chief responsible, has nothing to do, so he simply took over the case and Yang

The tradition of the "Liu Gong case" wants to get to the bottom of this case. According to the files, almost every prisoner in the camp where the guards were attacked was extremely suspicious, including charlatans, habitual thieves, gang thugs, and robbers, all of whom were dishonest and had a strong escape from prison**, but why did they attack the guards and snatch weapons?

Liu Ziguang was puzzled. Finally, a most inconspicuous dossier caught Liu Ziguang's attention, not because of the magnitude of the crimes committed by this person, but because his sentence was too long, he was imprisoned long before Shandong fell, and he was imprisoned during the ten years of Manchu rule, and he was still in prison until the Qing people were defeated and Shandong restored the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the sentence has been long, from the initial five-year prison sentence to the current fifty-year prison sentence, which is really breathtaking, and what is even more surprising is that this person was originally imprisoned for stealing a few clothes.

"This person may have a grievance." Liu Ziguang said that he immediately ordered the prisoners to be called to the camp where they were to inquire, these prisoners were all sent by Tai'an Mansion, and the camp was also the messenger of Tai'an Mansion, these people who ate the six doors of the meal were all old Jianghu, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled, they were messengers, and now the Ming Dynasty called, they were still retained, but the clothes on their bodies changed, Guan Ying was a middle-aged man in his forties, after seeing the handsome, he nodded and was honestly afraid, and heard the handsome ask about the prisoner who was sentenced to fifty years in prison, and his eyebrows suddenly danced, and he spitted and introduced to the adult: "This person's name is Bai Xiaoshan, since he was a child, his family is poor, and he is good at catching birds with a slingshot in the local area, and he was arrested at the age of fourteen because he stole the silk clothes of the local staff outside the house, and was sentenced to five years in prison by the county, during which he also repeatedly did not change, escaped from prison and absconded many times, and was caught back, and the sentence became longer and longer, and finally became fifty years, this person has always been dishonest, although he does not fight, but he is by no means a good person, I estimate that he has always wanted to find the county lord for revenge...... This is the case, please ask the marshal to see it. ”

"Oh? Why do you want to seek revenge on the county lord? Why did your county sentence this person to five years in prison for stealing a few pieces of clothing? Liu Ziguang asked with a frown.

"Our Feicheng County respects law enforcement, strict punishment, and severe punishment for these Xiaoxiao, which is famous in Tai'an Mansion, if it weren't for..."Guan Ying was still about to speak, but was rudely interrupted by Nanchang Fanzi, who was wearing a flying fish suit behind Liu Ziguang: "What are you talking about!" The marshal said that there is a doubt, that is, there is a doubt, the important thing is to say less nonsense! Looking at Shangguan Guanying, who didn't know how much worse his level was, he finally said honestly: "Actually, Bai Xiaoshan, this guy is also unlucky, who told him to break the glass window of the county lord's mother-in-law's house when he used a slingshot to shoot birds, you must know that the glass window back then was ten times higher than the current price, and it was more than that, but now the small family can't afford to install the glass window... Pull away my broken mouth again! Guan Ying slapped himself and continued: "The county is a filial son, where can he tolerate his mother-in-law's family being bullied, and immediately ordered the quick shift to arrest Zhang Xiaoshan, and ordered him to compensate for the loss. ”

"Besides, didn't the file say that Bai Xiaoshan was imprisoned for stealing clothes, why did it become the crime of breaking the glass window again?" Liu Ziguang said suspiciously.

"The big handsome doesn't know, the county lord is a clean official, and he doesn't want to sentence him to a heavy sentence because of his own case, so he found a charge of stealing clothes and added it to him, in fact, he is not wronged, Bai Xiaoshan has been rampant in the township for many years, and he must have stolen clothes." Guan Ying's words are chiseled.

"Your county is really blue." Liu Ziguang teasedly praised.