In the face of imperialist aggression, the corrupt and incompetent Qing Dynasty repeatedly instructed Li Bingheng, the governor of Shandong Province, and Gaoyuan Zhang, the company commander of Dengzhou Town, to let Qiwei be unmoved and never fire first.
Gaoyuan Zhang obeyed the instructions of the Qing court and left Qingdao with his troops without any resistance.
German soldiers occupied Qingdao without bloodshed.
Since then, Qingdao has become a German colony.
German warships moored in Qianhai, lied about fighting and confused the Qing army.
When Gaoyuan Zhang, the company commander of Dengzhou Town, found three German warships moored in Qianhai, he got the news that they would leave after a few days of berthing, while German warships were preparing to invade Jiaozhou Bay.
The Qing army was too careless to know that the enemy was approaching the Germans and easily occupied the yamen of the company commanders.
1897165438+1October14th, the German navy landed troops on the trestle and quickly deployed troops in the square in front of the bridgehead barracks.
The Germans quickly occupied the signal mountain and established a communication signal station.
Feng Among, the navy division, was ordered to go to the yamen of the company commanders and ordered to withdraw troops from Qingdao.
At this time, Shandong was occupied by Germans.
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In the third year of the Republic of China (19 14), World War I broke out and Japan occupied Qingdao instead of Germany.
In the eighth year of the Republic of China (19 19), with the recovery of Qingdao, the May 4th Movement broke out in China.
In the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922) 10 February 10, China Beiyang regained Qingdao and turned it into a commercial port.
In July of the Republic of China 18 (1929), the state * * * established Qingdao Special City, and changed its name to Qingdao in 1930.
In the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), in June 5438+10, Japan invaded Qingdao again.
In the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1945), in September, the national * * * took over Qingdao and remained a special city.
1On June 2, 949, Qingdao became the last liberated city in North China, and it became a city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province.
Qingdao had a high status in the Republic of China and was a municipality directly under the central government.
Qingdao had a population of just over 500,000 at that time, but it was designated as a special city because of its special political, economic and military status.