民国时期,山东匪患十分猖獗。全省百余县市,几乎无处无匪。股匪少则数十人,多则数百人,甚至数千人。烧杀抢掠、绑票勒赎、打家劫舍、夺城屠村可谓无恶不作。舆论惊呼:“山东已成匪世界!”造成这种局面的原因何在?根本原因在山东社会内部,但日本的作用亦不该被忽视。一民国时期,山东一直是日本侵略的重点地区。为了霸占山东权益,日本曾数次悍然出兵山东。每次出兵都严重地破坏了山东的社会治安,导致山东土匪蜂起、匪患加剧。民国初年,由于旧的封建王朝垮台,新的共和制 During the Republic of China, banditry in Shandong was rampant. Hundreds of counties and cities in the province, almost no place no bandits. As few as dozens of shares bandits, as many as hundreds, or even thousands of people. Burning and looting, kidnapper redemption, hijacking, robbing the city Tucaowu can be described as evil. Public opinion exclaimed: “Shandong has become a bandit world!” What causes this situation? The root cause is within the Shandong society, but Japan’s role should not be neglected. During the period of the Republic of China, Shandong had been a key area for Japanese aggression. In order to occupy Shandong’s rights and interests, Japan has brazenly dispatched troops to Shandong several times. Each time the troops were dispatched, they seriously damaged the social order in Shandong, causing the bandits in Shandong to rise and the banditry worsened. In the early Republic of China, due to the collapse of the old feudal dynasty, the new republican system