SimCity in the 1980s

  Zhang Tianyou finished writing the letter to his friend, and after calling out to his wife Su Fen, he handed it over to her. He told her where to go, who to find, and what to say specifically. Luo Yi dispatched 10 soldiers with live ammunition to serve as Zhang's escort. In this chaotic era of war and banditry, if anything were to happen, it would be hard to explain. Considering that the soldiers were all male, Luo Yi was afraid that Zhang's wife might feel uncomfortable, so he also arranged for Zeng Shan to accompany her. Zeng Shan had been stuck in the mountain valley for too long, and it was time for her to broaden her horizons in a big city.

  Zeng Shan has been restored to her natural disposition as a little girl since she came down from the mountain, running around with the girls in town every day. Sometimes she follows Zhang Dajie to learn needlework, and sometimes she follows Li Daxi to learn cooking, playing happily. Lu Shuangyong and Le Jialin are also too lazy to manage her. On the one hand, she is not a soldier of the assault regiment anyway, and on the other hand, she is still the candidate for the regimental commander's wife, so it's not convenient to say much. Only occasionally when Tu Jiu sees her making too much trouble, he will scold her a few words as an elder.

  When Luo Yi said she would let her accompany Mrs. Zhang to Wuhan, Zeng Shan was delighted and smiled:

  "Really! It's great. I heard Wuhan is a big city, and I've only been to Tongzhou County once in my life."

  Luoyi scratched her head, and said: "When we get to Wuhan, I'm afraid it won't be you serving Mrs. Zhang, but rather Mrs. Zhang will have to keep an eye on you every day." "This this, letting you go to Wuhan is not for fun, but to take care of Mrs. Zhang. I know you are... that big miss from a good family, but this time, you'll just have to humble yourself and be a maid, okay?"

  "Just be a servant then." Zeng Shan didn't take it seriously, "The Zhang Madam you mentioned, is she very fierce?"

  "That's not right, Mrs. Zhang is a knowledgeable person and quite amiable."

  "That's it, isn't it just serving rice and tea? I've done that before."

  Lu Yi looked at Zeng Shan's nonchalant expression and was also at a loss, as it was really impossible to find another girl in the assault camp. Otherwise, it would be better to arrange someone older to accompany Mrs. Zhang. It is said that only people born after 1990 are heartless, but Zeng Shan is a person from the 1910s, how can she not have any city manners?

  Lu Yi introduced Zeng Shan to Mrs. Zhang, who was very fond of her and asked her many questions. When she learned that both of her parents had passed away and she was an orphan, Mrs. Zhang cried for half a day with her, then put a bracelet on Zeng Shan's hand and said she would choose a auspicious day to recognize her as her goddaughter. Mr. and Mrs. Zhang did not have any children of their own, which they had always regretted. Seeing Zeng Shan, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but burst out with maternal love. Zeng Shan saw that Mrs. Zhang was not pretentious and loved her very much, so she became even more affectionate, and that night she moved in to sleep in the same room as Mrs. Zhang.

  After sending off Mrs. Zhang and Zeng Shan, Luo Yi did not return to the mountain. The mine had Zhang Tianyou watching over it, and there was really nothing for Luo Yi to do. If Luo Yi went back up the mountain, he would probably only be able to listen to Zhang Tianyou's nagging again, so it was better to hide at the foot of the mountain and seek some peace. Le Jialin took a group of people to Nanchang again, sending the minerals that had been mined recently for sale. This time, Le Jialin did not look for Zhu Wuya, but instead found another merchant through Zhang Tianyou's introduction, sold the minerals at a better price, and then brought back 2000 yuan.

  With the money, Luo Yi began to implement his long-planned construction plan. He requisitioned idle labor from dozens of villages around Zhu Shan Town and started large-scale construction of highways leading out of Zhu Shan Town. Luo Yi knew that to get rich, he had to build roads first, and if he didn't open up the roads, many things would be difficult to do. According to his plan, Zhu Shan Town was going to build several factories and become the base camp for the shock troops, all of which relied on a smooth highway. In fact, this was also influenced by Luo Yi's experiences in later generations. For people in the 21st century, being without highways is like lacking something important in life.

  Luo Yi offered the migrant workers a daily wage of 20 copper coins, with meals provided and meat served every three days. This condition had great appeal to poor farmers in mountainous areas, and for a time, it formed a spectacular scene where men, women, old and young all joined in.

  Zhang Tianyou was invited by Luo Yi to come down the mountain and direct the road construction project. He corrected Luo Yi's idea of building two lanes, saying that it would be enough to build one lane with a width that is just sufficient, leaving a slightly wider space at intervals, which would be enough to handle even if there were occasional encounters with oncoming traffic.

  Apart from road construction, Luo Yi also organized workers to flatten over 1,000 mu of land around Zhushan Town. Some of these lands were ownerless wasteland, while others were purchased from farmers. He made a grand plan for the development of this 1,000-mu land. The main part of the plan was a barracks that could accommodate more than 2,000 people, including soldiers' dormitories, canteens, offices, classrooms and training grounds, etc., and the rest were reserved for factory lands, schools, shops, etc.

  Luo Yi's body was filled with the thrill of playing "SimCity" when he was busy on the drawing paper every day, imagining scenes like factory machines roaring and school voices loud. As one plan after another came out, the whole town of Zhushan became a large construction site, and farmers from several surrounding towns also rushed to Zhushan to work as laborers.

  Le Jialin didn't have the same heroic spirit as Luo Yi, he was busy every day running around various construction sites, helping to coordinate the purchase of materials, tools and rice, flour, vegetables and other things. After more than a dozen days, his originally plump body had finally slimmed down by a circle. Watching the large amount of money in his hands being spent like flowing water, Le Jialin was worried every day, and secretly complained to Lu Shuangyong:

  "Second Brother, we were doing all right as bandits, why have you started acting like a county magistrate?"

  "Huh? What county master?" Lu Shuang didn't understand Le Jialin's words, he had been busy compiling recruitment and military training plans these days, which was also a task given to him by Luo Yi. According to Luo Yi's words, once the production in the mine reached scale, the shock camp would undergo comprehensive expansion. The first phase of the expansion plan was to increase to 300 people, then the second phase, third phase... Lu Shuang had already been completely brainwashed by Luo Yi, wholeheartedly pursuing his dream of having a million troops.

  Lao Lin said: "I don't know what Luo Zi is thinking, leveling the land and repairing roads, could he really want to be a wealthy landlord in Zhushan Town?"

  Lu Shuangyong said: "Luozi has spoken, from now on, Zhushan Town will be our base. We need to build a large barracks here and also set up factories. I heard that in the future we can even manufacture guns and cannons ourselves! Ah, Lele, what do you think if we also set up an airplane factory?"

  Luo's family Lin said with a bitter face: "I don't have such a big heart, what if we've done everything well and the National Army suddenly turns its back on us and sends a regiment to wipe us out, won't we still have to run away?"

  "I think Luo Zi should have a way, right? Le Le, I've been chatting with Luo Zi these days and feel that this guy really understands a lot of things. It's said that even Mr. Zhang from the mine can't help but praise Luo Zi's insight, saying that many things Luo Zi talks about, he hasn't even heard of before. Do you think Luo Zi is really like what he says, returning from Nanyang?"

  "I don't think he's a native of Tongzhou either. Look at him always saying 'wa si', what kind of words are those?"

  "Whatever, our lives have already died once anyway, let's just follow Luo Zigan, there's nothing wrong with that." Lu Shuangyu concluded, he didn't like to think about things, since Luo Yi was acting as if he knew what he was doing, why bother thinking about it again?

  Lai Jialin saw that Lu Shuang didn't echo his own meaning, so he lost interest and carried the bag with the foreign currency back to the construction site.