Busy life

  In the following days, Luo Yi started a busy life, and several people in the assault camp were also driven by him to turn around, and various tasks in Shanghai were fully launched.

  Luo Yi first contacted Lin Xiangxin and others to settle the villagers of Zhoupu Village. Hundreds of residents who moved out of Zhoupu Village were given several different destinations by Luo Yi.

  Some villagers had relatives in Shanghai and surrounding areas to rely on, and they themselves were also unwilling to leave their hometown, so they chose to stay local. Luo Yi took out a portion of the funds he brought with him and let Lin Xiangxin distribute them to the villagers as a resettlement fee, thereby dispersing them. The only condition Luo Yi proposed was not to mention what happened in Zhoupu Village, and the villagers all agreed after taking the money.

  Another group of villagers felt that it was difficult to survive in Shanghai and were willing to follow Luo Yi's suggestion to go to Jiangxi to make a living. Luo Yi sent Cao Xianjin to take them away from Shanghai by boat, heading to Tongzhou, where they would be settled in Zhushan Town. Among these people, there were quite a few who had worked in factories and had some technical skills. Zhushan Town is currently developing its industry and urgently needs such skilled workers. Lin Xiangxin also followed them to Tongzhou, he was an excellent car mechanic, Luo Yi specially wrote a letter of recommendation to Lu Shuangyong, asking him to arrange for Lin Xiangxin to be the deputy director of the repair factory. Lin Xiangxin had some prestige among the villagers in Zhoupu Village, and arranging a slightly better position for him would have a great stabilizing effect on the other villagers.

  A few clever and honest young people were left behind to assist Yuan Jing at the intelligence station. However, Luo Yi also specifically instructed Yuan Jing that for the time being, these people could only serve as errand boys and couldn't access the internal secrets of the assault camp. In recent days, Luo Yi taught Yuan Jing a lot about underground intelligence work, from "The Spy" to "Seventeen Moments of Spring", it was like opening a special agent training class. Zeng Shan followed Yuan Jing every day to listen to Luo Yi's stories, occasionally wiping away tears and whatnot, for her, the joys and sorrows inside were more interesting than the intelligence work.

  Yuan Jing's wit is extremely good, she just lacks experience. Under Luo Yi's crash training, she grasped many key points and became much more mature than before. Her admiration for Luo Yi changed from being as endless as the Yellow River to being as majestic as the Yangtze River.

  There were a few villagers in Zhoupu Village who had been fishermen and were selected by Luo Yi to undertake a special task, which was to do transportation work on the Yangtze River. When the assault team rescued Du Xinyu from the Wulong Gang, they also captured a motor sailboat belonging to the Wulong Gang. Le Jialin found a dock to temporarily store the boat for a while, and now that there were sailors, it was just right to put it back into use. Shanghai is a national market, and many of the materials needed by the assault team had to be purchased from Shanghai. With the boat, transportation of materials became more convenient, and some things that couldn't be seen in public could also be kept secret more easily. Among the fishermen was a man named Lei Xiong who had been a soldier in the Qing government's naval force when he was young and had some management skills, and his character wasn't bad either. Luo Yi arranged for him to serve as captain of the boat.

  Andrew and his group set off to return to the United States, they performed several shows in some sailor bars in Shanghai and earned tens of thousands of dollars, so they were eager to return to the United States to earn more money. Before leaving, David introduced a arms dealer he knew to Luo Yi, and both parties found an intermediate location to meet and negotiate.

  The arms dealer was named Smith, also an American, and seemed to have some sort of relationship with David. Smith had been living in Shanghai for many years, specializing in selling military supplies from Western countries to China. During the warlord era, several factions of warlords were killing each other with weapons provided by him, and he made a fortune from it.

  Luoyi told Smith about the contract he and Andrew had signed, and David confirmed from the side that Luoyi could get at least $900,000 in dividends from their concerts every year. Smith was attracted by such a large sum of money and agreed readily, as long as the money was guaranteed, there would be no problem with any materials.

  Luo Yi provided Smith with a detailed list, including new-style rifles, pistols, machine guns, mortars, bullets, high-explosive hand grenades, zha medicine, telegraph machines, and Western medicines, enough to equip an army of 2,000 people. Of course, these materials could only be purchased based on the financial situation of Luo Yi's account, and Smith promised that the prices of the goods for Luo Yi would be the most reasonable. Luo Yi found a few friends in Shanghai who knew Zhang Tianyou to help with the purchase, and these friends had some understanding of the American situation, so Smith did not dare to ask for an exorbitant price.

  Apart from the existing equipment, Luo Yi also asked Smith to help him order a batch of products he designed in the United States. These products had not been released at that time, and Luo Yi was able to design them based on his experience gained in later generations. For example, there were multi-functional individual portable devices, which were gradually optimized through repeated use by several generations of soldiers. Luo Yi drew it on paper and asked Smith to take it back to the United States for processing. Originally, Luo Yi was willing to produce these things himself, but the necessary canvas, metal parts, etc. were difficult to solve domestically, so he had to turn to foreign production. As for whether the factory would plagiarize his ideas and provide these equipment to the US military, Luo Yi couldn't care less. After all, the United States was an ally of China during World War II, and it wasn't like the benefits were flowing to outsiders.

  Le Jialin was busy arranging the work of the intelligence station with two or three people. The house had been purchased, a three-story building with a garden. According to Luo Yi's design, Le Jialin found several workers to renovate the house. Soundproof walls were set up in some rooms for secret meetings and radio transmissions. Doors and windows were also specially treated to enhance defense against sudden attacks. As an intelligence station, it was necessary to make preparations in advance, as it might be destroyed by the enemy at any time.

  A few days later, He Jichun's telegraph class started, and Yuan Jing threw herself into the study with great enthusiasm. Since it was not wartime at present, the management of the telegraph class was not strict, and no accommodation was provided for the students, so Yuan Jing had to return home every night. The telegraph machine captured from Li Lao Si became a tool for Yuan Jing to do her homework when she returned. Luo Yi was not interested in this kind of work that involved tapping on the telegraph key, and he didn't bother to study the details of the telegram. On the other hand, Zhou Xi liked this kind of mysterious thing, and every day when Yuan Jing practiced sending telegrams, he would stay by her side and watch seriously.

  "Xì yāo, did you understand?" Yuan Jing asked, seeing Zhou Xiyao's serious expression.

  Zhou Xi nodded: "I roughly understood a bit."

  "So tell me, what have you figured out?"

  Zhou Xi imitated Yuan Jing's gestures, speaking as he compared them, and surprisingly managed to convey the content of Yuan Jing's knocks with about 80-90% accuracy. Yuan Jing was extremely surprised and said to Luo Yi: "Luo Zige, I think Zhou Xi can be trained to become a telegraph operator."

  Luo Yi patted Zhou Xi's head and said, "Such a young child, if he becomes a telegram messenger, aren't we employing child labor? Xi's task is to study. However, if you have time, you can also guide him, after all, art doesn't burden the body."

  Zeng Shan didn't idle around either. Through He Ji Chun, Luo Yi got in touch with a training class for battlefield first aid and sent Zeng Shan to study there. Although Zeng Shan was hesitant at first, worrying that she wasn't educated enough or that others would look down on her as a country girl, once she arrived at the training class, she actually did very well. Most of the students studying battlefield first aid were girls, but few were like Zeng Shan, who had suffered hardships as a country girl; the other girls were mostly city-bred. Especially when the instructor took the students to see anatomical specimens, the other girls were all frightened and lost their composure, while only Zeng Shan remained calm and composed. During her years in the bandit's lair, she hadn't been unfamiliar with corpses, so she was much braver than the others.

  Zeng Shan also had to return to the hotel every night, taking advantage of Yuan Jing practicing Morse code in her room, she would run to Luo Yi's room, nominally asking Luo Yi to explain the content of the health textbook, but actually doing something else, only they two knew.

  Another frequent visitor is Du Xinyu. Since chatting with him on the riverbank, Du Xinyu's attitude towards Luo Yi has become much more intimate, but verbally, she still has to pretend to be a proud and arrogant young lady. Her reason for finding Luo Yi is to ask him to teach her how to sing. At that time, everyone was singing sentimental love songs, like the song "Shanghai Bund" sung by Luo Yi, which had a sense of vicissitudes and would definitely cause a stir. She planned to use such a song to intimidate other rich young ladies at social gatherings and also show off her connection with an extraordinary young man.

  On this day, just as Luo Yi was teaching Du Xin Yu a new song, one of the Du family's bodyguards came running in, panting: "Young Miss, something has happened, Master Du has been surrounded by Master Ma's people."