Only two people are left in the courtyard next door every day, and the rest of the team, including Yu Dabao, have joined the workshop. The same was true of the White Russians in the fortress, including women, who also took on the heavy task of carrying earth.

As soon as it gets dark, the people who stayed behind in the farm pulled the hidden ropes, pulled the flat-bottomed transport boats from the opposite bank, and pulled the silt dug out of the factory to the side to pile up the mound.

More than 500 people have been invested in this project, and all of them are working in accordance with the division of labor and step by step. The technicians also invested some excavation equipment, excavation, transportation, and lined up in several lines, which looked like ants moving, and the scene was spectacular.

The blasting operations were carried out during the day, and with the normal production noise from the workshop outside, it did not attract anyone's attention. The original industry on the workshop side was the spring factory, and Lao Ren acquired two factories that were several times larger than the original workshop, one was forging and processing, and the other was hardware enamel, both of which were factories that could be produced with simple industrial equipment.

At that time, the national enterprises were struggling in the development of industrialization, and they could only engage in this kind of rough processing industry. Equipment and technology were under foreign blockade, and only cotton spinning and printing and dyeing, or the dyeing and chemical industries that relied purely on individual ability, could compete with the foreign powers.

After the completion of the ground excavation operation, the original factory building was renovated in a cover-up manner, and the ownership was transferred from the Commerce Bureau to the forging factory, which completely disappeared from Shanghai and the original equipment was transferred to the forging factory. At the same time, the forging plant will apply for the construction of additional cupboards in the future to expand production capacity and equipment upgrades.

With the blast furnace, both casting and forging can be produced on their own, instead of having to be imported, as in the past. Theoretically, both barrels and barrels can be produced as long as there are drawings and parameters plus equipment. On the other hand, the production of civilian products at home and abroad at that time served as a cover on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was also possible to create profitable value.

Excavation machines plus blasting, and hundreds of people working day and night in turns, according to the construction period, it will take at least ten days or so before the civil excavation work can be completed. Then the cement pouring of the dock will be carried out. In short, this is a huge project, and there will be no action of this scale in the future.

Fortunately, once and for all, this is a necessary preparation. Originally, those white Russians followed Pu Su and them, and what they did was to lose their heads. Their families are completely complete, and Pu Su is obliged to take care of them. It's not what he was when he first arrived, he just needs to take care of his own safety. Including the 200 comrades who followed, it was a heavy responsibility.

Moreover, as a predictable time in the future, there will be a large number of supplies shipped out of Shanghai, and it is very troublesome to not have a reliable wharf to dock a cargo ship of the appropriate tonnage.

The Chamber of Commerce organized by Li Wenjuan has begun to place a lot of orders everywhere. Some of them are urgently needed materials for the border areas, and some are used for the normal operation of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, on the one hand, it is to confuse, and on the other hand, it is also for the sake of profit and maintaining the existing system.

Relying on looting as a means is primitive accumulation, and the real purpose is to disrupt and strike at the normal order of the enemy, and looting is only a seemingly justified excuse to conceal the purpose of the mission.

At present, the Chamber of Commerce is preparing to open rice shops and department stores in the French Concession. This is all Li Wenjuan's idea, if the firm buys a large amount of rice and noodles in the name, but there is no corresponding business activity on the surface, it will be revealed as soon as it is checked. Now in the French Concession, because of the relationship between the old man and the name of the Russian Chamber of Commerce, no one wants to meddle. As long as someone is interested in checking it, it must not be self-justifying.

The output of the farm can only play the role of internal supplement. 300 acres of land sounds like a large area, but in fact it is really limited, and it is difficult to maintain the daily supply of so many of them, and the biggest role is to use it for emergency and emergency needs.

There is no modern industry, an acre of land almost produces 500 catties of rice, a little saving, a person eats 250g (half a catty) of rice a day, a person eats 90 kilograms a year, that is, 180 catties of grain, so many people are far from enough, so it is necessary for experts like Lao Kuai to plan, implement rotational planting, and maximize the use of land resources.

For the time being, all supplies can only be purchased, even from the point of view of wholesale prices, and the direct purchase of the origin of the commercial houses saves a lot of money. The rest can be operated on a daily basis to maintain consumption, except for supporting the border areas.

A number of commercial houses under the Chamber of Commerce are now institutions that can legally import and export goods and materials. Documents can be forged if necessary. Among the White Russians, there are masters of forging all kinds of documents, and only a mimeograph machine is needed, which can produce all kinds of documents and documents. It's just that there is Lao Ren in the French Concession, and there is no need for the time being.

At the same time, several comptoirs have also legally purchased vehicles, including transport trucks. The original truck from the Green Gang is far from the current daily capacity. The addition of comptoir trucks has greatly shortened the time to transport team members to and from the team. It only takes one round trip from the workshop site in batches.

During this period, the reconnaissance team still took turns with 10 people at a time, taking five rickshaws to roam the streets and alleys of Shanghai to familiarize themselves with the terrain and the specific locations of key targets. This is the most effective and intuitive, and it is very natural and does not arouse suspicion.

In the future, Pu Su will modify the rickshaw to hide some weapons in the body. A team of ten people at a time is enough to deal with the general card point check. His tactics against the enemy have now changed. If you are questioned or seized, you will no longer pretend to be obedient and cooperate with the opportunity to act again. Instead, it was directly and violently arrested, and the firepower broke through.

This is one of the reasons why he is not allowed to go it alone. Even if the special training team members go out in a three-person group, they must not go out in a separate group, and must be in two or more groups. Once blocked, immediately armed to break out, never risk being captured.

After a few actions, he now has some confidence in the strength of this side. And I have enough knowledge of the patrols and plainclothes in the concession that are on duty on the streets every day. At this stage, Lao Ren also revealed enough internal information to him.

Civilian clothes and patrols usually roam the streets, and the force value is very weak, and even most patrols only have a copper whistle and a batons. But if they are dragged into the patrol room, it will be a big trouble.

First of all, it is not so simple to fish people out, and they must be interrogated inside, and the White Russians can say that they are all old fritters who have lived in Shanghai for a long time, and the new comrades do not know the situation at all, and they can say that they do not know anything about it, and their documents are real, in this case, not to mention that they themselves will be exposed, and it is easy to involve the old man.

Therefore, there is a policy of keeping a low profile and violently resisting arrest. Usually, the team members try to be cautious and low-key, but once the matter cannot be solved on the street and they need to go to a place like the patrol room, they must not hesitate to preemptively ensure that the personnel get out.

If the situation is not resolved at the time, the consequences of spreading will be even more unacceptable.

There were at least 10 of the 30 reconnaissance comrades, and he planned to let Lao Ren find a way to place a few in the French Concession, and then use his connections to arrange a few in the Public Concession.

The comrades who get in will start from the lowest-level bag inquiry or street patrol, and they can play a role that cannot be ignored at critical moments.

Every day, he writes and draws in a leather notebook that he carries with him, records his ideas, composes a relatively reasonable plan on paper, writes them down in his head, and then tears them off and burns them. Many things, now only on his own, there used to be Gu Ji to discuss, and give advice, now all the design has to be carried out alone, this is also a huge test for him.

After arriving in Shanghai, he has gone from a lone wolf agent acting alone to forming a system with him at its core. And he never thought that this system was a huge scale that our party had never had in the occupied areas behind enemy lines.

Of course, it mainly occupies these three elements: the right time, place and people. To a certain extent, the pessimism within the Board of Directors was serious, and the war in Europe was tense, and it was now mid-April, and two months later France actually surrendered to the Germans. France declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and the Germans began their attack on France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and surrendered on 22 June 1940.

It is very interesting that France has basically not done anything since declaring war on Germany, and it is really incomprehensible that the ostrich has become like this. The British were very numerous, and at the same time, the British soldiers and volunteers in the Public Concession left Shanghai one after another and took the initiative to return to China to participate in the war.

This is also one of the times of the day. The largest and most senior British in the public concession have taken care of themselves, and now the greatest combat strength of the international merchant group is only the White Russian wing, and other wings of countries like the United States, which have not yet been involved in the war, are only fighting soy sauce in Shanghai, and since they are in this merchant group, they must fulfill their obligations. For example, Jonad and his men are not ambiguous in accepting the mission, but they will never fight to the death with the Chinese guerrillas in a foreign land.

It's not entirely that they're greedy for life and afraid of death, and Americans, despite their loose nature, also have a tradition of being brave and fearless. It's just that on the one hand, they feel that it is not worth it, and there is that they have a natural sympathy for the weak Chinese who were defeated in the war and invaded.

As for the location, it goes without saying. Being in the French Concession, which is actually full of Chinese, it is very convenient for them to integrate into this environment. The foreshadowing that Gu Ji had done here before, as well as the position of the old man, gave them natural convenience. Both the white and the underworld are under control, at least all the way in the French Concession, and it is very convenient to act.

The last person is here, and Pu Su is currently deliberately avoiding contact with the Chinese people. The people who get along with them are all White Russians, but they are his biggest people. With the formation of closed communities, Belarusian armed men and businessmen were integrated into the system. A solid union has been formed, that is, a solid union has been formed, interests and life and death are shared, and there is no room for other thoughts on both sides.

For example, when digging a dock, all the Belarusians went out to carry out the construction day and night, but they regarded those comrades of Pusu as brothers and sisters who came to help, and they were enthusiastic.

Because Alyosha clearly told them that this dock was to be used to transfer them and all their families just in case. The dockyard under construction can accommodate freighters going to sea, and the only way to escape the country is to sail out to the open sea as a last resort.

The good days have passed, and it is impossible to go back to the time when there was a lack of food and clothing like the past. Moreover, the generous welfare system and the current strong operation ability also make them feel the strength of the system. There are many people who are easy to do, as long as Alyosha is willing to take the lead, they are determined to go all the way to the dark. It's not necessarily a bad thing to pat your ass and get on the boat, and run out with your wife and children.

The Chamber of Commerce has its own furniture factory, which is carrying out house-to-house surveys and upgrading furniture. Sasha's father's tailor's shop also trained a group of White Russian women, and from the fabrics brought from the trading houses, they began to customize decent modern fashion in the fortress's workshops, and then supplied them to the community at an affordable price.

While praying thanksgiving to God and the Virgin, these White Russians were not aware of a problem at all. All that happened around them was a social system that they fought for and fought desperately against.

In fact, Pu Su didn't realize it at first, and he was unconsciously practicing his usual ideals and beliefs in the fortress and farm—building a prototype on a small scale.

The atmosphere of the fortress and the farmstead and the workshop today is one for one and one for all. No one cares about the reward, and they all know in their hearts that all the hard work and dedication are worthwhile. The farmer is so that everyone can eat, the business is so that everyone does not have to worry about daily necessities, and the sewing team is so that everyone has decent clothes to wear......

Including those children who go to school, they also know that learning knowledge in school honestly and not causing chaos to adults is the best reward for their parents.

Public funds are not allocated individually, but collectively rated. Everything in the fortress is rationed, and the standardization is distributed according to the corresponding contribution. The farms and the comrades who had taken over the frontier areas of the workshops were accustomed to this system of rationing. On the contrary, Belarus feels that such a system is more secure, after all, as long as you follow the rules and follow the instructions, you don't need to think about anything yourself, and the Chamber of Commerce can solve all problems.

In this case, as the basis for maintaining all this, the fortress must be stronger to be reassuring. After the Duke arrived at the fortress with several White Russian technicians, he immediately surveyed the terrain, and he sat in a wheelchair and instructed the other technicians to climb up and down, and after surveying the terrain of the entire surrounding community, he worked out a new fortress structure with his Chinese counterparts.

The new drawings include permanent reinforced concrete fortifications that are inconspicuous. Disguised with sculptures and rockeries to block the frontal impact of mechanized tanks and armored vehicles, the concrete thickness and markings are thick enough to withstand heavy artillery bombardment. And equipped with field artillery for effective return fire, destroy armor and destroy targets.

In addition, the walls of the rooms facing the outside were gradually reinforced from the inside, and slides were built inside each apartment so that in the event of a fight, women and children could quickly evacuate through the slides and enter the mansion and move from the basement.

The fire point of the heavy machine gun originally configured by Pusu was confirmed to be reasonable by the duke. In addition, several large cisterns and cellars were added, which was the worst-case scenario, and when it was surrounded on all sides and the basement passage could not be reached, it could only be defended accordingly.

These White Russians have been displaced from their homeland all the way to their homeland, and they have suffered a lot in the past few decades. Under the domination of the precautionary mentality, the consideration is very comprehensive. Although Pu Su felt that it was a bit exaggerated, out of trust in the duke, he just asked Li Wenjuan to fully cooperate in terms of materials.

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