In the afternoon of the same day, Bai Fei and others, under the leadership of Li Shuyang, went to visit and check some of the properties purchased by Mr. Song in Hanyang, Wuchang, Hankou and other places.

Although it was a time of war, Wuhan was temporarily safe and the streets were full of pedestrians, and it seemed that business was booming.

Everywhere Bai Fei went, he took a group of people to give priority to those former subordinates who retired due to injury, and gave each person an additional 10 silver dollars in condolences money, and everyone who was moved was in tears and indescribably grateful.

Bai Fei said to them: "Brothers, you are all good, and the blood you have suffered and shed is to resist the Japanese invaders, so you are glorious and national heroes!" In the war, although you are injured and disabled, don't give up, no matter what others do, I will not forget you and abandon you, as long as you are still willing to follow me, I will take you to a good life..."

Among the retired soldiers, there is a northeast man named Zhao Sanwu, who was accepted by Bai Fei when he was in the North China battlefield, has always been brave in battle, and has some culture, at that time was appointed as a platoon commander of the 1st company, and later the army was expanded, originally to promote him to the company commander, but when he was in Songjiang, he was injured by the Japanese artillery shells on the other side of the river, and after recovering from illness, his left leg was somewhat sloping, and he could not march for a long time, so he had no choice but to retire.

Zhao Sanwu said: "Tuanza, don't say anything, it is a blessing for our brothers to be able to fight side by side with Tuanza, although we are retired now, but our hearts have always been with Tuanza." To tell the truth, after the brothers retired, they are now doing what they can under Mr. Song, and our welfare is so good, it is much better than that of the brothers who retired due to injuries in other troops. However, some of us are somewhat disabled, but our hands are fine, we can still hold guns, and we can serve the people on weekdays, and if the situation requires us, we can also turn into soldiers at any time, even if we go to the battlefield again, we will not frown..."

Bai Fei listened to his words, revealing between the lines his desire to return to the army and return to the battlefield, but thinking that their current situation was indeed no longer suitable for staying in the army, he couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart.

Mr. Song whispered on the side: "Now there are more than 150 brothers who retired due to injuries and did not want to receive money to leave, this Zhao Sanwu platoon commander, righteous and prestigious, retired and resettled brothers are willing to obey him, so I temporarily set up the head of everyone, and is mainly responsible for managing them at ordinary times..."

Bai Fei nodded secretly. He said to everyone: "Brothers, you are all very brave, and I can understand the mood of bent on fighting, but you are really no longer suitable to continue to stay in the army, the reality is like this, and no one can change it." But since all of you are still willing to follow me, then you are still my soldiers who fly in vain, but you will be another form of soldier------ a demobilized soldier! ”

Bai Fei saw everyone looking at each other, so he continued: "Demobilized soldiers, as the name suggests, are soldiers who no longer take combat as their main job, but they are still in the army sequence. At the same time, I would like to announce the establishment of a logistics resettlement office for the demobilized workers of our own troops, with Mr. Song Qingming and Song as the director and Zhao Sanwu as the deputy director. You will specialize in labor production in the rear, make money from business, and at the same time, according to your talents and contributions, you will also have the opportunity to be promoted, and at the local level, you will be formed into an armed security team by demobilized personnel, responsible for protecting the safety of our own industry, personnel, and other fruits of labor. ”

Bai Fei said: "Don't think that if you are not in the combat army, your burden will be lighter, I tell you, your responsibility is very heavy, all of us eat, drink, sleep, as well as salaries and pensions, all of which will be provided by you at that time..."

Although Bai Fei said that the pension would be provided by them, the actual situation would not do so, at least not for a period of time. Joke! These traditional businesses that these hundred and ten-year-old people have done are already good enough to support themselves now. Of course, Bai Fei has his own thoughts and ideas in his heart, and if the business becomes bigger in the future, it will be another matter.

But Bai Fei just wanted to shock them.

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly gasped.

Bai Fei asked Zhao Sanwu: "Platoon Commander Zhao, appoint you as the deputy director of the resettlement department, do you have any questions?" ”

Zhao Sanwu felt the pressure, opened his mouth, and finally gritted his teeth and straightened his waist and said, "No problem!" ”

Bai Fei nodded and said with a smile: "Don't have too much pressure, after all, you are still few people now, and I won't let you have too much burden in the short term, but you must work hard and shift your mind to a new job." ”

"Yes! Tuanza! ”

After appeasing a group of retired soldiers, Bai Fei and the others came to a house near Guishan. This private house occupies an area of about two acres, and it looks inconspicuous, and as it gets closer, suddenly many men with weapons come out of the courtyard and around it. Some of these people were wounded in the battle in Taihang Mountain, and later Bai Fei went to Shanghai, and it was inconvenient to take them with them, so they let them escort the gold and silver dollars to Wuhan with Mr. Song; There are also some villagers from Zhangjiabao who were not selected by Bai Fei to participate in the battle.

They were originally secretly protecting the courtyard around them, but when they saw Bai Fei at this time, they were all very excited, and they all came up to call "captain", Bai Fei also responded enthusiastically, everyone was lively for a while, and then they went to perform their duties.

Bai Fei and others, under the leadership of Mr. Song, entered the courtyard together.

This house looks inconspicuous from the outside, but there is a hole inside, with pavilions and water pavilions, which has the architectural charm of a water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

Mr. Song said: "Zhenyu, I thought that if you want to come to Wuhan, you must have a place to stay, and then I thought that you and Yueqing are also going to get married, so I chose this better house, are you still satisfied with it?" ”

Bai Fei said with a smile: "Thank you Brother Song for your concern, it looks pretty good." However, the Japanese estimate that it will not be long before they call, so we should not buy property here in the future. ”

Mr. Song said: "I have considered this, although there are more than a dozen businesses in the city now, most of them are rented houses, and they can be vacated at any time. In addition to the above reasons, the most important thing to buy this house is to store those things..."

As he spoke, Mr. Song led the way in front and said, "You come with me..."