Qin Di did not interfere in the retail industry, if he entered, it would be like an elephant jumping into a pool, and there would be no way for the four major department stores to live.

Despite this, the watches, bicycles, and vinyl records sold in these department stores are all produced by his company. Not to mention, the pharmacy in the magic capital was almost monopolized by him, and Ci'an Surgical Hospital also opened three on this "isolated island", two of which were withdrawn from Suzhou and Hangzhou.

In order to alleviate the haze of war, the entertainment industry in the concession area has flourished day by day, for example, the "Declaration", on the one hand, reports on the war ahead, and on the other hand, the screening advertisements of new movies and operas.

The fall of the magic capital does not seem to have had much impact on the rich eunuchs, and new dance halls and bars are one after another, "the meeting place is spacious, the floor is smooth, the setting is beautified, the music is elegant, and all the members are noble ladies." Bars in prosperous areas such as Xiafei Road, Aidoya Road, and Zhubao 3rd Road have become a must-go place for people to have a pastime.

Huge neon-coloured torch words flickered in the streets, flaunting at the door, like a girl's smile, like a child's jump, accompanied by the smell of wine and jazz that overflowed from the glass door, giving lonely passers-by a paralyzing temptation to throw themselves into the drunk, lascivious, decadent garden.

Every bar has musicians and dancers, and pretty waitresses are a must, so if you have money in your bag, you can proudly hold them around and drink with a glass, kiss them sweetly, or play wildly. In addition to the local merchants, foreign sailors were also frequent customers of the bar, these foreign drunks who crossed the ocean, and the banknotes were exchanged for wine and women in rolls, like sowing seeds, and the entire Zhu Bao San Road was almost full of prosperity cultivated by them.

In this situation, the development of EMI has become more and more prosperous, and many new singers have been signed. In addition to Wu Yingyin, who is still studying, and Li Xianglan is still making movies in puppet Manchukuo, the other five singers are all included in Baidai Company, and signed a long-term contract under Qin Di's special care [Biqu Island fo].

Qin Di instructed Zhou Tianlin, the manager of Baidai Company, to treat every singer as a "princess and queen", equipped with special agents and bodyguards, as well as professional lyricists and composers, and constantly created popular songs. Wherever they went, people surrounded them like stars holding the moon.

On the surface, these five singers are even more prosperous than in history!

However, it is a pity that there is still a high singing fairy hanging above their heads! Fortunately, the singing fairy Xue Xiangwan rarely shows up, otherwise it will overshadow them.

Historically, even without the help of Qin Di, pop songs have bloomed devastating flowers, and in the entire thirties and forties, in just 20 years, more than 8,000 songs were born, most of which were produced in the magic capital!

It's a pity that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, for 30 years, the "beautiful sound" disappeared.

Later, the "Glamorous Voice" not only made a comeback, but also became more and more debauched.

At this time, there were many foreigners living in the magic capital, who were employed by large companies, and their salaries were settled in US dollars or pounds, so with the depreciation of the Chinese currency, their happy life returned.

The thriving Xiafei Road is full of White Russian jewelry shops, restaurants, dance halls, and brothels......

In 1938, there was an anti-Semitic upsurge in Germany. Since the magic capital is one of the few cities in the world where you can travel freely without a visa, the number of foreigners seeking refuge in Shanghai is increasing day by day. In July 1938, only 369 Jewish refugees came to Shanghai, and by the summer of 1939, there were 16,000 Jewish refugees.

The settled Jewish refugees did not want to live on handouts, and began to fend for themselves, relying on hard work and wisdom, the Jewish refugees gradually prospered the area around the Hongkou Tilanqiao area, and built their own schools, hospitals, theaters, newspapers, libraries, beauty salons, radio stations and other infrastructure, and the prosperity of the area made it enjoy the reputation of "Little Vienna".

But ordinary people live a very difficult life, except for refugees who live on the streets, rickshaw drivers are a representative group of the lower class of people, and their life on the "isolated island" is very difficult. There were too many coachmen, business was light, and housing problems were also deeply troubling them, and the rent of one or two yuan a month before the war had risen to five or six yuan by this time.

Housing is a common problem that plagues the middle and lower classes. Due to the large number of people and the lack of rooms, there are always several houses in each pigeon cage-like house, and there are always many people living in each small tofu-like room. In this kind of small room, eating,, bathing, sleeping are all included, relatives and friends come and go, and it must also be used as a reception room.

The working class refers to the group of people with a monthly income of thirty or forty yuan, they are the majority of the ordinary people, as industrious as ants and bees, and also as cheap as ants and bees. Their life on the "island" is also very hard.

Due to the skyrocketing population, the supply of food and vegetables exceeds the demand, and the hoarding of merchants has caused prices to soar. The scarcity and high cost of food have made the nutrition of the residents of the city a serious problem, and in every corner, especially in the lower poverty-stricken areas, many people with various pathologies due to lack of nutrition can always be seen.

For this reason, the porridge shed opened by the Qin family has continued, and I don't know how many people have been saved.

Qin Di had stockpiled 500,000 tons of grain in the "Qin's Grain Store" in the magic capital, and most of it was consumed in less than a year! He had to instruct the "Sky Food" food company in the United States to continue to purchase grain in the Americas and send it to China.

The Japanese army also has no intention of interfering in the relief of refugees, after all, there are many foreigners living in the magic capital, and the Japanese also have to pay attention to their faces.

As Mr. Qing asked the major media to report positively on the Qin family, many people paid attention to the situation of the Qin family's continuous soup soup in the magic capital.

According to statistics, the Qin family has been giving porridge in the magic capital for a year, and at the beginning there were 200 porridge sheds, which have been reduced to 100 at present, and each porridge shed has no less than 1,500 bowls of porridge per day, benefiting 150,000 people a day, including refugees, rickshaw drivers, and even small citizens with low incomes......

We can't tell whether it was Ms. Zhu Wan, Gexian Xue Xiangwan, or the suave Qin Dashao, who played a key role in it, but the names of these people were chanted by the people who drank porridge every day, like the Great Compassion Guanyin Bodhisattva......

Some people say that Zhu Wan believes in God, so some people follow and believe in God; some people say that Ge Xianxue believes in Taoism in the evening, so some people follow to thank the ancestors of the Three Qing Dynasty; some people say that Qin Dashao is unrestrained and only believes in money, so some people believe in the Jade Emperor......"

Although Qin Di repeatedly asked that the disciples of the Green Gang who gave porridge treat people kindly, and could not force people to thank the Qin family and the Green Gang, the gratitude of many ordinary people came from the bottom of their hearts and could not be stopped.