I'm telling fortunes in North America. I'm really not a wizard.

Chapter 154 Professor Qin mocks his own mother
Chen Yaozu saw the thrilling fire from the woman named Hu Qin, and used it to tell fortunes, knowing that the fire would sweep across almost the entire Los Angeles.

Know the direction from which wind and fire will come from the hexagram.

So he used an excavator to dig a wide and deep trench on the upwind side of his territory in advance.

And use the excavated soil to build two layers, one high and one low.

The soil layers with different heights are used to block the sparks that would be blown away by the strong wind.

Then, all the nearby grass and trees were flattened and filled up.

Finally, he ordered the Fuqing Gang to force all Chinese shops in their territory to move to his place first.

You don't have to have a house.

But the property in the house must be moved out. This is not a negotiation but an order.

He gave this order two days in advance.

In fact, although the Fuqing Gang has several thousand people, the territory they control is not very large. After all, the entire Los Angeles is not a big place, but there are more than 50 gangs.

Although the Fuqing Gang is considered large, they do not have much territory to occupy. Their territory is usually only in a few blocks around Chinatown.

And now.

At a command from Chen Yaozu, all Chinese merchants and residents in the territory controlled by the Fuqing Gang were required to move their belongings here.

to be frank.

Those Chinese merchants were confused. At first they thought that the Fuqing gang wanted to steal their goods and belongings.

Or they could be forced to move to the site where Chen Yaozu had just bought and built several factories.

However, when the Fuqing gang members, led by Chen Yaozu's forty-nine bodyguards, came to convey the order in thousands, they also said something.

“Have you received any news that the insurance company has unilaterally cancelled your home insurance?
We have the inside scoop.

The insurance company's risk assessor evaluated that the weather was not right and there was a 95% chance of a fire in the next few days.

Anyone who receives this message can follow us and move the things over!
Our boss's place is a reinforced concrete building, and it is also well prepared for fire protection. You can store your things there and move them back in a week at the latest.

We can't rob you, don't worry about that!"

The merchants calmed down and any normal person knew that it was impossible for the Fuqing Gang to rob them.

Pick up eggs and kill old hens for meat every day.

One meal a day, one meal a day, every day, any normal person knows what to choose.

Now that their reputation has been ruined, is there any chance that the Fuqing Gang will survive in the future?
Moreover, these merchants and residents did receive information from the insurance company to cancel their home insurance.

So I believed it.

Some smart people would turn on the fire hydrant, and if there was water in it, they wouldn't have to move.

Unfortunately, there was really no water in the fire hydrant.

Of course, there were also people who were unwilling to obey orders. The Fuqing Gang insisted that they must move and even forced them to help pack up.

The news quickly spread that many people in the area controlled by the Fuqing Gang were forced to move.

then.

There was also widespread news about high-stakes assessment reports from assessors at large insurance companies.

But more people just watched coldly as some residents or businesses within the influence of the Fuqing Gang moved away with the help of those gangsters.

That's right.

Although the Fuqing Gang in Los Angeles is now undergoing transformation and has stopped businesses such as leaf production.

Only a part of the flesh trade, casinos, nightclubs, and alcohol sales were retained.

But they are still gangsters after all.

A large number of merchants within their territory also did not believe them. If they did not have more than a thousand people, do you think these merchants would be willing to move?

Even when they went to notify that they were moving out of high-risk areas.

Some of the merchants who watched the incident even called the police.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department arrived at the scene and warned the gang members, thus saving some people from the tragic fate of being forced to relocate.

Only a small number of people actually moved their store and home belongings to the area where Chen Yaozu had prepared fire prevention measures.

And then…the fire started that night.

To be honest, if there had not been information about large-scale insurance companies canceling housing insurance, Chen Yaozu might have been suspected of deliberately setting the fire just because he asked members of the Fuqing Gang to force merchants and residents in his territory to move.

But with massive insurance company cancellations, homeowners’ insurance being canceled, and fire hydrants running out of water, which well-informed politician wouldn’t know there was a problem?
The person in charge in Los Angeles was even more outrageous. He went directly to South Africa for vacation.

Thus, thick smoke rose with the wind one day and soared up to 90,000 miles.

The dry weather coupled with strong winds made fire prevention work extremely difficult.

In addition to the burning golf ball, there might have been cigarette butts and other things. Anyway, overnight, six fire points appeared simultaneously in Los Angeles, and all of them were in windy locations.

The wind helped the fire spread across everything. Driven by the strong wind, the fire spread rapidly, at a speed that could not be caught up with.

As for disaster relief?

What disaster are we trying to save? What can we use to save it?

Without even water, how can we put out the fire?
Besides...

An official in Texas once said: Disaster relief is a product of socialist countries, and America is a capitalist country. The government does not owe the people anything, so the people should learn to solve their own problems instead of becoming troublemakers.

……

In the east, on the roof of the world at an altitude of more than 4000 meters, there is a city with a population of more than 4 people, which also faced the test of nature. There was an earthquake.

Then, a piece of data that scared Curry Sambo on the other side of the world appeared.

This is the rescue response data for the earthquake.

Less than 5 minutes after the earthquake, drones appeared over the earthquake zone.

In less than 10 minutes, 15 border police arrived at the disaster area.

Some people may ask, what can 15 border police do?

The answer is that they dug out 21 trapped people with their bare hands.

In less than 30 minutes, demolition and rescue operations had begun in the central area. It was that fast.

It took 5 hours for the Y-20 to carry the officers and soldiers and dozens of tons of supplies. During these 5 hours, the supplies and people were ready at the fastest speed.

Moreover, within 12 hours, people in the disaster area had access to hot meals and fruits.

Yes, you read that right. There are also fruits for the children to choose from. Ask the children what they like to eat.

Most importantly, disaster relief tents were set up before dark, all affected roads were opened before daybreak, and all networks in the epicenter were restored.

This speed...

Not to mention the third brother next door was scared, even America in the white house was stunned when she heard the news.

My mind is filled with only one question: how was this done?
You know, the earthquake occurred on the roof of the world at an altitude of 4300 meters and a temperature of nearly 20 degrees below zero.

This is not a plain area.

In the American White House, everyone who was celebrating old Biden becoming a great-grandfather was glad after hearing the news that they were able to witness the speed of mobilization of the great Eastern power in peacetime.

Not during wartime!
however……

On the Eastern Internet, public intellectuals often use the words of Mr. Qin, who was once a professor at Shuimu University and later became a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to discredit their own country's efforts in disaster relief.

Mr. Qin said in the video in Cantonese:
“Disaster relief is the most basic responsibility of Zhenfu, so around the world, you rarely see ordinary people thanking Zhenfu for disaster relief.

All you can hear is people complaining about the poor disaster relief efforts.
Complaining that Zhenfu’s disaster relief efforts were not enough.

No one ever thought that we should be grateful for Zhenfu's disaster relief.

If you can't even save people from disaster, then are you still worthy of being an axe-suppressor?

You can ignore education, health, and elderly care, but who would argue that you can even ignore disaster relief?
No, right?

So disaster relief is necessary.

No matter how small the responsibility you set for Zhenfu is, you still have to take care of it, right?
Well, since it is your responsibility to take care of it, and you have done it, do I need to thank you?
But if you don’t, or if you don’t do enough, I will hold you accountable.

But we know that there are some axes that you will find particularly strange.

Once a natural disaster occurs, if you do what you should do, the people will thank Zhenfu?
Oh, this, this Zhenfu’s kindness is too great. If it weren’t for Zhenfu’s disaster relief, we would have died long ago, right?
Such remarks will appear a lot, especially when the same disaster occurs under different systems at the same time. The contrast is too stark. "

Maybe Professor Qin wanted to satirize his own motherland, but he may have stayed in the Confucian cultural circle for too long. What he took for granted was actually only the case in the East.

Moreover, the last sentence he said was actually very correct.

Under different systems, it will highlight who has done a good job and who has done nothing at all!!!
Because there may be only one country in the world that will send out its troops to desperately protect its people when a major disaster strikes.

And actually.

Among the more than 190 countries in the world, there are almost no countries that can do this and do it well.

Todai is the only one.

Professor Qin, who wanted to satirize his own motherland, was actually right. This is an innate difference in the system.

He never thought that the things he always thought were natural were actually wrong perceptions because he was protected too well.

The world is safe.

There are more than 200 countries and regions in the world, and the governments in these countries and regions are very responsible and safe.

But this idea is wrong!!!
No one has ever told these people that this world is a dark jungle.

Even America, the most powerful country in the world, is kidnapped and killed by Mexican gangs every year.

Almost everyone suffered heavy losses in this winter fire!
Others don’t know, but those merchants and residents who were under the influence of the Fuqing Gang in Los Angeles, who were originally forced to move by the gangsters and finally did not move because the police came, are now in tears.

Because, in the fire, all the wooden houses were burned down.

The home, and all its belongings, were now reduced to ash.

Gone!

Nothing!

Then they remembered,

Once someone wanted to help them, but they called the police and rejected this kindness.

A few days later, the Chinese residents and merchants in Los Angeles who were forced by gangsters to move part of their belongings to Chen Yaozu's territory and narrowly escaped a huge fire were grateful to the Fuqing Gang in Los Angeles.

Especially when I know that the reason behind the Los Angeles Fuqing Gang's forced move was actually a purple-robed Taoist priest named Chen Yaozu...

Su Yichen, the Secretary of the Ming Xuanwei Division, walked in and looked at the figure who had saved the property of countless Chinese merchants in a casual manner, his eyes full of respect:
"Sir, thousands of people, young and old, who were forcibly relocated by us have come to the gate of the yamen, saying that they want to thank you in person!"

Chen Yaozu did not express his opinion on whether he could go out or not, but asked Su Yichen with a golden light in his eyes:

"I'm thinking about this now. Over the past few days, there must be at least tens of thousands of houses and buildings burned down in Los Angeles!
Let’s not talk about whether the loss is 1500 billion or 2500 billion, it has nothing to do with us!
What I’m thinking is, since these houses were burned down, do they still need to pay their mortgages and property taxes?

Are these lands still worth money?"

(End of this chapter)