Chapter 478: Explosion
The United States has still strengthened its surveillance of the Chinese Embassy. Of course, this has a lot to do with the intensification of the situation in the South China Sea in recent times and the Diaoyu Islands incident in China.
However, these things are carried out in secret.
Mu Yang has also become busy recently and has dealt with several incidents of leading and overseas Chinese. Overall, the work has been going well during this period.
Mu Yang was sitting in the office to sort out the report. Qian Chang walked in and said, "Notify the meeting, Mr. Cui and Mr. Zhang are already waiting in the conference room, let's go there quickly."
Mu Yang knew that something must have happened, otherwise such an urgent meeting would not have been held.
Walking into the office, Consul General Cui Mingxue and Deputy Consul General Zhang Chuanshan were already sitting in the main seat, their bodies were crooked together, and they were whispering something.
At this time, there were already four or five people in the office. Mu Yang and Qian Chang quietly walked to the side and sat down. Several more people came in one after another. Consul General Cui looked up and said, "Everyone is here, now there is an emergency meeting."
"Just 10:20 am this morning, fifteen minutes ago, in Miami, Florida, a series of bombings occurred at the end of the annual city marathon held in the local area. When I received the news, I had confirmed that four people had died and more than 200 were injured. As for the subsequent casualties, it depends on the situation of the injured."
Hearing this, Mu Yang began to turn aside the situation about Florida and Miami. Miami belongs to the Houston Consulate General area. Mu Yang has only been to Tallahassee, the capital of Florida, once in the past six months, but Miami has never been to Miami.
However, Mu Yang has had a paper understanding of all the cities under the jurisdiction of the Consulate General, and even cities across the United States will seriously understand their situation. Now Mu Yang's mental power has been systematically developed. He was not a stupid child before, but now he is smarter than before, so there is no pressure to remember things.
Muyang loves reading, so he remembers a lot of situations in the relevant regions.
What is Miami? People may think of the first impression of the NBA's Miami Heat and Miami Beach. Miami is indeed very beautiful in the southernmost part of the United States. The subtropical climate makes Miami warm all year round. Coupled with the beach, the sea, and bikini, Miami has become a tourist destination.
Mu Yang also knows that this marathon is not a particularly formal competition. Some activities similar to urban leisure and entertainment can be participated by everyone. We will continue along the coastline road, with a schedule of about 20 kilometers.
To put it bluntly, it is an active competition that increases the popularity and vitality of the city, and it can also be regarded as a selling point of tourism. Miami is a tourist city and has a very developed economy, so the bonus of this event is also very generous. The first place can get a reward of 100,000 US dollars, and the second and third places are 30,000 and 10,000 yuan respectively.
Due to the bonus, this competition has attracted many regular athletes to participate. After all, few tourists can run the entire journey. If everyone is gone halfway, this competition will be meaningless.
Marathons start on April 25 every year because this is the best time for Miami to have climate, with temperatures around 24 degrees, sunny and tourists coming in large numbers, which is the peak season for the year.
Therefore, there will be many people participating in this marathon, and the series of explosions at the finish line will cause such large casualties.
Consul General Cui Mingxue continued: "There are 80,000 Chinese and overseas Chinese in the entire Florida, while Miami accounts for about 60,000. It is the second largest Chinese and overseas Chinese in the Houston consular area and one of the major cities for my country to travel to the United States, so there are also a large number of Chinese tourists."
"Also, there are more than a dozen universities in Miami, and I remember there are many Chinese students there." Cui Mingxue said that here, looking at Deputy Consul General Guo Xuemin, who is in charge of education and culture.
Guo Xuemin immediately replied: "Yes, the number of international students counted last year was that among more than a dozen universities in Miami, there were a total of 34 Chinese students and 208 overseas Chinese students."
Cui Mingxue and Guo Xuemin finished speaking and continued: "Will these students go to participate in the marathon, will they come to the scene to watch, Chinese tourists, overseas Chinese have come over, and whether anyone is injured, we need to understand these situations as soon as possible."
"I also learned about one situation, that is, this year's Miami marathon, there are also Chinese athletes participating. It is organized by a company. Some people may know about this company, Vanke, a Chinese real estate company."
"We don't know how many people the other party's company has sent, and whether any of these people have been injured. Next, let's assign a job."
Then, Consul General Cui began to assign tasks, and the Consulate General immediately activated the emergency mechanism, contacted local police, Chinese media, overseas Chinese, international student organizations and other channels to learn about the latest information as soon as possible.
The people from the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office left one person to guard the house and handle other things that may occur. The rest went to Miami to understand the situation. If any Chinese and overseas Chinese were injured, they would be properly handled as soon as possible.
This time, led by Deputy Consul General Zhang Chuanshan and led the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, Mu Yang, Ma Lishan and Qian Chang, followed him, boarded the closest flight and rushed to Miami.
Well, what I said just now is very imposing. I left one and left all the rest. In fact, there are only four people in the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, and the rest are all the auxiliary staff recruited. Can you believe it? Haha.
There are only 20 people in the Consulate General who have formal diplomat status, and the others are collaborative personnel. To put it bluntly, they are just employees who sign contracts. The Consulate General has six or seven departments, one consul and three deputy consuls. In short, there are only three or four people in one department.
This is the norm for consulates. In most small restaurants in other countries, there are usually only a few people, and many times they only serve multiple positions.
All over the world, China has 166 embassies and 275 consulates. If you think about it, there are only more than 4,000 people in the entire Ministry of Foreign Affairs. You can imagine what the situation will be if it is dispersed.
As soon as Zhang Chuanshan got off the plane, he just turned on his phone and received several text messages, all of which were called by Consul General Cui Mingxue. Zhang Chuanshan quickly called back.
Muyang stopped a taxi at the airport gate, and four of them took it. As soon as Zhang Chuanshan finished, the phone was connected.
"Where did you go?" The voice of Consul General Cui came from the phone.
"I just got off the plane and was taking a bus to the city." Zhang Chuanshan replied.
“There is a new situation now…”
Chapter completed!