Hong Kong Entertainment’s Life Simulator

On April 25, (Dongpo Flood Control) was still vigorously detonating in East and Southeast Asia. Jiang Wen woke up from a hotel in Kowloon, shook his drunken head, got up, walked to the table, grabbed cold water and drank it himself.

I was a little drunk last night!

But it's normal. Zheng Jiachun, the prince of the Shadantong family, is so generous. Yesterday, it was not just Jiang Wen who greeted him, but also Akai, Mr. Xu from Tomson Films, Zhang Guorong, Gong Li, Zhang Fengyi, Ge You and so on.

Just look at the list and you will know that it is the main creative team of "Farewell My Concubine". As for Jiang Wen? Jiang Wen once expressed his interest in Farewell My Concubine, and even took the initiative to recommend himself to Akai. Can he play Cheng Dieyi?

Then Akai almost blocked him in the circle of friends...

This time Jiang Wen is idle anyway and has no movie shooting. He mainly works as a director. So far, he still can't stand up and has no confidence.

It doesn't matter if I occasionally receive an actor's salary, but I really can't pick up the director's microphone. Even the one he filmed last year (Beijing People in New York) had already been completed and aired.

It's just that the TV series has a huge audience rating in the mainland. When ATV targets markets such as Hong Kong, Star, Malaysia, Thailand, and South Korea, the ratings are average.

In this era, mainlanders are still very curious about New York, especially A-Mei’s family. They hope to know more about it. Naturally, they follow the drama closely and discuss it a lot. However, it is too convenient to go to A-Mei’s place in Haowan, Hong Kong. .

Most people are not very interested in A-mei.

Besides, there are already a large number of handsome white men and women coming to Hong Kong Island to pursue their dreams of becoming stars. There are so many of them coming, and there are so many who have become famous... So the number of people who are super interested in New York or something is really not that big.

The ratings were mediocre.

Jiang Wen learned that he had been forming a group since the beginning of April last year. Finally, Akai listened to his suggestion and took the initiative to cooperate with Zheng Jiachun's New World Pictures. He asked Cheng Long to come forward to make an appointment with Zhang Guorong, and finally he made an appointment with this big actor. star.

Then the project officially starts!

Naturally, the investor is New World Pictures, which is why Isabelle Adjani said that the Cannes Palme d'Or has been decided against Zhao Donghuai's influence. The year before last, when New World Pictures was just established, Zhao Donghuai did not take a stake.

Starting from (Police Story 4), Zhao Donghuai invested 51% of New World Pictures, and most of the copyrights for the (Farewell My Concubine) movie are held by New World.

The film received a bunch of nominations at the Cannes Film Festival, and it was due to fly to Cannes in early May, so the main creators came to Hong Kong some time in advance to wait for the flight.

New World Pictures as a landlord? The hospitality was very authentic. The hotel they were staying in now was owned by Zheng Jiachun New World Hotel Group.

"I just wanted to watch the fun. This movie was really good. Why did you pour wine on me? Did you drink till the end last night??"

"Oops, it seems like I agreed to cooperate with Akai and make a new movie? The script hasn't been released yet, but I want to hire big stars and make a big production, like Taiping Wheel and Ci Ling??"

"day……"

I tried to recall that after getting high yesterday, Zheng Jiachun, a big landowner, held him with one hand and Akai with the other, saying that you are two of the most capable filmmakers in the mainland. With Jiang Wen leaning on (let the bullets fly), not only The global box office exceeded 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars. It was also nominated for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival and Best Director in Berlin, but it did not win either award.

Won the Golden Bear Award for Best Film!

Well, the Berlin International Film Festival (Let the Bullets Fly) can take in a box office of 51 million U.S. dollars in Europe. The two important box offices are France and Hans Cat...

At this stage, Akai's (Farewell My Concubine) has also been nominated for three major awards in Cannes: Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress. Even if it is not nominated for Best Director, being nominated for Best Picture is already very valuable.

When he was drinking to his heart's content, Akai seemed to complain a few times about not being nominated.

After all, the project was officially approved in April of the year before last. Zhang Guorong flew to the capital to study Peking Opera until September, and the filming was completed before the recording of The Voice of Asia began in May 1990.

When they finish the post-production, they are waiting to release it after competing for this year's awards.

Then Zheng Jiachun laughed loudly, "It doesn't matter. If it doesn't work this time, then next time. Akai, you are so talented. Even if (Farewell My Concubine) places too much emphasis on art and ignores some business models, it is estimated that after winning a bunch of awards, the box office performance may be far behind." Might as well (let the bullets fly).

But among us here are you, Akai, Jiang Wen, and Ge Youdu. Ge You is also one of the three leading actors in (Let the Bullets Fly). Just put it together and it will be a great project?

Akai was very moved after hearing this, and the others started to support him... Akai said on the spot that he had long wanted to make a movie about (Jing Ke's Assassination of the King of Qin), and when the time comes, he would directly build a palace for the King of Qin, and the cast would all be big. star.

Or remake a classic drama (The Orphan of Zhao) and build a city of Orphans of Zhao. If you take your time, it will be beautiful.

As long as everyone cooperates, the box office and word-of-mouth are guaranteed to take off!

Jiang Wen also smiled and responded that he could play Jing Ke? Lao Chen decisively complained that his appearance and temperament did not match him. Jiang Wen was almost angry and wanted to hit him, so Zheng Jiachun should be the go-between to put in good words.

Jiang Wen was helpless to find that Akai had changed and was very swollen!

Lao Chen is no longer the Akai who was struggling to pursue Zhang Guorong's schedule and still needed Jiang Wen's guidance to succeed. He was floating on the outside.

Now Jiang Wen is so angry that he wants to start a drama about Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin in advance. Anyway, with his fame here, there should be no shortage of investors...

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In the ATV office, Zhao Donghuai unexpectedly grabbed the document and said, "Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin? An idea sent by New World Pictures? Lao Chen wants to film it?"

Qiu Shuzhen nodded, "Yes, isn't this director Chen's (Farewell My Concubine) a hit, and the expert at collecting awards has become weak, the box office should not be too bad? Zheng Jiachun hopes to continue to cooperate."

"Ah Chun also thinks that filming the Warring States Period and the epic scenes are very interesting."

At this stage, there are too many historical blockbusters that have achieved great success at the box office, from "The Legend of the Sword" to "Red Cliff", to Guan Lijie's "Xin Qiji: Po Zhenzi", which also scored 290 million yuan at the box office in the mainland. , that was still the era of one-yuan movie tickets.

Jiang Wen's first film as a director (Zhao Jun Chun Hua) also made investor Ji Chunhua a lot of money, and his later film (The Legend of Concubine Wan Gui) was equally powerful.

(Dongpo flood control)? Didn't it just come out less than a week ago? But the first weekend data, whether in Asia or Europe and the United States, performed very well.

Jing Ke assassinated Qin, Qin Shihuang!

What a great big project this is. There are precedents for it, and it has the strength of Lao Chen Pai (Farewell My Concubine)? ? It's normal for Zheng Jiachun to think about earning a big living.

but……

Lao Chen Pai (Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin)? This news made Zhao Donghuai fall into silence.

The original trajectory seems to be the same. After Chen finished filming Farewell My Concubine but it was not released, he asked the screenwriter to write the script for him about Jing Ke's assassination of Qin. The screenwriter followed his request and worked on it for five years. It took five years before the finished product was produced. Then Lao Chen spent more than ten days revising the script. Not to mention it was completely different, it was also a huge change.

In the late 1990s, he spent 70 million yuan to build a Qinwang City for filming, and then hired stars, salary, and other production expenses. After all, there were many big scenes, and the total investment was close to 200 million yuan.

The finished product was produced and premiered in the Mainland. After being scolded, it was quickly re-edited and released to the public. The box office in the Mainland was 10 million and the Hong Kong Island box office was over 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

Judging from this trajectory, this version naturally feels like a big bad movie like "The Promise". In fact... In fact, "Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin" still has an epic feel. The level is online. The biggest black point is Lao Chen blackmailed Qin Shihuang.

That kind of blackmail made mainland audiences feel uncomfortable, so they resisted and cursed.

In his movie, it is clearly stated that Qin Shihuang is the son of Lu Buwei, and Wang Zhiwen's version of Lao Ai's rebellion almost completely cleanses Lao Ai into a decent character, which is also considered to be Lao Wang's awesomeness.

If you put aside the butt issues of the old Chen version (Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin), then this movie still has quality in terms of movie viewing reviews. The movie hit the streets in the mainland and sold well in the island country. The first edited version was released in the island country. It seems It was sold for 7.8 billion yen, equivalent to more than 40 million Hong Kong dollars.

It sold for more than one million US dollars in North America, which is also about 10 million yuan.

Europa... Just pieced together like this, the total global box office is close to 100 million. Of course, the total box office is only about 100 million. Compared with the 200 million investment, it is a bloody loss!

Almost all of the 100 million box office is taken from outside, and more than half of it is taken away by separate accounts, taxes, etc., so naturally very few can be returned. However, the big investors in that version were Japanese, and you can’t say how badly Lao Chen screwed up the mainland film studios.

What he was cheating was the money from the islanders.

Although it seems wasteful to spend 70 to 80 million to build a Qin Palace, it is precisely because of the 1996 tribute drama (Opium War) to build Yangcheng Street and the 1997 old Chen Xiu (Qin Palace) that China has been driven step by step. The largest film and television tourism theme park group, the birth of Hengdian!

The Qin Palace was not only filmed (Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin), but also Zhang Yimou's (Hero), (The King of Kung Fu), etc. were also filmed in the Qin Palace.

So no matter how you look at it, Lao Chen's plan to film (Jing Ke's Assassination of the King of Qin) was a complete mess. A script required the screenwriter to save for five years, but it finally reached the standard, and you happily changed a large piece of it, so why bother the screenwriter?

Zhao Donghuai was speechless, and Azhen continued to laugh, "(Jing Ke assassinating the King of Qin) is not just an option, that old Chen also said he wanted to try adapting the play (The Orphan of Zhao) into a movie."

Director Zhao, "..."

This is another sad story where the director almost tortured the screenwriter to death.

It is definitely a legend that no one on the set could control him, so Akai let himself fly further and further!

After thinking about it, Zhao Donghuai nodded, "Old Chen wants to film (Jing Ke's Assassination of the King of Qin) or (Zhao's Orphan), that's fine, but he has to let Jiang Wen check it for him. You can convey this to Zheng Jiachun, and let Jiang Wen also serve as one of the directors. Assassination of Qin's In this book, let Jiang Wen play the role of King Qin."

"If he can straighten out Jiang Wen, we will invest."

Jiang Wen originally played the role of Qin Shihuang in (Qin Song). Although the whole movie was a bit off the mark and very different from historical facts, and the director used too much artistic processing, Jiang Wen still played the role of Qin Shihuang very successfully.

He could quarrel with Zhang Yimou from beginning to end in "Red Sorghum" and win a Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. How about cooperating with Chen? I believe that I will not be fooled easily by Lao Chen.

They are all restless guys who are full of expression desire. They should be locked up together and let them collide with each other. Don't make it difficult for the screenwriter...

Speaking of which, Zhao Donghuai is a little speechless. The outside world doesn’t know Lao Chen’s destructive power, but he knows it. Even if the outside world doesn’t know, even the big projects invested by (New World Pictures), Farewell My Concubine, have to win prizes and make money. Soft.

If he banned Lao Chen Pai without any reason (Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin), the outside world would probably think that Lao Chen had offended him.

Spending money to build a film and television city can build up the future Hengdian bit by bit, which is not a bad thing. Of course, Hengdian can stand out among countless film and television bases and become the largest in China, which is inseparable from the support of local leaders.

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At noon, Jiang Wen was eating lunch in the hotel. The more he ate, the more depressed he became. He heard the big brother ringing. After the call was connected, he realized that it was Zheng Jiachun on the other side.

After a brief chat, Jiang Wen was immediately overjoyed, "Huh? Am I playing the role of the King of Qin in (Jing Ke Assassins the King of Qin)? Or am I one of the directors? This is not appropriate, is it Mr. Zheng?"

"After all, this is the project Lao Chen mentioned yesterday."

"It's okay? Is it really okay? Will you communicate with Lao Chen personally? That's okay, it's settled!"

Putting down the phone, Jiang Wen pondered for a few more seconds, his appetite whetted, "I'm really determined to play the role of King Qin. His old man is so deceitful. Last time, I recommended myself to play Cheng Dieyi, but I was blocked and didn't say anything." .”

"Now that I want to play Jing Ke, I get complained that my appearance and temperament don't match? Doesn't this look down on me?"

"Next, I have to battle wits with Old Chen for a while."

It doesn't matter that Lao Chen is not good at making movies. Anyway, since "Let the Bullets Fly", he just wants to be a director again, not just an actor, but he is afraid that he will not be able to shoulder the heavy responsibility and the film will fail, which will also become Waterloo, so he just becomes a director. One of the directors, playing tricks with Lao Chen.

When it comes to tossing people, Jiang Wen is as confident as anyone else!

His filmmaking history is a wall of medals that he has repeatedly tossed over other directors and other actors.

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Time goes by and May arrives as scheduled.

(Dongpo Flood Control) The big movie not only achieved brilliant results in the first weekend, it was still top-notch in the second week, with a box office of 350 million in the seven days in the mainland, although it was only more than 30 million higher than the 318 million in the first weekend.

But this is normal. During the first weekend, too many movie fans around the world were attracted to movie theaters by action superstars such as Cheng Long, Hong Yanbao, Yuen Biu, and Lam Ching-ying.

The strong appeal of the fans of all the stars has created a strong event, 350 million in the next week, which is already terrifying, and they are still aiming to break the record of one billion.

Hong Kong Haowan, Star-Malaysia, and South Korea recorded HK$106.9 million in the first weekend and HK$131 million in the next seven days, which is also an increase of tens of millions.

Europe and the United States have fallen. In North America, it grossed more than 13 million U.S. dollars in the second week, which was more than 2 million dollars lower than its first weekend. However, this does not prevent the total box office of "Dongpo Water Control" from breaking through 30 million U.S. dollars in North America. Europa's second week gross was 8 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to The total amount is 17 million dollars.

The total data in Europe and the United States is more than 47 million US dollars, which is equivalent to 366 million Hong Kong dollars.

In the first ten days, (Dongpo Flood Control) global box office has accumulated 1.264 billion Hong Kong dollars, leaving aside the sales areas.

It has been so strong in ten days. If it continues to be released, it is expected to break the 2 billion Hong Kong dollar record globally. Even if the mainland may account for half of the box office, it will be extremely fierce.

The sharp-tongued and venomous Su Dongpo played by Liang Jiahui is probably as classic as Bao Guoan's Cao Cao and Lu Shuming's Guan Erye.

This is indeed the case. The Su Shi style wallets, belts, ties, etc. launched by the Oriental Group are as popular as the Erye style products when the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was first aired.

Liang Jiahui’s hands became weak after receiving the money!

It wasn't until May 7th that Zhou Xingxing's (Truy School Dragon 3) took over and started a new round of promotions. After all, it was finalized on April 16th, and the post-production period does not take much time. .

Mid-May is not a good time to release the film. Of course, during this period, Ah Xing also knew that there would be a super rainy season in Shanxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places this year, which would cause heavy rains, but he still chose to release it in May.

The Tang Dynasty Catering Group has stocked up on all kinds of ham sausages and beef balls.

number 8.

In the ATV office, after Zhao Donghuai let Zhou Huimin drift, he sat on the office chair and asked, "How are the preparations for the second season of (The Voice Asia) going?"

Azhen smiled and nodded, "It went very well. The first blind audition for mentors, there were too many good talents. The program team did not prohibit some singers who have already debuted and released albums from signing up. This period is much more intense than last year."

Last year, on May 10th, the filming of The Voice officially started. After the filming, it was broadcast on ATV on Mother's Day, May 13th. The first season bombarded the entire Asian entertainment industry.

In the second quarter of this year, although there are floods...but because of the need for disaster relief, money and supplies, instead of letting the mainland ask for help from the outside world for the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is better to let the funds attracted by this entertainment project be donated. Go out and do real things.

Let me just say that at this stage, the advertising fee (for The Voice of Asia), if you want to insert advertisements or pre-roll advertisements, does not have a big four-digit figure, and advertisers are too embarrassed to ask for space.

In 1994, Yangma's bid for the king was bought for 34 million yuan. In 1995, the bid for the king soared to 66.66 million. By 1996, Yangma's bid for the king had soared to 320 million yuan!

The ratings, coverage, and influence of ATV at this level are truly extraordinary. Advertising spots in the core areas of super-ace programs are of course very expensive.

After all, the first season of The Voice ended. Ren Xianqi’s (Heart Is Too Soft) single record sold more than two million copies. This data directly promoted Xiao Qi to the status of a first-class singer. Sakai Izumi’s (Don’t Give Up) single album The album sold over 1.5 million copies in the island country alone.

Yang Gangli is famous all over the mainland, and her (I tell you gently) songs are played everywhere in the streets and alleys, causing countless brainwashings.

Chen Huilong and Tai Zhengxiao are also very popular. A music talent show directly allows five amateur men and women to become first-class singers. Are there many who have been eliminated? ? Those who were eliminated took Huang Bo as an example. In the second half of last year, he made nearly one million by filming commercials and performing acupoint performances in Shandong Province.

That was one million in 1990!

The circle of relatives and friends whose income level is low are all speechless. Even the father of the young leader has nothing to say to Hiroko.

This music program is really incredible. It is much more powerful than the top idol dramas that create wealthy stars. Season 2? ? The second season of The Voice is about to premiere in late April, and news of recruiting contestants for East and Southeast Asia has come out.

At a certain time, the variety show production center was almost filled with several floors of interview materials!

This is already a mature entertainment project. Today, the filming of the first blind audition of the mentor of the second season will start on the 8th, and it will be broadcast on the 12th... Zhao Donghuai doesn’t need to pay more attention to anything, just let nature take its course.

In the original track, when Hong Kong was hit by the floods in East China in 1991, there were not only fund-raising and disaster relief movies like "The Banquet of the Rich", but also selfless performances from the entertainment industry. "The Voice Season 2" is currently on the air. If necessary, You can transform into the four mentors at any time and lead a new generation of team disciples, walk out of the ATV production center, and hold additional concert tours to raise funds for disaster relief.

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May 12th.

Zhao Donghuai lived in a large suite at the Wushi Huazhi flagship store and watched the first episode of the second season of The Voice of Asia, which was broadcast in the evening. After watching it, he felt a little emotional.

I didn’t pay attention to it when it was being produced, but it was supposed to be a fish frying program, and he did have a strong fish frying power. Among the newcomers in this episode, Chen Yixun, 17 years old, came back from Yanlun to participate. , like Huang Bo, first asked for leave.

If you succeed, you can learn singing skills to improve yourself during the summer vacation. If you fail, you will only delay your vacation for a few days.

Chen Yixun was selected into Zhang Guorong's team. Arong's appeal, the number one in the Asian singing world, really attracted countless fans and fans.

After Chen Yixun, a 15-year-old Liang Yongqi popped up. She was a fan of Hua Zai and successfully joined the Hua Zai team. Former (Fairy Tale) singer Guang Liangdu has joined Team Arong again.

Adu, who dropped out of school for three years and worked on construction sites, failed to attract Zhang Guorong and Liu Dehua to turn around, but he still used his voice to make Tan Yonglin turn around.

In this regard, Allen has long recognized the current situation. He is also a singer, and he is also one of the three kings of the music industry. However, he is not only beaten by Ah Wing and Hua Zai in the music industry, but he is also beaten by those two in the film industry.

This year's Cannes International Film Festival has officially opened. After recording the scene on the 8th, Ah Rong flew to Cannes for public relations. He also wanted to win the Cannes Best Actor trophy.

The second phase of filming has to wait for Ah Rong’s schedule.

In terms of time, I still have enough time. Although the film festival usually lasts for about 12 days, I can just fly back and spend a few hours to finish filming, and then fly back.

After watching the broadcast of The Voice, Zhao Donghuai grabbed an umbrella and walked out of the hotel. Following him was still the little fox Azhen, wearing a mask and leaning next to Director Zhao. When Azhen was walking on the roadside, she also I felt a little emotional, "It's only raining on May 12th? The rainy season won't start now, right?"

Zhao Donghuai shook his head, "It's hard to say. I just hope that a year of busy dredging of rivers and lakes and the official preparations of half a year in advance can reduce the intensity by several levels."

What everyone is doing is not in vain!

After preparing for so long in advance, even if the rainy season starts from today and continues sparsely, there is still hope that it will last until mid-June. At most, it will be between late June and July when the whole city will be soaked again.

The original trajectory was based on Wu Shi's example. There were many people in the city who had been soaked in floods for more than two months. If it could be shortened to one month, the work would have been worthwhile.

Economic and other losses caused by floods can be tolerated.

After walking around for a few times under the night, Zhao Donghuai discovered something interesting. Most ordinary people on the streets and alleys were doing what they should do as usual. But from time to time, some large trucks would drive by in the city. It was full of soldiers who were ready.

The official has already passed the advance predictions of supercomputers, including the joint deduction of supercomputer groups, and knows that this rainy season is unusual, and has done everything that needs to be done. However, it is only May 12th, and it is indeed inappropriate to make a direct announcement. All people.

I still don’t know if this rain will start from today until July, or will it stop in just a day or two, and it will take a few more days of sunshine to start the long rainy season? ?

Only people in areas with low-lying terrain or difficult to travel in mountainous areas, with dilapidated buildings and houses, will be transferred together in advance and arranged for new residences.

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Tuesday, May 14th.

(Dongpo Flood Control) has been in theaters for more than 20 days, and the global box office has steadily exceeded the HKD 2 billion mark. Zhao Donghuai is still without a market, and has made several rounds in the Three Kingdoms Water Margin Film and Television City. At this moment, the Water Margin Film and Television City has also been completely built. .

Construction started in March last year.

The film and television city must have no problem coping with location shooting now. The big crew of "Water Margin" is still preparing for war, and the upcoming floods are not suitable for work.

After a lap, Zhao Donghuai looked at the sky. It was sunny today.

The plum rain on the 12th did not stop until the early morning of the 14th. The rain was not heavy. Seeing that there was no accumulation of water in Shuihu City, and there was no accumulation of water in Wushi City, he had to sigh, "Old Wu spent a lot of money." Ten million, it took nearly half a year to dredge the underground drainage of the lakeside."

"It's not in vain!"

Qiu Shuzhen almost burst out laughing, "Since the Spring Festival this year, leaders in other districts of Wu City have been working hard to clear underground drainage. The work in the past few months will definitely not be in vain."

"Ah Heng and Jia Ling have also donated 300 million yuan of water control engineering equipment, vehicles and ships to Suzhou City. With sufficient machinery available for use, there should be no need to worry about flooding in big cities within May."

Zhao Donghuai stayed in Wushi for the past few days to inspect the results of the year's infrastructure construction. The rain stopped temporarily, and after a casual walk, he drove a customized super large RV to Nandu.

To his surprise, he saw Liang Jiahui, who was also "self-driving" on the road outside Nandu City a few hours later?

Jiahui's car is much more ordinary, just a silver-white Mercedes-Benz G. In addition to him, there is also Mai Xunxiong in the car...

Zhao Donghuai leaned out of the car window and said hello twice before the two cars stopped on the side of the road. After getting out of the car, Director Zhao laughed and said, "Why are you two here?"

Liang Jiahui smiled and said, "Didn't you already hear that there may be rain disasters in Jiangnan this year? I don't have any big projects in hand right now, so I'm just going to walk around with Director Mai."

Mai Xunxiong smiled and spread his cigar and helped light the fire, "Zhao Sheng, when we finished filming Wang Wenxia's Legend, Jiahui and I also traveled in the mainland for several months, walking the same path that Wang Sheng once walked, and we were deeply touched."

"It's the same after shooting this time (Dongpo Flood Control). I also know that individual power is very small in disasters. It's better to donate more money, but I still want to walk more and take some pictures."

Zhao Donghuai nodded, "This idea is nothing, you can do it if you want to, but where are your bodyguards?"

Jiahui explained with a smile, "The water hasn't started yet, and it's still very safe. I'm just walking around Nandu City with Director Mai to take a look."

Zhao Donghuai didn't say much more about this. After all, on a day when people were shouting in front of the door and surrounded by bodyguards, occasionally experiencing it might give people a good sense of vanity. After a long time... there will always be times when he likes to travel alone.

This time he came to the mainland for a self-driving trip, and he also had bodyguards, but they always followed him a few hundred meters away. For a few hundred meters during the day, he could do things in time with the naked eye, telescopes, etc.

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July 19, Presidential Suite of Nandu Huazhi Hotel.

Zhao Donghuai stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window and looked at the pouring rain outside. He couldn't help but sigh, "The flood is really coming. It depends on whether this wave can hold on."

Xiaoxian also looked shocked, "Is this the beginning? The Meteorological Bureau predicts that there will be heavy rains in the next few days, and the precipitation in a week may exceed 500 mm??"

With supercomputers operating at full capacity, according to another survey, rainfall in Nandu, Wushi, and Sioux City, including Anhui Province, and even parts of Henan Province, may exceed 500 millimeters in the next week.

What concept? ? What serious impact will the 720 heavy rainstorm in Zheng City have in 2021? loss? That is, from 20:00 on the 19th to 20:00 on the 20th, the rainfall in a single day was 552 mm in 24 hours.

You said there will be so much rain in the next seven days? Far less powerful than the 720 heavy rainstorm? This is done in dozens of cities, including the countryside covered by the city! Sweeping across Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, and part of Henan province! With so much rain falling to several provinces at the same time, how terrible would it be if the drainage is not timely? ?

Then there is the drainage infrastructure in 1991, which was previewed a year in advance. It is far behind Zheng City in 2021.

In 2021, that is a cumulative lead of several eras.

Also, in the supercomputer preview, the peak of heavy rainstorms in the coming week is only one of the three plum rainy seasons this year, a peak period.

After surviving this wave, there will be two more waves. The second wave is from June 2 to June 20. In the Jianghuai and Taihu Basin, there will be several single-day rainfalls exceeding 200 mm.

What if it falls 200mm for three consecutive days? Over 600 mm in three days, covering countless cities? That is equal to 720 heavy rains in Zhengzhou that hit a large number of urban agglomerations over three days.

The third wave may be at the end of June and early July. The most severe wave will occur in Jianghuai, Taihu, Northern Hubei, Northern Hunan, etc., with a single-day heavy rainfall approaching 720 in Zhengzhou, covering many cities.

If not for this, the floods in 1991 would not have been so horrific and would have left their mark in history.

This is a land of several provinces, and many cities will experience flooding from the West Lake water in the next one, two, or three or four days, either consecutively or at intervals of several days, and how many times the water from the West Lake will be flooded in a single day.

Starting from today in the next week, if Nandu's drainage can withstand it, it means it can withstand it. If it cannot, the flood will spread.

Following Xiaoxian's words, Qiu Shuzhen also came over and said, "The tents donated by Laura Fangna are already in place, and many materials have been reserved in advance."

"The officials have also built several flood-resistant shelters for cluster accommodation in advance, including coal stove briquettes, mineral water, instant noodles and other supplies. It's raining so hard outside, won't the shelter buildings be washed away?"

Zhao Donghuai smiled and shook his head, "No, if it were an ordinary mobile house or tent set up outdoors, it would collapse in a few heavy rains if it encountered a heavy rain of this level."

"But if we concentrate our efforts on building cluster shelters and take rain and flood prevention measures in advance, there won't be a big problem."

At this stage, China's speed is famous around the world. Countless reinforced concrete buildings have been built, arranged one by one, to welcome flood victims. It is unrealistic because the group covered is too large.

But building flood-resistant shelters in cities in advance? Like the makeshift hospital of the future? It's just that this kind of shelter has different fields and focuses.

The makeshift hospitals focus on isolation and treatment, while the flood-fighting shelters focus on rain and impact protection.