Chapter 85: What Does This Have to Do With Treating Illness?

The rich are the rich; over a dozen heavy transport helicopters arrived as if they cost nothing to ferry supplies.

"Hello, Mr. Purple-robed Archbishop. My name is Sampson, Sampson Mark, currently the lawyer commissioned by Mr. Elron to handle the handover with you."

Under the powerful downdraft of the helicopters, the middle-aged man's clothes remained perfectly neat; the reason his hairstyle showed no disarray was that it was short enough, and he even had the leisure to introduce the beautiful brown-haired female assistant beside him.

"This is one of my team's partners, Assistant Lawyer Anna Jonathan!"

Chen Yaozu listened with a smile, then extended his hand: "Pleased to meet you both, Mr. Mark, Ms. Jonathan.

It's windy here; let's go over there to talk!"

The dozen-odd heavy helicopters brought a truly massive haul; nearly half of Chen Yaozu's people went to unload, the other half stood guard.

Because many people, seeing the heavy transport helicopters overhead, guessed supplies had arrived and gradually gathered around.

"Mr. Purple-robed Archbishop, our lawyer team was appointed by Mr. Elron to sign the helicopter rental contract, the equipment installation personnel employment contract, and the aid supplies contract with you.

Nominally and legally, once this batch of supplies arrives and touches down, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Ma Kaiyuan.

Although it was donated by Mr. Ma Kaiyuan, he only donated it to your church, not directly to the disaster area.

Do you accept this arrangement?"

Those words made Chen Yaozu's heart turn cold; Ma Kaiyuan means to get things done but fears trouble, so he has plugged every loophole.

If Chen Yaozu wants to receive these supplies, he must shoulder the role of drawing fire and diverting conflict.

"Accepted!"

Seeing Chen Yaozu accept the arrangement, the lawyer named Sampson swiftly produced the contracts.

The clauses in these contracts were all very simple; there were a great many copies — for instance, helicopter rental, personnel employment — lasting until the end of his disaster relief operation.

The total rental and employment cost for all of this: 100 dollars per day.

It could have been written as one dollar, but that felt too insulting to the people being hoodwinked, so it was changed to 100 dollars a day for all costs.

In truth, between one dollar and 100 dollars, there seems to be no difference at all! Both equally insult people's intelligence!

Facing the contracts the lawyer produced, Chen Yaozu read the simple clauses carefully from start to finish before signing his name.

Having obtained Chen Yaozu's signature, in triplicate, the lawyer gathered up the stack of contracts and then smiled as he moved on to the second matter.

"Archbishop, now that the contract business is done, I'll give you a piece of information for free.

Your medical treatment activities in the disaster area have already caused a huge sensation in the American medical community and drawn the hostility of the entire medical industry.

Because you broke the rules!"

Chen Yaozu frowned; the words sounded a bit like intimidation: "Why? We only have forty or fifty people, and we use the simplest acupuncture to treat the simplest ailments.

Things like colds, diarrhea, malaria, and post-flood syndrome — these minor illnesses.

After all, we can't cure serious diseases.

Even like this we can provoke hostility?"

He didn't say, like Yu Lu would have, "Really? I don't believe it!"

But he still voiced his doubt.

"Moreover, acupuncture as a medical method has existed in America for decades already and has developed into an acupuncture association.

So, however you look at it, our mere forty or fifty people using acupuncture to cure and save lives shouldn't have anything to do with provoking the medical industry's hostility, right?"

Sampson smiled without speaking, but the beautiful assistant lawyer Anna beside him took a document from her bag and handed it over:

"Archbishop, this is the information Mr. Ma Kaiyuan obtained. Your every treatment action since entering the disaster area has indeed aroused the medical industry's vigilance and hostility.

For this they even held video conferences to discuss response methods and reached a unanimous intention.

That is to act — to send you and your believers to prison.

Because you broke the rules!"

Ma Kaiyuan being able to obtain records of others' video conferences — that seems not difficult; the difficulty lies in confirming whether this record is genuine.

Only after skimming it from beginning to end did Chen Yaozu understand just how many people's cake his acupuncture treatments in the disaster area had disturbed this time.

America was once the spiritual homeland countless Eastern people dreamed of.

Free medical care, free education here — how many highly educated intellectuals spoke of them with relish?

But at some unknown point, the halo of so-called free education and free medical care promoted to the East was punctured by the internet.

Free education means public schools; everyone now knows what the educational level of public schools is, especially the happy education model.

Elite high-level children are cultivated in expensive private schools, while the free education Eastern intellectuals have long envied produces a batch of illiterates to do bottom-rung work.

Free medical care.

In reality, it relies on collecting substantial medical insurance premiums, plus commercial insurance, to prop up the entire medical system.

Exorbitant insurance premiums are the blood transfusion system of this free medical system.

But in fact, because it is free, it is the most expensive.

When free things are placed there, the queues only grow longer.

Because it is free, it is not tied to performance metrics, so doctors are very leisurely.

For example, these free medical centers linked to medical insurance — each doctor sees 20 patients a day.

When appointments fill up, you're pushed to the next day; when those fill up, pushed to the next day again.

Many cases show people often wait for treatment while a disease that started mild becomes severe, and they wait until death without ever being seen.

Can't afford the wait?

That's great!

Then go to a medical center outside the free medical system to get treated! That is what many understand as a private hospital!

Just a bit more expensive! But whether it's a designated medical center within the free medical system or a private hospital as people understand it, neither escapes one iron law: treatment must use equipment and drugs.

All of this is extremely expensive! Designated medical centers within the free medical system may be free, but for every patient they treat they can collect sufficiently expensive subsidies from state government funding.

And these expensive subsidies are contributed from the exorbitant medical insurance premiums.

That is to say, the wool comes from the sheep!

This wool has fattened the medical industry! But now, an internal traitor has appeared within the medical industry, a group of Eastern people, wielding just a few silver needles, have roamed the entire disaster area, curing batch after batch of patients.

Although, in fact, they have investigated, and the patients cured all had minor illnesses.

For example, colds, dysentery with diarrhea, malaria, deworming, and post-flood syndrome, etc.

These are all minor faults, but this is enough to attract the medical industry's attention. Especially colds! Non-viral colds, whether in Eastern hospitals or in European and American hospitals, are called incurable terminal illnesses.

That is to say, a cold is an illness that cannot be cured; one can only rely on the body to slowly self-heal.

It is said that taking medicine and injections also takes ten days or half a month, and not taking medicine or injections also takes ten days or half a month.

Whether taking medicine or getting injections, neither can cure a cold.

They can only alleviate other negative symptoms brought by the cold.

There isn't even a single drug on the market that dares claim it can cure a cold; if there were, it would be false advertising, and if sued, they would have to pay compensation and fines.

But these Eastern people, holding just a few silver needles, actually cured this so-called incurable terminal illness — the cold.

Although this is a minor illness, it is enough to make people vigilant! Right now it's just treating minor ailments like colds, fevers, diarrhea, but if in the future these acupuncture techniques become increasingly refined in medical practice, and advance into other disease fields.

The impact brought to the medical industry would not be a small matter; it could even be described as a calamity.

So these people plan to suppress this technology before the Easterners develop it.

"But why doesn't the American Acupuncture United Association resist, why don't they suppress it?"

This puzzled Chen Yaozu; it's the same curing of illnesses, and he had also heard that American acupuncture techniques are even better than domestic ones.

There were even jokes that in the future one might have to go to America to learn acupuncture.

So why haven't these acupuncture association people been suppressed in their daily treatment practices?

While we forty or fifty people have only been at it for how long? Just ten-odd days! The patients cured aren't many either, ten-odd days total only a thousand or two thousand people, not many at all! Is there a need to be this vigilant? Moreover, many severe patients, broken arms, broken legs, broken ribs — we couldn't cure them, could only let them find a way to go to other undamaged hospitals for treatment.

But only a minority went; more went home to endure it, supposedly because they had no money.

So looking at it this way, my threat isn't big, why was I targeted? "The American Acupuncture United Association, although they have technique, their technique leans more toward conditioning the body.

Letting the body slowly self-recover to fight disease, letting the body heal itself.

They rarely claim to be able to treat acute illnesses without medicine, so their positioning in America belongs to conditioners.

Of course they also need certification.

But although they need certification, they pose no threat to the medical industry; when people are truly sick, most go to hospitals.

If they know their illness themselves, they pay out of pocket to buy over-the-counter medicine.

Only when they really have no money for hospital visits and no money to buy medicine do they choose to go to acupuncture clinics to condition the body, hoping to get better.

But no one is like you, able to straightforwardly cure the illness!

So you are the threat!"

Sampson explained very seriously; before coming they had already done their homework, so at this moment he was confident.

"Mr. Archbishop, you should have noticed the data shows their discussed method targeting you is unlicensed medical practice!

This is a heavy crime; if this charge stands, you all might be sentenced to prison for a long time!

Especially your actions, they completely step on the current President's red line, conducting such large-scale aid across six disaster-stricken states.

It can be said, just for this, they can make you sit through the bottom of the prison!"

Chen Yaozu stayed silent, swiftly activating the Deduction Probe technique, looking at the data in his hands.

He wanted to know if this data was real.

You think Ma Kaiyuan is some kind of good man and faithful woman?

What he brings is definitely accurate, true data? Absolutely impossible! So-called no treachery no merchant, Easterners often call him a Saint, often create some quotes to prove his greatness.

For example?

Let Easterners care more for their compatriots...

But things on the internet are just talk; as the World's Richest Man, even the overt World's Richest Man, is not a position good men and faithful women can sit on.

So, dealing with these people, you can trust, but cannot fully trust.

Especially now that I have the means to discern truth from falsehood, I'll use it!

【Ma Kaiyuan's provided intelligence: True.

People in the American medical industry believe that if acupuncture technique is allowed to lead, driving the revival of Eastern Medicine research.

This will split another path in the entire world's medical system, dividing the medical industry's profits.

This will cause a huge impact on the current medical system.

This cake will have a large portion split off.

This is not allowed to appear! In the past, to suppress Eastern native medicine, whether Americans or the Japanese, both once waved huge sums of cash to purchase Eastern native medical arts and prescriptions to register patents.

Including acupuncture technique, now the American side's technique is already superior to domestic.

So, actions targeting you are in the planning, high probability entering from the unlicensed practice angle.

Please think of countermeasures in advance for the coming schemes.】

Hiss—

This is actually true!

But, if you don't allow treatment you should have said so earlier!

What's the use of saying it now, not treating has already been treated! It's already been the fact of unlicensed medical practice long ago, how to defend now?

"Actually, Mr. Chen, this isn't a big deal!"

Li Jianguo suddenly interjected from the side: "We aren't the medical industry, we are the religious sector.

What we are doing now doesn't have much to do with curing and saving lives! This is bestowing blessings!

It is conducting our religion's special blessing ritual, seeking divine favor, thereby letting the body improve.

"What does this have to do with curing illnesses and saving lives?"

Li Jianguo's words were like a wake-up call; he spoke in English, and after finishing, he glanced at the lawyer named Sampson.

"What do you think? Mr. Lawyer!"

His meaning was to ask whether this response method could work.

Unexpectedly, Lawyer Sampson thought for a moment and actually nodded: "What this gentleman says is correct. You are a religion, not doctors! It is completely acceptable to define this as a religious blessing ritual, and the needle insertion is also a necessary procedure for the religious blessing ritual.

However, this statement must be unanimous, and it must also be reflected in the ritual.

And it must be fast. After the supplies and equipment arrive, they might follow closely in order to control the equipment and communications! They are like a swarm of hornets sensing the smell of rotten meat!"

(Chapter End)