Rebirth of the Wild Age

Pidu, Hongguang Town.

Today is the day to go to the market, not only the streets are full of people, even the teahouses are full.

The house where the teahouse is located has a typical southwestern residential style in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The main body of the gate is composed of four door panels. The door panels are removed when the store is opened, and the door panels are installed when the store is closed. The number of door panels must not be too many, no more than six doors. In ancient times, only the government could have them, and if the common people used them, it would be considered excessive. The roof is all black tiles, but there are two glass tiles for lighting. This is a modern and simple version-the ancient rich used transparent glazed tiles, and ordinary people used a special structure to leave a roof, which can be used for lighting and prevent air leakage. rain.

There are low wooden tables in the teahouse, and the chairs are bamboo reclining chairs, which can be used for sitting upright and drinking tea, or half lying down for a nap, chatting and watching a play.

Most of the customers are elderly people nearby, and each of them has a cup of tea brewed in front of them. There is no mahjong on the wooden tables, and the traditional Chinese cards are the main ones. Occasionally, there will be one or two tables playing chess.

The tea is not expensive, and the low-quality local tea produced in the province costs 50 cents a bowl and can be refilled indefinitely.

Zhu Weilian held a bowl of tea in his hand, looked around the situation, learned to use the lid to shake the tea leaves, and said with a smile: "This kind of teahouse is very interesting, this is the first time I have seen it."

Chen Tao said: "It is everywhere in the Southwest, but it has basically disappeared in the cities, and only the towns and villages still remain."

"That's because you haven't been in touch with village life for a long time," Song Weiyang said with a smile, "I went back to my grandma's house during the Spring Festival this year, and all the teahouses there were converted into chess and card rooms. In the past, a bowl of tea cost 30 cents, and mahjong cards were provided for free. , now the tea costs 50 cents a bowl, and you have to pump water for the shop to play cards.”

Chen Tao was a little surprised: "Really? Prices are rising very fast."

Song Weiyang said: "The main body of consumers has changed. Traditional teahouses are mainly elderly customers, while chess and card rooms are mainly young people. Especially during the Chinese New Year, it is common for young people who work and return to the village to gamble. The elderly play cards, and a deck of cards can be used for more than half a year. If the cards are played with rough edges, it will not affect the use. Young people should pay more attention, especially Zha Jinhua, who has to change a new deck of cards almost every hour, mainly to prevent cheating in card counting. "

"You really deserve to be in business. You have studied teahouses and chess and card rooms clearly." Zhu William laughed.

Now that the Excalibur Network Technology Company has been established, it needs a reliable helm.

Chi Yufeng is a very suitable candidate. After all, he can make Perfect World so big, but he is the boss of an education group, and his net worth has exceeded 100 million. How can he come here to manage a game company?

So Song Weiyang found Zhu Weilian. This old man liked to enjoy the process of starting a business. He readily accepted the offer and left the banyan tree to his deputy for management. In addition, Song Weiyang hired three people from Sohu, Sogou, and Jinshan to be responsible for operations, finance, and technology respectively, and the management framework of the online game company was set up.

In the previous half month, William Zhu had been negotiating in South Korea.

At the beginning, Actoz and Wemade were very aggressive, asking for an agency fee of US$500,000 and a 25% profit share. Zhu Weilian tried his best in South Korea, and even threatened to cancel the negotiation, and finally reduced the agency fee to 300,000 US dollars, and the profit share was reduced to 15%.

Well, when the contract was signed, Party B's company name was "Huyou Entertainment". This was Song Weiyang's leather bag company registered in Beijing. It was expected to "close down" this summer due to poor capital flow.

William Zhu worried: "If we make a copycat game based on "Legend of Mir", will we really not be accused of infringement?"

"It will definitely," Song Weiyang said with a smile, "The problem is how to define infringement. When the Korean company made this game, it deliberately imitated other games. After the game was brought back, you didn't listen to the programmers at Xishan Studio. Say? Many source codes of this broken game are common, and a lot of copy and paste other online game products. If we buy it and operate it directly, there will be a lot of cheats. A junior high school student who is proficient in programming can easily write the cheats of this game. "

William Zhu shook his head and smiled wryly: "This game is too bad. Xishan Studio has only been in closed beta for less than 10 days, and has already encountered 3 small bugs and 1 very serious big bug."

"It's normal," Song Weiyang said, "The Korean online game market is dominated by "Paradise", and other games are squeezed to death. They can only be forced to open up overseas markets to survive. Several games in succession sell well overseas, and those Korean games The company is jealous, and can't wait to sell the semi-finished products, which is the so-called eagerness for quick success."

Zhu Weilian suddenly changed the topic: "By the way, shouldn't the "Shan Hai Jing" project be publicized in advance, after spending so much money, you can't just keep your head down and do things?"

"There's no rush right now," Song Weiyang said.

"I'm not sure about this project. The investment is too large and the cycle is too long." William Zhu worried.

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Just spend money on tickets."

In order to expand the team size of Zulong Studio, Song Weiyang injected 10 million yuan in one breath, and the shareholding ratio instantly increased to 76.66%. Chi Yufeng and the founding team together held 23.34% of the shares. The other party didn't feel any dissatisfaction, but was very happy about it-normal people would be happy. After all, they still don't know the huge potential of the online game market, let alone compete for controlling rights. When Song Weiyang injected capital again, he still valued Zulong Studio at a premium of 5 million yuan, which means that everyone's money on paper is worthless. It has become more.

The most important thing is that Song Weiyang's frequent spending of 5 million or 10 million yuan proves that he is confident in making online games and makes everyone feel motivated.

Now even the interns of the company believe that their own development prospects are unlimited.

Song Weiyang's funds and status are there, even if he doesn't do anything himself, it is equivalent to providing team buffs like crazy.

Let's use an analogy, you join a new company that has just been established, and Ma Xiaoyun is behind this company and spends unlimited money. What do you think then? It must be full of confidence and work hard, because you have a very good chance to become the veteran of a future big company!

Song Weiyang's madness is not only reflected in the expansion of 80 new employees at one go, he even invited experts such as Gai Shanlin and Weng Yintao to serve as cultural and art consultants for the "Shan Hai Jing" project.

Gai Shanlin is a well-known Chinese archaeologist, historian, expert on ancient rock paintings, and an expert on the study of "Shan Hai Jing". Six years ago, the United States "World Journal" published a full-page report for five consecutive days, listing all the achievements of Mr. Gai Shanlin. He is still receiving a special allowance from the state.

Although Weng Yintao's academic achievements are not so outstanding, he is also an expert in the study of ancient Chinese mythology, Chuci, Yijing, pre-Qin philosophy, Tang poetry and Song poetry. He has written many papers on witchcraft and mythology. The research on "Shan Hai Jing" is an expert grade level. He has also published a collection of personal poems, including more than 600 old-style poems, and he can also serve as a guest poet and literary consultant for games.

In addition to these two, Song Weiyang also invited experts who studied ancient Chinese folk customs, anyway, we must strive for excellence in all aspects.

The game music is even more outrageous. Song Weiyang directly invited Tan Dun. This gentleman just won the Oscar for Best Original Music Award. Tan Dun wrote the soundtrack of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

In order to hire these big names in the industry, Song Weiyang spent 1.8 million yuan, and even used his personal connections, otherwise some experts would not be hired at all.

If such behavior spreads to the game industry, some people will definitely think Song Weiyang is crazy.

After all, today's online games can't make much money. No matter how powerful a foreign game is, the agency fee for introducing it to China will not exceed 500,000 US dollars. And in just two years, the agency fee will rise to tens of millions of dollars, and scumbag games need to spend millions of dollars to get the agency rights.

People now only know that making online games has a lot of money, but they can't guess how terrifying the profits are. After all, even 512k broadband is not yet popular at this time!

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