Riding the wind of rebirth

"Anything else?" Liang Guangping was stunned.

"Wang Jia's "Shi Yi Ji" wrote: Cao Hong of Wei was the younger brother of Emperor Wu. His family was rich and had many fine horses. Emperor Wu lost his horse while marching at night to fight against Dong Zhuo. Hong gave his horse, Bai Hu, to Emperor Wu to ride. When the horse was running, he could only hear the sound of wind in his ears, and his feet seemed not to touch the ground. When they reached deep water, Hong could not cross. Emperor Wu led his horse and mounted it. They crossed the deep water together, and they traveled hundreds of miles and reached the destination in an instant. Looking down at the horse's feet, the fur was not wet, but the emperor's clothes were still wet."

"Then this horse is indeed amazing, but this horse can only be considered Cao Hong's, and was ridden by Cao Cao." Liang Guangping shook his head: "Not really."

Zhou Zhi laughed and said, "Cao Hong was a greedy man. He often lent money at high interest rates to Cao Cao's officials. Cao Cao later lamented, 'How can my family's wealth be compared to Cao Hong's?' Having a good horse was considered normal."

"However, when Cao Hong was fleeing, he gave his horse to Cao Cao, saying, 'The world can do without me, but it cannot do without you.' He was passionate and had a clear sense of principle. When Cao Pi wanted to deal with him, countless people pleaded for him, so he had a good ending."

"As for this horse, people at that time said it was a horse that rode the wind and was a legendary horse. There was a proverb at that time that said, 'A white swan from the Cao family leaps in the air.'"

"So this horse may belong to the Cao family's common 'war assets', and not to any one person. If Brother Guangping says it doesn't count, then let it not count."

"Glory Entertainment should really invite you to be a game design consultant." Liu Hongtao said with emotion.

At this point, Zhou Zhi finally remembered: "Which version of the Three Kingdoms game are you playing?"

The Koei company mentioned by Liu Hongtao refers to the Koei Corporation of Japan, KOEI.

In the early days, Koei Tecmo focused on producing historical simulation games. As the company developed, its business scope continued to expand, and it has series ranging from strategy, action to romance. The most representative games include the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, Dynasty Warriors series, Nobunaga Risshiden series, and Uncharted Waters series.

The core of strategy games is actually similar, but Koei Tecmo applies it to different historical backgrounds. For example, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Legend of Genghis Khan" are basically the same, but due to the Chinese people's love for the Three Kingdoms, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has a much greater influence than "The Legend of Genghis Khan".

In addition to "The Legend of Genghis Khan", Koei Tecmo also launched "Water Margin" which is similar to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", as well as "The Legend of Heroes of the Republic of China" which was produced by Taiwan and imitated "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

"The Water Margin" is not much better than "The Legend of Genghis Khan". Zhou Zhi thinks "The Heroes of the Republic of China" is actually quite interesting, but it is even worse than "The Legend of Genghis Khan".

"The others are not fun. The picture quality is too bad." Liu Hongtao shook his head: "Only "Three Kingdoms IV" is based on the computer for the first release, and the picture quality is much better than other versions. The resolution is 640x480!"

You know what, most of the games nowadays are ported from machines like Nintendo. In order to make money faster, these games have a common problem, which is that they are only ported to PC through a game engine emulator, and then a mouse and keyboard control modification is added.

Changing the graphics quality is a huge undertaking, and no company is willing to put in the effort on old games.

This has resulted in many games that are otherwise quite fun only having a resolution of 320x240, which is fine to play on a TV, but the graphics are too crude on a computer.

Heroes of the Storm was developed based on the WINDOWS platform, and its picture clarity is twice as high as those of previous games, so its popularity is understandable.

Zhou Zhi didn’t know much about games, but several of his roommates in his previous life were obsessed with the KOEI games of this era, so he knew a general idea about it.

However, Liu Hongtao's words reminded Zhou Zhi that the core of strategic turn-based games is all about system balance, the balance between large and small systems, and the structure is not complicated. For a game like "Three Kingdoms", it is not difficult to beat Hero Company if you work hard on details and historical knowledge.

I just don’t know if this would be considered plagiarism. I need to confirm this with the group’s legal department before deciding.

Even if you don't do any development yourself, it's good to buy copyrights, localize them and promote distribution. There are too many Chinese game players, and even if there are many pirated copies, those who only buy genuine copies to play are enough to make a profit.

The most profitable way is to use the framework of the original game, transform it into an online version, transform it from a stand-alone game into an online game, and then bundle the game users with real-time communication users, which can solve the piracy problem that most plagues the game industry.

After that it’s net profit.

"Make a copy for me when you get back, so I can see how fun it is." After Zhou Zhi finished talking about this, he asked Mingtai and Li Laosan, "What were you talking about just now?"

"Donor Li made a great wish to help our Lingshan Temple build a road that can reach the temple gate." Mingtai clasped his hands and said, "This way we don't have to carry things up the mountain anymore, it will be much more convenient."

Most people in Hong Kong are superstitious. For example, Li Qiyan insisted on regarding the white jade Guanyin he gave to An Xin as the Guanyin who delivers children, and sent it to the Guanyin Temple in Tsz Wan Shan to be worshipped. It is said that it is now so popular that it has been turned into a new tourist attraction.

Lingshan Temple is a holy place where one can attain Buddhahood in the flesh, and perhaps because he was brainwashed by Shama Ricong and Wu Renzhong, Li Laosan had been clamoring to come here. It turned out that he was rich and powerful, and the amount of money he gave for incense offerings was different.

"Is this road easy to build?" Zhou Zhi asked Wu Renzhong.

“Building the road shouldn’t be difficult, right?” Wu Renzhong said, “The key is to get the funds in place. Once this problem is solved, other problems will no longer be a problem.”

"That's right." Zhou Zhi remembered that in a few years a road would be built to the Golden Summit of Emei Mountain. How far would it go now?

There are only more than a thousand steps from the parking lot at the foot of the mountain to here, with a height difference of only two to three hundred meters, and the driveway is about twenty to thirty kilometers.

Nowadays, the cost of building one kilometer of rural roads is only 30,000 yuan, so one million yuan is nothing to Li Laosan.

"Brother San has done a great deed." Zhou Zhi joked to Li Lao San: "One donation is a path."

"This is all I can do to help you." I don't know what Mingtai and Li Laosan talked about, but Li Laosan was very polite and modest now.

"In winter, it is quite dangerous for tourists and locals to go up and down Lingshan Temple." Mingtai clasped his hands and said, "It will be much better with this road. Donor Li has done a great deed."

"Since Third Brother has contributed money, let's contribute labor." Wu Renzhong said, "Shama and I have some classmates and relatives in Mianning. After we go down the mountain, we will find out what the rules are for building such a road."

After dinner, Zhou Zhi, with Mingtai's authorization, led everyone to practice the Dragon Vajra Kung Fu, otherwise it would be difficult to see the Soma flower tomorrow.

Since they were bored in the mountains, everyone followed Zhou Zhi to practice. However, Zhou Zhi understood that after going down the mountain, no one would be able to persist as he and Mai Xiaomiao did. For example, Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao would definitely not be willing to sacrifice their gaming time to practice.

Therefore, it is estimated that this skill cannot be spread widely.

Nothing happened during the night. When they woke up in the morning, they had the big steamed buns, pickled vegetables, and rice porridge that Zhou Zhi had been craving for. Mingtai also specifically asked the monk who worked for him to make potato pancakes and steamed buns with vermicelli, dried tofu, and cabbage filling for everyone.

Although it is just a vegetarian filling, everyone says it is delicious. (End of this chapter)