Hong Kong Entertainment: The King of Kung Fu

"Like You" received a lot of positive reviews on its premiere and was officially released on Christmas Eve, attracting a large number of couples to the cinema to watch it.

Christmas is a big holiday in Hong Kong, with two days of holidays, and Christmas Eve before the holiday is particularly important.

This is a night when most men bleed and a few girls bleed.

It was a night without gun smoke but filled with gunfire.

Such a night was a hassle for Yang Ye, because he had too many women and didn't know who to spend the night with, so he slipped away.

……

Shenzhen!

Yang Ye brought Li Zhi to attend Kingsoft's annual meeting.

Relying on the two classic games Tetris and Pac-Man, the handheld game console "Pocket Elf" developed by Kingsoft has been marketed all over the world. It has sold more than 30 million units to date and has become a hit.

In North America, Kingsoft's Pocket Elf and Nintendo's Game Boy went head-on and were not at all inferior.

The trend of Americans boycotting Japanese goods became more and more intense. With this mentality, many people began to enthusiastically pursue the Pocket Gamer, allowing Kingsoft and Atari to get a big bargain and make a fortune.

Of course, Qiu Bojun did not just sit there and do nothing. After he had money, he started to build his own factory.

Initially, Palm Elf was outsourced to Tomica's factory in Shenzhen. As production capacity expanded, Tomica was simply overwhelmed, so Qiu Bojun built his own factory and started production.

In addition to building factories, Qiu Bojun also recruited people and developed several games on his own, which sold well.

Today, Kingsoft has become a leading enterprise in Shenzhen and a major taxpayer, and has won the warm care of the Shenzhen government, which comes to inspect it and provide some policy recommendations whenever it has nothing to do.

……

Kingsoft's annual meeting was held at the newly opened "Shenzhen Nanhai Hotel" not long ago.

This is the first five-star hotel in Shenzhen.

In the past two years, Kingsoft’s annual meeting was held in a restaurant.

Even so, everyone is very satisfied and feels that the boss has a conscience.

This year Yang Ye came in person, and the level immediately rose.

The employees of Kingsoft were sitting in the magnificent banquet hall, feeling a little excited.

"Let us welcome the group president, Mr. Yang Ye, with warm applause!"

As soon as Yang Ye came on stage, the audience burst into warm applause.

The employees of Kingsoft were very excited about Yang Ye's arrival.

They have always known that their big boss is Yang Ye, and today they finally met the real person.

Kingsoft's work system is very humane and its welfare benefits are also very good, which makes employees feel very happy working here.

Yang Ye has plenty of ways to make money, so he has always been about increasing revenue rather than cutting costs, and he doesn't spend time exploiting his employees.

Because of this, the company's employees love him very much and think he is a good boss, not to mention that he himself has the aura of a superstar.

Yang Ye was not arrogant. He just said a few words on the stage, the gist of which was that you are all very excellent and everyone can eat and drink as much as they want tonight. That was it!
Yang Ye doesn't like to do those empty things, brainwashing employees, or making empty promises. He won't do that.

He likes to speak directly with money, which is more conscientious.

He brought a large amount of cash with him today, and each employee present received a Big Bull (500 Hong Kong dollars).

In addition to dinner tonight, the employees also prepared some programs to perform on stage.

Yang Ye was enjoying the show from the audience and cheered loudly, then he asked Li Zhi to go up and give out red envelopes.

Everyone who goes on stage to perform will be given a gold bull (HKD 1000).

After seeing it, he was so excited that he came up and sang a song himself.

Yang Ye is a superstar with a halo. He went on stage to sing for the employees, and many of them were so excited that they burst into tears. This also brought tonight's annual meeting to its climax.

……

After the annual meeting, Qiu Bojun sent Yang Ye back to his room to rest.

Yang Ye asked Li Zhi to make a pot of tea, and sat in the living room to chat with Qiu Bojun.

Yang Ye was very satisfied with Qiu Bojun's work in recent years and asked, "What are your plans for next year?"

Qiu Bojun thought for a moment and said, "I want to make computer games."

Yang Ye was stunned: "Computer games?"

"Yes, since last year, our Taiwanese counterparts have successively released some computer games, such as "The Legend of Heroes" by Jingxun, "Xuanyuan Sword" by Softstar, and "Eight Swords of China" by Softstar. These games are very popular, and I think we can do it too."

Yang Ye nodded: "Yes, you have noticed this new field of computer games. You have a keen eye. Do you need any support from me?"

Qiu Bojun said: "These games in Taiwan are all based on martial arts themes and use the RPG model. I think if we can adapt Jin Yong's novels, it will definitely be very popular."

Yang Ye understood that many people of this era grew up reading martial arts novels and had a deep interest in martial arts.

Qiu Bojun later created "Swordsman Love", one of the three major domestic sword shows. He also played a sword master in the TV series "Swordsman Love".

Yang Ye asked: "Which one do you want?"

Qiu Bojun said: "Swordsman!"

Yang Ye thought about it and said, "One is boring, take them all!"

"Ah?" Qiu Bojun was confused. He didn't understand what Yang Ye meant.

Yang Ye asked, "If you were to adapt "Swordsman" into a game, how would you go about it?"

Qiu Bojun said: "Of course, it allows players to become Linghu Chong and experience the story of "Swordsman" immersively."

"You are imitating the operations of those Taiwanese game companies, while Taiwan is imitating the operations of Japanese game companies. This kind of game is essentially the same as reading novels or watching TV. It's not very interesting."

Qiu Bojun thought, this is very interesting. However, since Yang Ye could say this, he must have a unique view on the game, so he asked, "Then what should we do?"

Yang Ye poured himself a cup of tea and said, "The game is a world in itself, and the essence of RPG is cultivation. If we just adapt a novel, the world is too small.

My idea is to combine the fourteen novels "Feixue Liantian Shebailu, Xiaoshu Shenxia Yibiyuan" to form a unified martial arts world.

Players do not play the game as spectators, but truly integrate into the game, creating their own history in the completely free world of Jin Yong's martial arts..."

Although the three domestic swords of later generations, especially the Immortal Sword, are very famous.

But when it comes to fun, it has to be "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

The Legend of Sword and Fairy relies on its excellent plot and touching love story to attract a large number of female fans.

But when it comes to electronic games, targeting female users is a wrong path, and the market won’t be too big.

Although The Legend of Sword and Fairy became famous later, its sales were always limited. One of the reasons was that it was too biased towards female players.

Yang Ye came to Kingsoft originally for another matter, but since the conversation came to this point, Yang Ye simply explained to Qiu Bojun the specific gameplay of "The Legend of the Jin Yong".

With Qiu Bojun's ability, it is not difficult to make a game, but coming up with interesting gameplay is not his forte.

Because he didn't have the corresponding experience when he was growing up. His peers grew up playing games, but he never played them.

Although Yang Ye only gave a brief talk, his words were logical and well-organized, making people feel that he was very professional. At the very least, he was an experienced game player.

Qiu Bojun was full of admiration and took notes while listening.

After Yang Ye finished speaking, he continued, “By the way, when you make a game, it’s best to build a basic framework.

In this way, if you make similar games in the future, you don’t have to rewrite the code, which can save a lot of trouble. If you can eventually develop it into a system, then you will be no different from the God who created the world. "

Yang Ye's words made Qiu Bojun's eyes light up, and he quickly agreed.

Most games of this era are simple and crude, but the average development cycle of each game is more than 10 months.

This is partly due to technical reasons, and partly because almost every game has to be coded from scratch, resulting in a lot of duplication of work.

Gradually, some experienced developers found a lazy way. They borrowed some codes from the previous game of similar theme as the basic framework of the new game to save development time and costs.

This is... a game engine!
……

Before they knew it, Yang Ye and Qiu Bojun had been chatting until after eleven o'clock, and they had even changed two pots of tea.

Yang Ye looked at the time and said, "It's getting late, let's stop here today."

Qiu Bojun stood up and said, "Then I'll leave first, you have a good rest!"

Yang Ye nodded and said to Li Zhi, "Zhizhi, help me see Mr. Qiu off."

Li Zhi sent Qiu Bojun to the door, and when she came back, she saw Yang Ye half-lying on a chair with his eyes closed.

Seeing this, Li Zhi walked over, put his hands on Yang Ye's shoulders and gently kneaded them.

In the past, when Yang Ye was in the office, if he was tired from work, Li Zhi would give him a massage. He was used to it.

But this time, Yang Ye suddenly reached out and held Li Zhi's hand in his own.

Li Zhi's heart trembled, but she did not struggle and let Yang Ye hold her.

She doesn't dare, and doesn't want to!
"Zhizhi, stay with me tonight!" Yang Ye said.

Lizhi sighed in her heart, she knew that this day would come sooner or later.

She can't hide or escape!
In recent years, she replaced Hu Yinmeng as Yang Ye's secretary, and later became Yang Ye's agent.

Not only does he have a high position in the company, but he also makes a lot of money.

Why should Yang Ye give her such enormous wealth?
Li Zhi gently pulled her hand out and said with a blushing face: "I... go take a shower!"

……

Yang Ye sat on the bed, Li Zhi stood in front of him, taking off her clothes little by little.

Yang Ye looked at her huge headlights and suddenly admired himself a little, "This beauty, how did I endure until now?"

Although Yang Ye had many women, none of them was such a giant, and he couldn't help but feel dazzled.

“It’s fucking huge!” Yang Ye thought to himself, “Ajie, you can’t handle it, so let me, the master, do it!”

……

The next day, Yang Ye met the person he had come to see specially.

The founder of Subor... Duan Yongping.

Duan Yongping is now the director of Zhongshan Rihua Electronics Factory.

Rihua Electronics is a subsidiary of Zhongshan Yihua Group. It is a contract manufacturing factory that mainly manufactures game consoles for Nintendo under its own brand.

Nichiha Electronics was running a terrible business, and despite having Nintendo as a high-quality customer, it still managed to lose two million dollars a year.

After Duan Yongping took office at Rihua, he immediately discovered a business opportunity.

Nintendo's Famicom is too damn expensive. In China, a game console costs more than 800 yuan, which is unaffordable for most people.

Duan Yongping felt that our factory was an OEM for Nintendo, and we knew everything about how to make this thing.

Why not just do it ourselves instead of outsourcing it to Nintendo?

They acted immediately and made their own copycat game console, naming it Subor.

Nintendo's Famicom sells for more than 800 yuan, while Duan Yongping's Subor sells for more than 200 yuan, and comes with a lifetime warranty.

The Famicom contains one game per cartridge, while one Subor game cartridge can contain multiple games.

It was a best-seller once it was launched on the market. Later, Chen Long was invited to advertise it with the slogan "All parents in the world want their children to become successful", which became very popular.

……

There is a saying on the Internet that Chen Long is an endorsement black hole. Whatever he endorses, it’s ruined!
This is actually a spoof statement, don't take it seriously.

Some of the products endorsed by Chen Long failed, while others are still doing well, such as Gree, Canon, and Nestle.

As for the ones who were done for, such as Little Overlord, it was mainly because Duan Yongping was too successful and frightened his boss, so he was squeezed out by the gang of bastards in the group.

Duan Yongping managed to make Little Overlord successful, but the 20:80 profit split that the group had agreed upon with him was not fulfilled at all.

Duan Yongping felt so aggrieved that he left in a huff.

Regarding Duan Yongping's departure, the group company said: "Duan Yongping went from a poor scholar to a world-famous multi-millionaire today. The group company has done nothing wrong to him."

No matter whether it was fair or not, once Duan Yongping left, the Little Overlord was finished.

Yihua Group thought they could do it without Duan Yongping, but it turns out they couldn't!

……

Duan Yongping is a sales genius.

In later generations, there were two major mobile phone manufacturers on the Chinese market: OPPO and vivo.

One main color is green, and the other main color is blue.

Stores of these two mobile phone brands are everywhere, and I like to look at them side by side.

Wherever you see an OPPO, there must be a vivo next door.

Employees of the two companies often quarreled over the sale of mobile phones, which was known as the OV War.

The mobile phone users of OPPO and vivo are also irreconcilable, accusing each other of plagiarism.

In fact, these two mobile phone companies have the same boss, Duan Yongping.

The so-called quarrel was just directed and acted out by this guy himself.

……

Duan Yongping felt a little nervous when he saw Yang Ye.

Because the Palm Elf sold so well, their factory also made a copy of the Palm Elf.

Qiu Bojun had negotiated with him before. But Rihua Electronics was a state-owned enterprise, and Duan Yongping was not afraid at all.

It was obvious that Qiu Bojun had brought Yang Ye to investigate.

Yang Ye didn't say anything, but just showed him something.

"This is the latest invention of the American company C-CUBE, the MPEG decompression technology. Using this technology, people can store images and sounds on a small CD.

I have bought the patent and plan to produce a product that will allow people to watch movies, listen to music, and play games simply by inserting a disc..."

Duan Yongping broke out in a cold sweat after hearing what Yang Ye said.

If this is true, the end of the Little Overlord has come! (End of this chapter)