game trailblazer

Chapter 195 Undercurrent
In order to promote the development and growth of "Pokemon", Zhang Lexing not only has comics plus lottery, but also plans to launch "Pokemon" battle cards, animations, and plans to produce "Pokemon" dolls, etc. In short, it is a collection With all the power in his hands, it is only the first step to build "Pokemon" into a brand that is well-known and popular. If it succeeds, Zhang Lexing plans to continue to build Brands with different styles across multiple media such as games, animation, TV, and movies will surely have a more stable territory for the entertainment empire that they have created.

But these are all things for later. After arranging the follow-up work of "Pokemon", Zhang Lexing has turned his attention to Hong Kong at this time. Chen Zishan communicated with each other.

On January 1th, the first day of the company's annual meeting, the company's annual meeting was still held at the Peninsula Hotel's conference center just like last time, but due to the company's expansion, the number of participants increased.At 19 o'clock in the morning, the annual meeting officially started. Hua Ziqing, the general manager of Dongfang Holdings, presided over the meeting according to the usual practice. It is the second time that the annual meeting of Orient Industrial Group is held here. In the past year, the entire group has continued to develop steadily in accordance with the established goals. In the fields of microelectronics, electronic entertainment, media, Industries such as animation, consumer goods, consumer electronics, software, finance, real estate and investment strive for better results...

So after a year of hard work, what kind of achievements have you achieved?Next, each business department is invited to come to the stage to introduce their business conditions one by one according to the previously agreed order. First of all, Chen Bangguo, the representative of the microelectronics business department, will speak. Welcome everyone. "

Amid the warm applause from everyone, Chen Bangguo walked to the speaking seat on the stage, bowed slightly to the audience, and began to introduce: "Leaders, colleagues, hello everyone. I am Chen Bangguo from the Microelectronics Division. Let me introduce to you the operation of the group in the microelectronics industry last year. In 1995, the group's factories produced a total of 650 million ICs, and 640 million ICs have been delivered, of which 320 million R-3000A have been delivered to Sony Corporation. Game console production factory. The annual revenue was 18.43 billion Hong Kong dollars, a year-on-year increase of 22.6%. After deducting costs and related expenses, the annual profit was 6.8 million Hong Kong dollars, a year-on-year increase of 28.3%..."

After talking about the data he had in one breath, Chen Bangguo let out a sigh of relief, bowed slightly to the audience again, stepped off the stage and returned to his seat to sit down.This is already the second annual meeting of the company. With the experience of last year, he has no idea of ​​competing for rankings, as long as the revenue can be greatly improved compared to last year.

The second person to come on stage was Xu Yeming, the representative of the Electronic Entertainment Division. He cleared his throat and said: "In 1995, the Group acquired 227 game production companies, including British Bullfrog and American Naughty Dog, and acquired five game production companies. Small game publishers have greatly enhanced the company's strength in game production and distribution. Last year, the group established a new company responsible for the game distribution business in mainland China, Fengyun Interactive, together with Asia Interactive, Activision and Eidos. Three, the game distribution network owned by the group has spread to major regions of the world. Last year, the group's distribution companies released a total of 152 games on various platforms throughout the year, of which 7510 came from its game production companies, achieving a cumulative sales volume of 234.31 million sets .The annual revenue was 96.72 billion Hong Kong dollars, excluding various expenses and expenses, the annual profit was [-] billion Hong Kong dollars..."

After speaking, Xu Yeming glanced at Chen Lianming and Zhang Wenshan who were sitting in the audience. He knew that only animation and investment could compete with the data of his department. Without them, the Electronic Entertainment Division would definitely rank first in the group. One, but with these two, especially the Investment Division, it's hard to say where the Electronic Entertainment Division is.People from other departments in the audience still had expressions of surprise, but when Xu Yeming walked off the speaking seat, he didn't have a clue in his heart.

Dai Shihua is the representative of the media business department. After a year of training, his mentality has become very peaceful. He will not be as disturbed as before when he hears the tens of billions of revenue of the electronic entertainment business department. With the current foundation, if there is no large-scale merger and acquisition, it is impossible for the data of his department to rise to that level, so he was very calm when he walked up to the speaking table.

Looking at everyone in the audience, Dai Shihua said with a smile: "In 1995, the media business department mainly focused on internal integration and digestion. It made appropriate adjustments to the two newspapers and three magazines under the Shuxiang Newspaper Industry, and began to build the Shuxiang Newspaper. A news website based on the newspaper industry. Star Media mainly added some new channels, and signed several new landing agreements in several regions, further expanding the coverage of the channels, and began to increase the number of self-hosted programs. Strength. In 1995, the company realized a total profit of 3.52 million Hong Kong dollars..."

After Dai Shihua walked off the speech seat, Chen Lianming, the representative of the animation business department, appeared to be in a bad mood. Instead of opening with a joke like before, he said directly: "Currently, the group's subsidiaries in Hong Kong, Taiwan, RB, South Korea, France, the United Kingdom and other places already have a number of professional animation production companies and publishing companies, including animation distribution, adaptation authorization and peripheral authorization, with annual revenue of 218.67 billion Hong Kong dollars and a total profit of 92.66 billion Hong Kong dollars..."

The statistics of the animation business department once again caused some people in the audience to exclaim, but Xu Yeming, who was still a little guilty just now, smiled. He knew that the statistics of his own department this year had at least surpassed the animation business department. It is a very good good news.

Shen Meiqin, the representative of the Consumer Goods Division, came on stage next. She looked very modest, and after bowing, she began her report: "In 1995, on the basis of Jiamei Toys and Clothing Design Center, we opened in New York and Paris respectively. A new design center has been established, and the number of authorized factories has grown to fifteen. Last year, through OEM sales, the annual revenue was 43.62 billion Hong Kong dollars and the profit was 16.95 billion Hong Kong dollars..."

Then Yuan Yiqing, the representative of the Consumer Electronics Division, came to the stage and said: "In 1995, in addition to the original comprehensive consumer electronics design center, the group also established new product research and development centers in RB Tsukuba and Silicon Valley, and continued to develop Direct production plants and a number of authorized production plants, the current main products include learning machines, electronic dictionaries, VCD-related spare parts and electronic pets, etc. Last year, a total profit of 4.8 million Hong Kong dollars was achieved..."

The software business department was established for more than a year, and began to gradually adjust and expand the software companies under its management, and the corresponding profits have also been greatly developed. Unfortunately, electronic entertainment and animation are ahead, and Liang Xinfang, the representative of the software business department, has already I don't have any hope, it would be great to occupy the fourth position, so she looked very calm when she came on stage.

Clearing her throat, Liang Xinfang began to introduce: "The group owns many software companies such as Rising Sun Software, Le Yiyang, Kingsoft, and Yulefang. At present, its business has spread to mainland China, Hong Kong, the United States, RB, South Korea and other places. In 1995, Annual sales revenue of 153.87 billion Hong Kong dollars and a total profit of 62.03 billion Hong Kong dollars..."

Immediately afterwards, it was the turn of Tang Lishen, the representative of the financial business department, and Liang Jun, the representative of the real estate business department, to speak on the stage. However, the results of these two companies were not obvious in comparison. The financial business department had reduced the number of shares held by Standard Chartered Bank from 26.8% has gradually increased to 27.7%, which is only 0.9 percentage points. As for the profit, it is still the annual dividend of more than one billion Hong Kong dollars, but correspondingly, it has brought great convenience to the capital flow of the entire group.

As for the real estate business department, in addition to investing a lot of energy in the construction of the research park last year, while looking for locations for the construction of the research park in Shanghai and Shenzhen, it also tried to develop commercial real estate. Further development, so it can be said that in 1995 there was still no profit at all.

The last one to take the stage was Zhang Wenshan, the representative of the investment business department. The performance of several investment funds under him was very eye-catching, which kept him in a very happy mood.After trying the audition, he smiled and began to introduce: "At present, the group has three investment funds, Dream, Alliance Bernstein and Desheng. Through investment in foreign exchange, stock, futures, real estate and other markets and specific patents, in 1995 A total of US$58.8 billion in profit was realized, which is approximately equivalent to HK$455.23 billion according to the latest market price!"

"Hiss..." There was a gasping voice in the audience. Almost everyone was shocked by this number. Unexpectedly, after last year, the investment business department handed over a very beautiful answer sheet, and it was once again with a It is not surprising that the power of the department has suppressed the other eight business departments.

After the reports of each business department were completed, Zhang Le walked up to the speaking table and made a concluding speech, which was considered to be the end of the whole morning meeting.After eating the uniformly arranged working meal at noon, everyone was divided into nine groups according to their industries, and discussed future business strategies with their respective business departments in different conference rooms.Due to the scattered discussion, Zhang Lexing also had no resources to spare, so he simply arranged for all his assistants to listen in and follow up on the discussion, while Zhang Lexing himself was going to take the Mercedes-Benz S600 Pullman to find Chen Zishan. Of course, Andatai was in charge of the security work during the entire meeting The security company did not forget to arrange manpower to follow.

The biological laboratory that Chen Zishan is preparing to build is located near Tai Po Industrial Park. It happens that there is an open space in the Hong Kong R&D Park. own territory.

A group of people came to the parking lot of the Peninsula Hotel. Zhang Lexing opened the door and was about to get in the car. Suddenly, a voice came from behind: "Boss, please wait a moment."

Hearing the sound, Zhang Lexing turned around and saw that it was Chu Jing who had come, so he pushed the car door open, turned around and asked, "Well, what's the matter?"

"Boss, I have something to report about the creative workshop. Do you have time?" Chu Jing walked a few steps, stopped in front of Zhang Lexing, and replied.

"Oh, why don't we talk about it in the car."

"Okay." Chu Jing nodded.

A group of people got into the car respectively, with a black commercial vehicle as the leader, a Mercedes-Benz S600 in the middle, and another black commercial vehicle broke off to form a convoy, and drove to Dapu in the north together.In the Mercedes-Benz S600, Ma Guanghai and the driver were sitting in the front passenger seat, and only Zhang Lexing and Chu Jing were left in the spacious space behind.

"Chu Jing, thanks to your help these years, otherwise the creative workshop would not have developed so fast." Although Zhang Lexing has not directly seen all of Chu Jing's efforts in the past few years, through daily reports and creativity The development of the workshop can still be felt.

"This is what I should do. I got paid for it." Chu Jing replied with a smile.

The time from Peninsula Hotel to Tai Po was not very long, so after a few pleasantries, Zhang Lexing turned to the main topic, "By the way, Chu Jing, what were you going to talk about just now?"

"Well, it's about the future development of the creative workshop." Chu Jing said seriously.

"Oh, let's listen." Zhang Lexing leaned back, showing an expression of listening.

"After several years of development, the creative workshop now has more than 500 employees. The scale is already very large, and the annual expenses are also high. The number of students in the new Fengyun Game Academy has reached 360. If We are still recruiting people this year as before, and the number of employees in the creative workshop will exceed 800, which may exceed our current management capacity. So I discussed with Manager Li to see if the recruitment will be postponed this year. Or recruit less..."

"This is not good. The most lacking in China now is game development talents. That's why I thought of giving them a chance to develop. If we stop recruiting people, maybe some talents with great potential will lose their opportunities. Besides That's a lot of people..." Zhang Lexing couldn't help but frowned, remembering that there were still not enough game developers until the era of online games.

"Hmm..." Chu Jing lowered her head and thought for a while, then continued: "In that case, I have an idea. At present, there are already a lot of people in the creative workshop, and it would be inconvenient to add more, and people Too many corresponding exercise opportunities may also be less, so I suggest whether to consider splitting."

"Spin-off? Do you mean that some people will be drawn from the creative workshop to set up another company?" Zhang Lexing looked at Chu Jing and asked.

"Yes, that's what it means. I have studied other companies under the Oriental Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd., and it can be said that there are no companies with a low degree of commercialization like Creative Workshop. Overexpansion of personnel in this atmosphere will bring comparisons. A large burden is not conducive to the growth of developers. In this case, you can consider transferring some people to set up a more commercial game development company or game studio, which can not only reduce the burden on the creative workshop, but also provide everyone with A better opportunity to exercise." Chu Jing explained.

After listening to what Chu Jing said, Zhang Lexing couldn't help but fell into deep thought. In fact, he had such a plan, but he hadn't made up his mind when to start. He hoped to give the development team of the creative workshop more time to develop.However, what Chu Jing said today gave Zhang Lexing a new understanding. As the saying goes, you can’t see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain. The first generation of the creative workshop development team has more than five years of development experience. The second generation also has more than three years of experience, and it is time to give everyone a chance to fly and practice in the wind and rain, so that they have the opportunity to truly grow.If it is still the same as before, always deliberately creating a safe and stress-free environment, even if it can develop, it may be just some flowers in the greenhouse. Once it faces real competition in the future, it may not be able to withstand the huge pressure at all.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lexing glanced at Chu Jing gratefully: "Chu Jing, thank you for reminding me. By the way, have you thought about how to operate it?"

"I have studied Tianzhiyuan. Their current system is based on four companies in Shanghai, Fuzhou, BJ, and Guangzhou. On this basis, they have established several game studios, so as to maintain the flexibility of management. It can also form a relatively strong development capability. I think we can refer to it..." After thinking for a while, Chu Jing spoke out her idea.

According to Chu Jing's idea, future creative workshops can also set up independent accounting companies in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, but they will not operate in the current mode, but will operate in a normal commercial way, in order to show The difference is that companies in other regions may not even use the name of Creative Workshop.At the same time, some employees can initiate the establishment of a separate game development studio if the employees are voluntary. Once the game studio works well, there is an opportunity to upgrade to a game development company.In the future, the Creative Workshop and Fengyun Game Academy will become the main bases for talent training. Other companies and studios will operate in accordance with the business model, develop games independently, and sign contracts with game publishing companies independently. This will not only solve the problem of redundant personnel , It can also create more development opportunities for everyone. In addition, through company investment or project investment, you can still maintain a certain degree of control over these companies and studios that are outside, which can be said to serve multiple purposes.

Chu Jing's suggestion can be said to have opened up another world of development for the creative workshop, and no longer has to worry about whether it is commercialized. Zhang Lexing couldn't help but fall into imagination about the future of the creative workshop.

A convoy of three vehicles was turning from Princess Road to Waterloo Road when a white Bentley sports car suddenly accelerated and overtook it, almost brushing the leading car. The driver of the leading car couldn't bear it. He stuck his head out of the car window and cursed a few words.In a public phone booth on the side of the road, a young man who seemed to be on the phone witnessed all this. He immediately pulled up his collar and said in a low voice: "The dog head reports that the eagle is returning to its nest. There was a white cat just now." Run over, do you want a veterinarian to check it?"

At the same time, on the eighth floor of a nearby building, a light flashed through the half-opened window, and an undercurrent seemed to quietly begin to surge...

(End of this chapter)