game trailblazer

Chapter 63 Industry Adjustment

The conversation with Yang Xinxin allowed Zhang Lexing to recognize his own abilities and have new thinking about his future development.But before making any adjustments, Zhang Lexing decided to go and see the situation of the group of employees who came to the United States for advanced studies.

After the car was arranged, a bodyguard acted as the driver and sat in the front row, while Zhang Lexing sat in the back row.The car drove towards a small building on the street next to VisualSystem Company. This was the newly-found office building after Blue Dragon Studio was upgraded to a game development company. The employees who came to the United States for further training were here to learn from their predecessors.When Zhang Lexing came, it was just in time for the critical moment of several projects. Seeing the busy people, Zhang Lexing couldn’t disturb him, so he asked Albert, the development supervisor, to find out.

Zhang Lexing was sitting in the reception room near the door, sipping coffee while listening to Albert's introduction of the performance of the training staff during this period.

"Boss, they are very qualified and learn quickly. After the first two months of training, they have now found a position that suits them."

"Then what have they been doing lately?"

"There are eight people who are working with our two project teams of "Top Player 2" and "Basketball One-on-One". There is also a young man named Zhan Jun who is very good. We think he is very suitable to be the project director. Now a small project has been arranged for him to do, and there are three more in his group to study."

"Well, after the project is completed, you can make an evaluation report, so that I can understand the skills these people are good at and the suitable development direction in the future."

"Okay, boss."

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Leaving the office building of Blue Dragon Game Development Company, the car continued to drive to VisualSystem Company.This distance is not far, drive along the street for a few hundred meters, then turn right into another block, go straight for about 200 meters, and you will arrive in front of the VisualSystem headquarters building.

After talking with Yang Xinxin yesterday, Zhang Lexing thought for a long time by himself. The next few years will be a period of changing game consoles. If you want to have both sides, you must make a choice from now on. Just to talk to Yang Xinxin about this matter.

After getting out of the car, Zhang Lexing walked into the office building with his briefcase and walked along the passage to the elevator.After pressing the floor button, Zhang Lexing turned around, tightly grasped the handrail, and looked out through the glass of the sightseeing elevator.With the rapid ascent of the elevator, the scenery on the ground gradually became smaller, and the surrounding vision gradually expanded...

With a sound of "ding", the elevator stopped on the sixteenth floor, and the elevator door quickly slid open to both sides.Zhang Lexing walked out of the elevator and walked along the passage to the door of Yang Xinxin's office.Knocking on the door lightly, Zhang Lexing pushed the door and went in. After greeting Yang Xinxin's secretary, he walked into Yang Xinxin's office in the inner room.

Hearing someone coming in, Yang Xinxin looked up and said, "Brother, you are here. I guess you slept late last night, so I didn't call you in the morning. Have you rested?"

"Very good, no problems at all."

"Would you like a drink?"

"Have a latte."

Yang Xinxin signaled Zhang Lexing to sit down, then pressed the button on the table, picked up the microphone and gave some instructions.After chatting a few words, the secretary came in with a cup of coffee and put it on the table in front of Zhang Lexing.Reaching out his hand to test the temperature on the cup wall, Zhang Lexing felt that it was just right, so he gently picked up the white porcelain cup and took a sip, a smooth, sweet, luscious and rich taste bloomed on the tongue coating.

Putting down the cup, Zhang Lexing said, "Come here today, actually I have something important to discuss with you."

"What's important? Tell me, brother."

"When I go back, the companies here may not be able to take care of them all. I plan to let go of KF-Panda."

"Are you really willing? This company seems to be the most profitable in your hands." Yang Xinxin looked at me in disbelief.

"Really, it's too late. If you really care about it, how can you sell it. Of course, such a good thing will not be cheap to outsiders. I thought of you, Sister Xin, at the first time. Why don't you sell it to VisualSystem Company." Zhang Lexing worked hard Maintaining Chen Ken's expression.

"You are so cunning, you sold it to yourself, and you still ask me for money." Yang Xinxin curled her lips.

"It's different. I invested a lot of money and painstaking efforts in starting this company before." Zhang Lexing counted with his fingers: "You see, I spent several million at the beginning to set up the company. I also need to invest money in developing games, and I also need to develop game enhancement chips. I participated in almost all the games I made in the first two years, and the hard work spent in it is even more incredible. Let’s do this, I also suffer a bit $3 million."

"3 million US dollars! Hehe, then you might as well grab it." Yang Xinxin frowned, it seemed that the price was a bit beyond her expectation.

"Actually, you won't suffer a loss. You only need to look at KF-Panda's financial statements for the past few years, and you will know that this business is profitable. Just take out the best-selling series on hand, and take out any of them. Ten thousand sales. The annual profit is definitely more than 1 million US dollars, and the investment can be recovered in less than three years, which is very cost-effective.”

"It's not unreasonable for you to say that, but we are under a lot of pressure to take out so much cash all at once."

"Well, in this case, I don't need to ask for a lump sum payment, you can pay me in three years. But the first money must be paid to me immediately after signing the contract, and it can't be less than 1 million US dollars."

"Okay, but such an important matter must be decided by the board of directors, but you can't participate."

"I know, it's a related transaction. It's not convenient for me to go, so you have to say something nice for me."

"Well, I will arrange an emergency meeting in the afternoon and come up with a resolution as soon as possible."

"Okay, I'll wait for your good news."

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In the evening, Zhang Lexing finally waited for the news about KF-Panda. With the efforts of Yang Xinxin, and of course, the more important thing was that KF-Panda's financial statements impressed other members of the board of directors. The acquisition motion was unanimously passed. It will start next week, and Zhang Lexing's worries are finally settled.

A few days later, Zhang Lexing welcomed several corporate strategic planning experts invited by Yang Xinxin in his villa, and started a three-day seminar, which will be called the Game Empire Creation Day by some in the future. In the past few days, with the help of experts, Zhang Lexing has drawn up a detailed development roadmap for himself.At the same time, with different purposes, several investigation teams began to collect the information needed by Zhang Lexing in RB and the United States.

A week later, the action of industrial adjustment began...

The first one to appear was VisualSystem, which held a grand press conference at the Marriott Hotel and announced the acquisition of KF-Panda in front of many media.

Ballmer stood on the podium and announced excitedly: "...our company is very optimistic about the development prospects of the video game industry in the future, and through the acquisition of KF-Panda, our company will quickly enter the field of video game development... …Next, representatives of KF-Panda and our company’s president, Ms. Yang Xinxin, will sign the equity transfer agreement on the spot.”

Under the endless flashes, VisualSystem completed the final acquisition of KF-Panda. Since no listed company was involved, the operation was relatively simple.

At the same time that VisualSystem made a move, Zhang Lexing also started his own actions. The first step was the integration of Hong Kong industries.Zhang Lexing envisions that in the future, China Group will get involved in various industries such as game development, game distribution, consumer electronics, microelectronics, animation publishing, software, film, etc., and may even develop in industries such as finance and resources. However, the real core industry There are only three industries: electronic entertainment, electronic manufacturing, and publishing.Industry integration cannot be done by Zhang Lexing alone. After all, some people have been in charge for many years, and suddenly a management team is added to their heads. Not everyone can accept it calmly. Therefore, when Zhang Lexing arrived in Hong Kong, Dr. When people are found, communicate first, so as to avoid internal instability.

After appeasing everyone's emotions, Zhang Lexing started to make a real move.Firstly, based on the Hong Kong Chip Factory and Microelectronics Research Institute, a Oriental Microelectronics Co., Ltd. was established, with Dr. Yu as the president of the company.Immediately afterwards, he transferred a group of managers from his own industry, together with Zhang Lexing's personal injection of one billion US dollars, and established a company called Dongfang Holdings as the headquarters of the Future Group.After the establishment of Orient Holdings, Zhang Lexing also injected his own shares in Orient Microelectronics, Kunpeng Animation and other companies, and the assets controlled by Orient Holdings expanded rapidly.Then Dongfang Holding invested 8000 million US dollars to establish Dongfang Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd., whose main business is the development and distribution of games. Maxis Hong Kong Studio became its first game development agency.Finally, on this basis, Zhang Lexing initiated the establishment of the Oriental Industrial Group and completed the adjustment of Hong Kong's industries.

After the establishment of Oriental Industrial Group, Zhang Lexing returned to the United States, preparing to continue to integrate some industries in the United States into the group.The first to complete the merger is FCSource, which has mastered the copyrights of many FC games. Some former FCSource managers and personnel transferred from Kunpeng Animation have formed Oriental Copyright Trading Co., Ltd., which is responsible for all future copyright transactions of the group's products, while FCSource in the United States is Become the American branch of Oriental Copyright Exchange Co., Ltd.Then, Blue Dragon Game Development Company and Game Research Institute merged into Dongfang Electronic Entertainment Co., Ltd., becoming the bridgehead and R&D base of Dongfang Electronic Entertainment in the United States.The Red River Fund will continue to maintain its current independent status, and will be responsible for helping Zhang Lexing handle investment in the United States.

The industrial adjustment is basically completed, and the people Zhang Lexing sent out to inquire about the news have also given feedback. The situation at RB is far more complicated than Zhang Lexing imagined.

Shogakukan was founded in 1922 by the first president, Takeo Saga. It is one of the largest comprehensive publishing houses in RB. The current president is Takeo Saga, the eldest son of Takeo Saga. It has been corporatized, but still maintains the tradition of a family business, with 1945 employees, and the company is not listed.Shueisha was originally the entertainment magazine department of Shogakukan. It became independent from Shogakukan in 813 and was reorganized as a joint stock company in 1926. Shueisha Co., Ltd. was officially established. The office building is opposite the Shogakukan. The current president is Hideki Yamashita. The number of employees is 1949, and Xiaoguan holds 722% of its shares, and the other parts are owned by some printing and sales companies.Originally, the investigators sent by Zhang Lexing targeted Xiao Xiaoguan and Shueisha, but during the investigation, they found that there was another Baiquan company that was also a related company, so the investigation report sent back also included the information of Baiquan company.Hakusensha was originally only a member of the production team of Shueisha, and then became independent from Shueisha in December 80. Its main works are girl comics. The current president, Sakaguchi Noriwa, has 1973 employees.All three publishing houses belong to the Hitotsubashi Group and are controlled by the Aigami family.

At the end of the investigation report, Bullock, who was in charge of the investigation, wrote: "...Yiqiao Group has been corporatized in name, but in fact it is mainly a traditional family business of RB, and it is relatively difficult to acquire."

It seems that the expansion of Kunpeng Animation is not so easy. Zhang Lexing sighed, put down the investigation report of RB Animation Publishing House, and picked up the investigation report on the American film industry.

(End of this chapter)