Rebirth of the Wild Age

Years later, when you open the newspapers and magazines in 2001, you will find a very strange phenomenon.

The content of the articles in April of this year was normal, but after entering May, a large number of articles about "digitization" suddenly appeared.

Take the "China Business" magazine as an example. There are 48 articles in the May issue, 15 of which have the keyword "digitalization" in the title, and several articles are related to "digitalization".

It is clearly a business magazine, why is it made like an IT magazine?

Look carefully at the content of these articles. Some discuss digital home appliances, some discuss digital housing, and some discuss digital entertainment. There is even an article called "Wearing Digitalization", hehe, even clothing is about to enter the digital age!

In the months that followed, China was "digitizing" in all aspects.

The Beijing city directly shouted the slogan "Building a digital capital", the cultural department was building a "digital library", the education department held a "digital education forum", and even these papers emerged: "Characteristics and characteristics of the digital construction of the local history database" Development Ideas, "The Sorting, Research and Digitization of Chinese Genealogy Data", "The Construction of Digital Agriculture and the Leap-forward Development of my country's Agriculture"...

Everything can be digitized, and China seems to have entered the era of science fiction in an instant.

There are probably several main reasons for this situation:

First, computers are becoming more and more popular. The number of computers with Internet access in China has soared to 8.92 million from 3.5 million last year;

Second, the number of Chinese Internet users has skyrocketed, from 8.9 million last year to 22.5 million;

Third, the government and enterprises are vigorously promoting broadband technology, and the number of broadband access users has increased exponentially in the past six months;

Fourth, the government continues to guide and promote the integration of traditional industries with computers and the Internet.

From the end of last year to the present, in just six months, the central government has successively promulgated eight laws and regulations on computers and the Internet, and several more will be promulgated in the next six months. 2001 was called the first year of the legal system of China's computer Internet. All the legal keynotes were set at this time, and the following ten years were nothing but tinkering.

In late May, Song Weiyang was invited to Beijing to participate in the inaugural meeting of the "Internet Association of China".

This association has a certain official nature. The highest guiding agency is the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China. It is jointly initiated by more than 70 companies from across the country. Its members include network operators, service providers, equipment manufacturers, integrated circuit vendors, scientific research and educational institutions, etc. Wait.

After the general election, Song Weiyang was successfully elected as the executive director of the Internet Society. This is a position that has no real power but does not lose identity. There is still a certain right to speak at critical moments. Many CEOs of large companies have become standing directors. As for the positions of chairman, vice chairman, and secretary-general, they are all given to government officials or senior academicians, and Lenovo’s President Liu is not eligible for election.

The vigorous "Digital China Forum" was also successfully held during this period, creating a wave of digitalization throughout the country.

Yes, the “digitalization” that can be seen everywhere in newspapers and magazines is triggered by this forum.

In fact, the "Digital China Forum" has been held for two sessions, but they are all trivialities. This year’s specifications have suddenly risen to the apex. The organizers are the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the National Information Center, the National Economic Confidence Center, and the China International Electronic Commerce Center. , Gangcheng, Wanwan and more than ten cities to tour.

It is a sensation, wherever the forum is held, the media will focus on it. Because the top media groups in China are all organizers of this forum, their publicity can be described as a carpet bombing.

Song Weiyang did not rush to join in the fun, and gave the opportunity to show up to the bosses of several companies he invested in, including Ma Xiaoyun, Xiao Ma Ge, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Sanshi, Ding Ming and others.

But Xikang Province really couldn't shirk it. The secretary of the provincial leader called in person to ask Song Weiyang to go to the Rongcheng station to participate in the forum. It is not only the case of Xikang Province, but the entire western region has participated. The "Digital China Chengdu Forum" is directly defined as a branch venue of the "China Western Development Commodity Expo and International Economic and Trade Fair".

The secretary conveyed the opinion of the leader over the phone: "Mr. Song, you are the only industry leader in the computer and Internet fields in the province, and a banner for the digital development of Xikang Province. You must be present in person to demonstrate the development of western China. The demeanor of digital construction shows the spiritual outlook of the western region that is in line with digital and international standards..."

When it comes to this, can Song Weiyang not go?

Some vacant buildings in the Western Science and Technology Park are now finally available.

The main venue is located in a large factory in the park. This place was once the exhibition area of ​​the software park. The decoration styles of walls, floors, and ceilings are very modern. In the past, leaders and reporters came here to inspect and interview, and they would see neat computers, countless college students working as extras, and a large number of unclear machines.

Since Song Weiyang took over, the computers have been moved to the office building, and the machinery and equipment have been directly treated as garbage-all obsolete things.

Buses drive people from the city to the Western Science and Technology Park. When the forum does not officially start, the companies in the park become tourist attractions.

This was discussed by Song Weiyang with the province and the city. The leaders wanted to show the weather of the science and technology park to prove that they have done a good job in the national torch plan base. Song Weiyang took the opportunity to promote his Western Science and Technology Park, hoping to attract more companies to settle here, even if only offices and R&D centers are set up. There are still three office buildings (6 floors) vacant.

Ding Sanshi is most interested in Excalibur because NetEase has established an online game project and is organizing a team to develop its own games. He took Xiao Ma to the Excalibur Network Technology Company and asked the receptionist: "Does your company specialize in online games?"

"Yes." The staff member smiled.

Ding Sanshi asked again: "How many employees are there now?"

The staff member said: "There are about 60 regular employees, and about one or two hundred interns."

Xiao Ma asked in surprise: "One or two hundred interns?"

The staff member said: "These interns have at least a bachelor's degree, but they are not yet competent for the job. Take the art interns as an example, the company hired a Japanese game original painter with a high salary for three months of teaching practice. A total of six overseas famous teachers from various departments have been invited, and the money for these teachers alone cost more than 1 million US dollars. Our chairman, Mr. Song, said to the interns a month ago: You must study hard, even if you can’t in the future If you stay in Excalibur, you will also be rushed by other online game companies. After three years, as long as you don’t learn in the stomach of a dog and your monthly salary is less than 10,000, you come to me, and I will pay for it by myself."

"Hahaha, Boss Song is really wealthy." The boss of a telecom operator next to him laughed.

Ding Sanshi and Xiao Ma looked at each other, and both saw the horror in each other's eyes. It’s just an online game company. Asking a teacher to give lectures to interns actually cost more than $1 million, which is beyond their imagination.

In fact, these industry leaders invited from abroad will also participate in guiding specific work in addition to teaching. Otherwise, how can they spend so much money?

A large group of people quickly wandered around to the second floor. When passing a meeting room, the staff member said: "There is a meeting inside, and it is temporarily unavailable to visit."

Regardless of his own image, a boss glanced through the crack of the door and said in surprise: "Why are there some old men in there? Isn't it a young man's business to play online games?"

The staff smiled and said: “Of the five old gentlemen in it, two of them are granted special state allowances, and the other three are also professors. They are all senior experts and scholars who are hired as project consultants and come to the company every month. Come and have a discussion meeting."

"What project?" Ding Sanshi couldn't help asking.

The staff still keeps smiling: "A game development project, I can only say so much."

The big guys who came to visit have already aroused interest. A company boss said: "Tell me a little bit more."

The staff member said: "We are developing an online game with historical themes. The characters, costumes, architecture, and customs in the game are all exquisite, so we must ask experts and scholars to guide the whole process."

Another boss sighed: "Where is this for games? Making movies is not so strict."

"This game will cost a lot of money, right?" Xiao Ma asked.

The staff member said: "The chairman said, it will take several years to make this game well, and it will cost hundreds of millions."

Everyone looked at each other, and when they were shocked, they all felt that Song Weiyang was crazy.

Why is it not good for a few hundred million to use it to make games? At this time, the size of the entire Chinese online game market has not reached one hundred million.

Damn it if you can recover the cost!

"It costs so much money to develop games?" Ding Sanshi muttered to himself. He has decided to do online games, but now he is a little nervous.

The news quickly spread to the media. Before the two-day forum was over, countless reporters took the time to inquire, and then quickly spread across the country.

Because I really can't ask for the specific content, even the research and development funds are very general. The reporters therefore unanimously privately promoted Song Weiyang that it would take five years and 500 million funds to invite top experts at home and abroad to create an unprecedented historical theme game.

After continuous inquiries, an intern finally accidentally "spoken his mouth" and confirmed that the game was related to "Shan Hai Jing", so the report became a "large-scale ancient mythical theme game."

The national public opinion caused a sensation. Some people thought that Song Weiyang was playing things and couldn’t digest his money. Some people thought it was fake news, which belonged to Song Weiyang’s means of promoting the game. There were countless game enthusiasts who went to the forum to post discussions. This discussion became more and more popular with the serialization of "Sou Shen Ji".

Yes, Hu Geng started to write novels.

This person is a quick shooter~www.readwn.com~ while participating in game planning, while creating online novels, the daily update volume can reach more than 8,000 words.

Hu Geng directly stated in the "wedge" of the novel: "This book, also known as "Sou Shen Ji" by the Book of Mountains and Seas, was originally a game planning project. The creation of the novel and the development of the game were carried out at the same time. I am currently an Excalibur Network Technology Company. The story of the Shanhaijing project team is the main creator. After the game is launched, please support me!"

The novel was created in only one year, and the cost of the manuscript after publication was countless times higher than Hu Geng's salary in Shenjian.

Both die-hard readers and game enthusiasts have unlimited expectations for "Shan Hai Jing".

They have been looking forward to it year after year, but they can't even see the shadow of the game, and even various rumors that game development has ceased. Whenever this kind of rumors are raging, one or two pictures will suddenly burst out, or screenshots of the game, or original character paintings, which immediately fills up the expectations.

In the past few years, China's online game industry has prospered, and major game companies have made a lot of money. But the "Shan Hai Jing" with only its scaly corners exposed has become a huge boulder hanging over the heads of the industry. No one knows what day the stone will fall.

Song Weiyang's game of sharpening his sword for several years and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make games, which game company dare to underestimate?

Whether it’s the post it later or the 17173 game website, there is an exclusive page for "Shan Hai Jing". Every time a related picture or ambiguous insider information is released, it will trigger crowds of onlookers and discussions. Until the open beta of "Shan Hai Jing", due to the scarcity of numbers, an invitation code was actually fired at a sky-high price of several thousand yuan.

Song Weiyang is very proficient in propaganda and monkey play.

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