Video Game Empire

Because of the emergence of the butterfly Li Xuan, the wave of the personal computer era came earlier and more violently than another time and space. △ Small, according to the Hong Kong Economic Journal, the number of personal computers in Hong Kong has exceeded 200,000 units.

Especially in the new version of the as-os operating system that came with the ab-5 computer, after adding the graphical interface mode, the computer is no longer an inscrutable thing for ordinary people, but a kind of fool style office tools.

Of course, the price of ab-5 is still a little expensive for ordinary Hong Kong companies, but the price of low-end ab-1 compatible machines has fallen below 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. In fact, Aikang, a subsidiary of the Oriental Group, has already terminated the production of ab-1 and ab-2 computers.

But the compatible machines of these two models have sprung up all over the world, for example, there are three or four kinds of Hong Kong brands. These low-end computers still account for a large share of the total sales of personal computers, playing a crucial role in the global spread of the computer wave.

In the recruitment of clerks in Hong Kong, being able to use computers proficiently has become a new requirement for many companies to recruit people. And more and more parents are also beginning to guide their children to participate in various computer interest classes from an early age. Even the Hong Kong Education Department is stepping up the formulation of a new education reform plan to include computer courses in primary and secondary education.

Compared with personal computers that are gradually entering the homes of ordinary people, most Hong Kong people are still very unfamiliar with the Internet. The earliest Internet in the world was the ARPANET funded by the US Department of Defense in the late 1960s.

Later, with the continuous increase of ARPANET users. In the early 1980s, the US-military separated the ARPANET into two parts: military and civilian. The main users of the civilian part are scientific research institutions and universities, and Li Xuan was also a few years ago. Just funded a new festival of ARPANET in Hong Kong. Connect the internal network of the Oriental Group, together with the computers of HKU and CUHK, into the global ARPANET system through satellite communication.

After the Oriental Group acquired the Hong Kong Telephone Company, the Hong Kong Telephone Company applied to the Hong Kong government for an exclusive Internet franchise license, and then began to upgrade the local communication system and open network services to individual users.

Just have a phone line at home and buy a modem. And pay a monthly Internet fee of 50 Hong Kong dollars, you can connect your computer to the whole of Hong Kong. That's right, the basic network service provided by the Hong Kong Telephone Company is to connect the whole of Hong Kong. rather than connecting the world.

After the system upgrade, the whole of Hong Kong has formed a huge internal local area network through telephone lines. And if you want to communicate with the outside world, you still need to rent satellites for data transmission in the same way that Dongfang Group used to access the global ARPANET. This is an unknown fee. So if individual users want to open international network services. An additional, more expensive fee is required.

Of course, in fact, the Hong Kong telephone company can also carry out data transmission through international telephone cables, but the international long-distance telephone service in Hong Kong is exclusively operated by the Dadong Telegraph Office. And a large amount of network data transmission is likely to block the data transmission capacity of the coaxial cable.

You must know that the world's first high-speed transoceanic international optical cable has just been built by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. The plan for the Asia-Pacific submarine optical cable has just been put on the agenda, and it will take at least three or four years to be put into use.

But even so, since the Hong Kong Telephone Company opened its personal network service. The cumulative number of users who have applied for this service has exceeded 10,000. It is expected that this new service will increase the revenue of Hong Kong Telephone Company by more than 6 million Hong Kong dollars every year.

But this income is compared with the capital invested by the Hong Kong Telephone Company in equipment upgrades. But only a drop in the bucket. The biggest gain of Hong Kong Telephone Company is actually obtaining the exclusive franchise of the network business for the next 40 years authorized by the Hong Kong government.

The Hong Kong Telephone Company invested a lot of money, but only established a trunk line with a communication rate of 112b/s in Hong Kong. Yes, the transmission speed is not 112b/s, nor 112b/s, but poor 112b/s.

This is the maximum transmission rate on the backbone line, and the actual network rate allocated to each household is much lower than this figure. Fortunately, the current network is still very scarce, and everyone is just chatting together on a few bbs forums and newsgroups. It is impossible to be as exciting as the Internet thirty years later.

Of course, this was magical enough for people in the 1980s. Through a telephone line, everyone can discuss various topics of interest with friends from all corners of the city without leaving home. This is much freer and more open than telephone contact.

It's just that most of the users who apply for opening network services are people with relevant technical backgrounds, and ordinary people have very limited understanding of this new thing. And if the film proposed by Li Xuan can be successful, it is bound to make more people curious about computers and the Internet.

But Li Xuan was not going to use the means of personal orders to achieve his intentions. Although the prestige he has accumulated now gives him enough strength to do so. However, this blunt method, which is actually a huge harm to the overall healthy operation of the company.

On some issues related to the group's long-term layout and development strategy, Li Xuan can act arbitrarily because this is his company. But in some day-to-day matters, he prefers to use existing rules to solve problems. When he, the big boss, has no privileges and needs to abide by the established rules and regulations, the company's governance will be clearer.

For example, as Li Xuan mentioned today, he actually even thought about the name of the movie, it could be called "Online Love". However, from the perspective of Asia Entertainment, whether an idea can finally be put on the screen to meet the audience, the company already has a complete set of project review mechanism.

Only when the review department believes that the risks of new film projects are controllable and the box office prospects are relatively optimistic, Asia Entertainment will invest. And if a new project can recover most of the cost in advance through advertising placement, corporate sponsorship, etc. Then the chances of passing the audit will naturally be greatly improved.

For companies like Aikang and Oriental Games, they spend a lot of money on advertising and marketing every year, but every penny will only be spent where it can produce tangible results.

And Asian Entertainment's films want to get their financial sponsorship. The only way is to convince their marketers that the investment will be worth it. Only when they feel that the benefits of the film to the company outweigh the investment, they will loosen their pockets.

For the Oriental Group, only when each company pursues the maximization of interests, the development of the entire group will be prosperous. As the scale of the Dongfang Group grows, Li Xuan is also controlling the ** who gives orders at will, and instead believes more in the governance of professional managers.

because of many things. You can only speak if you have personally investigated and learned about it. And now there are more than a dozen subsidiaries under the Dongfang Group, and the subordinate companies below are even more complicated. It is impossible for Li Xuan to understand everything in detail.

He didn't want to take a good life. It's all wasted on looking at all kinds of documents in the office. Therefore, his consistent strategy is to use people without suspicion, and do not use suspicious people! Of course, while delegating power, the business audit within the Oriental Group is also more stringent. Prevent corruption and bribery by senior management that harms public and private interests.

And Li Xuan was holding a warning stick in one hand. The other hand never hesitated to throw a lot of sweet dates. For example, Zeng Zhiwei of Asian Entertainment Company, his current basic annual salary is 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars. This income can only be ranked in the middle and bottom among the CEOs of listed companies in Hong Kong, but this is not all his income.

Another part of the more important income is called equity incentives. According to the agreement signed with him by Asia Entertainment, if Asia Entertainment's performance can reach a certain level, he can get up to 275,000 shares from the company this year.

Based on the current share price of Asia Entertainment, the total value of these shares is more than 8 million Hong Kong dollars. That is to say, if Asian Entertainment's performance this year is good enough, Zeng Zhiwei's annual income can even reach 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

In fact, most film companies in Hong Kong cannot achieve this level of profit throughout the year. Therefore, although there have always been gold owners in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. If they want to persuade Zeng Zhiwei to leave Asia Entertainment, they will fund Zeng Zhiwei to be the boss.

But Zeng Zhiwei never wavered. Because now not only can he be a leader in the Hong Kong film and television industry, but he also earns more money every year than the bosses of most film companies, so why bother taking extra risks.

After Li Xuan relayed his ideas to Zeng Zhiwei, he completed his task. As for whether the film he envisages can start shooting, and whether it will eventually achieve a win-win situation as he planned, it depends on how Zeng Zhiwei works.

Before he left Asia Entertainment, Zeng Zhiwei also told Li Xuan the good news he had just received. The Taiwan authorities finally agreed to the release of "Blood Battle in Taierzhuang" in Taiwan theaters. It is said that this was because the top leader, the leader, Mr. Jiang, directly nodded.

This is definitely a major positive news for Asia Entertainment. "Blood Battle at Taierzhuang" is an epic film depicting China's war of resistance, and it will resonate much less in Southeast Asia and other foreign markets. But this movie is not the same in the Taiwan-Taiwan market. It is a movie about the **** struggle of the country-military, and it will only resonate more strongly in Taiwan-Taiwan than in Hong Kong.

As long as "Blood Battle at Taierzhuang" can be released in Taiwan, based on its own excellent quality, and just in time for the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it is bound to get a good box office in Taiwan-Taiwan. In fact, the Taiwan market is bigger than the Hong Kong market. If it can sell well in these two markets at the same time, it should not be a problem for Asia Entertainment to recover the cost.

Of course, Li Xuan is more concerned about the political improvement of the two sides. But even if Mr. Jiang has already made such a plan, it is impossible to make adjustments within a day or two. He must first ventilate within the party and gain the broad support of other Central Standing Committee members and veterans!

Li Xuan left the Asia Entertainment Film and Television Base in Tseung Kwan O with a good mood. But his good mood was disturbed by a sudden phone call halfway through the road.

An employee of the marketing department of the Oriental Commercial Company was walking on the street and was suddenly attacked from behind by several masked men riding motorcycles with watermelon knives. Fortunately, two uniformed patrolmen happened to pass by when the incident happened, and the police immediately shouted and stunned the gangsters away.

When Li Xuan rushed to the hospital after receiving the call, many reporters who had already heard the news gathered at the entrance of the hospital. After they found Li Xuan's car, they immediately rushed up like a shark smelling blood. Li Xuan was not in the mood to deal with these reporters. With the guidance of several bodyguards, he quickly walked into the lobby of the hospital.

"How is the condition of the wounded, is there life-threatening?" Li Xuan asked Charlieson, president of the Oriental Commercial Company, who was approaching him.

After the Taiwan-Taiwan RA branch pollution incident was accidentally exposed last year, Charlieson was transferred from his position in RA company to Hong Kong as the general manager of Oriental Commercial Company, temporarily leaving the right and wrong circle in New York.

"Zhou has lost a lot of blood now and is still in a coma, but he is out of danger! The doctor said that it was fortunate that he was sent to the hospital in time. If it was a few minutes later, he might have gone to see God!" Charlison said gloomily. , "There are two wounds on the back, one on the chest, and one on the right hand! Each wound is deep, this is a premeditated savage murder!"

"Has he offended anyone recently?" Li Xuan continued to ask.

In the past two years in Hong Kong, due to the turbulent current situation, social order has also deteriorated. Robbery of gold shops, kidnapping of rich people, all kinds of vicious crimes emerge in an endless stream. But Li Xuan did not expect that it would involve the employees of his own company.

Judging from the way the perpetrator committed the crime, this accident was more like the work of a branch of a local community, using a watermelon knife to kill instead of using firearms. What's more, the staff's belongings have not been lost~www.readwn.com~, so it is more like a deliberate revenge.

"Zhou is still in a coma and hasn't woken up, so we don't know the exact reason! But according to Zhou's friends and parents, his social circle is not complicated, and he has not had a grudge against anyone recently!

However, Manager He of the Marketing Department just reported to me a situation. Last week, we cooperated with the Hong Kong police and seized a batch of counterfeit goods of the A handheld, and this case was followed up by Zhou! "Charlesson frowned.

Li Xuan decided to take a look at the staff member surnamed Zhou first. Across the glass door of the intensive care unit, there was a handsome young man with a handsome face, but at the moment his face was abnormally pale and his lips were slightly purple. .

Outside the intensive care unit, the boy's mother was already crying. Li Xuan stepped forward and comforted a few words. He said that the Oriental Group will do everything possible to make the injured colleagues recover as soon as possible, and promised to get to the bottom of the matter and let the criminals get the punishment they deserve.

After leaving a few people responsible for helping the families of the wounded with follow-up hospitalization, Li Xuan and Charlison hurriedly left the hospital. Li Xuan has a hunch that today's accident is likely to be related to the batch of counterfeit A handheld computers seized earlier. (To be continued..)