Video Game Empire

At the intersection of Yaliao Street and Guilin Street, a black nanny car was parked there. A man with a national character in the car was giving out various instructions through the microphone on the earphone.

The man with such a grim face is Li Xuan's new security captain, Li Guangming. He is a senior inspector who retired early from the VIP Protection Section of the Hong Kong Police Force and has profound experience in urban protection. In recent years, the law and order in Hong Kong has been showing a deteriorating trend.

For example, Wang Dehui, the owner of Chinachem Real Estate, was kidnapped last year, and the kidnappers extorted $11 million from Wang Dehui's wife Gong Ruxin. Last year, there was another case of robbery of a Po Sang Bank's unpaid car in Hong Kong. The robbers successfully stole 140 million yen in cash.

And on May 1 this year, there was another battle between the police and the bandits in the downtown area of ​​Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon. After the robbers robbed a watch worth 2 million Hong Kong dollars at the Zhongxin Watch Store, a fierce shootout broke out with the police who came to round up.

In fact, the Hong Kong police have already learned the relevant information in advance, and have buried the net in advance. The arrogant robbers were still able to break out of the siege calmly, causing an uproar in the entire Hong Kong society. From May 1 to the present, there have been the Lai Chi Kok gold robbery and the Transport Department's unpaid vehicle robbery. The robbers succeeded one after another, but the Hong Kong Police Force was at a loss.

Li Xuan dǐng holds the title of the world's richest man, and is simply a human-shaped vault. How can you kidnap the "God of Fortune Li" by robbing a bank and get money quickly! In order to make sure nothing goes wrong, the number of bodyguards guarding around Li Xuan has urgently doubled recently.

For the security department, they naturally want Li Xuan to stay at home all day, so that their pressure will be much less. What they disliked the most was like today, Li Xuan suddenly told him that he would go out for shopping in private. This temporary arrangement is the most troublesome for security personnel.

But Li Xuan is the boss. He spent a lot of money to support so many bodyguards, not to make himself a marionette for the bodyguards, and it is up to them to decide where to go. where not to go. Since the bodyguards received high salaries, they must overcome all difficulties and fully protect Li Xuan under any circumstances.

"Jaguar, where are you now?" Li Guangming contacted the teams around Li Xuan.

Li Xuan went out to play in private today. Naturally, he would not ride the stretched Cadillac, but chose an ordinary Volvo sedan. This car is not bulletproof like that luxury Cadillac. Even with a47 close-range strafing, it can't penetrate the steel plate. It's just an ordinary car. This made Li Guangming have to worry a little more. Because in the event of an accident, it is difficult for this car to gain too much reaction time for the **** vehicles that follow around.

"Team Li, Li Sheng's car has just passed the Tai Sang Bank Building on Nathan Road, and is about to turn into Cheung-Shawan Road. Li Sheng and Miss Ho will get off at the intersection of Gui-Lin Street and walk to Duck. Liao Street, everything is normal now!" Li Guangming's headset quickly returned a reply from the car radio.

Li Sheng's car was about to arrive in a few minutes, and Li Guangming started to contact the plainclothes bodyguard team already waiting at the Guilin Street intersection to get them ready.

At this moment, He Qing carefully looked at the man sitting next to him, a plaid shirt and a pair of light blue jeans. Wearing a pair of white canvas shoes. No matter how you look at this person, he can't be linked with the "God of Fortune Li" with a net worth of more than 100 billion Hong Kong dollars.

"I'm walking on the street like this, don't I look like a handsome student, no one should recognize me!" Li Xuan noticed that He Qing was looking at himself, and simply put the pair of green film glasses on the shirt pocket on his chest. put on.

Li Xuan is not short-sighted and has never worn glasses. In order to change the shape this time, the image designer specially matched him with a pair of flat mirrors. His current style is 108,000 miles away from the luxurious and stable "God of Wealth Li" in the eyes of everyone. This will prevent his highly exposed face from being recognized as soon as he hits the street.

"How can you say that you are handsome. You have such a thick skin!" He Qing covered her mouth and smiled. Ever since Li Xuan had kissed her on the mouth before, her body was messed up and touched. She seems to have accepted her fate, and her attitude towards Li Xuan is much more intimate.

"Let's go, Yaliao Street is known as a man's paradise! Without a handsome guy like me escorting me, a beautiful woman like you would easily be wiped out!" Li Xuan said alarmingly.

At this time, the car had stopped at the entrance of Gui-Lin Street, which is a pedestrian street. Get off at Chang-Shawan Road and walk westward along Gui-Lin Street for dozens of meters. The next intersection is the famous electronic street in Hong Kong - Apliu Street.

"Did Miss Zhong just stared at you, a big pervert, and had to commit herself to you!" He Qing took Li Xuan's arm naturally and suddenly smiled softly at him.

The love story between Li Xuan and Zhong Chuhong is naturally widely circulated in Hong Kong, and their first encounter on Apliu Street was passed down as a good story. But here and now. Li Xuan suddenly felt a little embarrassed when his little lover brought up this question.

The shame on Li Xuan's face was quickly covered up by Hua Xin's thick skin, he took advantage of the situation and hugged He Qing's small waist: "How could a decent gentleman like me be a pervert, he must be a hero who saves beauty! You will also seduce a bad guy to attack you later, and then I will show you how to be a hero to save beauty!"

In fact, after He Qing spoke just now, she felt embarrassed for a while. She suddenly realized that she was so bold that she became a vixen who destroyed other people's feelings. She can pretend to be an ostrich to hypnotize herself, but just because she doesn't think about it doesn't mean these things didn't happen.

All of this is the fault of this philanderer in front of him. Since he already has a wife, why should he deliberately provoke him? Thinking of how He Qing found a place to vent his anger, he reached out and twisted Li Xuan's arm ruthlessly.

"呲—!" Li Xuan gasped for a moment in pain, and turned his head innocently to look at He Qing, not knowing where he had offended this little girl.

"Do you think I'm a bad woman?" He Qing said angrily.

A woman's mood is like a June day, it changes when it is said. Li Xuan didn't know what happened to the little girl in his arms, but he had to put the blame on himself at this time.

"You haven't turned bad, you're just too pure! After being stuck by me, the big bad wolf, I couldn't run away, so I had to eat it slowly into my stomach!"

He Qing gave him an angry look: "You really have self-knowledge!"

"We're here to go shopping today, can we not study those complicated issues that are constantly being sorted out and messed up?"

Li Xuan hugged his family tightly. He lowered his head and kissed her gently on the forehead. He Qing also seemed to have found a reason to excuse herself, burying those unpleasant problems aside.

If Tung Choi Street in Mong Kok is known as Hong Kong's Ladies' Market, there are cosmetics, ornaments, clothing and other items that women like to sell everywhere. Well, Apliu Street in Sham Shui Po is an out-and-out men's street. It is the most famous electronic product distribution center in Hong Kong.

A few days ago, when Li Xuan was watching a movie with He Qing, she was very interested in the arcade of "Tank Wars" in the cinema. So Li Xuan suddenly had a whim today. Take her to Yaliao Street to buy a game console.

Walking on Yaliao Street, the proportion of boys is obviously much higher than that of girls, and most of them are young people who are not very old. There are stalls on both sides of the street, and there are also several car stalls selling various small items and food from time to time in the middle of the road.

A few years ago, the gears on both sides of the road that were removed late in the morning were mostly all kinds of connecting wires and plugs, rechargeable batteries, and circuit board parts removed from old home appliances. But now looking around, all kinds of game cassettes come into view.

Among them are the game cartridges connected to the display screen of the original a. There are also cassettes for game consoles, and most of them are not genuine cassettes. For Eastern Games, game cartridges have always been more profitable than consoles.

Dongfang Games has always adopted a strategy of small profits but quick turnover for various game consoles. For example, the original a manufacturing cost was as high as 8 US dollars, but the ex-factory price was only set at 10 US dollars. After going out for post-advertising, marketing and other expenses, the profit margin is less than 20%.

This is still under the premise that Dongfang Game Company achieves large-scale production. The small batch production of those small cottage factories is definitely not as good as Dongfang Company in cost control. They want to compete with genuine products. Concessions have to be made on price, so profit margins are actually very low.

In contrast, the investment of game cartridges is less. The technical threshold is not high, and it is far more cost-effective than the imitation of game machines with high input and low output. In order to maximize profits, Oriental Game Company rarely combines multiple games into the same cassette. But those shanzhai factories have no such concerns at all. There are all kinds of 8-in-1, 10-in-1, and even 32-in-1 cassettes.

If only pay the same amount as a genuine cassette. You can play 32 games at the same time, and players will naturally flock to it. The reason why genuine game cartridges are expensive is because they contain the value of the game author's new ideas. But for pirates, their R&D investment is zero, as long as the production cost is deducted. The rest is pure profit.

"The bad guy is here, run!"

I don't know who shouted, and the whole street suddenly burst into commotion. The fixed stalls on both sides of the road are all approved by the government, but these car stalls parked in the middle of the road are illegally operated without a license.

A very important job of these guerrilla bosses every day is to hide and hide with the police who come to enforce the law! Dozens of trolleys immediately began to run wildly, and pedestrians dodged one after another, causing the whole street to jump.

Inadvertently, in front of Li Xuan and He Qing, a row of people consisting of four or five people had already appeared. They surrounded Li Xuan to the side of the road to avoid, and at the same time, they kept all kinds of chaos in the periphery.

In fact, the team that came to enforce the law this time was not to deal with these unlicensed street vendors, but to target the regular vendors on the street.

Although the staff of the Oriental Commercial Company was slashed and injured, within ten hours of the incident, it was solved because the suspect voluntarily surrendered. But this incident gave the Oriental Group an excellent excuse to put pressure on the relevant departments of the Hong Kong government.

These infringing criminals have now become so arrogant that they have begun to threaten the personal safety of the employees of the Oriental Group. If the Hong Kong government does not take strong actions to crack down, it will be really unreasonable.

In fact, Dongfang Group has long noticed the flood of pirated game cassettes and software CDs in the area around Yaliao Street, but has never found a cure. Every time the Oriental Company makes a report, the law enforcement department will symbolically send someone to carry out a sweep, but after the wind has passed, it still resurfaces.

And if the Eastern Group came forward to gather evidence and then brought all these small traders to court, although they could win the lawsuit, they would lose their hearts.

Because everyone is more willing to sympathize with the weak, your "God of Wealth Li"'s family wealth has already exceeded 100 billion, and you are still unwilling to give a way to the street hawkers who make hard money for the wind meal, this is too cold-blooded, too rich and unkind!

In the face of such an opponent who is not at the same level at all, the Oriental Group had to take into account public opinion, but instead became constrained. But this time, the situation just reversed after the employee of the Oriental Commercial Company was chopped and injured.

The Eastern bloc is now a victim, and even retaliation is a matter of course. If the famous "God of Wealth Li" swallowed his anger and had no temper, he would be looked down upon.

However, it is not convenient for the Oriental Group to take action in person. Dealing with these small vendors is actually a very troublesome process for uukanshu.com. The Oriental Group is more willing to let the government come forward to clean up and ban it, and hide behind the scenes and watch.

Sure enough, when the law enforcement officers began to seize the dazzling array of illegal copycat game cassettes in the first booth, the female boss of the booth immediately began to splash. The bosses of other stalls found that the situation was not right, and immediately started sorting out the pirated cassettes in their respective stalls.

Because of the existence of Dongfang Group, Hong Kong has become a world-renowned mecca for the game industry. The pirated trade in the area around Apliu Street has not only attracted game lovers in Hong Kong, but also has a tendency to develop into an Asian distribution center. Many merchants from Southeast Asia, South Asia, and even Eastern Europe have come here to find low-cost game cartridges.

Although the main market of Dongfang Game Company has always been North America, Western Europe, Japan and other developed countries. Intellectual property protection in these areas is generally relatively complete, and there is no basis for piracy to survive.

However, after years of hard work, the company has established a relatively complete distribution network in these major markets. The next step in the development of Dongfang Group will be the second-tier market that has been neglected before. In these areas, the Oriental Group is bound to start a hand-to-hand battle with piracy. Therefore, destroying the distribution network of pirated copies is a very important step in this tough battle! (To be continued..)