January 3, 1978

"Dazhi, give me a little more game currency!" Xu Yaxin shouted while playing the arcade machine in front of her, regardless of the occasion.

"Do you just look at the occasion, you want to call brother," Xu Zhi replied with a dark face.

Xu Yaxin didn't care about anything else, and shouted: "It's too fast now, I can't play anymore." ”

"Ah, hang ......"

Xu Zhi walked over directly and turned off the power.

Xu Yaxin hurriedly said, "What are you doing?"

Xu Zhi smiled: "You have been playing for more than 2 hours, take a break, you are not allowed to play again today." ”

Of course, Xu Yaxin disagreed, and said, "This is so fun, let me play for a while?"

Xu Zhi shook his head and said: "After sitting for a long time, it is easy to herniate in the waist disc, and it is easy to be myopic after watching for a long time, you should play again tomorrow, how about it, is there anything you feel uncomfortable about?"

Xu Yaxin thought for a while and said, "Every time you die, you have to start over, it's so tiring!"

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "That's a good question, okay, that's all for today, our arcade is about to be released, and you will be able to see it in many places in the future." ”

At this time, arcade games are still in the embryonic state, and they are not a mainstream industry in Europe and the United States, let alone a city like Xiangjiang, there is no special game hall at all, even if Xu Zhi invests in it, there are too few arcade varieties to become a climate.

Xu Yaxin asked, "When will it be officially released?" Can you send me one?"

Xu Zhi said with a smile: "We will not start in Xiangjiang, the factory price of this machine is 1,800 US dollars, do you have this money?"

Xu Yaxin exclaimed: "So expensive?"

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Of course, this is a high-tech product." ”

In fact, the main cost of the arcade machine is the display and the motherboard, now because it has just started trial production, the display is purchased directly from the NEC dealer on the side of Xiangjiang, and Xiangjiang because there is no motherboard factory, so the motherboard is manually soldered, the scrap rate is high, and each motherboard has to go through a lot of testing, manual is nothing, the key is low efficiency, but also dragged down the output.

Xu Yaxin asked: "That's not the first in Xiangjiang, where are you going?"

Xu Zhidao: "The United States." ”

Xu Yaxin said: "Then are you going to the United States?"

Xu Zhi nodded and said, "Don't worry, I still have some things here, and I may not go until February or March." ”

Judging from the current per capita monthly income of two or three hundred wages in Xiangjiang, it is difficult to attract some merchants to buy arcade machines with a price of more than 10,000 yuan, even if it is some large supermarkets and shopping malls, and more importantly, going to the United States is not only for the market, but more importantly, arcades must find motherboard factories for large-scale production.

At present, RB and the United States are more mature in technology, but RB is a company in the form of a consortium, basically its own factories produce its own products, and few are willing to OEM other brands. And the United States is much better, now that RB's semiconductor industry is rising, American companies that have already fought a price war are losing a lot of money, and in a few years, bankruptcies abound.

Although the price in the United States will be expensive, but it is better to be stable, Xu Zhi is even more afraid that these RB consortiums will reveal their motherboards to those RB game companies, if they plagiarize it, this kind of lawsuit will not be solved in a few years, and it will be a long time ago.

And the United States is much better, and now there are no powerful game companies at all except Atari, and Atari is now transforming into a home console.

Relatively speaking, as long as it is not a national security concern, it is generally not unfair for foreign companies and domestic companies to sue in the United States.

Although the game has matured, now that funds are tight, there is no way to negotiate cooperation with the motherboard factory. Although the sales volume of the crane machine is okay, the price war has risen, and the profit is not too high, and the only thing that can be counted on is the Wharf stock.

It has been almost a month since Comrade Li absorbed Wharf stocks, even though his team's skills are high, but within a month he bought 10% of the shares in the stock market, the stock price has already soared, reaching 25 Hong Kong dollars, the market already knows that there are predators entering the market, more funds have been invested, and they have joined this Haitian feast.

Fortunately, Wharf is already a century-old enterprise, and the stock has already been dispersed, otherwise with a new company, this kind of acquisition would have cleared up the liquid stocks in the secondary market, and the stock price will turn even more.

Goldman Sachs called almost every day to ask if he wanted to sell the stocks in his hand, but Xu Zhi refused.

The highest point of Wharf stock in history reached 46 Hong Kong dollars, and Lao Li stopped buying it. Although the history is different now, Comrade Lao Li is judging what price is suitable for acquisition based on the actual value of the Wharf, and the value of the Wharf should exceed 5 billion Hong Kong dollars, and he will not stop until this position.

After sending Xu Yaxin away, Lin Siqi came over: "The first part of Lin Wenzhou's novel has come out, he sent it over, I just saw you with your family and didn't bother, he is in your office now." ”

"Okay. Xu Zhi nodded and walked to the office.

Seeing Xu Zhi coming in, Lin Wenzhou stood up and said with a smile: "Xu Sheng." ”

Xu Zhi beckoned, "Sit." ”

Lin Wenzhou handed over a notebook and said, "These are the three college students we are looking for, according to the outline you gave Xu Sheng, write a novel, how about you take a look?"

Xu Zhi opened it and looked at it for a while, and suddenly frowned, the words were written very well, and the sentences and words were used well, but it was awkward to read, it seemed that all the dialogues and plot introductions were not smooth, but if Xu Zhi was asked to change it, he didn't know how to change it.

This is the difference in pen power, even if it is a high-level student studying Chinese and has not written a novel, it is difficult to write it in place.

Seeing that Xu Zhi was not very satisfied, Lin Wenzhou said: "Actually, I also contacted several writers who have written novels, but they are not willing to write on their behalf, and I don't like them if they are average, so it has become like this now." ”

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Famous novelists are generally not willing to write on behalf of others, this is not a matter of money, they pay more attention to the so-called fame, and they will not write casually unless they have to, because once they write, they will be engraved with the brand of ghostwriting." ”

Lin Wenzhou said: "Yes, these people either offer sky-high prices, or they are unwilling to live or die, which is a headache." ”

Xu Zhi smiled: "If you don't want to, forget it, I'll go to see Kim Yong Kim later and see what he can do?"

Lin Wenzhou asked: "He may not be willing to help! And if he knows that we are going to make a free newspaper in the future, it is estimated that it will be ......."

Xu Zhi smiled: "He doesn't know now, I'm still honest, I signed a gentleman's agreement with him at the beginning, and the outline of the next novel will be given to him, although the liquidated damages are not much, but I always feel that it is not good, or give him a novel outline, let him toss it himself!"

Lin Wenzhou said: "Another novel?"

Xu Zhi nodded and said: "Yes, in fact, it is no worse than the first in the world and Kunlun, but I don't have time to write it, and if you want to write this novel, you need to check a lot of information, your future newspaper does not have this background at all, so it is a good choice to give Kim Yong Yong, anyway, it is just to give them the right to publish, and the other follow-up copyrights and interests are still ours, and by the way, he can also provide some people to write our first in the world." ”

Lin Wenzhou nodded and said, "That's okay, it's impossible for us to write so many novels at once." ”

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