Years later, when you open the newspapers and magazines of 2001, you will notice 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 "digitalization" suddenly appeared.

For example, the May issue of China Business Circle has a total of 48 articles, 15 of which contain the keyword "digitalization" in the title, and several articles related to "digitalization".

It's a business magazine, so why is it like an IT magazine?

If you look closely at the content of these articles, some discuss digital home appliances, some discuss digital homes, and some discuss digital entertainment. There is even an article called "Wear Digital", hehe, even clothing is going to enter the digital age!

In the months since, China has been "digitalised" in every way.

The slogan of "building a digital Beijing" was directly shouted in Beijing, the cultural department was building a "digital library", the education department held a "digital education forum", and even these papers emerged: "Characteristics and Development Ideas of the Digital Construction of Local Chronicle Database", "Collation, Research and Digitization of Chinese Genealogical Data", "Digital Agriculture Construction and the Leapfrog Development of China's Agriculture", ......

Anything can be related to digitalization, and China seems to have entered the era of science fiction in an instant.

There are probably a few main reasons for this:

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

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

Third, governments 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 authorities have successively promulgated eight laws and regulations on computers and the Internet, and several more will be promulgated in the next six months. The year 2001 can be called the first year of China's computer Internet legal system, and all the legal tone was set at this time, and the following ten years were just tinkering.

In late May, Song Weiyang was invited to Beijing to attend the inaugural meeting of the Internet Society of China.

This association has a certain official nature, the highest guiding body is the Ministry of Information Industry, co-sponsored by more than 70 enterprises from all over the country, members include network operators, service providers, equipment manufacturers, integrated circuit vendors, scientific research and educational institutions, etc.

After the general election, Song Weiyang was successfully elected as the executive director of the Internet Society. This is a position with no real power but no loss of identity, and there is still a certain right to speak at critical moments, and many CEOs of large enterprises have become executive directors. As for the positions of chairman, vice chairman, and secretary general, they were all given to government officials or senior academicians, and Mr. Liu of Lenovo was not eligible to be elected.

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

Yes, the ubiquitous "digitalization" in newspapers and magazines was triggered by this forum.

In fact, the "Digital China Forum" has been held twice, but both of them are petty fights. This year's specifications have suddenly been raised to the top, the organizers are the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the State Information Center, the National Economic Confidence Center, the China International Electronic Commerce Center, and the organizers are also a lot, and they will be held in more than 10 cities such as Beijing, Shenghai, Rongcheng, Huadu, Gangcheng, and Wanwan.

Wherever the forum is held, the media will focus on it. Because China's top media groups are all the organizers of this forum, their propaganda can be described as carpet bombing.

Song Weiyang didn't go to join in the fun, and gave the opportunity to be in the limelight to the CEOs of several companies he invested, Ma Xiaoyun, Xiao Ma Ge, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Sanshi, Ding Ming and others all had to participate.

But Xikang Province really couldn't shirk it, and the secretary of the provincial leader called in person and asked Song Weiyang to go to Rongcheng Station, where he participated in the forum. Even not only in Xikang Province, but also in the entire western region, the "Digital China Rongcheng Forum" was directly characterized as a sub-venue of the "China Western Development Commodity Expo and International Economic and Trade Fair".

The secretary conveyed the opinions of the big leaders on the phone: "Mr. Song, you are the only industry leader in the province in the field of computers and the Internet, and you are a banner for the digital development of Xikang Province. You must be present in person to show the style of the digital construction of China's western development, and show the spirit of the western region in line with digital and international standards......"

It's all said and done, can Song Weiyang not go?

Some of the vacant buildings in the Western Science and Technology Park are now finally having a place to use.

The main venue is located in a large factory building in the park, which used to be the exhibition area of the software park, and the decoration style of the walls, floors and ceilings is very modern. In the past, when leaders and reporters came here to inspect and interview, they would see neat computers, countless college students who were extras, and a large number of machines and equipment that made people unaware of it.

Since Song Weiyang took over, computers have been moved to office buildings, and machines and equipment have been disposed of as garbage - all obsolete things.

Buses pull people from the city to the Western Science and Technology Park, and before the forum officially begins, the enterprises in the park become tourist attractions.

This was discussed by Song Weiyang with the province and the city, and the leaders wanted to show the meteorology of the science and technology park to prove that they had done a good job in this national torch plan base. Song Weiyang took the opportunity to promote his Western Science and Technology Park, hoping to pull more companies to settle here, even if it only has offices and R&D centers, and now there are still three office buildings (6 floors high) empty.

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

"Yes. The staff smiled.

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

The staff said, "There are about 60 full-time employees, and about one or two hundred interns. ”

Brother Xiao Ma was surprised: "There are one or two hundred interns?"

"These interns have at least a bachelor's degree, but they are not up to the job at hand," the staff said. Take the art intern as an example, the company hired a game concept artist with a high salary to conduct a three-month teaching practice. A total of six overseas famous teachers from various departments were hired, and more than $1 million was spent on the money for these teachers alone. Mr. Song, our chairman, said to the interns a month ago: You have to study hard, even if you can't stay in Excalibur in the future, you will be rushed by other online game companies. After three years, as long as you don't learn to be in the belly of a dog, and your monthly salary is less than 10,000 yuan, you come to me, and I will make up for it for you out of my own pocket. ”

"Hahaha, Boss Song is really rich. A telecom operator boss next to him laughed.

Ding Sanshi and Xiao Ma glanced at each other, and they both saw the horror in each other's eyes. It's just an online game company, and it costs more than $1 million to ask a teacher to give a lecture to an intern, which is unimaginable for them.

In fact, these industry bigwigs invited from abroad will also participate in guiding specific work in addition to teaching, otherwise how could they spend so much money?

A large group of people quickly wandered to the second floor, and when they passed a conference room, the staff said, "There is a meeting inside, and we can't visit it for the time being." ”

One boss didn't care about his own image, looked through the crack in the door, and was surprised: "Why are there still a few old men inside? Isn't it a young man's business to play online games?"

The staff smiled and said: "Of the five old gentlemen inside, two of them are on special national allowances, and the other three are also at the professor level. They are all senior experts and scholars, who are hired to serve as project consultants and come to the company once a month for a seminar. ”

"What project?" Ding Sanshi couldn't help but ask.

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

The bigwigs who came to visit have been aroused, and a company CEO said: "Reveal a little more." ”

The staff said: "We are developing an online game, with historical themes, and 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 to make a game, it's not so strict to make movies." ”

"This game has to cost a lot of money, right?" asked Pony.

The staff said: "The chairman said that it will take a few years to do a good job in this game and spend hundreds of millions." ”

Everyone looked at each other, shocked, and felt that Song Weiyang was crazy.

What is not good to do with hundreds of millions, you have to use it to make games, and the scale of the entire Chinese online game market has not reached 100 million at this time.

Hell if you can pay for it!

"It's so expensive to develop a game?" muttered Ding Sanshi, who had already decided to make an online game, but now he was a little apprehensive.

The news quickly spread to the media, and before the two-day forum ended, countless reporters took the time to inquire about it, and then quickly spread the news throughout the country.

Because I really can't ask the specific content, and even the R&D funding is very general. The reporters then privately unified their voices to publicize that Song Weiyang would spend five years and 500 million yuan to invite top experts at home and abroad to create an unprecedented historical game.

After continuous investigation, an intern finally accidentally "leaked his mouth" and confirmed that this game was related to "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", so the report became a "large-scale ancient mythology-themed game".

Public opinion across the country has caused a sensation, some people think that Song Weiyang's playthings are demoralized and he can't digest too much money; some people think that this is fake news and belongs to Song Weiyang's means of promoting the game; and countless game lovers have gone to the forum to post and discuss, and this discussion has become more and more popular with the serialization of "Sou Shen Ji".

Yes, Hu Geng began to write.

This person is a fast gunner, while participating in game planning, while creating the network, the number of daily updates can reach more than 8,000 words.

Hu Gengzai directly noted in the "wedge": "This book, also known as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Sou Shen Ji", was originally a game planning project, and the creation and game development were carried out at the same time. I am currently the main creator of the story of the Shanhaijing project team of Shenjian Network Technology Company, and after the game is launched, please support you!"

It only took one year to complete the creation, and the manuscript fee after publication was countless times higher than Hu Geng's salary in Shenjian.

Whether it is a die-hard reader or a game lover, they all have infinite expectations for "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".

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 the development of the game has been terminated. Whenever this kind of rumor is rampant, one or two pictures will suddenly burst out, either game screenshots, or original character paintings, and the expectations will be filled immediately.

In the past few years, China's online game industry has prospered, and major game companies have made a lot of money. But the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which only shows a scaly horn, has become a boulder hanging over the heads of industry bigwigs, and no one knows when the stone will fall.

Song Weiyang has been sharpening a sword for several years, and the game that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make, which game company dares to underestimate it?

Whether it is the later post bar or the 17173 game website, there is an exclusive page for "The Classic of Mountains and Seas". Every time a relevant picture or ambiguous inside information is exposed, it will trigger thousands of onlookers and discussions. Until the open internal test of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", due to the scarcity of quantity, an invitation code was fired at a sky-high price of several thousand yuan.

Propaganda, monkey play, Song Weiyang is very proficient.

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