Pidu, Hongguang Town.

Today is the day of the market, not only the streets are full of people, but even the teahouses are full.

The house where the teahouse is located has a typical southwestern residential style of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

The main body of the gate consists of four door panels, which are removed when the store is opened and installed when the store is closed. The number of door panels must not be much, and then there are six doors, in ancient times, only the government could have it, and the common people used it to be overdue. The roof is all black tiles, but there are two glass tiles that can let in light, which belongs to the modern simplified version - the ancient rich used transparent glazed tiles, and the ordinary people used a special structure to vacate a roof, which can not only let in light but will not leak through the wind and rain.

There are low wooden tables and chairs in the teahouse, which are bamboo recliners, which can be used to sit upright and drink tea, or half-lie down and nap to chat and watch plays.

Most of the customers are elderly people in the neighborhood, and each person has a gaiwan tea in front of them. There is no mahjong on the wooden table, which is dominated by traditional Chinese cards, and occasionally one or two tables are playing chess.

The tea is not expensive, and the inferior soil tea produced in the province costs 5 cents a bowl, and you can refill the cup indefinitely.

William Zhu held a bowl of tea in his hand, looked at the surrounding situation, and the scholar used the lid to pluck the tea leaves, and said with a smile: "This kind of teahouse is very interesting, it is the first time I have seen it." ”

Chen Tao said: "The southwest region is everywhere, but it is basically extinct in the cities, and only the towns and villages still remain. ”

"That's because you haven't been in contact with village and town life for a long time," Song Weiyang said with a smile, "I went back to my grandmother's house during the Spring Festival this year, and all the teahouses there were converted into chess and card rooms." In the past, a bowl of tea cost 3 cents, and mahjong cards were provided for free, but now the tea is sold for 5 cents a bowl, and the store has to pump water to play cards. ”

Chen Tao was a little surprised: "Really, prices are rising very quickly." ”

Song Weiyang said: "The main body of consumers has changed. Traditional teahouses are dominated by elderly customers, and chess and card rooms are dominated by young people, especially during the Chinese New Year, when young people who return to the village from work to gamble has become popular. The elderly play cards, a deck of cards can be used for more than half a year, and the cards are played out of the rough edge will not affect the use. Young people are much more sophisticated, especially Zakin Flowers, who have to get a new deck of poker almost every hour, mainly to prevent cheating. ”

"You really deserve to be in business, and even the teahouse and chess and card room have been studied clearly. William Chu laughed.

Since the establishment of Excalibur Network Technology Company, it needs a reliable helmsman.

Chi Yufeng is a very suitable candidate, after all, he can make the perfect time and space so big, but he is the CEO of an education group, and his net worth has exceeded 100 million, how can he run specifically to manage a game company?

So Song Weiyang found William Zhu, this guy likes to enjoy the process of starting a business, he gladly accepted the hire and left the banyan tree under the deputy to manage. In addition, Song Weiyang also asked three people from Sohu, Sogou and Jinshan to come over, who were responsible for operations, finance and technology, and the management framework of the online game company was set up.

For the past half month, William Zhu has been negotiating in South Korea.

AT FIRST, ACTOZ AND WEMADE OPENED THEIR MOUTHS FOR A $500,000 AGENCY FEE AND A 25% PROFIT SHARE. William Zhu was hard at work in South Korea, and even threatened to cancel the negotiations, and finally reduced the agency fee to $300,000 and the profit share to 15%.

Well, when the contract was signed, the name of Party B's company was "Huyou Entertainment", which was a leather bag company registered by Song Weiyang in Beijing, and it was expected to "go out of business" this summer due to unfavorable capital turnover.

William Zhu worried: "If we make a copycat game based on "The Legend of Mir", will we really not be accused of infringement?"

"Definitely," Song Weiyang laughed, "The question is how to define infringement, and when the Korean company made this game, it was deliberately imitating other games." After the game was brought back, didn't you listen to the programmers of Xishan Studio? Many of the source code of this broken game are generic, and a lot of copies and pastes other online game products. If we buy it and operate it directly, it will definitely be full of plug-ins, and junior high school students who are proficient in programming can easily write the plug-ins of this game. ”

William Zhu shook his head and smiled bitterly: "This game is also too bad, Xishan Studio has only been in internal testing for less than 10 days, and it has already encountered 3 small bugs, and 1 very serious big bug." ”

"It's normal," Mr. Song said, "that the Korean online game market is dominated by Lineage, and other games are squeezed half-dead, so they have to be forced to explore overseas markets to survive." Several games have sold well overseas, which has made those Korean companies red-eyed, and they can't wait to sell semi-finished products. ”

William Zhu suddenly changed the topic: "By the way, shouldn't the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" project be publicized in advance, after spending so much money, you can't just do things, right?"

"There is no rush for the time being. Song Weiyang said.

"I can't be sure about this project, the investment is too big, and the cycle is too long. William Zhu worried.

Song Weiyang smiled: "Just spend money to play tickets." ”

In order to expand the team size of Zulong Studio, Song Weiyang injected 10 million yuan in one go, and the shareholding ratio instantly increased to 76.66%, and Chi Yufeng and the founding team held 23.34% of the shares together. The other party did not feel any dissatisfaction, but was very happy about it - normal people would be happy. After all, they don't know the huge potential of the online game market now, let alone fight for a controlling stake, when Song Weiyang injected capital again, he still valued Zulong Studio at a premium of 5 million yuan, which means that everyone has more money on paper.

The most important thing is that Song Weiyang often throws 5 million or 10 million yuan, which proves that he is full of confidence in doing online games, which makes everyone feel like they are headed.

Now, even the interns in the company see their prospects as limitless.

Song Weiyang's funds and status are there, even if he doesn't do anything, it is equivalent to frantically providing team buffs.

Let's take an analogy, you join a new company that has just been established, and this company has Ma Xiaoyun throwing unlimited money behind it. What do you think? You must be full of confidence and hard work, because you have a great chance to become the veteran of a big company in the future!

Song Weiyang's madness is not only manifested in the expansion of 80 new employees in one go, but he even invited experts such as Gai Shanlin and Weng Yintao to serve as cultural and artistic consultants for the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" project.

Gai Shanlinai is a well-known archaeologist, historian, expert in ancient rock art, and expert in the study of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", and has been listed in the "Who's Who in the World" by many institutions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Six years ago, the American "World Journal" reported on the whole page for five consecutive days, listing all the achievements of Mr. Gai Shanlin, and he is still receiving a special allowance from the state.

Although Weng Yintao's academic achievements are not so outstanding, he is also an expert in the study of ancient Chinese mythology, Chu Ci, I Ching, pre-Qin philosophy, Tang and Song poetry, and has written many papers on witchcraft and mythology, and his research on the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" belongs to the expert level. He has also published a personal poetry collection, including more than 600 poems in the old style, and can also make guest appearances as a poetry and literary consultant for the game.

In addition to these two, Song Weiyang also invited experts in the study of ancient Chinese folklore, and he had to strive for excellence in all aspects anyway.

And the game music is even more outrageous, Song Weiyang directly invited Tan Dun, this gentleman just won the Oscar for Best Original Music, and the soundtrack of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was written by Tan Dun.

In order to invite these industry leaders, Song Weiyang spent 1.8 million yuan, and even used personal connections, otherwise some experts would not be able to move at all.

If such behavior spreads to the game industry, some people will definitely think that Song Weiyang is crazy.

After all, today's online games can't make a lot of money, and no matter how awesome foreign games are, the agency fee for introducing them to China will not exceed 500,000 US dollars. And in just two years, the agency fee will rise to tens of millions of dollars, and scum games will need to spend millions of dollars to get the agency.

People now only know that there is a rush to make online games, but they can't guess how terrible the profits are, after all, even 512K broadband has not yet been popularized at this time!

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