Mina is nominally only coming to Qiantang to handle business, so even if she has a clear relationship with the Gu family, she doesn't stay at the Gu family at night.

Instead, he went to live in Daguan Garden with Gu Biao, but he might eat with the Gu family during the day every day, just like relatives visiting the door.

After cooking the chores before the opening of Kentucky's hometown chicken, it was Chinese New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye. The Grand View Garden finally quieted down. Except for the maids and security guards hired by the Gu family, there were no outsiders.

Because just a few days ago, when Gu Biao and Mina just returned to Qiantang, the Grand View Garden was still very lively - the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions" officially started filming after the National Day last year, and it has been filming for four months.

Although this drama is only about 40 episodes long (this is because of the foreign capital of Monaco and the saving of the construction of the park, so it can shoot a few more episodes and delete some of the original scenes), but because of the fine shooting, it has only just been filmed for nearly half of the time.

At that time, Shaw Brothers' costume dramas were generally filmed in two or three days, and Wanwan's later idol dramas in the 90s were also at this speed. However, CCTV's "Dream of Red Mansions" can only shoot one episode in a week at the earliest, and it is estimated that it will not be completed until this summer vacation to enter post-production.

The crew was filmed until three days before Chinese New Year's Eve, and the actors and crew were allowed to return to their hometowns for the New Year, and work would resume before the Lantern Festival.

Before finishing work, Gu Biao and Mina lived in the Grand View Garden, and occasionally went to drink tea and chat with Ren Yuqin, Xiaoli and other hairpin actors, just like the quiet and warm in the old days, without any mustard.

When Ren Yuqin left, she originally wanted to buy a train ticket, but Gu Biao also sent a Mercedes-Benz to send her back with great concern.

"It's too much, isn't it specialized? The other actors in the crew will gossip when they know about it. Ren Yuqin politely refused at that time.

Gu Biao insisted at the time: "You are different from them, "Dream of Red Mansions" has not yet been filmed, but some advertising stills have flowed out, you and Xiaoli are public figures and will be recognized." Now it's safety and security first, you have to listen to me until the show is over. ”

"What about Xiaoli?" Ren Yuqin finally refused half a sentence on the spot.

Gu Biao declared domineeringly: "Can she shout for my brother-in-law in vain?" I will naturally book a plane ticket for her and send a car to escort her to the airport." ”

Ren Yuqin was speechless and was obediently arranged.

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After Ren Yuqin and Xiaoli left, Mina also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't feel awkward.

"What's so fun about the New Year? I haven't spent the New Year in Qiantang yet, it seems that the opening is going to the Lantern Festival, and it's weird to stay in the garden all the time before it's fine, and I don't know if it's going to be so cold in the next few days." On the day she saw off the other girls, on the way back, Mina jumped out of the box and asked a bunch of arrangements.

"Why don't we go to watch "The Terminator" and "First Blood" again?" Gu Biao replied after a moment's thought,

"Didn't these two films negotiate with China Film Import last year, and now the budget is finally in place and officially sold and released. Why don't you cheer it up, and see how well it hits the domestic box office?"

Gu Biao doesn't need to go into too much detail, because the sale of the two-year copyright of "Terminator" and "First Blood" in the mainland was originally handled by Mina when she was with him in September last year, and Mina knew the specific details.

It's nothing more than blowing up the original price of the movie slightly inflated, giving a 0.5% discount, and then finding a nominal advertising sponsor to pay for the patch, but in fact, China Film Import only spent $20,000 each to win it.

However, Mina didn't seem to be very interested in Gu Ao's suggestion, and she laughed at herself a little playfully: "It has nothing to do with you if the box office response is good, isn't this a buyout." However, since you want to brush it again, of course I'll accompany you. ”

Gu Biao persuaded in an encouraging tone: "Don't think so, although the box office has nothing to do with us, there are many people who can watch it, and the exposure rate of our patch advertisements is not also high." Each film only has a total of two minutes of advertising, and Red Bull Tiankun has half of each, which is also to help our new products gain popularity. ”

Mina pouted and retorted: "You don't let me promote Kentucky hometown chicken, all the resources are concentrated on Red Bull's new product Gatorade, I always feel that the benefit will not be maximized - advertising, saturated publicity, excessive marketing, the benefit of the unit advertising cost will be reduced, it is better to combine publicity."

As for the advertisement you left for your own Tiankun, I also think that you have not arranged it very properly -- isn't it very good that you directly promote the first generation of home game consoles, which are already very mature? Why do you have to advertise a new product, 'Tiankun Learning Machine', which is still in the research and development stage?"

It turned out that this involved a development plan of the Tiankun company arranged by Gu Biao after he went to the United States in September last year and dealt with the consulting work of the Plaza Agreement - on the basis of the Tiankun home game console, to develop a backward compatible upgraded version, the "learning machine".

It's just that this learning machine is actually a soup change without a change of medicine, and the difficulty of research and development is very low, from project approval to production, three or five months is enough, so there is no detail above.

As for the reason for getting a learning machine, later generations of Chinese must understand it, after all, the game is saddled with the crime of "plaything demoralization", and when the little overlord copied the mainland market of Nintendo, it was not the same in history.

Regarding this question, Gu Biao could only answer earnestly: "Mina, you don't understand, the game console may be very legitimate in the United States, but China has its own national conditions."

I also want to establish a responsible social image from the first day I enter the mainland market. Add a little typing game, English spelling bee and other functions to the game console, and add an external keyboard interface to focus on learning foreign languages and learning to type, which is a must. ”

Mina can't understand Gu Ao's concerns for the time being, because the business atmosphere in 86 is actually very relaxed, and Mina feels that Gu Biao is a little too forward-looking.

She couldn't help but retort: "I don't object to you if you think it's necessary, but before you only allowed us Red Bull Group to post Gatorade's advertisements on the movie, and didn't let me post Kentucky hometown chickens, the reason was that 'Kentucky hometown chickens won't be opened nationwide in a year or two, and outsiders can't eat them if they are advertised'."

But isn't your Tiankun game console still not developed yet? Not to mention that it has not been put into production, and you are now advertising in advance, and you are not afraid that a willing dealer will come to your door, but you have no goods to ship?"

Regarding this problem, Gu Biao patiently explained: "The problem of no goods will be solved soon, and the amount of research and development will not be large to change the game console into a learning machine, and it will be about the same in three months." The reason why it has not been put into production now is just a matter of cost, and I need to pull the first drop of blood for the first drop of blood order for Xiangji, which was put into production in March, and help Xiangjidian -

In March, Xiangji was about to start work, and the first order I won for it was the CPU that Motorola just launched last year, the second generation of the 68000 series, and the 6MHZ main frequency, which was used by Motorola against Intel's 80386 last year.

AND OUR OLD TIANKUN HOME GAME CONSOLE USES AN 82-YEAR VERSION OF THE MOTOROLA 68000 ORIGINAL CPU WITH A FREQUENCY OF 3MHZ. Now if you replace the original 3M with the second generation of 6M, the performance will be completely perfectly backward compatible, and when running old games developed 85 years ago, the hardware will turn off certain channels.

Therefore, I plan to deliver the first batch of 68000 CPUs to Hanle Electronics opened by Mr. Han in the Special Economic Zone on the other side of the river in March, and we will play the role of the whole upstream and downstream industry chain at the same time and process it into a 'Tiankun SC learning machine'. In this way, with the guarantee of order scale, we can have a better asking price with Motorola, and ensure that Motorola will continue to hand over the market demand of all 68000 series to us in the future.

According to the March start to deliver chips, learning machine production line test flow, leave an extra month and a half to run-in, I estimate that the first batch of learning machines can be listed before May Day this year - if a dealer really watched the "Terminator" movie commercial, in March or April to call to order, we can let them wait, or buy the previous generation of game consoles to make up the number and sell first, anyway, the first generation of consoles is still cheap - I just don't openly advertise the first generation of game consoles, it doesn't mean that I don't plan to sell this product, it's just a low-key sale. ”

Game consoles are still sold, because the potential consumers are not all student families, and there are many adults who are playing, they can be responsible for themselves, they know what they are doing, why not sell cheap pure game consoles?

Mina hadn't asked Gu Biao about this business before, but she only noticed this because Gu Biao was engaged in double standards and didn't let her advertise Kentucky's hometown chicken.

Now that she listened to Gu Ao's explanation, she didn't say anything.

Instead, she humbly asked Gu Biao to find out what the "learning machine" had changed from the original game console.

Gu Biao was idle on the way back from the airport, so he explained it to Mona.

In general, Tiankun's R&D department has only made a few modifications:

First of all, it is to upgrade the CPU of the game console, as well as the supporting circuitry. This has just been mentioned, so I won't repeat it. Gu Biao just emphasized that the new CPU only improves the performance such as the main frequency, but it is still an 8-bit machine. AT THE SAME TIME, BECAUSE OF MOORE'S LAW, THE PRICE OF THE CPU IS FALLING EVERY YEAR, SO THE NEW CPU OF THE 6MHZ VERSION IN 85 IS ONLY ABOUT 25% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THE 3MHZ PRICE IN 83.

As an aside, Motorola's 68000 series CPU, the R&D progress is basically the benchmark of Intel's 80X86 series, but the name of the Motorola series has not changed.

The 82-year version of the 68000 used by the original generation of Tiankun corresponds to the 80286 produced by Intel in 82, and the 85-year version of the 68000 used by the Tiankun learning machine is the 80386 produced by Intel in 85.

Historically, Motorola will come out in the future to the 88 version of 68000 with a frequency of 10MHZ, which corresponds to Intel's 486. This generation of Motorola CPUs also created the last glory of the Motorola series in history, which was carried forward by Sega's 16-bit game console MD.

There are also Sega arcade machines that run popular arcade games from the 88s to the early 90s, such as "Street Fighter" and "Samurai Shodown", which also use Motorola 68000 CPUs. AMONG THEM, THE PROTOTYPE OF THE ARCADE SIMULATOR THAT EVERYONE HAS PLAYED THE MOST ON THE COMPUTER IN LATER GENERATIONS IS EVEN EQUIPPED WITH TWO 10MHZ MOTOROLA 68000 CPU TO RUN, ON WHICH IT CAN RUN ALLOY SLUG AND BOXING CHAMPIONS SMOOTHLY.

Now in this time and space, Sega has been completely shattered by Gu Biao's confidence and withdrew from the home machine industry, so MD16-bit machines will definitely not appear, at most there will be a similar work of the Tiankun series, but Sega's 68000 ultimate version of the arcade machine, it is estimated that it will still appear.

It's a pity that the glory of the Motorola CPU in history ended in 1988 when it was the same futures of the generation that benchmarked Intel 486.

LATER, IN THE 90S, INTEL USED ITS STRATEGIC ALLIANCE WITH MICROSOFT AND IBM TO BEGIN TO GROW BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS, WHILE MOTOROLA HISTORICALLY ONLY BET ON AN APPLE MACINTOSH COMPUTER, AND APPLE MACINTOSH FAILED MISERABLY IN THE COMPETITION WITH MICROSOFT WINDOWS, AND MOTOROLA LOST THE FEEDBACK AND INCENTIVE TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THE NEXT GENERATION OF CPUS, AND IT COLLAPSED.

And 94 years ago, Motorola also bet on the wrong "Iridium" plan in its main business communication business, and was overtaken by Nokia, so it has completely collapsed since then.

However, at least until 1988, Gu Biao and Motorola have always maintained close strategic cooperation, which is still very promising. Gu Biao also decided that when the company launched the second-generation real game console two years later, it still had to stand firmly on the position of choosing Motorola's CPU. (The current learning machine cannot be regarded as a second-generation game console, but can only be regarded as a PRO or PLUS version of a first-generation game console)

As for whether to jump ship and find another ally after 88 years, it is another question.