Chapter 303: Computer Games
"Boss, congratulations!" said Ke Lilun smiled at Li Xuan.
"Bring me the newspaper, what's going on today, why do you look at me weirdly?" Li Xuan said with some inexplicability. Along the way to the company, several bold employees have congratulated him.
Li Xuan has not made any big moves recently, and the only happy event worth celebrating is that yesterday Oriental Technology Holdings and Hongkong Land formally reached an agreement to acquire 34.9% of Hongkong Telephone Company's shares held by Hongkong Land for HK$1.8 billion.
However, Li Dongfang Group's acquisition in Hong Kong is not the first time, and the previous acquisitions of Jiahua Bank and Hengrong Bank have not attracted so much attention!
Li Xuan took a copy of the "Oriental Daily" handed over by Ke Lilun, and the headline was impressively "'God of Wealth' Li Successfully Created Profit, Hong Kong Dialect Stocks Soared by More Than Two Layers". In fact, as early as after the Oriental Group began to negotiate with Hongkong Land for the acquisition, there began to be gossip in the market, and the stock price of Hong Kong TV also stopped falling and rebounded.
Li Xuan even suspected that the news on the market was the rumor that Hongkong Land had deliberately released it. After all, the higher the market value of the Hong Kong company, the more confident they are to sell it to the Oriental company at a high price.
After many rounds of tug-of-war, the two sides finally closed the deal at a price of HK$1.8 billion. Yesterday morning, representatives of the two companies held a press conference after signing the transfer agreement. Since noon, the stock prices of Hong Kong phone companies in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange market have skyrocketed.
Hong Kong's stock market has been in the dark for several consecutive trading days due to the continued lack of progress in the new round of negotiations concluded by the Chinese and British delegations a few days ago. Stimulated yesterday by the news of the acquisition of Hong Kong Telephone Company by the Oriental Group, the technology and electronics sectors of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange rebounded across the board. Even the broader market successfully stopped falling and rose before the market closed in the afternoon.
In the final analysis, the stock market is a confidence market, and Li Xuan made a move to buy the Hong Kong Telephone Company, which has a market value of more than 5 billion Hong Kong dollars. It has undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm into the declining Hong Kong stock market. In the eyes of the market, the world's richest man must be optimistic about Hong Kong's prospects in the future. Therefore, I took advantage of the opportunity of the Hong Kong stock market to fall to the trough and buy the Hong Kong phone company.
Otherwise, why would Li Xuan come to troubled waters at this time, you must know that many British-funded companies have begun to pessim the future of Hong Kong and are preparing to move their company registration out of Hong Kong. And 1.8 billion Hong Kong dollars is definitely not a small amount, even if the exchange rate of the Hong Kong dollar against the US dollar has fallen below 1 to 7, it is still a huge amount of nearly 250 million US dollars.
Li Xuan quickly scanned the entire report, and the first half of the story was about the acquisition of Hong Kong Telephone Company by the Oriental Group, which led to the rise of the Hong Kong stock market. And the second half of the report suddenly changed the tone and broke a heavy news. "God of Wealth Lee" created man successfully. There are successors to the 50 billion family fortune. The two news happened on the same day, and the reporter of the "Oriental Daily" laughed and said that this is the "God of Wealth" after the child got the good news, and specially gave Hong Kong shareholders a big payout seal, so that everyone is also sticky and happy!
And the news of Zhong Chuhong's pregnancy was exposed to none other than the boss of the Family Carnival Film Company, Li Xuan's eldest brother Li Ke. Yesterday, Li Ke attended the launch conference of a new film of his film company. When asked by a reporter when he, the fifth diamond king, was going to get married, Li Ke casually said that he was not in a hurry. Anyway, his younger brother already has children, and he doesn't need to rush to inherit the family lineage.
As a result, the news quickly appeared on the front pages of various Hong Kong newspapers today. After Zhong Chuhong became pregnant, Li Xuan did not publicize it to the outside world except for informing his family. Now because of his eldest brother's leaky words. Still made the news all over the city.
"Just now, President Wei of "Tiantian Daily" specially called, and he said boss, if you have this kind of exclusive news in the future, you must take care of your own newspaper first!" said Ke Lilun in the tone of President Wei on the phone just now.
Li Xuan smiled and shook his head. Gently put the newspaper down, turned and walked into the office. Then he immediately grabbed the phone and called Zhong Chuhong.
"Well, I just read the newspaper. Already knows. I don't have any reporters here, it seems that they are all running to block you, the new mother! If you really can't get rid of these flies, just rest for a few days and give yourself a vacation!" Li Xuan said affectionately into the microphone.
Although she was already pregnant with a child, Li Xuan did not build yƬ and his wife immediately put down the work at hand. As a result, Zhong Chuhong just arrived at the TV building of the ATV Group today, and was blocked by a group of reporters waiting in advance.
Although there was such a small episode, Li Xuan's mood was not affected. After becoming a father for the first time, Li Xuan's work status has become high-spirited and positive again. For a period of time before, even he felt a little decadent.
Having made enough money, his social status and fame have also been gained, the red flag at home is not down, and the colorful flags can still flutter outside, Li Xuan has a sense of confusion about losing his goal in life.
"Help me call Fat Du over!" Li Xuan made an internal phone call and instructed Ke Lilun outside the office.
After about ten minutes, Du Wenqiang trotted all the way into Li Xuan's office. In fact, it is no longer appropriate to call Du Wenqiang a fat man, since he had the nourishment of love two years ago, he began to lose weight under the urging of his wife, and now he has become a man.
"Mr. Li, are you looking for me?" asked Du Wenqiang.
Li Xuan motioned for him to sit down first: "How is the development of "The King of Fighters", why hasn't it been listed yet, it won't be another bounce, right?"
"Hehe, I have already warned Meng Shouzhi that they are not allowed to drag it out any longer!" Du Wenqiang said with some embarrassment.
Li Xuan couldn't help but have the image of a literary man with long hair fluttering in his mind, the last time he went to the game company, the "King of Fighters" project team had already made a prototype, but half a year has passed in a blink of an eye, and the game has not yet been listed. If you work at another company, half a year is enough time to develop a new game from scratch.
Li Xuan felt that Oriental Game Company was becoming more and more on par with Blizzard in another time and space, and he jumped tickets at every turn. Although the quality of the game is life, the efficiency of such a procrastination is by no means a normal state.
"I don't want to hear any reason, "The King of Fighters" must be released in quality and quantity before June! If Meng Shouzhi and his development team can't meet my requirements, you sue him, and "The King of Fighters" sales bonuses don't want it!"
Li Xuan said sternly, "Also, after you go back, you will convene a meeting of the various project team leaders, and have a good meeting to review it! Before submitting the game for filing in the future, you must fully consider it and formulate a detailed development schedule." This should also be included in the key indicators for reviewing game scripts. If a project developer can't even control the progress of the game he wants to develop, how can the company believe that he has the ability to succeed!"
Du Wenqiang nodded a little sneeringly. Oriental Game Company has been very successful in recent years, and has almost swept the world in various fields such as arcades, handheld consoles, and home game consoles. This also breeds a kind of blind pride within the company, thinking that Lao Tzu is invincible in the world.
Many people are bewildered by the company's current thriving scene, lying on the credit book of the past, and begin to slack off and not want to make progress. The non-stop bouncing of "The King of Fighters" is not so much that the development team wants to keep improving, but rather that everyone begins to slack off after losing their sense of crisis. Even Du Wenqiang, the president of the company, is no exception, in the past two years, he has not had any outstanding appearance!
"What are your plans for the company's next development?" Li Xuan asked bluntly.
Faced with the boss's sudden attack, Du Wenqiang was a little overwhelmed. He saw Li Xuan's face gradually turn gloomy, and a few traces of cold sweat began to break out on his forehead, and he quickly turned his brain to think.
Before Du Wenqiang could organize the language, Li Xuan threw over a copy of the text and motioned for him to hurry up and take a look. Du Wenqiang hurriedly browsed quickly. This is a beta article about a game called Wizardry.
"Wizardry" is translated into Chinese as "Witchcraft", and Du Wenqiang has some impressions of this. This is a computer RPG (role-playing) game developed by an American game company in 1981. When the game was released, the platform chosen for distribution was the ABC series of computers.
When this game was first launched, Du Wenqiang also specially bought a copy of the game and installed it on his computer to try it out a few times. But in his opinion, this game has a weak plot and poor graphics, and it is not as fun as games such as "Tank Wars" and "Mario Bros.", which were transcribed from arcade machines to computer games, so Du Wenqiang did not take it to heart.
"Mr. Li, I played this game at the time, and it was not very good in terms of graphics or plot!" Du Wenqiang said honestly.
"Genesis", "Witchcraft", and "Might and Magic" are known as the three most classic RPG games in Europe and the United States in the early days. They defined elements such as dungeon exploration, first-person perspective, and open-ended, which influenced later RPG games for decades and became the traditional style of RPGs in Europe and the United States.
Due to the lack of formal agents, the first two were not well-known among domestic players in later generations. However, the 6th and 7th generations, the most classic of the "Might and Magic" series, have been introduced into China for Chinese distribution and have won countless fans. The turn-based strategy game "Heroes of Invincible" series derived from "Might and Magic" was once all the rage in China.
But both "Genesis" and "Witchcraft", like all current computer games, are constrained by the lack of computer configuration, and the graphics are rough and backward. The so-called role-playing does not have the grand and exquisite game graphics of later RPGs. When fighting monsters, it is actually the head picture of the player's control character displayed on the computer screen, and then the number of attributes, equipment, and skill information in the right rows are displayed.
The player enters a special command to attack, and there will be a text on the side showing the result of the attack. In Witchcraft, for example, if the player chooses the mage class, the player will need to enter the name of the magic on the keyboard for each magic attack. For example, "Ice Arrow", "Fireball", etc., this method has been kept until "Witchcraft 5".
"I'm not asking you about the shortcomings of computer games, but about what their advantages are, now give you a day to go back and analyze and think, and give me a satisfactory answer tomorrow!"
Li Xuan waved his hand and signaled that Du Wenqiang could go. (To be continued......)