Gu Jinhong's first order in the Oriental Group was not from Oriental Game Company, but from his old employer, Oriental System Software Company. Not long ago, the alliance formed by Oriental System Software and Aikang Computer Company successfully won the contract for the computerization upgrade of the Singapore Stock Exchange.

In the 80s, stock exchanges around the world continued to trade through open outcry, recorded telephone calls and hand-filled orders. In the face of the global wave of computerized office era, the Singapore Stock Exchange was the first to take a step forward in reform, becoming the first stock exchange in the world to decide to adopt computerized trading.

Under the tender contract, iKang will provide a full suite of computer hardware equipment and networking services, while Oriental Systems Software will develop a computerized automated counterparty and transaction system for the Singapore Stock Exchange to replace the current inefficient manual trading methods.

The development cycle of this computer trading system was two years, and Oriental System Software needed to complete the entire development work and come up with a mature product by December 1987. After the spin-off of Dongfang Software Company, the newly established Dongfang System Software Company mainly engaged in the development of system software and compiled language tools.

The best-selling product of Oriental System Software is the East-DOS operating system. In 1984, the total annual sales of the entire series of versions of the East-DOS system exceeded 10 million copies for the first time, accounting for more than 85% of the entire operating system market share, bringing the company hundreds of millions of dollars in profits.

Therefore, the core business of Dongfang System Software Company is naturally the follow-up development of the East-DOS system, as well as the development project of a new generation of graphics operating system that has just been launched not long ago. It participated in the tender for the computerisation upgrade project of the Singapore Stock Exchange. More at the invitation of Aikang.

The alliance of Oriental Research Institute, Oriental System Software Company, and Aikang Computer has firmly controlled the development direction of the personal computer industry. Even a computer giant like IBM can't shake it in the slightest.

Of course, the Singapore Stock Exchange has this automated trading system. The development cost itself is as high as 8 million US dollars, and it is also an exceptionally delicious dessert for Dongfang System Software. And once the system works well on the Singapore Stock Exchange, Orient Systems Software can sell it to other exchanges around the world.

In fact, Li Xuan had proposed as early as last year that the Oriental Group would develop a computerized trading system for the merged Hong Kong Stock Exchange. However, Li Fuzhao, chairman of the Far Eastern Exchange, one of the largest entities of the merger, reacted relatively coldly, so Li Xuan's proposal was finally shelved and was over. Now the more enterprising Singapore Stock Exchange has come out on top.

But because Vostok Systems Software has recently launched work on a next-generation graphics operating system, it will be the most important cornerstone for the company to continue to dominate the operating system market for decades to come. Therefore, Dongfang System Software Company transferred a large number of elite soldiers to the new project team, and the personnel were a little tight for a while.

The SGX has a two-year performance period for the project. In fact, the time for large-scale development is estimated to be only one and a half years or even less, and the rest of the time will be used for later operation and debugging. Therefore, if there is a large-scale recruitment for this new project, once the project is completed after more than a year, the follow-up arrangement of this batch of new employees will be a troublesome matter.

And Gu Jinhong, who suddenly appeared at this time, perfectly solved the problem of Dongfang System Software Company. Recruiting new people in the name of an outsourcing company, even if layoffs are required after the completion of the project, has no relationship with Oriental System Software.

So, a month after Gu Jinhong and Li Xuan met by chance in a café. Hongtu Technology Co., Ltd., which he founded, reached a labor dispatch agreement with Dongfang System Software Co., Ltd. The first batch of employees dispatched by Hongtu Technology Company to work in Dongfang System Software Company reached 50 people, all of whom had just been recruited from the talent market.

Although these people have signed a labor contract with Hongtu Technology Company, they are based on the agreement it reached with Dongfang System Software Company. After these employees joined Oriental System Software, they were under the sole responsibility of Oriental System Software until they were returned.

Even the recruiters at the time of the interviews for these new hires. In fact, it was also sent by Dongfang System Software Company. Although Gu Jinhong's company has swelled to more than 50 people in name, in fact, only he and the little girl at the front desk who are responsible for answering the phone and sending and receiving letters are the only people who really work in the company.

Although the company looks the same as when it was first founded. But Gu Jinhong's treatment in the venture capital market has been very different. As soon as he signed a cooperation agreement with Dongfang System Software Company, several well-informed venture capital companies immediately approached him. He wants to inject capital into his company.

"Manager Li, thank you very much for your appreciation of United Capital, but I think Hongtu Technology has not yet shown its due value! In fact, after reaching a cooperation agreement with Dongfang System Software Company, the company's recent development is not short of funds! So I prefer to wait for Hongtu Technology to further grow, and then talk to investors about financing!" Gu Jinhong took a sip of coffee and said slowly.

The man sitting across from Gu Jinhong was the vice president of a venture capital firm called United Capital. And the place where the two talked was the café where Gu Jinhong and Li Xuan met by chance. It's just that Gu Jinhong didn't choose a private seat in the outside hall this time, but specially booked a small box.

In just one month, his treatment has undergone earth-shaking changes, from being unpopular at the beginning, to becoming the current fragrant bun. This manager Li is already the fifth group of investors he interviewed who are interested in injecting capital into his company within three days.

"Mr. Gu, we United Capital sincerely want to help the next development of Hongtu Technology. 1 million Hong Kong dollars in exchange for 20% of the equity of Hongtu Technology, this is already the biggest bottom line I can give! And we can guarantee that we will not interfere in the company's decision-making in the future, and only be a simple financial investor!" This Manager Li stared at Gu Jinhong's eyes, gritted his teeth and gave the final offer.

"Manager Li. To be honest, I'm not ready to sell my shares, but I know your sincerity! You give me a few days to think, and I'll give you a final answer after three days. Gu Jinhong still didn't let go.

The labor dispatch cooperation agreement signed between Dongfang System Software and Hongtu Technology. It is equivalent to endorsing Gu Jinhong, so that the value of his leather bag company in the risk capital is seriously doubled. In fact, the financial situation of Hongtu Technology Company is far from as good as Gu Jinhong said, and the first labor fee of Dongfang Software Company will not be credited to Hongtu Technology's account until next month, and Gu Jinhong has little cash left.

But when negotiating with venture capital, he still has to pretend to be very reluctant to be as high as possible. The conditions given by United Capital for financing 1 million Hong Kong dollars in exchange for 20% of the equity of the new company are already very generous.

The total amount of money Gu Jinhong invested in the new company is less than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars, which means that his worth has increased 20 times in just over a month. Of course. Unless you wait until the company is acquired or goes public, this valuation doesn't make much sense.

The manager Li of United Capital failed to get a satisfactory answer to him, so he had no choice but to leave. Another lucky boy who took shit luck, this is his evaluation of Gu Jinhong before he left the café, and this evaluation is actually not wrong at all.

For Gu Jinhong, the biggest opportunity brought to him by meeting Li Xuan was to give him a chance to be treated cautiously by the bigwigs of the Eastern Bloc. Otherwise, even if Dongfang System Software Company is short of people, it will only choose to recruit on its own in the end, and will not try the current labor dispatch employment method proposed by him.

Of course. Now this labor dispatch model is just an expedient measure for Gu Jinhong and his Hongtu Technology. His current cooperation with Oriental System Software is more like turning his company into a nominal leather bag company. Gu Jinhong and the first batch of 50 software engineers recruited by the company, the only intersection is to pay them in the salary card.

This is by no means what Gu Jinhong wants. What he really wants is to gradually accumulate his own technology by taking over the software outsourcing projects of large companies, and finally grow into a large software company with independent development capabilities.

Of course. This is by no means an easy goal to achieve, after all, no company will leave the core technology to outsiders. But Gu Jinhong has now at least taken the first step towards his goal. And he is ready to use the power of venture capital to really build the skeleton of his company.

And in addition to the Oriental System Software Company that accidentally came out of nowhere. Gu Jinhong has actually never given up keeping in touch with Oriental Game Company. The new game established by Oriental Game Company is likely to become the first technology outsourcing project that Hongtu Technology really takes over.

The global game industry has long been unrecognizable because of the emergence of the butterfly of Oriental Game Company. For example, Nintendo, which was supposed to embark on its own road to hegemony, was already out of the crowd after Li Xuan robbed "Mario Brothers", grabbed the FC game console, and robbed Shigeru Miyamoto and Junhei Yokoi.

The same is true in the emerging computer game market, where the graphics of the entire 80s were very poor. Mario Bros. was the first to achieve smooth side-scrolling gameplay on a computer, and it wasn't until 1990 that Mario Bros. was implemented.

And now, thanks to the emergence of Oriental Game Company, as early as 1982, the computer game copy of "Mario Bros. " was popular in computer stores and game stores all over the world.

There is a famous company in the history of computer games called ID Company. Its two founders, Carmack and Romero, are both well-known tech freaks in the history of computer games. In another time and space, it was the two of them who ported the game "Mario Bros." to the computer, but it failed to attract the attention of Nintendo.

Later, they simply started their own game development company called ID, and then completed another important innovation in the history of computer games, making the first game engine.

A game engine is a master program in a game that controls all the features. In the early days of game development, every game had to be coded from scratch. Slowly, some developers began to figure out some patterns, such as that some of the same code always appeared in different games.

And every game wastes a lot of manpower and material resources in order to write these repetitive codes. If these duplications of work can be avoided, it can undoubtedly greatly reduce the development cost of the game and shorten the development cycle of the game. This common code was put together by game programmers to form the prototype of an early game engine.

Before Li Xuan's rebirth, the capacity of a computer game had grown from tens of kilobytes and tens of millibytes a few decades ago to several gigabytes in size. The game engine has evolved into a huge program system that includes a rendering engine, a physics engine, a collision detection system, a sound effects, a scripting engine, computer animation, artificial intelligence, a web engine, and scene management.

But now in 1985, the future "fathers of game engines" Carmack and Romero are just new to computers. Through a series of previous accumulations, Oriental Games is finally ready to develop a powerful game engine for new games.

The development of software and hardware actually complements each other, and the reason why Oriental Games decided to develop a game engine is because Oriental Research Institute has just developed a powerful new graphics card. The biggest function of a game engine is to render the game, that is, to present the player with a realistic game quality, and the graphics card is the physical basis for all this.

In the newly established project team of Oriental Games, most of the engineers should focus on the development of game engines. According to the original plan of Oriental Games, the first step was to develop the game engine.

This is the key to the success or failure of a new game, and naturally outsiders will not be allowed to participate. So even if Li Xuan called Du Wenqiang, he did not allow Gu Jinhong to participate in the new game project, but instead introduced Gu Jinhong to Dongfang System Software Company.

But after the development of the game engine is completed, whether it is necessary to grasp all the follow-up game filling work in his hands requires Du Wenqiang to rethink, and Gu Jinhong is aiming at this opportunity. (To be continued......)