Due to the appearance of Li Xuan's butterfly, the wave of the personal computer era came earlier and more violently than another time and space. According to Hong Kong's Hong Kong Economic Journal, the number of personal computers in Hong Kong has exceeded 200,000.

In particular, with the addition of a graphical interface mode to the new version of the East-DOS operating system that came along with the ABC-5 computer, the computer is no longer an unfathomable thing for ordinary people, but a fool's office tool.

Of course, the price of the ABC-5 is still slightly expensive for the average Hong Kong company, but the price of the low-end ABC-1 compatible machine has fallen below 4,000 Hong Kong dollars. In fact, the Aikang company, a subsidiary of the Eastern Group, has long since terminated the production of ABC-1 and ABC-2 computers.

However, compatible machines of these two models have sprung up all over the world, such as three or four Hong Kong brands. These low-end computers still account for a large share of the total PC sales, playing a crucial role in the global spread of the computer wave.

At present, in the recruitment of clerks in Hong Kong, being able to use computers proficiently has become a new requirement for many companies to recruit people. More and more parents have begun to guide their children to participate in various computer interest classes from an early age. Even the Education Department of Hong Kong is stepping up the formulation of a new education reform plan to include computer courses in primary and secondary education.

Compared with the personal computers that are gradually entering the homes of ordinary people, most Hong Kong people are still very unfamiliar with the Internet. The world's first Internet was the ARPANET, which was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense in the late sixties.

Later, with the increasing number of ARPANET users. In the early eighties, the U.S.-military separated the ARPANET into two parts, military and civilian, for the sake of secrecy. Among them, the main users of the civilian part are scientific research institutions and universities, and Li Xuan was also a few years ago. Funded the establishment of a new ARPANET node in Hong Kong. Connecting the Oriental Group's internal network, together with the computers of HKU and CUHK, to the global ARPANET system via satellite communications.

After the Oriental Group acquired the Hong Kong Telephone Company, the Hong Kong Telephone Company applied to the Hong Kong government for an exclusive license for the Internet, and then began to upgrade the local communication system and open up the network service to individual users.

Just have a phone line in your home and buy a modem. and pay a monthly internet fee of HK$50 to connect your computer to the whole of Hong Kong. That's right, the basic network service provided by the Hong Kong telephone company now is to connect the whole of Hong Kong. Rather than connecting the world.

After the system upgrade, the whole of Hong Kong formed a huge internal LAN through telephone lines. If you want to communicate with the outside world, you still need to rent satellites for data transmission, just like the way the Eastern Bloc connected to the global ARPA network before. That's an unknown expense. Therefore, if you are an individual user and want to open an international network service. There is an additional and more expensive fee.

Of course, in fact, Hong Kong telephone companies can also transmit data through international telephone cables, but Hong Kong's international long-distance telephone service is exclusively operated by the Great Eastern Telegraph Company. Moreover, the large amount of network data transmission is likely to block the data transmission capacity of the coaxial cable.

You must know that the world's first high-speed transoceanic international optical fiber optic cable has just been jointly funded by the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, and it will not be able to connect the Americas and Europe until 1987. The plan for the Asia-Pacific submarine cable has just been put on the agenda, and it will be at least three or four years before it is actually put into use.

But even so, since the opening of personal network services by Hong Kong telephone companies. The cumulative number of users who have applied for this service has exceeded 10,000, and it is expected that this new service will increase the revenue of HKT by more than HK$6 million per year.

But this income is compared to the amount of money invested by Hong Kong Telephone Company in equipment upgrades. But it's just a drop in the bucket. The biggest gain of the Hong Kong telephone company is actually the exclusive franchise of the network business authorized by the Hong Kong government for the next 40 years.

The Hong Kong telephone company has invested a lot of money, and it has only established a backbone line with a communication rate of 112KB/s in Hong Kong. That's right, the transfer speed is not 112GB/s, nor 112MB/s, but a pitiful 112KB/s.

This is the maximum transmission rate on the main line, and the actual Internet access rate allocated to each household is much lower than this number. Thankfully, the Internet is still very scarce today, and everyone just chats together on a few BBS forums and newsgroups, and it is impossible to be as exciting as the Internet thirty years later.

Of course, this is amazing enough for people in the eighties. With a single phone line, you can discuss a variety of topics of interest with friends from all corners of the city without leaving your home. It's much more free and open than phone calls.

It's just that most of the users who apply to open network services are still people with relevant technical backgrounds, and ordinary people's understanding of this new thing is still very limited. And if the film proposed by Li Xuan can be successful, it is bound to make more people curious about computers and the Internet.

But Li Xuan was not prepared to use personal orders to realize his intentions. Although the prestige he has now accumulated gives him enough strength to do so. However, this blunt method is actually a huge harm to the overall healthy operation of the company.

On some issues related to the group's long-term layout and development strategy, Li Xuan can be more arbitrary, because this is his company. But in some day-to-day matters, he prefers to use the existing rules to solve problems. When he, the big boss, has no privileges and needs to abide by the conventional system norms, the company's governance will be clearer.

For example, like the idea Li Xuan mentioned today, in fact, he even thought of the name of the movie, which can be called "Internet Love". However, from the perspective of Asian entertainment companies, whether an idea can finally be put on the screen and meet the audience, the company already has a complete internal project review mechanism.

Only when the review department believes that the risks of the new film project are controllable and the box office prospects are relatively optimistic, will Asian Entertainment invest. And if a new project can recover most of the cost in advance through advertising placement, corporate sponsorship, etc. Then the chances of passing the audit will naturally be greatly improved.

For companies like Aikang and Oriental Games, they spend a lot of money on advertising and marketing every year, but every penny will only be spent where it can produce tangible results.

And Asian Entertainment's films want to get their financial sponsorship. The only way to do this is to convince their marketers that the investment will be worth it. Only when they feel that the benefits of the film will outweigh the investment in the company will they loosen their purse strings.

For the Eastern Group, the development of the entire group will flourish only if each company pursues the maximization of profits. As the scale of the Eastern Group grows larger and larger, Li Xuan is also controlling his own ** who gives orders at will, and instead believes more in the governance of professional managers.

Because in many things. Only those who have personally investigated and understood have the right to speak. And now there are as many as a dozen subsidiaries under the jurisdiction of the Oriental Group, and the following Sun Company is even more complex, and Li Xuan cannot understand everything one by one.

He didn't want to put a good life on the line. It's all wasted looking at all kinds of documents in the office. Of course, while delegating power, the management audit within the Eastern Bloc has also become more stringent. Prevent corruption and bribery by senior management to the detriment of public and private interests.

And Li Xuan was holding the warning stick in one hand at the same time. The other hand never hesitates to throw out a large handful of sweet dates. For example, Zeng Zhiwei, CEO of Asia Entertainment Company, his current basic annual salary is 1.5 million Hong Kong dollars. This income can only rank in the middle and lower of the list of Hong Kong-listed companies, but this is not all his income.

The other, more important part of income is called equity incentives. According to the agreement signed between Asia Entertainment and him, if Asia Entertainment's performance can reach a certain level, he can obtain up to 275,000 shares from the company this year.

Based on the current share price of Asia Entertainment, the total value of these shares is more than 8 million Hong Kong dollars. In other words, if the performance of Asian Entertainment Company this year is good enough, Zeng Zhiwei's annual income can even reach 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

In fact, most film companies in Hong Kong do not have this level of profit for the whole year. So although there have always been financiers in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. wants to move Zeng Zhiwei to leave Asian Entertainment, and they will pay for Zeng Zhiwei to be the boss himself.

But Zeng Zhiwei never wavered. Because he is now not only able to call the wind and rain in the Hong Kong film and television industry, but also makes more money every year than the bosses of most film companies, so why take unnecessary risks.

After Li Xuan relayed his idea to Zeng Zhiwei, he completed his task. As for whether the movie he envisions can start filming, and whether it will eventually achieve a win-win situation as he planned, it depends on how Zeng Zhiwei operates.

Before he left the Asian Entertainment Company, Zeng Zhiwei also told Li Xuan a good news he had just received. The Taiwan authorities finally agreed to the release of "Bloody Battle in Taierzhuang" in Taiwanese theaters, and it is said that this is because the supreme leader, Mr. Xiao, Jiang, nodded directly.

This is definitely a major piece of good news for Asian Entertainment Company. "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang" is an epic film depicting China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it will resonate much less in foreign markets such as Southeast Asia. However, this film is not the same in the Taiwan-Gulf market, it is a film about the bloody struggle of the Nationalist army, and the resonance in Taiwan will only be stronger than in Hong Kong.

As long as "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang" can be released in Taiwan, with its own excellent quality, and coincides with the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, it is bound to achieve a good box office in Taiwan. In fact, the Taiwan market is larger than the Hong Kong market, and if it can sell in these two markets at the same time, it should not be a problem for Asian Entertainment companies to recover their costs.

Of course, Li Xuan is more concerned about the political improvement of the two sides of the strait. But even if Mr. Jiang already had such a plan, it would not be possible to make adjustments within a day or two. He must first ventilate within the party and win the broad support of other members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee and the elders!

Li Xuan left the Asian Entertainment Film and Television Base in Tseung Kwan O with a good mood. But his good mood was halfway through when he was disturbed by a sudden phone call.

A clerk in the marketing department of Oriental Commercial Company was walking on the street when he was suddenly attacked from behind by several masked men on motorcycles with watermelon knives. Fortunately, two uniformed patrol officers happened to pass by at the time of the incident, and the police immediately shouted loudly and scared the gangsters away.

When Li Xuan hurried to the hospital after receiving the call, many reporters who had already heard the news had gathered at the entrance of the hospital. After they found Li Xuan's car, they immediately pounced on it like a shark smelling blood, Li Xuan was not in the mood to deal with these reporters, and quickly walked into the hall of the hospital under the opening of several bodyguards.

"How is the condition of the wounded, is there any danger to their lives?" asked Li Xuan to Charleson, the president of Oriental Commercial Company, who came forward.

After the pollution incident of the Taiwan-Bay RCA branch was accidentally exposed last year, Charleson was transferred from the position of CEO of RCA to Hong Kong as the general manager of Oriental Commercial Company, temporarily leaving the circle of right and wrong in New York.

"Zhou is now bleeding too much and is still in a coma, but he is out of danger! The doctor said that fortunately he was sent to the hospital in time, if he had been a few minutes late, he might have gone to see God!" Charlison's face was gloomy, and he said, "There are two wounds on the back, a wound on the chest, and a wound on the right hand!

"Has he offended anyone lately?" Li Xuan continued to ask.

In the past two years, Hong Kong's social order has deteriorated somewhat due to the turbulent situation. Robbery of gold shops, kidnapping of rich people, and all kinds of vicious crimes emerge one after another. But Li Xuan didn't expect that now it would involve the employees of his own company.

Judging from the murderer's modus operandi, this accident was more like the work of a local social group, using a watermelon knife to slash and kill rather than using a firearm. What's more, the staff member's belongings were not lost, so it was more like he had come to seek revenge.

"Zhou is still in a coma and has not woken up, so we don't know the specific reason! But according to Zhou's friends and parents, his social circle is not complicated, and he has not made any enmity with anyone recently!

However, Manager He of the marketing department just reported to me that we cooperated with the Hong Kong police last week to seize a batch of counterfeit GameBoy handhelds, and this case was followed up by Zhou!" Charleson said with a frown.

Li Xuan decided to take a look at the clerk surnamed Zhou first, through the glass door of the intensive care unit, there was a handsome young man with a delicate face lying on the hospital bed, but at this moment his face was unusually pale, and his lips were slightly purple.

Outside the intensive care unit, the young man's mother was already crying. Li Xuan stepped forward to appease a few words. He said that the Eastern Group would do everything possible to get the injured colleague back to recover as soon as possible, and promised to make sure that the matter was solved so that the criminals could get the punishment they deserved.

After leaving a few people to help the families of the wounded deal with the follow-up hospitalization, Li Xuan and Charlison hurriedly left the hospital. Li Xuan has a hunch that today's accident is likely to be related to the batch of GameBoy handheld counterfeits that were seized before. (To be continued......)