PS: The first draft, I haven't corrected any typos yet, you can wait for half an hour to read it

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. The main users of the civilian segment are scientific research institutions and universities. As early as a few years ago, Li Xuan funded the establishment of a new node of the ARPANET in Hong Kong. Put the network within the Eastern Bloc. and the ARPANET system, which is connected to the world via satellite communications in conjunction with the computers of HKU and CUHK.

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.

As long as you have a telephone line at home, then buy a modem and pay a monthly Internet fee of HK$50, you can 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, which is an unknown cost, just like the way the Eastern Bloc connected to the global ARPA network before. Therefore, if individual users want to open international network services, they need to pay a 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 cable. The construction was just under agreement between the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, and it was not until 1987 that the Americas and Europe could be connected. 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.

However, the equipment upgrade funds invested by the Hong Kong telephone company in advance are as high as 40 million Hong Kong dollars. The Hong Kong telephone company has established a backbone line with a communication rate of 112KB/s in Hong Kong. That's right, the transfer speed is not 112GB/s. It's not 112MB/s either, it's a pitiful 112KB/s.

This is the maximum transmission rate on the trunk line. The actual Internet access rate allocated to each household is much lower than this figure. Thankfully, the internet is still very scarce. It's just a matter of chatting together on a few BBS forums and newsgroups, and it's not going to be as exciting as the Internet thirty years later.

Of course, this is amazing enough for people in the 80s, through a phone line, you can discuss all kinds of topics of interest with friends from all corners of the city without leaving home, which is much more free and open than the telephone.

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.

However, Li Xuan was not prepared to use personal orders to achieve his intentions, although the prestige he had accumulated now gave him enough strength to do so, but this was actually a huge harm to the overall healthy operation of the company.

On some issues of the long-term layout and development strategy of Time Group, Li Xuan can be more arbitrary, because this is his company. But in some daily matters, he prefers to use the original rules to solve problems. When he, the big boss, needs to abide by the 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 audit department believes that the box office prospects of this project are relatively optimistic and the risks are controllable, will Asia Entertainment invest. And if a new project can recover a large amount of costs in advance through advertising placement, corporate sponsorship, etc., then the probability of passing the review will naturally be greatly improved.

As 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 premise, of course, is to make them feel like they are worth the money. Only when they feel that the benefits of the film will outweigh the investment in the company will they loosen their purse strings.

Only every company is chasing the maximization of profits. The development of the whole group will flourish. As the scale of the Eastern Bloc grows larger and larger, Li Xuan is gradually controlling his ** who gives orders at will. Rather, they trust more in the company's professional managers.

Because in many things, you only have the right to speak if you have personally investigated and understood them. 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 waste his life in the office reading various reports. Of course, while delegating power, the Oriental Group has also become more stringent in auditing its operations to prevent the emergence of embezzlement and bribery that harm public and private interests.

Of course. While Li Xuan was holding the warning stick in one hand, he never hesitated to throw out a large handful of sweet dates with the other hand. For example, Zeng Zhiwei, CEO of Asia Entertainment Company, his current 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.

1.5 million Hong Kong dollars is only Zeng Zhiwei's basic annual salary, and some of it is called equity incentives. According to the agreement signed between Asia Entertainment and him, if the performance of Asia Entertainment can meet certain standards, he can obtain up to 275,000 shares from the company.

Based on the current share price of Asia Entertainment, the total value of these shares is more than HK$8 million. In other words, if the performance of Asian Entertainment Company is good enough this year, his annual income can even reach 10 million Hong Kong dollars. In fact, most of the film companies in Hong Kong. Full-year earnings don't reach that level.

So although there have always been financiers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia, they want to move Zeng Zhiwei to leave Asian Entertainment, and they will fund him to be his own boss. But Zeng Zhiwei has never wavered, because he can now not only call the wind and rain in the Hong Kong film and television industry. And he makes more money every year than most film company bosses, so why take extra risks.

After Li Xuan relayed his idea to Zeng Zhiwei, he completed his task. As for whether the movie he envisioned could be filmed. Whether it will achieve a win-win situation as he planned in the end depends on how Zeng Zhiwei operates.

Before he left Asia Entertainment. Zeng Zhiwei also told him a good news he had just received. The Taiwanese authorities finally agreed that "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang" would be released in Taiwanese theaters, and it is said that the highest-level Xiao-Mr. Jiang nodded directly.

This is for Asian Entertainment Company. Definitely a big piece of good news. "Bloody Battle of Taierzhuang" is an epic film describing China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it will resonate much less in foreign markets. But this film depicts the story of the bloody struggle of the national army, and the resonance in the Taiwan-Gulf market may even be stronger than that 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 it should not be a problem for Asian entertainment companies to recover their costs.

Of course, Li Xuan is more concerned about the improvement of cross-strait politics, but even if Mr. Chiang already has such a plan, it is impossible to make adjustments within a day or two, and he is bound to 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 disturbed by a sudden phone call halfway through.

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 they immediately shouted loudly and scared away these gangsters.

When Li Xuan rushed to the hospital, many reporters who rushed to hear the news had already gathered at the entrance of the hospital. When they found Li Xuan's car, they immediately pounced on it like a shark smelling blood, Li Xuan was not in the mood to answer these reporters' questions, and quickly walked into the lobby 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 broke out 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.

"He has lost a lot of blood, and he 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!" Charleson said with a gloomy face, "There are two wounds on the back, a wound on the chest, and a wound on the right hand! Each wound is deep, this is a premeditated homicide!"

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

In the past two years, Hong Kong has also deteriorated its social order due to the turbulence of the times, with robberies of gold shops, kidnapping of rich people, and various vicious crimes emerging 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, it is more like the work of a local social group, using a watermelon knife to slash and kill rather than using a firearm. The clerk's belongings weren't lost, so it was more like a revenge quest.

"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 there has been no April Fool's Day recently!

However, Manager He of the marketing department just reported to me that we cooperated with the Hong Kong police to seize a batch of counterfeit GameBoy handheld computers last week, and this case was followed up by Zhou Yishou!" 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 couldn't cry. Li Xuan stepped forward to appease a few words, saying that the Oriental Group would definitely do everything possible to let the injured colleague recover as soon as possible, and promised to make sure that the matter was brought to the bottom and the criminals could get the punishment they deserved.

After leaving a few more people to help the families of the wounded deal with the follow-up hospitalization, Li Xuan and Charleson hurriedly left the hospital. Li Xuan had a hunch that today's accident was likely to be related to the batch of GameBoy handheld counterfeits that were seized before.

In recent years, the Eastern Bloc has spared no effort in cracking down on infringements, which will naturally harm the interests of some people! (To be continued......