Chapter Forty-Six: The First Chinese Employee of a Game Company
At 4:00, Zhang Wenhui appeared in front of Chen Tianliao on time. Chen Tianliao looked at him, he was nearly one meter eighty-five tall, and his muscles were quite strong. Rectangular face, wide head, slender Danfeng eyes, eye bags are a little obvious, straight nose, typical Jiaodong appearance. Chen Tianliao, who was 1 dense and 45, was under a lot of pressure when he stood with him.
At this time, Zhang Wenhui was nearly 30 years old, according to the domestic standards of this era, a proper older youth, but for Chinese people who are working hard overseas, this age is a good year of life. Chen Tianliao believes that from the outside, Zhang Wenhui is no different from a young man in his early twenties. But from the perspective of spiritual temperament, it is obviously much more mature and capable than the students of the famous universities in the capital, and there is also a special self-confidence in it. Although it is said that in these years, first-class students studied in the United States, second-rate students studied in old Europe, and third-rate students went to the Japanese country, but in the year when Zhang Wenhui studied abroad, there were only less than 3,000 people studying abroad at public expense in the country, and the fierce competition went without saying. Anyway, a girl from Yan University in the Chen family is not capable of competing, so she can only rely on her nephew's sponsorship to study at her own expense. So as the pride of the sky, it is not difficult to understand that Zhang Wenhui is so confident.
Chen Tianliao stood up and greeted Zhang Wenhui and said, "Hello, Mr. Zhang, it's a pleasure to meet you." I am Chen Tianliao!"
Zhang Wenhui stared at Chen Tianliao's eyes and said, "Hello, Chen Jun, I am honored to meet you. Although I know that you are so young, when I see you in person, I am still shocked by you!"
Chen Tianliao smiled: "Thank you for your compliment! Don't call me Chen Jun, just call me Xiaoliao." Come, let me introduce you. This is Miss Takekawa, my agent in the Wakoku and my most powerful assistant!"
Zhang Wenhui turned to Zhuchuan, bowed slightly, and said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Zhuchuan." Although I have great admiration for your family background, I admire your talents even more. To be able to use Xiao Liao's talent to make such a big fortune from scratch in the Wa Kingdom is really admirable!"
Zhuchuan hurriedly replied: "Thank you Zhang Sang for the compliment." β
Chen Tianliao introduced his sister-in-law to Zhang Wenhui again: "There is also this beauty, she is my sister-in-law, named Chen Mei." Although her temper is not very good, and she is too naΓ―ve, she is still a good girl in general!"
When Chen Mei heard Chen Tianliao say that she was a beauty, she still raised her beautiful face quite happily, but after hearing it, her originally radiant face was immediately clouded, and finally she simply slapped her nephew on the back of the head: "What a mess!"
Chen Tianliao touched the back of his head, shrugged his shoulders to Zhang Wenhui, and said silently: "I'm not wrong!"
Takekawa smiled slightly.
Zhang Wenhui didn't laugh, but just said to Chen Mei: "Hello, it's nice to meet you!"
Chen Mei blushed, and he was so embarrassed that he couldn't speak for a while, he just nodded, but he ravaged Chen Tianliao a hundred times in his heart.
When everyone got to know each other, they all sat down and began to chat. Chen Tianliao asked about Zhang Wenhui's study in the Japanese Kingdom. Zhang Wenhui told Chen Tianliao one by one.
It turned out that when Zhang Wenhui was studying abroad, the personal computer boom was popular after the United States. There are also a lot of computers in the school, all of which are the latest poison fangs, 32MB of RAM, 256MB of hard disk, and can use all the popular computer software today. Zhang Wenhui quickly became fascinated by computers and taught himself computer programming to design a database management program for the school, which made him famous. Next, he designed a number of software and small game programs, and gradually gained a lot of fame in the Wa Kingdom. At the same time, he is also a well-known hacker. In this day and age, hackers are not a derogatory term, but a lone ranger who uses technology to dominate the network. There are no hacking tools to share, and they basically rely on their own programs to achieve their goals.
"Why are you interested in our company?" asked Chen Tianliao.
"I'm interested in your people first. Zhang Wenhui said with a smile, "Because at that time, you were the glory of our Japanese people, who made so great achievements in music and defeated so many Japanese talents, which is admirable." Later, when I saw your cube battle (Tetris), I realized that you are more than just a music creator.
"I believe that your genius in the field of software is definitely not inferior to your achievements in music. And the Bomberman you developed later, although it is a console game, but the unprecedented thrill of combat and blood-boiling destruction in it proves that I was not mistaken.
"I have good programming skills, but I don't have good planning skills, I can write a lot of good work, but it's definitely hard to write a masterpiece that makes everyone crazy, so my work can be sold, but it doesn't sell much, and you have good planning skills, and you often have eye-catching ideas, whether it's music or games, so your work is very popular. I'd be happy to work with you to create a great piece of software, whether it's a game or an app. β
Chen Tian asked: "But I am not the only one in this world who has outstanding creative talents, right? There are more people than me, why are you looking for me?"
"Because you're the only Chinese. Zhang Wenhui said.
Chen Tianliao was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud and said, "That's okay." Did you bring your work? I'll take a look at it now!"
Zhang Wenhui smiled and opened the satchel he was carrying, and took out several disks from it. In this era when there is no USB flash drive, this time and space and Chen Tianliao's previous life invariably used the disk as a memory carrier, but the style is different. The amount of data stored by such a carrier is pitifully small. Like the floppy disks in the previous life of the earth, the most popular ones have a storage capacity of only 1.44M per sheet! The disks in this world are not much better, so Zhang Wenhui will bring a few more disks over.
Chen Tianliao turned on the computer in his office and, under Zhang Wenhui's explanation, carefully studied Zhang Wenhui's works. Although he doesn't have much understanding of the programming level of this time and space, with his skills in programming for many years, he really can't look down on Zhang Wenhui's software at this time, but it does not prevent him from finding the shining point of Zhang Wenhui's program. This is a programmer with a lot of ideas - this is what Chen Tianliao said about Zhang Wenhui.
"Do you know how to program console games?" asked Chen Tianliao.
"Yes, I used to participate in the game development of Xiaobo. Zhang Wenhui said, "The game I participated in is called "Dungeon Rhapsody", which is an ARPG game, and it sells well. β
Chen Tianliao nodded. He'd heard of the game and sold nearly 2 million cassettes of cartridges. "That's it, I have the information here, you are what I definitely want to use, but I still need to think about what position to do. β
Zhang Wenhui grinned and said, "That's okay, then I'll wait for your notice!"
Chen Tianliao nodded and said, "Okay, I'll give you a result in three days!"
Zhang Wenhui had the result, so he took his leave and left. Chen Tianliao wanted to stay with him for dinner, but he politely refused.
Looking at his back as he walked away, Zhuchuan asked Chen Tianliao, "How is he?
Chen Tianliao said: "It is very good. But I still need to study how good it is. β
Takekawa said, "Do you want me to call the company's professionals to help with the identification?"
Chen Tianliao said: "Okay, let's let people identify it first." β
Soon, the level appraisal of Zhang Wenhui had results. The conclusion is that although there are weaknesses, he is proficient in various algorithms, can optimize the program to the greatest extent, has good requirements analysis ability, can independently complete the software architecture, and is a rare senior programmer with a little training. This coincides with Chen Tianliao's own conclusion.
However, Chen Tianliao did not just do these activities, in fact, after meeting Zhang Wenhui that day, he entrusted Zhuchuan to find a private detective from the Wa Kingdom to investigate Zhang Wenhui. Don't think it's easy to do business with cabinet doors, whether it's an Oriental devil or a Western devil, the best thing is to make stumbling blocks. Therefore, for such a person who came to take refuge halfway, Chen Tianliao had to be cautious.
On the third day, Chen Tianliao met Zhang Wenhui again in the office, still the same as last time.
"Do you know what position I'm going to give you?" asked Zhang Wenhui with a smile.
Zhang Wenhui shrugged his shoulders and said, "Anyway, the number one is no play." I used to program on my own, which made me very well-rounded, but it also left me with a lot of flaws. I guess it's a deputy or something, right?"
Chen Tianliao smiled: "You really deserve to be a genius. That's right, I'm going to appoint you as the managing director of the game company, mainly to assist in the development of console games!"
"Yes!" Zhang Wenhui said, "I will definitely do a good job!"
"I believe in you. Chen Tianliao said with a smile.
In any case, it's a good thing that a game company has its first Chinese employee. In the current Huaguo, only Chen Tianliao knows how crazy the game industry was later, and how many game giants have grabbed huge wealth from it.
Not to mention far away, let's just say that the top ten companies on the Internet in the previous life, NetEase's resurrection relied on the cash brought by "Journey to the West" and "Journey to the West", and the growth of Penguin and the huge cash flow brought by the game department gave them the strongest backing. Chen Tianliao has no background, no monopoly resources, and wants to become a giant by his own ability, and games are an absolutely indispensable part.
Moreover, in the future entertainment empire, literature, music, film and television, games and many other forms of entertainment are closely integrated and mutually promoted. They all belong to the same ecosystem called "entertainment". And at present, there are people who see such a trend, but they do not know when this day will come, how big it will be, and how much benefit it will have. So very few people are taking action to integrate.
And Chen Tianliao is precisely the person who knows the future trend extremely well, and he is the only one who has experienced it firsthand.
Similarly, no one knows that in another time and space, the game industry is still in a state of zero eggs, and even Huaguo, which the government actively stifles the game industry, will be an important territory for game hegemony in the future. No one could have imagined that in 2017, China would surpass the United States to become the world's highest-grossing gaming country!
But Chen Tianliao knew.
In this battle about the future, Chen Tianliao took the lead from the beginning.