As distributors in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, and South Korea brought the game to Southeast Asia for test sales, orders soon began to pour in, including Hong Kong, with 1,000 arcade machines shipped in the first month. It rose to 1,500 units in the second month, more than 1,600 units in the third month, and then the shipments stabilized between 1,500 and 1,600 units each month.

The monthly sales revenue is between 28.8 million and 38.4 million Hong Kong dollars, and the net profit is even more terrifying, as high as more than 90%. This has not yet opened up the markets of RB and Europe and the United States, and it will be even more difficult to open up these three most lucrative markets in the global game industry.

The good news for RB also followed, and a dealer from RB wanted to represent the distributor of "Tank Wars" in RB after getting the news.

"What's the name of the dealer from RB?"

"It's a young man named Masayoshi Son, a Japanese-Korean who founded SoftBank a few months ago." Meng Zhengfan replied.

Meng Zhengfan is one of the top 10 salespeople recruited by Li Yixuan, who joined DreamWorks as a salesman just after graduating from HKU. Because of his outstanding performance and the most arcade machines sold, Li Yixuan promoted him to deputy general manager of the sales department and assisted his mother Zhang Guifang in setting up the company's marketing department. He is currently mainly responsible for the collection of information from players, as well as after-sales service.

Zhang Guifang was very optimistic about his ability and suggested to Li Yixuan that Meng Zhengfan be in charge of the sales department.

Li Yixuan didn't agree immediately, and decided to observe for a while.

Meng Zhengfan is optimistic about the future of DreamWorks and knows that if he wants to take charge of the sales department, he must speak with solid results. He knew that Li Yixuan was trying to find a way to develop the RB market, so he began to actively contact the Japanese side, but after finding several Japanese distributors, Li Yixuan was not satisfied.

It happened that Sun Zhengyi came to the door by himself today, and Meng Zhengfan told Li Yixuan with the idea of giving it a try.

Masayoshi Son, the time is not right, at this time, Masayoshi Son should still be studying at the University of California, Berkeley, and he will not graduate until next year, and he founded SoftBank in 81.

Now, he founded SoftBank, so he doesn't read? Li Yixuan felt that something was wrong.

Let's take a look first, maybe it's not the same person.

When people take a look, combined with the photos in the influence, Li Yixuan is sure that the young man in front of him is Sonoshi of SoftBank.

After the two sides sat down, Li Yixuan got straight to the point and said: "Mr. Sun, I want to represent my company's "Tank Wars" game. ”

"Yes, I've played your company's "Tank Wars", and I think it will definitely catch fire in the RB market, so I want to represent it."

"Looking at Mr. Sun's age, it seems that he is still studying."

Son smiled and admitted directly: "Yes, I am currently studying at the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in economics, and I won't graduate until next year." ”

Li Yixuan frowned when he heard this, you will only graduate next year, and now you want the agent sales right of RB, how can you get it.

Sun Zhengyi saw Li Yixuan's brows furrowed, and said with a smile: "I know what Mr. Li is worried about, although I am a student, but the economics is very practice-oriented, in the second year of enrollment, I established the SoftBank Society, deeply participated in economic practice activities, and achieved good results. As a result, I have a lot of time that doesn't interfere with my sales work. ”

Hey, there's still this kind of operation. However, a cow is a cow, and others can only go to the restaurant to wash dishes when they engage in social practice, and he can make a fortune by engaging in social practice. The gap between people is too great.

"The agent needs a lot of money, my company's rules are that the money and goods are clear, no credit, you have so much money?"

"Let me put it this way, you're a young man like me, you've started your own business, and we've all been successful. I don't deny that you're currently more successful than I am. Although "Tank Wars" is popular all over Southeast Asia, Mr. Li is also actively looking for a powerful Japanese agent. But what I would like to remind Mr. Li is that many RB dealers are indeed strong, but they also have many conditions, and they have the status of DreamWorks now...... To put it simply, your company simply has no bargaining chips with the other party. On the contrary, I am different, SoftBank is also a young company, vigorous and energetic, without the harsh conditions of the big dealers.

And I am also a little successful in the United States, I was born in RB, the last three generations are in business, I am very familiar with RB, I am also familiar with various channels, although my company is also new, but everyone is equal in business, you don't need to pay much, you can get what you want. Everyone is young, they are all new companies, and only young people can help young people. ”

Dick, Li Yixuan praised in his heart, especially the sentence that only young people can help young people, it is simply a classic. It is worthy of being a super cow in the future, and he sees the current development dilemma of DreamWorks through it.

RB does have a few very powerful agents, but their requirements are so harsh, Li Yixuan will not agree to it anyway, and the promise is completely to make wedding dresses for others, maybe one day they will eat DreamWorks in turn.

If you want to enter the RB market, you can only open up a second battlefield and find a new company with great growth potential in the future, which is the best solution.

And the Son Masayoshi in front of him is exactly the partner he needs.

However, before agreeing, Li Yixuan still needs to make sure, "You established SoftBank in the United States, which sounds like finance, can you introduce it?" ”

"No problem, the full name is Soft Banking, it says finance, but it does international trade between the United States and RB. At present, our company has established US distribution rights with 16 RB companies, and our business is to sell RB's goods to the United States and earn the price difference. ”

This is in line with SoftBank's positioning at the beginning of its business. Historically, after graduating, Masayoshi Son returned to RB to start his own business, and he found that RB's game software was just getting started, and many game companies did not have their own marketing channels, so he decided to start from this aspect and act as an agent for the software distribution of various game companies.

After taking a large amount of loans from banks and persuading Toshiba and Fujitsu to invest in his SoftBank, it took only 3 years to have 28 software stores in RB, not only operating game software, office and other software. Later, the famous federal software company in China was the model of Masayoshi Son.

In 1981, Masayoshi Son set up a software bank in the United States and began to promote RB's game software to the United States, and in 1982, he established a European software bank, which will be more radical, not only to promote RB's games to Europe, but even to promote RB's anime to Europe. In short, RB games were able to go global in the eighties and nineties, and Masayoshi Son contributed a lot.

The only thing Li Yixuan didn't expect was that before Sun Zhengyi graduated, he had already begun to practice his future road to kingship. It's both unexpected and reasonable.

Of course, his road to the king was not all smooth sailing, he just started due to lack of funds, in order to finance Toshiba and Fujitsu such predators to bring in, although SoftBank was very successful, but like all successful founders in history, Toshiba and Fujitsu joined forces to do the game, and Son was kicked out of SoftBank in 86.

When Jobs was kicked out of Apple, there was at least a generous breakup fee. As for Masayoshi Son, he was completely out of the house, not to mention that he didn't get a penny, and he still owed Toshiba and Fujitsu 200 million yen.

But Son was not defeated, and thanks to the rise of the RB game industry, it only took Son a year to pay off all the arrears.

Speaking of which, there is another story, that is, when Masayoshi Son was cleaned out of the house, which caused an uproar in the entire RB gaming industry, they felt that the behavior of Toshiba and Fujitsu was too despicable, and they helped you make so much money, but you did this to him.

At that time, RB Games was still very weak, and Son's experience made everyone feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

Although SoftBank, controlled by Toshiba and Fujitsu, could not be offended, RB game companies still reached out to help, positioning Masayoshi Son as the first agent and taking out some of the software for him to distribute. This is also the reason why Son was able to pay off 200 million yen in just one year.

By 1991, RB SoftBank had reached the brink of bankruptcy, at this time, Masayoshi Son had redeemed all the shares at a very low price, returned the original investment funds of the consortium, and shouldered the responsibility for the loss of Softbank, thus winning the praise of the industry, and since then the return of SoftBank has become famous, laying the credit foundation for Son's career.

Later, needless to say, SoftBank, under the leadership of Masayoshi Son, started the road of legend. In particular, in the future, we will invest in A/Li/Ba/Ba, Tao/Bao, and Fu/Bao, and become one of the world's top venture capital companies.

"Is your SoftBank willing to accept investment?"

Son was surprised, but refused, "At present, SoftBank is not short of money. ”

Understood, apparently the other party also understands the risks brought about by the introduction of venture capital. Now SoftBank has not yet reached the period of rapid expansion, and at that time, without waiting for Li Yixuan to speak, Son Masayoshi will also take the initiative to speak. Of course, Li Yixuan will not unload and kill donkeys like Toshiba and Fujitsu. Once you do that, it's almost impossible to restore your reputation in the future.

"I have the heart to set up a branch in RB, which is responsible for the sales of DreamWorks' game software in RB, you are in charge, are you interested in joining?"

Son did not expect the other party to offer to cooperate with him in such a way. I didn't know what to say for a moment.

Li Yixuan smiled understandingly: "You don't need to reply to me so quickly, you will reply to me in three days." ”

After talking with Son Zhengyi, Li Yixuan handed over the company to his mother Zhang Guifang to deal with, and then returned to his home on Zhongying Street, opening the door of time and space to return to the 23rd century.