After returning to Hong Kong, Li Yixuan suddenly remembered that the manuscript he had submitted to Ming Pao was now in December, almost three months ago, but he still had not received any news.

"Billy, is there a reply from Ming Pao?"

"There is no news at all. ”

Li Yixuan thought for a while and said, "What about the mailbox at home, have you seen it?" ”

Billy opened the mailbox, and it was empty.

At this time, her mother Zhang Guifang came over, "Check the manuscript, give, look at this." ”

In his mother's hand was a pile of scraps of paper that had been broken with a purifier, and there were words on it, Li Yixuan looked very familiar, and a bad premonition rose in his heart.

hurriedly took it, unfolded the shredded paper little by little and spliced it, only a few pieces were pieced, and Li Yixuan's heart instantly cooled. "Mom, how did you get this manuscript?"

"I've been paying attention to it since you submitted it, and I haven't heard anything about it for so long, so two days ago I asked Jack to inquire where Ming Pao was, but I didn't ask anything, and finally I found this in the trash can behind the Ming Pao building. Zhang Guifang said very sadly: "The corner is Sister Yu's house, her son is an editor at Hong Kong's Hong Kong Economic Journal, you haven't come back these days, I went to Sister Yu's house, and his son is also there."

His son told me that it is nonsense for newcomers to submit articles, and newcomers who really want to engage in writing will not submit any manuscripts, but will first go to a famous writer and knock on the door with their own works, and after the writer reads your manuscript, if he thinks you write well, he will accept you as an apprentice. He said that he was an apprentice, but in fact he was a gunman, and if he wanted to write a book for five or even ten years for the other party, he would not be paid at all, and even the author's signature could not be himself, and the signature must be the master. One day, Master was happy and recommended it to the newspaper, and the newspaper was willing to use it, so that you could write your signature. Otherwise, no matter how well your article is written, it reaches the level of the award, and people will not pay attention to you. ”

I'm a big grass, what kind of bullshit system is this TM, it's just a matter of apprenticeship as a gunman, but once you become a gunman, you can be a 5 years or 10 years, and in the end, it depends on whether the master is happy or not, these are all endured, but TM's training salary is not paid, how do you let the family survive? No wonder there are many Hong Kong publishing houses, but there are not many famous writers. It's just that I don't want newcomers to come out.

This is not over, Zhang Guifang continued to talk about the shady scenes of Hong Kong's cultural industry, "Sister Yu's son also told me that Zha Liangyong, the founder of "Ming Pao", was a small screenwriter of the Hong Kong Great Wall Film Company, and later left the Great Wall Company and wanted to be a professional writer, but it was because there was no way to submit articles everywhere that he had to start his own newspaper, which is now "Ming Pao". At the beginning, he was able to promote some new authors, but "Ming Pao" is now bigger and more visible, and it is no longer the original "Ming Pao". The advertising he played was not for newcomers like you, but for those authors who had been gunmen for many years and had no chance of getting ahead, to put it bluntly, it was a poaching advertisement. ”

Li Yixuan looked at the sky and didn't speak for a long time. Literati are really literati, obviously digging people, don't you just say that the recruitment is over, but you have to say that it is an appointment, so that you can seem to be estranged. Just like the corrupt officials in ancient times, it is clear that they are taking bribes to make money, but they say that they are not making money, and they should not allow others to talk about money, saying that it is vulgar to talk about money, that is, to be a watch and set up a memorial arch.

The submission failed, everyone knew that Li Yixuan was uncomfortable, and no one spoke quietly.

After a long while, Li Yixuan calmed down and said, "No, there will be no more, let's open the arcade hall first." Later, when the company got up, we opened our own publishing house and published it ourselves. Anyway, regardless of whether "Ming Pao" uses his manuscript or not, Li Yixuan will definitely set up his own publishing house in the future to distribute peripheral books related to games, so from this relationship, DreamWorks and "Ming Pao" can be regarded as a competitive relationship in the future.

Not only books, film and television, animation, but also DreamWorks will be involved in the future, with the development of the video game industry in the future, the cost of game development is getting higher and higher, like the PS4 era, the development cost of any large-scale 3A game is more than 100 million US dollars, and it is no longer possible to make money by selling game software alone, at most it is to return to the capital. Later game production companies, like Hollywood film production companies, made money from various game peripherals.

Taking American toy dogs as an example, all kinds of peripheral income add up, accounting for more than 50% of the company's entire receivables, and the game is basically a large-scale advertising film for peripheral goods.

However, this is all for the future, and it is too early to talk about the peripheral industry.

Looking at the whole world, whether it is novel publishing, film and television and game publishing, whether it is now or in the future, the main channel is king.

US, RB, Europe...... In these markets with relatively rich profits, there are monopoly oligopolies who occupy the mountains and carve up territory. A good book, if not in the hands of giants, is bound to have a limited circulation.

For example, the "Harry Potter" series is in the hands of international publishing giants, and it has become a publishing myth with a total circulation of hundreds of millions of copies.

But it is also a book that has potential, but it is not in the hands of giants, or it is not favored by giants, and it has reached its peak by stopping at millions of sales.

The Hong Kong and Taiwan markets for Chinese books are limited, and the mainland market has not yet opened, and even if it does, piracy everywhere will not make any profit. And when it is translated and published overseas, it is even more difficult to achieve anything.

Then the electronics industry is different?—— Walkman, tape recorder, MP3 and other hardware can be used as music content and distribution platforms...... These products are big enough to pee and on the heads of music companies.

Wrong, the electronics industry still needs marketing channels, but compared with the cultural industry, the establishment of marketing channels in the electronics industry is much easier. Isn't that what the Gree air conditioner in another time and space does?

For example, Li Yixuan took out the first floor of the company as an arcade game hall, which was a kind of direct sales, that is, advertising and publicity, and making money.

Of course, strictly speaking, it is not a good choice to open a game hall in the headquarters building, and the noisy voices of the game hall will affect the normal office of the company. In the future, when he has money, he will choose another office building, or even see the headquarters building himself.

Coming to Apliu Street again, he came this time to choose a CRT CRT CRT for the arcade, but after shopping all over Apliu Street, Li Yixuan still did not choose the ideal CRT.

Arcade CRT is different from the CRT used on home TVs, which use 29-inch flat CRTs, while home TVs currently use spherical CRTs. The picture display is also much higher than that of home color TVs, and the worst is a low solution. Interlacing like a TV can't even be used with an image tube that doesn't even count as an ultra-low solution.

Moreover, since it is an arcade machine, in order to make money, the arcade machine is almost open all day, and the durability requirements for the picture tube are much higher than that of the picture tube of the average home TV.

At present, there is no such picture tube for sale in Apliu Street.

It's not that Apliu Street doesn't live up to its name, but now that arcade video games have only been born for a few years, the market demand is extremely low, and there is still no manufacturer willing to produce them.

No, so where did these arcade CRTs come from? To be honest, they chose TV CRTs to fill up. But Li Yixuan didn't want to settle for this, and wanted to do it in one step.

There is no way, after Li Yixuan went home, he opened the door of time and space to the 23rd century, and he didn't know whether this time and space would continue to produce, so he could only go to Zhang Qiao for consultation again.

"What arcade picture tube, CRT, 29 inches, you didn't buy this when you made the board?"

Li Yixuan spread his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and didn't give any explanation, because any explanation would become more and more chaotic, so he simply didn't say anything. Just asked Zhang Qiao to help him get it. If this 23rd century does not have one, it can only be replaced by a home picture tube.

Seeing that Li Yixuan didn't say a word, Zhang Qiao covered his head and shouted: "Oh my God, what kind of bad friends have I made, first the old 8-bit computer motherboard that no one wants, and then the picture tube, these are all antiques in the coffin." How do I feel that you are not from this era? You must also be flat and low. Isn't it okay to have a tablet?"

Li Yixuan shook his head.

Zhang Qiao sighed and gestured his middle finger to Li Yixuan, "I'll find someone to ask." ”

Half a day later, Zhang Qiao told her, "I asked everyone, and finally got the news from Guo Dongyue." ”

What even Zhang Qiao can't find, Guo Dongyue can find, it seems that she has changed a lot in the past two years.

Li Yixuan didn't think about these carefully, he only cared about whether he could find the picture tube now, and hurriedly asked, "Is it in stock?"

Zhang Qiao nodded, "Yes, yes, but it doesn't quite meet your requirements." It is also 29 inches, but it is flat and high-resolution. ”

Li Yixuan's head is like a rattle, pure and flat, and high-level. The 76-year-old time and space took the pure flat, and there was no super flat, and the flat had only been available for a few years.

High solution, not to mention, RB's picture tube is not even a low solution, and GE has just come up with a solution, and the price is still 30000000 Hong Kong dollars. Pure and flat, high-level, Li Yixuan can't imagine it.

"Then there really isn't. Zhang Qiao spread his hands.

"Then I'll figure it out myself. Li Yixuan left without dinner.

When I returned to my home on Chung Ying Street in '76, I saw that my mother had just finished dinner.

"How?" Zhang Guifang asked as soon as he sat down.

"No, the lowest is also flat, and it is still a high solution. Seeing that her mother didn't understand, Li Yixuan gave her a science popularization of the technical status of CRT picture tubes.

"Pure flat is definitely not good. At present, it can only be replaced by a TV display tube, but in this way, the arcade may be used for less than two years, and the display tube will have to be replaced. Now the price of a display tube is not low, I asked, a 29-inch display tube, the price is as high as 7000 Hong Kong dollars, and the resolution is not enough. ”

Zhang Guifang thought for a while and said: "Then change to a smaller one, anyway, that "Tank Wars" is not a very advanced game, and the requirements for the monitor should not be so high." ”

This sentence reminded Li Yixuan, think about it carefully, it's really like that, these 29-inch arcade monitors in later generations are used to run 32-bit or 64-bit large-scale games, like "Devouring the World", "1945" or something. "Tank Wars" doesn't seem to really need such a high display tube. If you really use such a large display tube, the defects of the 8-bit computer will also be released.

After thinking about it, Li Yixuan hurriedly ate the meal and came to Yaliao Street again.

This will, he learned his lesson, did not blindly pursue the big display tube, 29-inch chose one, 25-inch chose one, 23-inch chose one, 21-inch chose one.

The original sample machine used an 18-inch display tube, which can be used to make samples, but the finished product is too small.

After comparison, it was found that the 23-inch picture tube produced by South Korea's Samsung Electronics Company was very compatible with "Tank Wars". It's just right, and the color is full and round. And the price is also very cheap, only 1300 Hong Kong dollars.

That's it.