Chapter 155: A Trip to Korea (1)
PS: Sorry, it's late to upload something today, I hope you forgive me!
——————————————————————————————————————————
Early the next morning, Zhang Lexing habitually did a physical exercise for a while, practiced the self-defense moves taught by Ma Guanghai a few times, and then came to the bathroom to take a shower, changed his clothes, sat down in the living room comfortably, and began to enjoy the breakfast called by Park Meixi.
Picking up a piece of bread, pouring a little honey with a small spoon, and then rolling it up and about to stuff it into his mouth, Zhang Lexing looked at Park Meixi, who was still standing aside, and asked, "Did Miss Park have breakfast?" ”
"Thanks, I've already eaten it. Park Mi-hee bowed slightly and replied with a smile.
Zhang Lexing didn't say anything more, he directly stuffed the bread roll in his hand into his mouth, swallowed the bread roll, picked up the cup again, and drank a few sips of milk. At this time, Wang Mengyao also walked in from outside, and Zhang Lexing raised his head and greeted, "Mengyao, have you had breakfast?" ”
"I haven't had time to eat yet," Wang Mengyao approached the table and sighed, "Boss, your breakfast is really rich." ”
"Yes, I can't eat it all by myself, so you can help. ”
"Boss, then I'd be respectful and obey. After Wang Mengyao finished speaking, she pulled out the chair opposite Zhang Lexing and sat down, picked up the tableware and started.
waited until Zhang Lexing finished breakfast, Park Meixi took out a notepad and began to report to him: "Boss, the two companies have been contacted, go to one today, and then go to the other tomorrow, so that there will be more time, you can watch carefully." ”
Zhang Lexing nodded and said, "That's fine, anyway, I'm not in a hurry." By the way, Miss Park, which company is arranged today?"
"NCSoft Co., Ltd. has made an appointment with their president, Mr. Kanazawa Chen, that we will come by 9 o'clock in the morning. Park Mi-hee raised her wrist and looked at her watch and said, "It's only eight o'clock in the morning, and there is still plenty of time." ”
NCSoft will be a giant in the Korean game industry in the future, but it is still a very small company, not even a game company. Yesterday, I listened to Li Chengxu's introduction, NCSoft company was established on March 11 this year by 17 young people such as Jin Zechen, and the president of the company was Jin Zechen, so far no game works have come out, and the company's main business is to provide network integration solutions for enterprises.
However, Zhang Lexing still has some understanding of NCSoft, knowing that it has the opportunity to develop rapidly by virtue of the success of its first work "Paradise", when "Paradise" entered China, he also tried, although the game's graphics are not very good, but the connotation is relatively deep compared to other Korean "kimchi". Since then, NCSoft has continued to develop games such as Lineage 2 and Guild Wars, and no matter what the final results are, at least the company has grown rapidly and has captured the online game market in many parts of the world, which is considered very successful compared to other Korean game companies. Moreover, NCSoft has also tried to control virtual finance in the operation of "Paradise", coupled with the influence of "Paradise" in the Korean market, which is important to Zhang Lexing.
……
At 8:30, Zhang Lexing and his entourage came to the parking station of the Intercontinental Hotel, and after they got into the car, the car started one after another and drove towards the place where the office of NCSoft was located. The convoy drove along the road, and along the way, Zhang Lexing noticed that I don't know if it was because of the impact of the financial crisis, there were not many cars running on the road, but there were many Korean men with briefcases on the sidewalks of the road. NCSoft seems to be not far from the Intercontinental Hotel, where Mr. Zhang is staying, and the convoy stopped in front of a building after only about a 10-minute drive.
Park Meixi opened the curtain and glanced out, then turned to Zhang Lexing and said, "Boss, this is it, the office of NCSoft is in this building." ”
Zhang Lexing pushed the car door and got out of the car, looked up at the building in front of him, the building seemed to have twelve or three floors, not too high, the appearance was slightly old, the billboard on the top of the building was also blank, and he couldn't see the Korean characters on the door number at all, but it didn't matter, as long as NCSoft was in this place.
After the others got off one after another, Zhang Lexing took the lead, others followed, and the group walked to the building, through the lobby downstairs, and came to the front of the elevator. It just so happened that an elevator opened the door, and several sturdy men came out of it, looking fierce and vicious, but Zhang Lexing also had many bodyguards here, so nothing unpleasant happened.
After these fierce men walked away, two bodyguards stepped forward to check the elevator first, and after confirming that there was no problem, they made a safe gesture, and Zhang Lexing and his party walked into the elevator. As soon as she entered the elevator, Park Mi-hee reached out and pressed the floor button on the 9th floor, and then explained to Zhang Lexing: "Boss, the office of NCSoft is on the ninth floor, and the first office on the right hand side of the elevator is where they are." ”
Zhang Lexing nodded, turned his gaze to the floor indicator screen, watched the numbers on it beat little by little, starting from "1" and slowly becoming "9", with the sound of "ding", the elevator door slowly slid open to both sides, and the ninth floor arrived. As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, Zhang Lexing noticed the oncoming sign, but the Korean characters on it were not incomprehensible at all, but fortunately, he turned to the right, and immediately saw the signboard of NCSoft company, although other words could not be understood, but the English letters "NCSoft" were still very conspicuous, Zhang Lexing knew that he was not looking for the wrong place, so he reached out and pushed open the glass door of the office of NCSoft company, and walked inside.
……
Jin Zechen sat depressed in his independent office, since the beginning of the year he and a group of like-minded friends established NCSoft company, the company's business has not improved, at first the company's business is to provide enterprises with network integration solutions, as well as the development of Internet software, its first set of official products is "NCHTML editor", on which NCSoft company made a little money. However, Jin Zejin was not satisfied with just making a network integration solution, his dream was to make a great online game, like the "Kingdom of the Wind" developed by his friend Song Jae-kyung, who is currently working at Nexon, and later changed his goal to Richard Galriot's "Network Genesis".
After officially devoting himself to the development of online games, Jin Zechen found that his company's young men were able to develop commercial software and make some solutions, but they never knew the direction of developing games, not only could not think of any good game ideas, but even if there were ready-made ideas, they could not think of a good way to implement them, and they barely came up with one, but they became a four-like that couldn't play at all, not only lost the money they earned before, but the company also owed some foreign debts.
So far, Jin Zechen has only two choices, either to completely dispel the idea of developing online games, to honestly go back to do network integration solutions, and occasionally to develop some Internet software, and the other is to break the kettle, one way to the black, and insist on the game development to the end. In the end, Jin Zechen, who was unwilling, chose the second path, but apparently relying on the company's current team, it would take a long time to develop a decent game, and he didn't have that much time to wait, nor did he have so much money to burn, so he thought of his friend Song Jae-kyung, whom he met during his military service. It just so happened that Nexon had encountered financial problems and could hardly operate, and under the temptation of Kim Zechen, Song Jae-kyung jumped to NCSoft with his team, and Kim Zechen managed to get some funds, and the company's game development project "Paradise" finally started smoothly.
Song Zaijing is a veteran in the game industry, and after about a month, he led the development team to make a decent demo version of the game, and the overall progress of development was about 20%. It should have been very smooth, Jin Zechen had even negotiated with two large companies, but at this time, the financial crisis developed into South Korea, and one of the two large companies went bankrupt, and the other was acquired by others, so the previous intention was naturally invalidated. But by this time, Jin Zechen found that he couldn't find a company willing to invest in games, and many companies that had been in the waist before went bankrupt, contracted, and resold, and everyone was too busy to take care of themselves, and some people cared about whether a small game development company was dead or alive.
In desperation, Jin Zechen finally did what he had been unwilling to do, borrowed a sum of money from the finance company, plus the money borrowed from relatives, he could finally ensure that the development of "Paradise" could be completed smoothly, and the company's daily operation would not have problems, but it also brought side effects, starting from this week, from time to time, a few guys with big shoulders and round waists came up to sit in the company, and did not mention the matter of dunning, but it disturbed the company's peace, and even the development progress of "Paradise" was affected a little.
Just when Jin Zechen was almost desperate, he suddenly received a contact number from Asia Interactive, although the two companies have not cooperated, but Jin Zechen, the name of Asia Interactive, has heard of it, although he can't figure out why Asia Interactive is looking for him, but he can't help but feel refreshed, and sighed in his heart: "As long as Asia Interactive is willing to invest, "Paradise" will definitely not have a problem. Could it be that it's time for me to run?"
But what happened today almost made Jin Zechen not angry, I don't know why, those guys from the financial company actually came to the company in advance, if this is seen by the people of Asian interaction, it is estimated that there will be no hope. Jin Zechen was in a hurry, and begged for a long time, and finally invited these offended guys away, and he had just returned to the office and sat down, and before he could get out of his depressed mood, his secretary Jin Yingzhen knocked on the door and came in.
"Mr. Zechen, the people from Asia Interactive are here. Kim Young-jin walked in and whispered.
"Ahh
"There were so many of them that they couldn't sit in the reception room, so I had to let them sit in the conference room. ”
"Okay, you go out first, I'll go right over. ”
After Kim Young-jin left, Kim Taek-jin took out a comb from the drawer, combed his somewhat disheveled hair, and then straightened his clothes before walking to the company's conference room.
……
When Zhang Lexing and the others walked into the NCSoft company, those men in black suits with expressionless faces startled Jin Yingzhen, she thought it was the accomplices of the previous gang coming, she couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaimed: "What are you doing again?"
"What are you doing again?" a woman in the middle of the group stepped forward and said in Korean, "Miss, I don't understand what you mean, we are Asian, we have contacted you before, Mr. Kim Taek-chen should know." ”
After the woman finished speaking, she turned her head and whispered a few words to a young man beside her, Jin Yingzhen blinked, she was clear about the fact that the people of Asian interaction were going to visit, obviously these people in front of her were not here to find trouble, and now her heart was finally put back in her stomach.
"Hello everyone, welcome to NCSoft! I am the administrative secretary of the company, my name is Kim Young-jin. Kim Young-jin greeted the visitors with a smile while silently counting the number of people in her mind.
But after counting the number of visitors, Jin Yingzhen was worried again, because the company has not been in business for a long time, and there are not many visiting guests, that is, there are only two or three people occasionally, so the company's reception room area is not large, and it is no problem to entertain three or five visitors, but there are more than ten people in front of her, and it is not impossible to shoehorn into the reception room, but that would be too rude, but fortunately, she immediately remembered that the room that the company had rented as a conference room was relatively large, and it had been arranged three days ago, and it was just used now. So Jin Yingzhen led Zhang Lexing and others to the conference room, and after carefully serving tea, he hurriedly went to inform Jin Zechen, the president of the company.
……
Zhang Lexing sat in the conference room of NCSoft company, watching Jin Yingzhen busily pour the tea, confess the crime and leave in a hurry, and only reappeared after a few minutes, not daring to think that this time it brought good news.
"I'm sorry, everyone, please wait a little longer, Mr. Zechen will be here soon. Kim Young-jin bowed and said apologetically.
At this moment, a man in a striped suit walked in from outside the conference room, and as soon as he entered the door, he apologized again and again: "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, I'm Jin Zechen." ”
Welcome to the majority of book friends to come and read, the latest, fastest, and hottest serialized works are all here!