In 1978, China began to reform and open up, and on August 12, 1981, IBM officially released the first PC in history, and since then mankind has entered the era of personal computers.

Only two years later, Liu Chuanzhi and 10 computer companies, with 200,000 yuan of start-up capital invested by the Institute of Computer Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rented a communication room in Yanjing and registered a company called "New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

Another year later, this new technology development company launched the first Hanka product with Lenovo function, "Lenovo Hanka", so the brand name Lenovo finally appeared.

In the 90s, Lenovo finally began to assemble and produce Lenovo personal computers with its own brand, but the English trademark displayed after these computers were turned on was not Lenovo, but Legend - legend.

Legend is a very common word, for example, in 2007, the famous black movie star Will Smith starred in a one-man play "i-am-legend" that film critics said could get an Oscar, and the Chinese name of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie was translated as "I Am Legend".

What if the name of this movie was translated as "I Am Lenovo"?

Well...... Lenovo, anything is possible.

Well, this joke is a bit cold, because Uncle Li Ning will go to the court to sue Lian Liu Chuanzhi for infringement.

So to get back to the point, if Meng Zhe is not mistaken, in 95 or 96 years, Lenovo, which still used the legend trademark, has successfully achieved the first place in the mainland's market share. Then, Lenovo went public overseas or something, acquired IBM's personal computer business, and turned the old ThinkPad brand that Meng Zhe is still using into a sub-brand of Lenovo...... The most important thing is that after discovering that the brand "legend" in almost all countries has been registered, Lenovo had to spend a lot of effort to recreate a new trademark derived from the Latin root, Lenovo, and then spent a lot of money and energy to promote the new brand.

In the original time and space, it was obviously impossible for Liu Chuanzhi to intersect with Meng Zhe, so when Liu Chuanzhi introduced himself, Meng Zhe reacted only after he was stunned.

Speaking of which, Liu Chuanzhi is also the first world-renowned entrepreneur Meng Zhe has seen after his rebirth.

While shaking hands with Liu Chuanzhi, Meng Zhe had already begun to think about Liu Chuanzhi's intentions, he didn't think that Liu Chuanzhi was overwhelmed by breakfast, so he took a plane and a bus to run thousands of miles, and came to Tianjiao Club to eat and see the strange.

Fortunately, Meng Zhe's doubts were quickly solved, and Liu Chuanzhi said the purpose of his trip after visiting the magazine and Jiji Animation Studio.

"We Lenovo, I hope that you can be written by Xiao Meng, draw a comic that can promote our Lenovo, if the effect is good after launch, our company will invest more in the comic to shoot the comic into a serial-style cartoon for playback."

Liu Chuanzhi said to Meng Zhe, and after thinking about it, he added with a smile: "I heard that comics are priced by sheets, and I also know that Xiao Meng, your comic manuscript remuneration is very high on the side of the book, so we will calculate the price of 100 yuan per comic...... What do you think? ”

Belch?

Is this the purpose of Liu Chuanzhi's trip? It doesn't make sense...... Liu Chuanzhi: Where did this idea come from? Shouldn't the "Haier Brothers" invested and filmed by Haier Group be produced and broadcast in 96?

Therefore, after pondering for a moment, Meng Zhe looked up at Liu Chuanzhi and replied, "Mr. Liu, your proposal is a bit too sudden, can I consider it before making a decision?"

It's just that what Meng Zhe said, but Liu Chuanzhi regarded it as a prevarication of the low price, so Liu Chuanzhi's expression changed from a smile to a sincere one: "Xiao Meng, let me say something rude - even if it's a turn, it's your turn to take care of our local enterprises!" ”

These words made Meng Zhe inexplicable, and he asked in surprise: "Mr. Liu, what do you say...... Where to start? ”

So, Liu Chuanzhi said the reason why he said this sadly: "Xiao Meng, the "Chess Soul" you painted set off a wave of learning Go in the whole of China and even in the book, and then the Chess Academy took advantage of the opportunity to invest in the production of the animation of the Chess Soul, and I heard that the second day after the cartoon was broadcast, the Chess Theater was overcrowded. And your "Light Girl", after Yamaha invested in the anime, their instrument sales skyrocketed by 30% that month! ”

After saying this, Liu Chuanzhi didn't wait for Meng Zhe to speak, and added: "Xiao Meng, if you think that the remuneration of the manuscript is low, even if you open your mouth to increase the price, this can be negotiated slowly - business is all negotiated!" ”

After listening to Liu Chuanzhi's words, Meng Zhe was a little embarrassed, although he had heard of the influence of the chess soul and the light girl on the side of the book, but he didn't even know so much about Liu Chuanzhi!

But since Liu Chuanzhi is so moved to 'benefit' with affection, Meng Zhe didn't say anything anymore, obviously it was unreasonable, so he could only smile bitterly and said: "Mr. Liu, the two comics of Chess Soul and Light Girl, originally I really didn't expect to be sponsored by this chess academy and Yamaha Company and then made into a commercial surname...... And what, I just said that I thought about it, not because I think about how low the price is, but because this thing is really not easy to do-you see, this chess academy invested in the chess soul because the chess soul tells the story of Go, and Yamaha invested in the light girl because the light sound happened to play a musical instrument......"

Meng Zhe's answer made Liu Chuanzhi show a puzzled expression, so he said, "Isn't this problem easy to solve?" Xiao Meng, why don't you just conceive a comic related to PC computers? ”

Belch?

Conceive a comic with a PC?

The online game version of the fate of the night that we conceived, it seems that what happens to be related to the PC computer?

Therefore, Meng Zhe muttered strangely: "This, it's really ......"

"What? Really?! Xiao Meng, have you already conceived a comic book related to computers?! Liu Chuanzhi's ears were terrifying, and Meng Zhe's low muttering was clearly heard by him.

Hearing Liu Chuanzhi's surprised voice, Meng Zhe was embarrassed to deny it, so he could only pinch his nose and say, "Please come with me." ”

After speaking, Meng Zhe led the way and took Liu Chuanzhi and others to the door of his office and studio. Turning his head and glancing at the four entourages who followed Liu Chuanzhi's buttocks, thanks to the lesson of Zhu Jianqiang's stealing of creativity, Meng Zhe decided to be careful, so he ordered: "Editor Xiao Zhao, please take everyone to visit the editorial office again......"

"Let's follow this editor Xiao Zhao and visit around again!" Liu Chuanzhi is a smart person, of course he can hear the off-string sound in Meng Zhe's words.

After editor Xiao Zhao, who was in charge of the reception, left with Liu Chuanzhi's four attachés, Meng Zhe pushed away his office and studio and invited Liu Chuanzhi and Kong Lan into the room.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, there's a mess in the house." Meng Zhe threw a large stack of messy drawings on the coffee table in the house, and said to Liu Chuanzhi with understanding when he took it away.

Since it is an office and a studio, and it is a room that idle people are not allowed to enter, the environment is obviously not much better, and Meng Zhe is not the kind of master who does not sweep the world without sweeping a room, right?

Liu Chuanzhi naturally didn't care too much about this, he even helped Meng Zhe clean up the sketches scattered on the sofa, and Liu Chuanzhi didn't forget to take the time to take a look or two when he was cleaning up the sketches.

After seeing the character settings from various angles on the sketch, as well as the large paragraphs of text settings marked in the blank space everywhere, Liu Chuanzhi felt that he had decided to make this trip himself...... Undoubtedly correct!

Before coming to Tianjiao Club,Liu Chuanzhi also went to the Red Leaf Computer Animation Company in Yanjing to investigate,If you haven't seen the TV animation version of "Chess Soul" and "Light Sound Girl" produced by Yu Ben, Liu Chuanzhi will think that the "Haier Brothers" sample film produced by Red Leaf is very well-made, but the problem is that Liu Chuanzhi has already watched the TV animation of "Chess Soul" and "Light Sound Girl" produced by Yu Ben, not to mention, and even Meng Zhe's version of the two comics has been read!

Yes, although "Haier Brothers" has not yet been produced, how could the well-informed Liu Chuanzhi not have heard of it? Haier invested 60 million to make cartoons, such a big thing...... I don't know if it's a problem, right?

It's just that after inspecting Momiji, Liu Chuanzhi gave up the job of also producing animation, and handed it over to Momiji Animation, which should have accumulated a lot of production experience.

Then, Liu Chuanzhi heard the news that the well-made "Chess Soul" and "Light Girl" TV animation, a large part of the middle paintings and original paintings, were completed by the Jiji Animation Studio established by Meng Zhe.

Therefore, Liu Chuanzhi suddenly visited Tianjiao Club and caught Meng Zhe off guard.

Liu Chuanzhi didn't know much about the production of cartoons, and he thought that since a large part of the middle paintings and original paintings were completed by Meng Zhe's Jiji Animation Studio, it should be easy and natural to make cartoons, right?

Well, theoretically, Liu Chuanzhi's idea is not wrong, and it is indeed a cartoon to film these original paintings and intermediate paintings, and then play them back continuously. But the problem is that the cartoon played in this way does not have op: (opening), that is, the opening song; There is no ed: (ending), which is the ending song; No BGM: (Back-Ground-Music) background music...... It's a silent cartoon that doesn't even have character dubbing!

Although in Chaplin's time, silent films were considered to be unsurpassed, and after the advent of sound films, public opinion even thought that dubbing and music were meaningless burdens, but now in this era, silent cartoons are ...... Burn money to play retro?

But Liu Chuanzhi, who doesn't know anything about animation production, just didn't notice that in Meng Zhe's Jiji Animation Studio, although there are several intermediate painters who are quite good at painting, there is no music producer, and there is no voice actor, that is, voice actor!

No way, who calls the art industry to specialize?

At this time, Liu Chuanzhi only saw Meng Zhe's detailed and serious character design map, and gave birth to Meng Zhe, a legendary genius comic boy, not in vain, but because of the trust of hard work.

Then, Liu Chuanzhi saw the setting drawings of Meng Zhe's version of "The Night of Destiny Stopped", as well as the background of the story.

Speaking of which, although Meng Zhe planned to elevate Fate into a virtual online game world in the future time and space, in order to make the story more realistic, he also set up a huge computer company, and this fictional computer company Meng Zhe originally planned to use the name - Altria.

There is no doubt that Altria is the name of Saber Artoria, because the name of the computer company is Altria, so it is not logical for the amnesiac hero to name his Saber demon Artoria?

Of course, Meng Zhe would not say this to Liu Chuanzhi, lest Liu Chuanzhi logically propose to change the name of the Knight King to Legend, right?

How do you read legend? Not...... Lejoande?

Oh, isn't this the Orleans maiden and Joan of Arc who were ruthlessly abandoned by the French aristocracy and burned to death by the Burgundians after being captured?

Oh, Joan of Arc also seems to be a good saber, fighting the Burgundians and the English to save her homeland, but after being captured, she didn't even have anyone to pay for her rescue...... In the era of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, it was said that the captive 'family' could redeem a person as long as he could pay a ransom.

When he briefly told Liu Chuanzhi what the story of fate was, Meng Zhe couldn't help but use two things in his heart, and diverged to Joan of Arc. Of course, Meng Zhe also understood that Joan of Arc just had to think about it, and if he really wanted to paint it, he was afraid that it would cause trouble, because Joan of Arc had already been canonized as a saint by Christianity, and it seemed that he was one of the most popular saints in Christianity.

So, Meng Zhe regained his mind and told the story of the online game version of fate: "...... In this comic, the virtual game helmet developed by this supercomputer company not only allows people who use game helmets to play to enter a deep sleep, but also emits various bioelectricity in a timely manner, so that people who practice martial arts in the game are like they have really been cultivated! That's why they developed this game of Destiny Stop, where people, especially the Chinese people, can improve their general qualities...... As for the main character......"

While listening carefully to Meng Zhe's story, Liu Chuanzhi was also looking at the character design pictures that Meng Zhe kept handing him, and this illustrated mode made him quickly understand what kind of story this "Destiny Stopped Night" was about.

"Xiao Meng, what do you mean by changing this computer company, which you originally named Altria, to our Lenovo?" Obviously, Liu Chuanzhi also understood the position that Meng Zhe planned to arrange for Lenovo.

"Yes!" Meng Zhe's answer is also simple and clear.

So Liu Chuanzhi hesitated, although Meng Zhe, the setting of "The Night of Destiny Stopped", belongs to the world's No. 1 supercomputer company, and he also wants Lenovo to have that, but the problem is that the exposure rate is not very high?

"Xiao Meng, can you give us associations and design a virtual character? Or this one simply ......" Liu Chuanzhi rummaged through the character design pictures he put on the coffee table for a while, and then picked up the original male protagonist of "The Night of Destiny Stopped", Emiya Coyote...... Ahem, it's the setting art of Emiya Shirou.

Turning the coyote's setting map 180 degrees and sending it to Meng Zhe, Liu Chuanzhi continued: "How about calling this little Meng's actor name Lenovo that you haven't named yet?" ”

Speaking of which, Liu Chuanzhi is too satisfied with Meng Zhe's 'set' coyote surname - a hero fan, an idealist, a simple surname, a serious and consistent work, never refuses the requests made by others, and vows to become a "partner of justice" to save all those who are suffering.

Ah——!h

What a likable teenager this is!

Therefore, using the name Lenovo will definitely make people feel a sense of trust when they see Lenovo's computer again!

"Put the earth...... Call him Lenovo? After listening to Liu Chuanzhi's words, Meng Zhe wanted to complain in his heart: Boss...... You're cheating!

But after thinking about it carefully, Meng Zhe suddenly felt that it was not a big deal to change the name of the coyote to association. After all, after localization, Meng Zhe can't continue to let the coyote carry the name of Emiya Shirou and be passed on by the teenagers by word of mouth, right?

Besides, Saber Artoria, who was remembered by the teenagers and was clearly just a sad one, who would remember who the Weigong children's shoes were?

Besides, Nasu Mushroom and Takeuchi Chong seem to be the setting of the original version of fate, the coyote as the master is a female surname, and the summoned Saber King Arthur is a male surname.

So, since even the surnames of the master and the demon can be reversed, what does it matter if the name is changed?

In fact, the name Lenovo is pretty good, isn't it?

Of course, the most important thing for Meng Zhe is that after using the name Lenovo, he can think of a new name for the coyote without killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of brain cells. Thinking of this, Meng Zhe finally nodded and said that he could accept the new name of this coyote...... What are you doing with such a pleasant thing, and making you so nervous?

Seeing Meng Zhe nodded, Liu Chuanzhi also smiled again, so he said again: "Then it's decided, the name of the amnesiac actor is Lenovo, and the name Chinese of the world-class computer company is also Lenovo, and the English name is Legend ......."

It's just that this time Liu Chuanzhi didn't finish speaking, Meng Zhe expressed his opposition, and Meng Zhe said as if unintentionally: "Mr. Liu, the meaning of the word legend should be legend, right?" Using this word as your associated English trademark, is there something that doesn't make sense? And the meaning of this word is very good, so in other countries, especially in Western countries, it should be easy to register, right? ”

Lenovo or something, although it has moved its headquarters to the United States in later generations, but it is after all a company that has gone out from China, isn't it? Therefore, Meng Zhe felt that reminding Liu Chuanzhi at this time could be regarded as supporting domestic products.

Obviously, Liu Chuanzhi is not the first time he has encountered this problem, so he casually explained: "Yes, legend has the meaning of legend and legendary character, it really can't accurately express the original intention of Lenovo, but everyone says that Lenovo can be so big now is a legend, and this legend will continue in the future!" On the other hand, because the personal computer we bought from Lenovo already has this name, and we have a subsidiary registered in Hong Kong, so there is no way to change the ......."

After a pause, Liu Chuanzhi added half a sentence with a slightly wry smile: "Now, our Lenovo has not even achieved the largest in the domestic market, where can we have time to go to foreign countries?" ”

Since this is the case, it is inconvenient for Meng Zhe to say anything, he can only add with a smile: "Hehe, it's me who is too worried." ”

The next time is to discuss various details, such as copyright or something - because Meng Zhe insisted on not selling the copyright of the characters, so the two parties finally signed only a licensing contract with an exclusive surname, the story copyright and character copyright of this "Destiny Stopped Night" belong to Meng Zhe personally, but the funder Lenovo has the right to use the comic characters and comic stories for corporate promotion activities.

As long as Lenovo does not announce that it will give up or stop renewing the license fee, Meng Zhe will not be able to use "The Night of Destiny Stops" to cooperate with other computer manufacturers or anything...... In addition to insisting on not selling the copyright of the story and the characters, the others were all negotiated by Kong Lan with Liu Chuanzhi and the staff he brought, but it turned out that Kong Lan was a good business negotiator.

Lenovo will pay 200 RMB per sketch for Meng Zhe's "The Night of Destiny Stops", which is double the price that Liu Chuanzhi originally planned to offer.

Moreover, Liu Chuanzhi also promised that as long as the comics he drew were popular, Lenovo would immediately pay another 500,000 yuan, and this money would be used as start-up funds for TV animation.

But something unexpected happened, Liu Chuanzhi, who paid real money, hoped that Meng Zhe would also change the name of this comic, and the name he proposed suddenly was: "i-am-legend"...... Well, Meng Zhe was embarrassed again, and then he said that he would think about it and reply in a few days...... So, after sending Liu Chuanzhi and his party away, the sad Meng Zhe began to look for candidates for ghostwriting "Light Sound Girl" and "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms".

Meng Zhe was even considering whether to learn from Huang Yulang's comics completed by one person and change them to be completed by the division of labor and cooperation of many people - in the past, in order to expand the production of comics, Huang Yulang divided the production of comics into various steps such as drafting (drawing the composition), hooking (painting the head of the character), barging (painting the body of the character), and filling in the head (only responsible for the hair of the character).

Therefore, at that time, many cartoon people in Hong Kong, when they told about their initial entry into the industry, said "in this set of comics is responsible for hooking the head" or "that set of comics is responsible for refutation".

If you have a great story, then it is perfectly feasible to gather people who are good at it and draw comics in a way similar to assembly line work.

And compared with Huang Yulang, Meng Zhe's biggest advantage as a reborn person is that his brain is filled with comics, novels, and games that will definitely become popular in future time and space?

There are so many comics, novels and games that are destined to become popular, even if Meng Zhe draws them alone, it is completely impossible to complete them!

The plot of a chapter in the novel,If you change it to a comic or animation, you may need to draw several episodes to show it all.,It's like the post-80s generation should have seen "Football Player", sometimes it's a simple plot to break through the opponent's penalty area with a ball from your own half, it dares to give you several episodes in a row, and the ball hasn't been taken past the midfield!

However, even if the plot is dragged like this, will children watching cartoons find it boring? On the contrary, most animation fans will find it very enjoyable!

Generally speaking, one episode of an anime should be several episodes of the manga, so if you imagine it a little, you can know how slow the plot of the manga can be.

But when you draw a comic, it's a different situation, normally a more delicate manga takes several hours to finish, so Ken Obata is already a hard-working manga artist who submits more than 20 drawings every week with a very stable stability!

The reason why Meng Zhe draws relatively fast is because he copied many comics many times before he was reborn, so he almost didn't have to think about anything when he put pen to paper...... But that's it, Meng Zhe also had to hand over all the drawing work of "Chess Soul", "Light Voice Girl" and most of the follow-up work of "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms" to others to complete, to get time to play with the two big loli of the Jiang family.

Some time ago, in order to draw "Sword of Immortals", Meng Zhe sacrificed all his spare time to continue and spent all the time he spent with his wife on drawing comics - although part of the reason for doing this was that Meng Zhe wanted to use this way to cool down the jealousy of his future wife caused by kissing his sister-in-law by mistake.

This method is still effective, after seeing Meng Zhe drawing comics to the point of almost forgetting to sleep and eat, Jiang Weirui's empathetic little girl immediately transformed the original slight vinegar into a sense of concern for Meng Zhe...... Every day, Xiao Nizi will never forget to tell Meng Zhe not to forget to eat well because she is busy talking about comics.

Meng Zhe, who is familiar with his wife's surname, succeeded in this way, not to mention, he also killed two birds with one stone, and also completed the short story "Sword of Immortals" published in Anime Information Magazine.

Speaking of which, the two girls who have been working as assistants for Meng Zhe's comic "Stupid Guardian of the Three Kingdoms" have been able to skillfully imitate the style of Meng Zhe's work, probably because these two girls, like Zhang Cheng and Liu Kang, are all high-achieving students from the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts.

Therefore, Meng Zhe can recruit two more people with confidence, and then hand over the stupid painting work to these two girls.

The problem is "Light Sound Girl", and I don't know if the painting style without a nose is too advanced, or because I have no professional training, I have changed several times as an assistant to "Light Sound Girl", but Meng Zhe has never found a suitable person who can 'OEM'.

Fortunately, after thinking about it carefully for a long time, Meng Zhe really remembered a suitable candidate - at the last annual meeting, Luo Xiaoyue, a left-handed natural girl, drew a picture of a soft-sounded girl not only with a three-dimensional sense, but also with a good character, isn't it?

But that Luo Xiaoyue seems to be a college freshman, and her family will definitely oppose her if she is recruited to draw comics, right?

In these years, college students don't have to worry about their jobs when they go out, and they give up their college careers to do 'broken comics' with an uncertain future...... If we are parents, we will also oppose it!

Meng Zhe was a little entangled, and then in the entanglement, he found the address left by Luo Xiaoyue and wrote a letter to Luo Xiaoyue.

(To be continued)