After arranging the acquisition of the shares of Hutchison Group, Lin Yanming, who was in charge of legal business, also came to Chen Zhiwen's office.

"Chen Sheng, the photo is here, look at it." Lin Yanming handed over a stack of photos.

"Yes, that's good news, I heard that the management of the Hilton Hotel has taken us to court?" Chen Zhiwen took the photo and said with a smile, the photo is two men at the back of two cars, the doors are open, and some of them have photos of moving cardboard boxes, which are obviously cigarettes and alcohol, etc., and the environment of the photo is in the woods on the side of the road, which looks abnormal.

"Yes, the court also contacted me, saying that unless we have enough evidence to prove that Hilton has a major breach of contract, otherwise it will be difficult to win this lawsuit, and a friend of mine in the court advised us to pay the money, otherwise we will have to pay the other party's attorney fees and all kinds of losses if we really go to court." Lin Yanming said with some embarrassment, although it was because of the pot of the previous domineering contract, but as the head of the company's legal affairs, he lost so much in this first lawsuit, but this is also a helpless thing, Hilton's domineering contract is signed clearly, and he can't win if he invites the ten most powerful lawyers in Hong Kong.

"So the core is the evidence, this photo doesn't seem to be enough, right?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It's not enough, but with the internal report of Village and our promotion, it is enough for the Independent Commission Against Corruption to file a case." Lin Yanming said.

"I remember that the person before didn't want to be a whistleblower?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Just get the money in place." Lin Yanming said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll wait to see the show." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

Hilton, Hong Kong:

In a conference room, more than a dozen Chinese people and two blonde ghosts are sitting together.

"Mr. Silas, that's all the room occupancy data for the last month, and from the previous six consecutive months, the number of overseas arrivals is increasing, and we have managed to make a profit for nine consecutive months, and I think next year, this figure will increase by at least 20%." Du Guoming was in front of a mobile blackboard, explaining the data of his department in high spirits.

"Very good, the U.S. headquarters will be pleasantly surprised when they get this data, and I think that this Christmas, each of us can have a rich bonus." Silas, the head of the Hilton hotel in Hong Kong, said with a smile.

"In the last quarter, the owner's compensation hasn't been given to us, right? What's going on with the courts? Another blonde ghost guy suddenly asked, he was the financial director of the Hilton Hotel.

Hilton Hotel's business outside the United States generally does not send many Americans, but first of all, the boss must be Americans, and so is finance, one controller and one control money.

"No, the court seems to want to mediate, and the owner seems to have softened his attitude." A Chinese said.

Silas smiled and said, "I thought he could be tougher, and next time let him have a little more, I really thought that he would be able to call the shots after buying the property." ”

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and everyone was a little strange, and no one would disturb the high-level meeting, unless there was something important.

The door quickly opened, revealing another of Silas' assistants, followed by several men in suits and tags.

"Who are you?" Silas asked in Cantonese, not very proficient.

The leader of the man in the suit ignored the ghost guy, and directly led people to Du Guoming, saying, "Du Guoming, Mr. Du? ”

"Yes, I am." Du Guoming looked at a few people with some hair bundles.

"Mr. Du, we are the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption, you are suspected of a commercial bribery case, please come back with us to assist in the investigation." The man in the suit said.

"Wait, I'm the legal manager at Hilton, what the hell is going on?" A man with glasses stood up and asked.

"We have received reports that Du Guoming is suspected of taking bribes from a company called Yue Lok to subcontract the business under his authority to this company." Although the man in the suit is arrogant, he still gives face to this kind of big company.

"Our hotel and this Village Company are not government departments, and you have no right to sue if the relevant stakeholders have not pursued them?" The legal manager responded, what problems are handled internally, and must not be managed from the outside, let alone let the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which has just been established and has successively eliminated a large number of government officials, investigate, a Du Guoming is a trivial matter, and the investigation is really deep, who in this conference room dares to say that he has no problem?

"Of course we have the right, this is the authorization of Chen Zhiwen Chen Sheng, the owner of the Hilton Hotel, you can take a look." The man in the suit said calmly: "He is the actual owner of the hotel, is he not a relevant interest?" ”

"This" legal manager was stunned, of course, the hotel owner is a relevant interest person, even if he does not have any right to manage the hotel, but has the right to share dividends from the hotel operation, the hotel management has a problem, which naturally violates the legal rights of the owner.

An interpreter was translating a conversation for Silas, and after listening, he also remained silent, just watching the ICAC people take Du Guoming, whose frightened legs were trembling, away.

Seeing that everyone's faces were not good, the assistant who led the way hurriedly retreated and closed the door.

The scene was quiet, no one should know what to say at this time, in Hong Kong for so many years, this kind of thing has not happened, if it was a few years ago, they would still dare to go up and nag, but now they don't dare, this newly established Independent Commission Against Corruption is very famous in Hong Kong, and the high-level government and police officials don't know how many people have been planted in the hands of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, either going in or fleeing, even many Britons who are high-level government officials, even if Silas is an American, he does not dare to be arrogant.

After a while, Silas said, "Carol, you go to the police station to find out, what is the situation with Manager Du?" ”

"Okay." The assistant on the side hurriedly agreed, and then hurriedly followed after saying goodbye.

"Okay, that's it for the meeting, everyone does their own thing." Silas said with an unchanged face.

The other people at the scene didn't seem to be very good, they were all in a heavy mood, and no one knew that the Independent Commission Against Corruption suddenly attacked Du Guoming, but they still started an investigation into Hong Kong companies. In the past six months, the reputation of the Independent Commission Against Corruption has been too great, and they are still watching dramas in normal times, but they didn't expect that it would be their turn today.

After everyone left, Silas said to the finance manager, "Alan, what do you think is going on?" ”

"Maybe we're going too far." Alan frowned and said, "Then Eric. Chen is also the one who can buy our hotel property for tens of millions of dollars, and we all think he is young, but now it seems that his counterattack has begun. ”

"By striking our men? Even if a person has a problem and is discovered, what if the loss is returned, our hotel will take the lion's share. Silas said disdainfully.

"I'm just suggesting to you, don't underestimate anyone." Alan frowned and said, "This time we broke the rules first, if it really makes a big fuss, we can't explain it to the head office." ”

Although the Hilton contract is strong, and many factors that are not good for you are excluded from the contract, why can such a strong contract still attract people to work with them?

It is nothing more than the global travel agency partnership of the entire hotel group and the experienced hotel management capabilities, which together make the hotel operating costs lower a lot, so that the Hilton Hotel can directly profit without investing in huge properties, and the owners can also get a stable rate of return after investment, even if the Hilton is domineering, but as long as it can ensure profitability, most owners will not care, even if it is a little angry, the money is in place.

But if the money is not in place, no matter how good your contract is, the owner will be just as dissatisfied.

This time, after the owner of the Hilton hotel property in Hong Kong changed, Silas did a survey and found that the new owner did not have a strong background, so he decided to make more profits for the "hotel" in order to improve his KPI, which is already a violation of the rules of the Hilton Hotel, at least on the surface.

Silas thought for a moment and said, "Let's see what's going on, right?" Maybe it's nothing. It's really not good, talk to this Eric again, and at most share a little profit with him. ”

"I hope so." Alan said.

Chen Zhiwen naturally pays attention to the affairs of the Hilton Hotel, but the Independent Commission Against Corruption also has a process for doing things, and Chen Zhiwen only needs to wait.

On the 23rd, Chen Zhiwen attracted an unexpected guest, and Wads came to Hong Kong.

"Sit." Chen Zhiwen took Woz to the sofa in the reception area and said with a smile: "I thought you would come back after New Year's Day, why did you come before Christmas?" ”

For Christmas in Europe and the United States, as for the Chinese New Year in China, almost everyone has to stay at home.

"I spent Christmas alone in Los Angeles last year, so it doesn't matter, I can also travel to Hong Kong, which is also very good." Woz replied with a smile.

"OK, all expenses in Hong Kong will be reimbursed by the company, you have a good time." Chen Zhiwen said politely.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen." Watts is also very casual, very calm in the face of the boss, IT technicians, can eat well wherever he goes, plus he only likes technology and doesn't understand the messy workplace rules.

"So let's get down to business?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"Yes." Wadsz nodded.

"Then you can take a look at it first, this is a simple description of the content of the game, this game has been registered in major countries around the world, and you are responsible for making it electronic." Chen Zhiwen handed over a document.

Atari's first game, Ping Pong, was to forget to register a patent, and as a result, the game that could have earned millions of dollars a year only earned $150,000, and then was forced to stop because the market was full of similar games, and the loss was very large.

Chen Zhiwen naturally will not make this kind of mistake, 72-73 years when the video game market just appeared, can make piracy lose millions of dollars, in today's more mature market, once a mistake is made, the loss may be tens of millions of dollars, not to mention, the current arcade machine, is an important foundation for him to start.

"Okay." WADS TOOK THE DOCUMENT, WHICH WAS DESCRIBED IN BOTH CHINESE AND ENGLISH, HE COULD ONLY READ ENGLISH, AND THE NAME OF THE GAME WAS GREEDY SNAKE.

The setting of the game is very simple, control the direction of the snake with the game handle up and down, left and right, look for something to eat, and you can get a certain number of points for every bite you eat, and the snake's body will eat longer and longer, the longer the body, the more difficult it is to play, you can't touch the wall, you can't bite your body, you can't bite your tail, and when you reach a certain score, you can pass the level, and then continue to play the next level.

"This setting is kind of interesting." Woz said after reading it.

"It's more interesting than Jobs's Arkanoid, isn't it?" Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

"It's different, it's not much different from the back and front to play with bricks, but there are fewer bricks, this greedy snake, the body is getting longer and longer in the back, and the difficulty will increase significantly." Woz said as he looked at the game's intro file again.

This document not only tells about the game's setting, gameplay and rules, but also talks about the difficulty behind it, and also describes it with graphics.

"That's how you challenge yourself, isn't it? Atari's ping-pong and arkanoid, in fact, there is no difficulty, it is completely to speed up the ball from behind, resulting in the user not having time to react. Chen Zhiwen smiled and said.

Woz asked, "So, this snake won't speed up in the late stages?" ”

"No, it's always been a speed, so it's more interesting for players to use their brains to see how to choose a direction." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said.

The biggest point of the snake is that the body is long in the later stage, how to avoid collision, which not only depends on the reaction speed, but also on the brain, when turning, it is necessary to think clearly how to go after the next few steps of the turn, otherwise, a mistake is self-killing.

When this kind of mistake happens, the user will also react to where he went wrong before, and will be more eager to play another game, which is the appeal of the arcade, rather than increasing the speed of the ball like ping pong to eliminate the player.

"That's true, it's just that the algorithm is more complex, and it's not difficult to design a game like this, but to design it to the point where you want users to fail within the time we set, you need to coordinate the algorithm." Woxz thought for a moment and said.

"There's no need to worry too much about this, when the snake is too long, it's easy to fail, as long as we try to put the food near the snake's body, it's too easy to bump." Chen Zhiwen said calmly, although he rarely played Snake in later generations, but similar games have also been played a lot, and it is a normal operation to induce players to fail with bait, so that if the player succeeds, the satisfaction will be greatly improved, and if he fails, he is likely to be in a hurry to play another game.

Of course, this is more suitable for breaking games, such as Mario, Contra and other games, and even Tetris, the gameplay and graphics of Snake are destined to be far less attractive than the former, but for people in the 70s who have not seen the world, such a new game is enough to make them play very high, who can imagine that a 6-year-old child will not play Arkanoid in this era, in this era for Atari net more than $10 million.

"It's okay, it's a lot easier." Woz nodded, placing food near the snake's body would greatly increase the risk of collision, and in this way, the algorithm required for the game would be much simpler, which would reduce his workload and save a lot of chip costs.

"When will it be designed, the first version?" Chen Zhiwen asked.

"It is estimated that it will take about half a month, and I need to design the game first, and then find a way to design the control motherboard with the lowest number of chips." Woxz thought for a moment and said.

"Okay, there is no need to be in such a hurry, the most important thing is to reduce the number of chips." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, the arcade machine is very important, but it is still a waiting period of half a month, and the most important thing at present is to ensure the quality of the game and the cost of the chip, and to find a balance between the two.

"OK, I'll get this done as soon as I can." Wadsz agreed.

PS: That's a chapter for today! Remember to read it, everyone!

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