After taking off, the "Elf" refueled in Alaska and rested, and finally arrived at London Heathrow Airport on the afternoon of November 5.

Hideki Hanyu walks the T4 terminal, which just opened this year.

At the exit location, the British Library Association already has reception staff waiting.

After the other party met and greeted, they began to enthusiastically introduce Hideki Hanyu.

There are all sides, even the terminal building.

"Mr. Hanyu, the terminal you are in just opened on April 1 this year, and the unveiling ceremony was presided over by Prince Charles and Princess Diana themselves.

If all goes well, you'll meet him in three days at the ballroom at Buckingham Palace, one of the most important events for members of the British royal family and has been around for centuries.

After the award, Mr. Hanyu can also take his relatives on a tour of Buckingham Palace......"

The receptionist, Joden, was full of words and was full of interest to introduce Hanyu Hideki.

That posture feels more professional than a tour guide.

And as long as the British royal family, traditional aristocracy, or other British things are mentioned, the pride in the words is overflowing, very British old-fashioned.

When Hideki Hanyu and his party left the terminal, they sat down to pick up the Bentley.

Hanyu Hideki took advantage of the other party's introduction to pause for a while, and hurriedly asked.

"Mr. Jorden, I would like to know what else I have on my itinerary before the award is awarded."

"The itinerary is not complicated, Mr. Hanyu, it is late today, and then you can check into the hotel to rest, because Ling's assistant refused the association's hotel reception, so we have no arrangements in this regard."

"Thank you for the kindness of the association, this is my request." Hideki Hanyu said.

Just like attending an event in Amerika Boston, he didn't fancy the hotel offered by the organizers.

He asked his assistant to book the Dorchester Hotel, a long-established luxury hotel built in 1931 in London's Mayfair district, with a bird's-eye view of Hyde Park and close to Buckingham Palace.

Staying in this hotel also made it easier for him to attend the award ceremony a few days later.

And the Bentley, who came to the airport to pick up today, was also provided by the hotel.

"The itinerary is like this, tomorrow there is a writers' exchange event that Mr. Hanyu will attend, and in the evening the vice president will have dinner with Mr. Hanyu.

On the seventh day, it was a meeting with Hanyu-san book fans.

On the 8th, we will arrange to take Mr. Hanyu on a tour of London......"

Listening to what the other party said, anyway, in the past few days before the award, I don't want to be idle except today.

However, if it comes, it will be safe.

His picture books sell so well in the UK, but he has never held an event, so it is also appropriate to have a good exchange.

Upon arrival at the Dorchester Hotel, Jordon said goodbye and said that he would be picked up tomorrow morning for the event.

Hideki Hanyu said goodbye politely.

Then led by the hotel service staff, he entered the penthouse suite he had booked.

With an area of more than 100 square meters, it is the best suite in the Dorchester Hotel.

However, in Hanyu Hideki's view, the decoration is more than luxurious, but because it is too old, the degree of modernization is insufficient, giving people a feeling of being old and not "stretching" enough.

But considering that it's only 1986, I can't ask too much.

Just as the hotel service staff helped to put the salute, he changed into comfortable pajamas, and was about to rest, when there was a sudden knock on the door.

After opening the door and seeing the two people standing outside, Hideki Hanyu looked a little surprised.

"How are you?"

It's no wonder that Hanyu Hideki was surprised, just because of the appearance of these two people in front of him, he didn't know it at all, and he really didn't expect it.

On the left, is the head of Cloud Pictures, Fred Webb.

On the right, is the technical director of Genie Entertainment, the head of the Neon and America Hardware Research Institute, Tetsuya Aragaki.

The former he just met in Los Angeles last month.

As for the latter, it was a long time since we last met.

It's not that Hideki Hanyu doesn't want to see Tetsuya Aragaki, but it's also a high-level executive he personally excavated, cultivated, and promoted.

From electronic pets, handhelds, consoles, and arcade motherboards, Tetsuya Aragaki has participated almost all the way, and the young man who worked in the post-production department of the cloud film is now the mainstay of helping Elf Entertainment conquer the world.

It's just that Tetsuya Aragaki doesn't see the end of the dragon on weekdays, either hiding in the research institute to preside over the work, or Neon and America running at both ends.

It's really difficult for Hideki Hanyu, the hand-shaken shopkeeper, to see each other.

However, after being surprised, Hanyu Hideki said to the two, "Let's talk about it first." ”

After asking the two of them to get to the sofa in the living room, Hanyu Hideki asked, "What are you two doing in England all of a sudden?" ”

Fred Webber glanced at Tetsuya Aragaki and replied, "I'm here to contact the Tolkien Estate. ”

When Hideki Hanyu heard this, he didn't immediately ask about the contact, but asked Fred Webb something else first.

"Is the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit rights negotiated in Saul Zaynz's hands?"

Fred Webb replied, "The person in charge of the other company is willing to talk, but the bid is not low, and we are still talking." ”

"How much do they ask?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

"The two works totaled 15 million US dollars, and when Saul Zaynz bought the two copyrights from United States, the price would definitely not exceed 3 million, and I think the full copyright of the two works is about 8 million, but now it only talks about 12 million."

Fred Webb says the price and his opinion.

"What about the scope of copyright?"

That's what Hideki Hanyu cares about.

He remembered that the Embracer Group, which bought many well-known IPs such as "Tomb Raider", "Borderlands", "Deus Ex", "Kane's Legacy" and "Thief", finally took the rights to "The Lord of the Rings" from Saul Zaynz.

But that's the worldwide rights to films, games, board games, merchandise, theme parks, and stage productions.

If Saul Zaynz was also selling the full rights at this time, then in Hanyu's eyes, 12 million dollars would be too good a deal.

You must know that in later generations, Amazon just bought the copyright of the TV series "The Lord of the Rings", and spent nearly 300 million US dollars.

Of course, at that time, because of the influence of the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" movies, the IP of Middle-earth was already worth a lot.

Fred Webb replied, "It's a full rights deal." ”

Hearing that it was all copyrighted, Hideki Hanyu immediately made a deal.

"In this way, I will arrange for Elf Entertainment to contact your people, and the two parties will jointly purchase it, just 12 million dollars, complete the transaction as soon as possible, and then divide the relevant copyright with Elf Entertainment after the end."

"Okay, I'll let the person in charge of the negotiation know." Fred Webb replied.

That's when Hideki Hanyu asked, "How did you get in touch with Tolkien's estate committee?" ”

"The estate committee was contacted, but the staff said that only the commission's executor, Mr. Christopher Tolkien, Tolkien's youngest son, could decide on the authorization of the elven diamond."

Fred Webb replied.

"Have you contacted Mr. Christopher Tolkien?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

Christopher Tolkien, he naturally knew.

If John Ronald Riel Tolkien was the founder of Middle-earth, then his third son, Christopher Tolkien, was the one who perfected the series and carried it forward.

For moviegoers, the familiar Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are just a few trickles of the world's vast history.

The original book that really wrote all the stories of Middle-earth was actually "Elven Diamond".

However, when Tolkien died, "The Elven Diamond" had not yet been finalized, and only left his youngest son, Christopher Tolkien, with more than seventy boxes of manuscripts "inheritance".

The book we see in later generations is the result of Christopher Tolkien's careful sorting out of his father's manuscripts, carefully erasing the ambiguities between the fragments of the story.

In the decades that followed, Christopher Tolkien compiled his father's posthumous manuscripts and published a series of stories about Middle-earth.

It wasn't until he was ninety-five years old that Christopher Tolkien passed away when he finished finishing The Fall of Gondorin and bringing the story of Middle-earth to a successful conclusion.

It's as if he exists to relay his father and perfect that fantasy Middle-earth.

Or, a child who grew up listening to his father's stories spent his whole life just to fulfill his father's last wish when he was dying.

At this point, Fred Webb replied.

"I haven't been in touch yet, because Christopher Tolkien doesn't live in England, he went to settle in a small town called Dragignan in Provence, France, a few years ago."

"France?"

Hideki Hanyu muttered to himself.

He still has a lot of respect for Christopher Tolkien.

Because at the beginning of Peter Jackson's production of the "Lord of the Rings" series, the media interviewed Christopher Tolkien and asked him if he thought the movie could show the essence of the Lord of the Rings story.

Christopher Tolkien replied.

"Whereas the average executor wants to maximize the profit of the work, we are the opposite. We just want everyone to understand what is contrary to the spirit of the original book. ”

After the success of the Lord of the Rings films, the story of Middle-earth became popular, but Christopher Tolkien refused to license the story of "The Diamond" and gave up his low-hanging wealth.

For Tolkien's youngest son, it can be seen from the fact that he gave up his promising future at Oxford University and hid in a remote French town all his life to fulfill his father's last wish, and that the other party is not obsessed with material things.

Hideki Hanyu had seen "Belen and Lucien" compiled and published by Christopher Tolkien decades later.

In the story, Belen returns the Elven Diamond to the Elven King, which everyone longs for, and says so.

"Behold, your majesty, I give you this wonderful jewel which you desire, for it is but a trivial thing found by the roadside to me, and I think that the pearl of your palm is much more beautiful than it, but now she belongs to me."

The jewel in Belen's mouth is his wife Lucien.

For Christopher Tolkien, all he cherished was to continue his father's unfinished fantasy story.

Thinking of this, Hideki Hanyu said to Fred Webb.

"You are waiting for me in London for a few days, and I have also received an invitation from the French Children's Book Bookstores Union this time, and when the British medal is over, I will come with you to visit Mr. Christopher Tolkien in France."

"Okay boss." Fred Webb answered.

Then, Hideki Hanyu looked at Tetsuya Aragaki.

Tetsuya Aragaki replied when he saw this.

"I came to the UK for R&D cooperation, and I didn't know that you would come to the UK, but Satoshi Iwata only told me today, and I thought that I hadn't seen the president for a long time, so I came to visit, and I met Mr. Fred at the door."

"That's a coincidence, but since we're together, it's time to have dinner together and have a drink by the way, I heard that this hotel restaurant is good."

After Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, he beckoned the two to the restaurant.

It's just that before going out, he has to change into a new outfit.

Originally, the two of them didn't come, he planned to order something to eat casually in the room, and then quickly rest and fall into jet lag.

The three of them entered the hotel restaurant together, ordered food and chatted while talking.

After a while, Hideki Hanyu asked Tetsuya Aragaki , "Does Genie Entertainment still have R&D partners in the UK?" ”

He actually asked casually.

With the deepening of research and development, in addition to the general direction, he can not play much help in research and development.

After all, he's a layman when it comes to technology.

And he never had the idea of a layman leading an insider.

"It is a computer company located in Cambridge, but they also carry out processor research and development, and just developed a 32-bit processor last year, although the performance is not the best, but there is a great cost advantage, so we put forward a technical consulting intention."

Tetsuya Aragaki explained.

"Uh-"

Hideki Hanyu thought to himself that his company's step was too big.

It wasn't even 1987, and the attention was paid to 32-bit processors.

However, when I heard Tetsuya Aragaki say that the performance is not good, but it is cheap, Hanyu Hideki doesn't care too much.

Everyone says that the performance of the host is better than that of the computer, but in fact, in terms of processor, the required performance of the host has always lagged behind the PC.

The special plane is dedicated, the purpose is single, and the performance is poor, as long as the tuning is good.

"So how is Aragaki-san's cooperation?" Hideki Hanyu asked.

"It's still talking, but I see that they are developing ARM2 processors, and the performance has been further improved, the power consumption has been reduced, and the most important thing is that the cost has been further reduced, but we don't care about power consumption, and we hope to reduce costs."

Tetsuya Aragaki's words made Hanyu Hideki nod, "Cost is indeed more important than power consumption. ”

Although Elf Entertainment sells hosts, it has always been a loss-making business.

In particular, the sixteen-digit model was made in advance, which almost compressed the profit to the limit, almost equal to nothing.

But for now, the 32-bit era is too far away.

In front of you, what stands in the way is the high cost of the processor, a chip is more expensive than a host, who can use it.

In comparison, no one cares about power consumption or anything.

It's not the processor for mobile phones in the era of smart phones......

Wait a minute!

Hideki Hanyu suddenly came back to his senses.

Tetsuya Aragaki said, the name of that processor is ARM2?

It will not be the semiconductor design and software giant ARM that will be acquired by Masayoshi Son and belong to SoftBank.

Thinking of this, Hideki Hanyu asked directly, "What is the name of the company we work with?" ”

Tetsuya Aragaki replied, "Acorn Computers." ”

As soon as he heard the name, Hideki Hanyu thought to himself that it was indeed it.

Acorn Computers.

Founded in the late 70s by the predecessor CPU company, in the mid-80s self-developed processors, its own Archimedes computer because of the simple and easy to use graphics operating system, so it has the name of "British Apple".

But alas, just when their chips were just being developed and Archimedes' computers were widely acclaimed, the home computer market collapsed in the eighties.

Aikang Computer spent a lot of research and development expenses, and had to sell to the Italian Olivetti computer company.

At the end of the eighties, Apple's own Newton project was blocked, and then, on the recommendation of its own engineers, it took a fancy to ARM processors.

At that time, Apple and Aikang Computer were competitors, and it was impossible for Apple to use the chips developed by Aikang Computer.

Therefore, they cooperated with VLSI Technology, the American foundry of Aikang Computer, to spin off the development team of ARM processors from Olivetti Computer Company, the controlling company of Aikang Computer.

It just so happened that Olivetti Computer Company was not optimistic about the future of ARM processors, so it followed Apple's wishes.

In this way, the ARM that monopolized the mobile processor market was born.

Actually, there is another very coincidental thing.

That is now the Shenling Vision managed by Lao Huang, and its main foundry is also VLSI Technology.

Thinking of this, Hideki Hanyu felt that what Apple could do back then, he couldn't do.

Moreover, Apple has a business conflict with Aikang Computer, but Genie Entertainment's game console does not.

The reason why the foundry VLSI is willing to cooperate with Apple is to win over Apple, a big customer.

But in this day and age, to put it mildly, game consoles are the real big customers.

The semiconductor industry came back to life in the mid-to-late '80s thanks to the glorious gaming industry.

After going through the information about ARM in his head, Hideki Hanyu hurriedly asked Tetsuya Aragaki about it.

"Aragaki-san expects to talk to iKang Computer for a long time."

Tetsuya Aragaki looked embarrassed.

"I don't know about this, Aikang Computer has not been doing well recently, it seems that because of financial problems, it is negotiating with an Italian computer company, so it has reduced its investment in research and development of ARM processors.

If this continues, they can't concentrate on working with us, and we have to find someone else, after all, Aikang computer is only one of the technical alternatives. ”

Italian computer company?

Hanyu Hideki thought to himself, could it be that at this time, Aikang Computer was not controlled by Olivetti?

"Is the Italian computer company you are talking about called Olivetti?"

"I don't know, after all, it has nothing to do with my job." Tetsuya Aragaki replied.

"Okay, I got it." Hideki Hanyu didn't ask any more.

Next, because he was thinking about things, he hurriedly ended the dinner with the two.

Returning to the hotel, he immediately called Dante Kane of Hope Angel Investment.

Because of the time difference, it was noon in New York, where Dante Kane was located.

He got straight to the point and asked, "Are you done with Supreme things?" ”

On the other end of the line, Dante Kane replied, "Boss, it can be done in a week at most." ”

Hanyu Hideki said, "Leave the matter to someone else first, you bring someone to London immediately, I have urgent matters for you to deal with." ”

Hearing Hanyu Hideki say that it was urgent, Dante Kane agreed without saying a word, "Boss, I'll leave as soon as I finish handing over the work." ”

"The sooner the better." Hideki Hanyu said a word of advice and hung up the phone.

After contacting Dante Kane, Hideki Hanyu thought about meeting Christopher Tolkien after going to France.

As for buying the copyright of "Elf Diamond" from this young Tolkien son, Hanyu Hideki is not very sure.

Therefore, it is necessary to think about how to contact the other person in order to impress the other party.

Of course, buying copyrights is only one purpose.

As a fan of Middle-earth, Hanyu wanted to talk to each other in person, see Tolkien's manuscripts, and the map of Middle-earth that they had drawn.

And after participating in the activities in France, it is also a good choice to visit the French scenery of this era by the way.

Dragignan, where Christopher Tolkien settled, is a city in southeastern France, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Cte Azur region.

The region is rich in wines, French cuisine and history.

He traveled through a lifetime, making money is not the pursuit of life, the pursuit of life is to enjoy life with the money earned.

It's a pity that I didn't bring a beauty with me to Europe this time, and traveling alone seems a bit boring.

However, if he can meet a beautiful woman in France this time, then there will be someone to accompany him on the journey.

It is said that France is the most romantic country in the world, and Hideki Hanyu scoffs at this.

But if he can really meet a beauty, he can also believe in this statement for the time being.

Thanks to roaming the sea of books, crossing the maze, the master of Tongzhai, and the 20210815 of Oaks for the reward.

Thanks to CHau534 for the 600 starting coins tip.

(End of chapter)