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Originally, Lin Zuhui intended to let Jingwei Capital invest in this project, but after thinking about it, professional things should be left to professional people.Jingwei Capital is an investment company, not a software company.And Wanhui Media Group just wants to develop deeply in games and software, let Wanhui Media do this!

At present, there are hundreds of software engineers in "Wanhui Software" under Wanhui Media, and the main projects include: smart payment card, ICQ, stock software, etc.

"Boss, the ICQ software has made great progress and is expected to enter the testing phase in two months!"

Lin Zuhui said: "Well, we have to hurry up. In the Internet field, the update and iteration speed is very fast. If we are not sure, we will use our peers to conduct research in this area. At that time, our project will be worthless!"

Who knows when Israel developed the ICQ software. Once it is developed before Wanhui Software, this project will be worthless; and once it is developed in advance, it can go to the United States to apply for a patent and promote it, and then wait for it to be acquired.

If you say that you do it yourself, Lin Zuhui doesn't want to spend that effort at all, and you may not be able to succeed; don't underestimate the penguins in the previous life. Although others started their business by plagiarizing, they are not completely plagiarizing, but they are better than blue.

Liu Songcheng immediately promised: "Okay, let's hurry up and work overtime to keep up with the progress."

Lin Zuhui nodded. Being a programmer is all about working overtime, otherwise his hair would be bald.

Next, Lin Zuhui visited several other projects, and the progress was good, but Lin Zuhui still put pressure on Liu Songcheng to come up with the results; at the same time, Lin Zuhui also offered a lot of rewards. People pay three to six months' salary more, and the company also organizes overseas travel for everyone.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man.

Speaking of which, Wanhui Media's animation, game, and software industries are all "Wanguo Brand" at present, and its employees come from several countries and regions. Of course, most of the local talents in Hong Kong.

Because of this, Lin Zuhui believes that developing the project he proposed will not be difficult.Taking ICQ software as an example, the biggest difficulty is "creativity" rather than software technology. No matter how powerful a programmer is, he can't develop good software without direction and goals.As for the functions and applications of ICQ software, Lin Zuhui described it based on the primary version of QQ, which is believed to reduce the difficulty of the project even more.

Back in his office, Lin Zuhui was drinking tea while thinking about the prospects of Wanhui Media Group.

Wanhui Comics and The Ninth City have already achieved a 'integration'. The artists of the Ninth City are all from Wanhui Comics; so the game products of the Ninth City in the future will have guaranteed image quality, and they will be thick. Anime style.

This effect is what I want, isn't the Korean game in the previous life just a strong Japanese manga style!

In terms of software, the current Internet speed is too slow, so the projects that can be developed are limited.Soon, a music player appeared in Lin Zuhui's mind.I just don’t know whether MP3 files have appeared. MP3 files are the abbreviation of MPEGAudi0Layer3, which is a standard for audio sampling and compression.

Not surprisingly, it should have appeared, after all, music players should have appeared in the past two years.Probably in 1997, otherwise the MP3 wouldn't have been conceived by a Samsung manager in 1998.

Lin Zuhui called Liu Songcheng directly again and asked, "Do you know what's going on with digital music? It's the same as mine!"

Liu Songcheng is a software elite who returned to Hong Kong from overseas and knows a lot.

Through his explanation, Lin Zuhui knew that digital music in MP3 format had appeared in July this year. It took a computer 10 hours to decode a digital music file about 1 minute long, but Carl Hertz's technology can realize digital music. real-time compression.

"You set up another project team to see if you can create a digital music computer player, such as... software like this!"

Liu Songcheng's eyes lit up, and he immediately said: "No problem! But boss, the population of Xiangjiang is too small, so we can make good software..." After finishing speaking, he couldn't help showing a worried expression.

The cost of research and development is high, limited by the population, and the natural return is low.

Lin Zuhui said with a smile: "Then go and arrange for someone to register a branch in the United States immediately. After the software is developed, it can also be released in the United States. Of course, our goal is to sell it at a high price. After all, the Internet updates and iterations are too fast. If subsequent technologies and functions cannot keep up, the market will be replaced by new software.”

Liu Songcheng understood immediately, and said, "Okay, I'll do it right away!"

The first purpose is to develop these software and sell them at a high price.

And like Instant Messenger ICQ, even after the sale, Wanhui Software can still retain the operating rights of Xiangjiang; in the future, after Penguin plagiarizes, Lin Zuhui can take advantage of the trend to invest in Penguin, and will not give any South African investment company and Li Zekai a chance.

As for the music software, even if it is sold in the United States, Wanhui Software can still retain the right to operate Xiangjiang.

The most important thing is that the video website in the future must be in your own hands.Even, it has to develop overseas. After all, this is a sharp weapon to replace the TV station.

When it comes to video sites, one has to think of the power of Netflix, and at that time, you can venture into this company; at the same time, you have to set up a video site yourself, preferably across the Greater China region, and further expand in Asia. promote.

Long Jingchang, the president of the "Boss" Group, walked in.

Lin Zuhui came back to his senses, and then nodded.

After sitting on the sofa, Long Jingchang said: ""Apple Poison News" dumped newspapers at a low price of 2 Hong Kong dollars in disguise. It entered the 20 sales club within two months of its first publication, and it is still rising. The sales volume of "Daily Daily" Sales have a big impact."

Lin Zuhui said calmly, "What do you want to do?"

Lin Zuhui has paid little attention to the newspapers and magazines in the sunset industry, and he will not interfere with Long Jingchang in specific ways.

At present, the sales volume of "Daily Daily" is more than 40 copies, followed by about 35 copies of "Oriental Daily". The rapid rise of "Apple Poison News" is not only low-priced dumping, but also its entertainment. sex.

Long Jingchang said: "The war in the newspaper industry is inevitable. I thought it would be fine for Fat Li to sell it in a disguised form for a month. After all, this is the best way for new newspapers to publicize. Now, "Apple Poison News" has two months. The dumping is still going on, obviously because of the first and second positions. Therefore, I also plan to lower the "Daily Daily" to 1 Hong Kong dollars, and there is no deadline for the time being."

The price of Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong has been unified for many years. Since October 1994, the price has been adjusted to 10 yuan per copy.Even at the price of 5 yuan, the newspaper office is still losing money, mainly relying on advertising fees to make money.

But now that the price is 2 yuan, it is obvious that the advertising fee cannot be earned back, and it is normal to lose money.

Lin Zuhui said: "Well, let's surrender. For our company, the strength is far superior to other newspapers. Therefore, it is not appropriate to go too far, just follow everyone."

He is no longer the youthful Lin Zuhui he used to be. Otherwise, with the strength of Wanhui Media, it would not be a problem to follow the "free newspaper" model.With his current status, it is naturally not suitable for the big to bully the small, or take the lead in being a spoiler in the industry.

Long Jingchang naturally understood this, so he said: "Newspapers such as "Ming Pao" and "Economic Daily" all have regular customers, so I only plan to let Dazhong Daily "Daily Daily" join the price reduction team. I guess, "Oriental Daily" ", "Sing Pao" and "Xin Bao" are also preparing to cut prices."

Lin Zuhui nodded. The newspaper industry in Xiangjiang is really well developed. There are 10000 employees and 2500 reporters. For every 1000 citizens, 380 people buy newspapers every day.

……

In 1995, the event that shocked the entire media industry in Hong Kong was nothing more than a bloody price cut in the Chinese newspaper industry. Starting from August 8, the price of "Daily Daily" was changed from 19 yuan to 5 yuan per copy, and the prices of "Oriental Daily" and "Sing Pao" were lowered by 2 yuan from the next day.Immediately afterwards, "Xinbao" added fuel to the fire, and the price dropped to 2 yuan.

In the price reduction war, the first to bear the brunt are newspapers and weak newspapers that also follow the popular route.

According to a survey by the Hong Kong Press Association, most newspapers are already losing money at a price of 5 yuan. If the newspaper fee of 5 yuan is added to the average advertising fee of about 4 yuan per copy, the income of each newspaper is 9 yuan, and the current cost price is 7.45 yuan per copy, and 2 yuan is given to the newspaper vendor, so every newspaper sold will lose 0.45 newspapers with poor advertising revenue will suffer even more losses.As soon as the price reduction war started, the stock prices of the six listed newspaper groups (excluding Wanhui Media Group) plummeted, with an average drop of more than 6%.The entertainment newspaper "TV Daily", which had been published for 10 years, as well as "Hong Kong United Daily News", "South China Economic News" and several publications were overwhelmed and closed down soon."Express", which has a history of 27 years, also had to suspend publication.

……

Sing Tao Press Group.

Hu Xian was pacing back and forth anxiously. In the past few years, she had failed repeatedly in real estate, and she had already started to go into debt; and the profits of Sing Tao Newspapers were her main source of funds. That's bad luck.

Although "Sing Tao Daily" does not belong to the Dazhong Daily, but belongs to the Industrial and Commercial Daily, it is foreseeable that this bloody battle of reducing the price of the Chinese newspaper will definitely have a great impact.

"Follow the trend and lower the price?"

"Of course not. Once the price is lowered, the profit will be cut in half. Who can stand it!"

"I'm afraid that only Wanhui Media's big business will not be really affected."

"Resolutely not to surrender, didn't "Ming Pao" and "Economic Daily" also not surrender!"

"What's more, "Sing Tao Daily" still has an overseas market, and "Tiger" as an English newspaper will not affect it."

In the end, Hu Xian decided not to follow suit and cut prices.

In fact, whether she lowers the price or not doesn't affect her imminent bankruptcy and will hand over the Sing Tao Newspaper Group to others.She has a knack for newspaper business, but she is not really good for real estate. It is a pity that she never admits this, even if she has lost nearly one billion Hong Kong dollars.

……

end of June.

In a luxurious villa in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, Lin Zuhui is spending the weekend with his family.

Guan Jiahui, Qiu Shuzhen, Lin Zixia and five sons and one daughter, these are the three branches of Lin Zuhui's family in the United States; except Qiu Shuzhen who has one son and one daughter, Guan Jiahui and Lin Zixia have two sons.

These three family branches are currently living in Los Angeles, but their property assets will gradually be distributed in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Lin Zuhui also hopes that these three family branches can develop in these three cities in the future.

Lin Zuhui also has three major family branches in Europe, namely Li Jiaxin's London family, Li Zi's Swiss family, and Monica's Italian family.

He is still focusing on development in Singapore. The three daughters Li Zhi, Zhang Min, and Zhou Huimin are the women who reproduced family members for him; Singapore is a Chinese country after all, and this is the best place for family development, and they will focus on development in the future.

Wang Zuxian developed in Canada. She gave birth to a son and a daughter for Lin Zuhui. Her three daughters in Vancouver and Los Angeles lived together for a long time and could often move around.

Cai Ning developed in Sydney with a son and a daughter, and is the branch of Lin Zuhui's Australian family.

There is also Zou Kaixuan. She and her son are from Hong Kong, but their careers are in the Mainland.

The last is the direct family, with Xiangjiang as the base, and global development.

This time the "enfeoffment system" was officially implemented, Lin Zuhui specially asked the family office to purchase two "private jets" - Gulfstream and Bombardier, for flights in Europe and America.

On the large lawn of the villa.

Lin Zuhui played football with his sons and daughters, while the three daughters sat on chairs with parasols and enjoyed the food and wine on the table.

The children have completed their school registration, and school will start soon, which is the last weekend of summer vacation.

"It's settled, no matter who the three of us return to Hong Kong, the child will be entrusted to each other to take care of it!" Guan Jiahui said enthusiastically.

Originally, Lin Zuhui meant that whoever returns to Hong Kong can return at any time, and the child always has a nanny, bodyguard, and driver; but obviously, the three American girls can complete the interaction.

Lin Zixia nodded, but she looked at the joke and said: "Wen Hua is a bit lively, can I beat him up if he gets into trouble?"

Guan Jiahui said with a smile: "If you are not afraid of being misunderstood as a 'bad stepmother', just beat me up!"

Lin Zixia choked suddenly, she really didn't dare to beat her other children, she was afraid that Lin Zuhui would misunderstand her as "vicious"; so, when she took care of other children in the past, she held back her temper and compared her own The child is more patient.

"Go, these children are still quite obedient, including Wen Hua. They are lively, but they are very sensible."

Speaking of this, the three women immediately discussed that the child in that room was the smartest and most capable of Lin Zuhui, and immediately 'played' together.

After playing for a while, Lin Zuhui came and sat down next to the three girls. Lin Zixia handed over the iced red wine with sharp eyesight and quick hands.

"Thank you." After Lin Zuhui took a sip of the iced Luchen Family, he immediately felt better.

Then, with a smile, he said: "Go change into bikinis, let's go to the pool and let the kids play by themselves."

This villa is very large, with a tennis court, swimming pool, and large lawn. It is the top villa in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.

In the swimming pool, Lin Zixia was wearing a black bikini, Guan Jiahui was wearing a pink bikini, and Qiu Shuzhen was wearing a red bikini. It was like an appointment, which made Lin Zuhui throbbing.

However, throbbing is okay, but it can't be too much, and you have to worry about the children not far away.

Chapter 577 [More contact with young people]

Early December.

Sitting in the office of the ATV Building, Lin Zuhui felt an inexplicable sense of release.

"Could it be that those women are gone, and I can't help being happy?" He muttered.

"Can we arrange some more actresses?" His eyes lit up.

Of course, he is not a fickle person, and he will definitely take good care of the women who bear children for him; however, this does not prevent him from eating occasionally.

Thinking of this, Lin Zuhui called Zhao Zhenqiang, director of ATV.

ATV Group also has a few strong people, President Zhou Liang Shuyi is in charge of the overall situation, vice president and program director Zhao Zhenqiang is in charge of content, vice president and financial manager Li Baoan is in charge of finance, vice president and manager of the public relations department Shi Nansheng is in charge of external affairs.

Generally speaking, Lin Zuhui is currently in contact with these four people to reduce his presence in ATV Group.Of course, everyone knows that Lin Zuhui is the soul and godfather of ATV Group.

The purpose of reducing the presence of the ATV Group is to prevent people from thinking that ATV is his harem. At present, there is almost no such argument.However, some media said that Lin Zuhui was always looking for female artists from TVB, such as Cai Shaofen's scandal.

"This year's Asian sister Yang Gongru, I am more optimistic, and cultivate more! To be honest, in the past two or three years, whether it is ATV's Asian sister or TVB's Hong Kong sister, I have not seen a good seedling. This Yang Gongru has a very good image. Let her train with Zhang Weijian first."

Zhang Weijian signed the head contract with ATV. After "Journey to the West" became popular last year, he asked for a salary increase as in his previous life. However, ATV did not learn from TVB and scolded him, "You are nothing if you have no hair on your face." Instead, he asked for a salary increase. salary.

Of course, the most important reason is that Lin Zuhui reminded Zhao Zhenqiang that if Zhang Weijian continues to shoot "Journey to the West 2", "Youth Fang Shiyu", "Little Treasure and Kangxi", and "The Elf Little Don't Understand", it is necessary to continue filming once a year. The rhythm of the drama series starring Dicky Cheung.

In short, if ATV wants to support Zhang Weijian, as long as the salary increase is reasonable, it can satisfy him.In Lin Zuhui's view, Zhang Weijian is the "Zhou Xingchi" in the TV series.

Zhao Zhenqiang said: "Okay, next year Zhang Weijian's "Young Fang Shiyu" will give her a heroine, she is really good!" Then he tentatively asked: "Do you want Yang Gongru to come to your office for a test shot? After all, boss, you didn’t participate in the selection of sister Asia this year, maybe it’s a little different from what’s on TV.”

Flattering, obviously!

Lin Zuhui shook his head with a smile, and said, "I don't have time to talk to a young actor! By the way, I really like an actor, and I want to ask you for help?"

Zhao Zhenqiang was immediately excited, and said loyally, "Boss, what do you say?"

Lin Zuhui said very normally: "I found a good actress named Ruby Lin in the Taiwan TV series Zhong Kui. I think she is very suitable for Ziwei in "My Fair Princess". You can ask the artist department to try it out, can you directly Sign her to ATV, if it doesn't work, it's okay to borrow a film, in short, you have to invite ATV."

Zhao Zhenqiang immediately kept in mind "Ruby Lin, Tianshi Zhong Kui's Dragon Girl Fighting Water Monster", and planned to handle this matter well, the most important thing is to "match" the boss.He is not worried about causing any serious adverse effects, because with the boss's wealth, appearance, and temperament, he is willing to be a woman.

"No problem, I'll remember! By the way, when does the boss think "My Fair Princess" will be filmed?"

"Don't worry, I always remember this TV series, because I plan to shoot a big drama, the kind of historical drama that is popular on both sides of the strait."

"Ok"

The novel "Han Zhu Ge Ge" has already been published in Xiangjiang, so the copyright belongs to ATV, and it was written before Qiong Yao went to the Princess Tomb in Beijing.

However, unlike the Qiong Yao drama, "My Fair Princess" will follow the "Hong Kong drama" in this life.

On the other hand, the Hallyu in the previous life seems to have copied the "Qiong Yao drama". In short, the Hallyu in the previous life copied the culture of Xiangjiang, Taiwan, and Japan, and finally established a brand new Hallyu culture.

Today, the Hong Kong stream culture has been fully formed. In the past two years, Lin Zuhui has provided material for one drama series, and ATV has still filmed more than 20 Hong Kong stream dramas, including many classic dramas with good ratings.

The reason is actually very simple. The appearance of classics such as "Love in Blue", "Lovers in Paris", "Full House", "My Sassy Girl" is equivalent to giving a very standard template; ATV's PD, screenwriter, The director only needs to continue to play on this basis, and naturally there are many breakthroughs.

In the Hong Kong TV series, Lin Zuhui still kept several classics, and planned to shoot after 2004 after the explosion of the Internet era, such as "The Heirs" and "You Who Came from the Stars".Of course, he just gave a subject.

After Zhao Zhenqiang left, Lin Zuhui smiled.

The reason why he is keen on "Han Zhu Ge Ge" is because he likes two female artists, Ruby Lin and Fan Shuangbing.

Otherwise, he wouldn't care about the cast of "My Fair Princess".After all, such an ATV has a very high level of editing and directing, so there is no need for Lin Zuhui to worry about the content of ATV.

It's time for him to meet some young girls, otherwise his mentality will be old.