Rebirth of the Wild Age

Many years later, when you open the newspapers and magazines in 2001, you will find a very strange phenomenon.

The content of the articles in April of this year was quite normal, but after entering May, a large number of articles about digitalization suddenly appeared.

Take China Business magazine as an example. There are 48 articles in the May issue, 15 of which contain the keyword digitalization in the title, and several other articles are related to digitalization.

It's obviously a business magazine, why is it made like an IT magazine?

Look carefully at the content of these articles, some discuss digital home appliances, some discuss digital housing, and some discuss digital entertainment. There is even an article called Wearing Digitally, hehe, even clothing is about to enter the digital age!

In the following months, China has been digitizing in every aspect.

The slogan of Building a Digital Capital City was directly shouted in the capital, the cultural department was building a digital library, the education department held a digital education forum, and even these papers emerged: Characteristics of the Digital Construction of Local Chronicle Databases and Development Vision, Organization, Research and Digital Construction of Chinese Genealogy Data, Digital Agricultural Construction and my country's Agricultural Leap-forward Development...

Anything can be related to digitization, and China seems to have entered the era of science fiction in an instant.

There are probably several main reasons why this happens:

First, computers are becoming more and more popular. The number of computers with Internet access in China has soared from 3.5 million last year to 8.92 million;

Second, the number of Chinese netizens has skyrocketed from 8.9 million last year to 22.5 million;

Third, the government and enterprises are vigorously promoting broadband technology, and the number of broadband access users has increased exponentially in the past six months;

Fourth, the government continues to guide and promote the integration of traditional industries with computers and the Internet.

From the end of last year to the present, in just half a year, the central government has promulgated eight laws and regulations on computers and the Internet, and several more will be promulgated in the next six months. 2001 can be called the first year of the legal system of China's computer Internet. All the legal tone was set at this time, and the following ten years were just tinkering.

In late May, Song Weiyang was invited to Beijing to attend the inaugural meeting of the Internet Society of China.

This association has a certain official nature. The highest guiding authority is the Ministry of Information Industry of the People's Republic of China. It is co-sponsored by more than 70 companies from all over the country. Members include network operators, service providers, equipment manufacturers, integrated circuit manufacturers, scientific research and education institutions, etc. wait.

After the general election, Song Weiyang was successfully elected as the executive director of the Internet Society. This is a position with little real power but without losing its status. It still has a certain right to speak at critical moments. Many CEOs of large companies have become executive directors. As for the positions of chairman, vice chairman, and secretary-general, they were all given to government officials or senior academicians, and President Liu of Lenovo was not eligible to be elected.

The vigorous Digital China Forum was also successfully held during this period, creating a wave of digitization across the country.

Yes, the digitalization that can be seen everywhere in newspapers and magazines was triggered by this forum.

In fact, the Digital China Forum has been held for two sessions, but they are all minor incidents. This year's specifications have suddenly increased to the top. The organizers are China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, National Information Center, National Economic Confidence Center, and China International E-commerce Center. , Hong Kong City, Wanwan and more than ten cities are held on tour.

A sensation, wherever the forum is held, the media will focus on it. Because China's top media groups are all the organizers of this forum, their propaganda can be described as carpet bombing.

Song Weiyang didn't go to join in the fun, and gave the opportunity to show off to the bosses of several companies he invested in. Ma Xiaoyun, Xiao Ma, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Sanshi, Ding Ming and others all wanted to attend.

But Xikang Province really couldn't evade it. The secretary of the provincial leader personally called and asked Song Weiyang to go to the Rongcheng station to participate in the forum. Not only the matter of Xikang Province, but also the entire western region participated, and the Digital China Rongcheng Forum was directly characterized as a sub-venue of the China Western Development Commodities Expo and International Economic and Trade Fair.

The secretary conveyed the opinions of the big leaders on the phone: Mr. Song, you are the only industry leader in the province in the field of computers and the Internet, and a banner for the digital development of Xikang Province. You must be present in person to showcase the great development of western China. The elegant demeanor of digital construction shows the spiritual outlook of the western region in line with digital and international standards...

Now that we've talked about this, can Song Weiyang not go?

Some vacant buildings in the Western Science and Technology Park finally have a place to use.

The main venue is located in a large factory building in the park, which used to be the exhibition area of ​​the software park, and the decoration style of the walls, floors, and ceilings is very modern. In the past, when leaders and reporters came here to inspect and interview, they would see neat computers, countless college students acting as extras, and a large number of machinery and equipment that people could not understand.

Since Song Weiyang took over, the computers have been moved to the office building, and the machines and equipment have been disposed of directly as garbage—all obsolete and obsolete.

Buses pulled people from the urban area to the Western Science and Technology Park. Before the forum officially started, the enterprises in the park became tourist attractions.

This was discussed by Song Weiyang with the province and the city. The leaders wanted to show the weather of the science and technology park to prove that they had done a good job of building the base of the National Torch Program. Song Weiyang took the opportunity to promote his Western Science and Technology Park, hoping to attract more companies to settle here, even if they only set up offices and R\u0026D centers, there are still three office buildings (6 floors) vacant.

Ding Sanshi is most interested in Excalibur, because Netease has established an online game project and is organizing a team to develop games by itself. He dragged Brother Xiao Ma to Excalibur Internet Technology Company, and asked the receptionist, Does your company specialize in online games?

Yes. The staff member smiled.

Ding Sanshi asked again: How many employees are there now?

The staff said: There are about 60 regular employees, and about one or two hundred interns.

Brother Xiao Ma was surprised: One or two hundred interns?

The staff said: These interns have at least a bachelor's degree, but they are not qualified for the job at hand. Take the art interns as an example, the company hired Japanese game original painters with high salaries for a three-month teaching practice. A total of six overseas famous teachers from various departments were invited, and the money for these teachers alone cost more than 1 million U.S. dollars. Our chairman, Mr. Song, said to the interns a month ago: You have to study hard, even if you can’t do it in the future. If you stay in Excalibur, you will be snapped up by other online game companies. After three years, as long as you don’t fall into the belly of a dog and your monthly salary is less than 10,000, you can come to me, and I will make up for you from my own pocket.”

Hahaha, Boss Song is really rich and powerful. The boss of a telecom operator next to him laughed.

Ding Sanshi and Brother Xiao Ma looked at each other, and both saw the horror in each other's eyes. It was just an online game company, and it cost more than 1 million US dollars to hire a teacher to give lectures to interns, which was unimaginable to them.

In fact, these industry leaders invited from abroad will also participate in guiding specific work after teaching, otherwise, how could they spend so much money?

A large group of people wandered to the second floor quickly. When they passed a conference room, the staff said: There is a meeting inside, so we can't visit it for the time being.

One boss, regardless of his own image, glanced through the crack of the door and asked in surprise, Why are there still a few old men in there? Isn't it just for young people to play online games?

The staff member smiled and said: Of the five old gentlemen inside, two are receiving special national allowances, and the other three are also at the professor level. They are all senior experts and scholars, hired as project consultants, and come to the company every month Let's have a discussion.

What project? Ding Sanshi couldn't help asking.

The staff still kept smiling: A game development project, I can only say so much.

The bigwigs who came to visit have already been aroused, and a company boss said: Let's reveal a little more.

The staff member said: We are developing an online game, with historical themes, the characters, costumes, architecture, and customs in the game are all very particular, so we must ask experts and scholars to guide us throughout the process.

Another executive said with emotion: This is not a game, it's not so strict when making a movie.

This game costs a lot of money, right? Little Ma asked.

The staff member said: The chairman said that it will take several years and several hundred million dollars to make this game well.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling shocked that Song Weiyang was crazy.

What's wrong with a few hundred million? It has to be used to make games. At this time, the scale of the entire Chinese online game market has not reached 100 million.

Hell, if you can recover the cost!

It's so expensive to develop games? Ding Sanshi muttered to himself, he had already decided to make online games, but now he was a little nervous.

This news quickly spread to the media. Before the two-day forum ended, countless reporters came to inquire about it, and it was quickly reported and spread throughout the country.

Because I really can't ask the specific content, even the research and development funds are very general. The reporters unanimously said that it would take five years and 500 million dollars to publicize Song Weiyang, and invited top experts from home and abroad to create an unprecedented historical game.

After continuous inquiry, an intern finally leaked the word by accident and confirmed that this game was related to Shan Hai Jing, so the report became a large-scale ancient mythology game.

The public opinion in the whole country was a sensation. Some people thought that Song Weiyang was playing with things and lost his ambition, and that he couldn’t digest too much money; This kind of discussion became more and more popular with the serialization of Sou Shen Ji.

Yes, Hu Geng started writing.

This person is a fast shooter. While participating in game planning, he also creates online content. The daily update volume can reach more than 8,000 words.

Hu Geng directly stated in the wedge: This book is also called Shan Hai Jing: Searching for the Gods. It was originally a game planning project, and the creation and game development were carried out at the same time. The main creator of the story of the project team, after the game is launched, please support us a lot!

It took only one year to complete the creation, and the manuscript fee after publication was countless times higher than Hu Geng's salary in Excalibur.

Whether it is a diehard reader or a game lover, they all have unlimited expectations for Shan Hai Jing.

They have been looking forward to it year after year, but they can't even see the shadow of the game, and there are even various rumors that the game development has terminated. Whenever such rumors spread, one or two pictures would suddenly pop up, either a screenshot of the game, or an original painting of a character, which immediately filled the expectations.

In the past few years, China's online game industry has prospered, and major game companies have made a lot of money. But the Shan Hai Jing, with only its scales and corners exposed, has become a huge rock hanging over the heads of industry leaders. No one knows that the rock will fall someday.

Which game company would dare to underestimate Song Weiyang's game that he has honed his sword for several years and spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make?

Whether it is the post bar later or the 17173 game website, there is an exclusive page for Shan Hai Jing. Every time a related picture or ambiguous inside information is released, it will trigger crowds of onlookers and discussions. Until the open beta of Shan Hai Jing, due to the scarcity of the number, an invitation code was fired at a sky-high price of several thousand yuan.

Propaganda, monkey tricks, Song Weiyang is very proficient.

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