Many years later, when you open a newspaper and magazine in 2001, you will find a very strange phenomenon.

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

Take the magazine "China Business" for example. The May issue has a total of 48 articles, of which 15 of which contain the titles of the keyword "digitalization", and several other articles have content related to "digitalization".

It is obviously a business magazine, why is it like an it magazine?

Look at the content of these articles carefully. Some discuss digital home appliances, some discuss digital residences, some discuss digital entertainment. There is even an article called "Wear Digital", hehe, even clothing is about to move into the digital era!

In the following months, China has been "digitizing" in all aspects.

The slogan of "building a digital capital" was shouted directly from the capital. The cultural department was building a "digital library". The education department held a "digital education forum". These papers even emerged: "The Characteristics and Development Ideas of Digital Construction of Local Chronicles Databases", "The Organization, Research and Digital Construction of Chinese Genealogy Materials", "Digital Agricultural Construction and Leap-forward Development of my country's Agricultural"...

Everything can be involved in digitalization, and China seems to have entered the science fiction era in an instant.

There are probably several main reasons for this:

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

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

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

Fourth, the government continues to guide and promote the connection between traditional industries and computers and the Internet.

From the end of last year to now, in just half a year, the central government has issued 8 laws and regulations on computers and the Internet, and several will be promulgated in the next six months. 2001 can be called the first year of the legal system of China's computer Internet, and all the legal tone has been set at this time, and the next ten years will be just repairs.

In late May, Song Weiyang was invited to the capital to attend the founding conference of the "China Internet Association".

This association has a certain official nature. The highest guiding authority is the Ministry of Information and Industry, which is jointly initiated by more than 70 companies from all over the country. Its members include network operators, service providers, equipment manufacturers, integrated circuit manufacturers, scientific research and education institutions, etc.

After the election of the conference, Song Weiyang was successfully elected as the executive director of the Internet Association. This is a position that has no real power but does not lose its identity. At critical moments, there is still a certain say. Many CEOs of large enterprises have become executive directors. As for the positions of chairman, vice chairman, and secretary general, all of them are given to government officials or senior academicians. Mr. Liu from Lenovo is not qualified to be elected.

The vigorous "Digital China Forum" was also successfully held during this period, creating a digital trend across the country.

Yes, the "digitization" that can be seen everywhere in newspapers and magazines is exactly what this forum triggers.

In fact, the "Digital China Forum" has been held for two sessions, but both are small-scale fights. This year's specifications have suddenly increased to the top. The organizers are the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the National Information Center, the National Economic Confidence Center, and the China International E-Commerce Center. There are also a lot of organizers, and they will also be held in more than ten cities including Beijing, Shenghai, Rongcheng, Huadu, Hongcheng, Wanwan.

The media focused on wherever the forum was held. Because China's top media groups are all hosting the forum, and its publicity can be described as carpet bombing.

Song Weiyang did not go to join in the fun, and gave all the opportunity to show off to the bosses of several companies he invested in, Ma Xiaoyun, Xiao Ma Ge, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Sanshi, Ding Ming and others to participate.

But Xikang Province really couldn't refuse. The secretary of the provincial leader called himself and asked Song Weiyang to attend the forum's Rongcheng Station. It was not even just Xikang Province's affairs, but the entire western region participated. The "Digital China Rongcheng Forum" was directly classified as the branch venue of the "China Western Development Commodity Expo and International Economic and Trade Negotiation Conference".

The secretary conveyed the opinions of the major leaders on the phone: "Mr. Song, you are the only industry leader in the field of computer and Internet in the province, and a banner of digital development in Xikang Province. You must attend in person to show the style of China's western development digital construction, and show the spirit of the western region in line with digital and international... "

It’s time to say this, how can Song Weiyang not go?

Some vacant buildings in the Western Science and Technology Park are now finally available.

The main venue is located in a large factory in the park. This place was once the display area of ​​the software park. The decoration styles of the walls, floors and ceilings were very modern. In the past, leaders and reporters came here to inspect and interview, and they would see neat computers, countless college students who are temporary actors, and a large number of unscrupulous machines and equipment.

Since Song Weiyang took over, computers have been moved to office buildings, and the machinery and equipment have been directly treated as garbage - all of them have been outdated and eliminated.

Buses took people from the city 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 and the province and the city. The leaders wanted to show the weather of the science and technology park and prove that they had built the national torch plan base. 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&D centers, and now there are three office buildings (6 stories high) empty.

Ding Sanshi was most interested in Divine Sword Company because NetEase has established an online game project and is organizing a team to develop the game by itself. He pulled Xiao Ma Ge to Divine Sword Network Technology Company and asked the reception staff: "Do your company specializes in online games?"

"Yes." The staff smiled.

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

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

Brother Ma was surprised and said, "There are one or two hundred interns?"

The staff said: "These interns have at least undergraduate diplomas, but they are not competent for their jobs. Take the interns of the arts for example. The company hired Riben's original game artists with high salaries for three months to conduct teaching practice. A total of six overseas teachers from various departments have invited, and it cost more than 1 million US dollars to hire these teachers alone. Our chairman Mr. Song told the interns a month ago: You must study hard. Even if you can't stay in the Divine Sword in the future, you will be rushed to get it by other online game companies. Three years later, as long as you don't learn to be in the dog's belly, your monthly salary is less than 10,000 yuan, you come to me and I will pay for it myself."

"Hahaha, Boss Song is so rich." The boss of a telecom operator next to him laughed.

Ding Sanshi and Xiao Ma Ge looked at each other and both saw the shock in each other's eyes. It was just an online game company that asked the teacher to give lectures to interns, but it actually cost more than 1 million US dollars, which was beyond their imagination.

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

A large group of people quickly turned to the second floor. When passing a conference room, the staff said: "There is a meeting inside and you cannot visit it for the time being."

A boss ignored his image and looked through the crack in the door and said in surprise: "Why are there a few old men inside? Isn't it a young man to do online games?"

The staff smiled and said, "Two of the five old men in it receive special national allowances, and the other three are also professor-level. They are all senior experts and scholars, and are hired to serve as project consultants and come to the company to hold discussions once a month."

"What project?" Ding Sanshi couldn't help asking.

The staff kept smiling: "I can only say so much for a game development project."

The big guys who came to visit had already been aroused by interest, and a company boss said, "Let me reveal a little more."

The staff said: "We are developing an online game, with historical themes, characters, clothing, architecture and customs in the game, so experts and scholars must be asked to provide guidance throughout the process."

Another boss sighed: "This is not just a game, it's not so strict when making movies."

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

The staff member said: "The chairman said that it takes several years to make this game well and spend hundreds of millions."

Everyone looked at each other, shocked, and felt that Song Weiyang was crazy.

What’s wrong with hundreds of millions of dollars? I have to use it to make games. At this time, the scale of the entire Chinese online game market has not reached 100 million.

It's a hell that I can recover the cost!

"It's so expensive to develop a game?" Ding Sanshi murmured to himself. He had decided to do an online game, but now he was a little nervous.

The news quickly spread to the media. Before the two-day forum was over, countless reporters took the time to inquire, and then quickly spread across the country.

Because I really couldn't find out the specific content, and even the R&D funds were very general. The reporters privately unified the caliber and promoted Song Weiyang for five years and spent 500 million yuan, and invited top domestic and foreign experts to create an unprecedented historical theme game.

After continuous inquiry, an intern accidentally "spoken" and confirmed that the game was related to "Shan Hai Jing", so the report became a "large-scale ancient mythological game".

The national public opinion caused a sensation. Some people think that Song Weiyang is distracted from playing things and cannot digest it with too much money; some people think that this is fake news and is a means of Song Weiyang's promotion of games; and countless game enthusiasts also went to the forum to post and discuss, and this kind of discussion became more and more popular with the serialization of "Soushen Ji".

Yes, Hu Geng started writing.

This person is a fast gunner. While participating in game planning and creating the Internet, the number of updates per day can reach more than 8,000 words.

Hu Geng directly stated in his "weeds": "This book is also known as "Shan Hai Jing: Searching the Gods". It was originally a game planning project, and the creation and game development are carried out simultaneously. I am currently the main creator of the Shan Hai Jing project team of Shenjian Network Technology Company. After the game is launched, please support me!"

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 Divine Sword.

Whether it is a loyal reader or a game enthusiast, 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 even various rumors have ended. Whenever such rumors are rampant, one or two pictures will suddenly pop up, either game screenshots or character original paintings, and they will immediately fill up their expectations.

In recent years, China's online game industry has flourished, and major game companies have made a fortune. However, "Shan Hai Jing", which only reveals a horn of scales, has become a huge rock hanging over the heads of the industry's bigwigs. No one knows when the stone will fall.

Which game company dares to underestimate Song Weiyang’s game that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on making?

Whether it was the later Tieba or the 17173 game website, there were exclusive pages for "Shan Hai Jing". Every time a related picture was released, or an ambiguous insider news, it would arouse crowd of people's attention and discussion. Until the open internal testing of "Shan Hai Jing", due to the sparse number, an invitation code was hyped up for a sky-high price of several thousand yuan.

As for publicity, playing monkeys, Song Weiyang is very proficient.
Chapter completed!