"Let's do this. I can invest in you, but you must give me a military order!"

"What military order?"

"The company must make a profit within one year."

Tao Yumo was furious when he heard this request, "You think the game is just selling clothes? Besides, how can I guarantee that the game I make will make money?"

Tao Yushu snorted coldly, "Didn't you still swear by it just now? Now you no longer have confidence? My conditions are here, whether I can make a profit is not my concern!"

Lin Chaoyang told her before that animation, comics, and games are indistinguishable. If Yulang Agency wants to maintain its current growth momentum, it will have to get involved in the animation and game fields sooner or later.

Tao Yushu also conducted a survey and found that, not to mention the difference between animation and comics, the audience for games and animation are indeed highly overlapping.

Xiangjiang’s local market is too small, so it will eventually have to rely on other markets.

Therefore, she was not in a hurry, but chose to expand her business in foreign markets with comics, and tried to diversify her development through investment and acquisition in the future, which might be better.

Tao Yumo wants to start a career, so of course Tao Yushu will support her.

But she has no business experience at all, and gaming is an emerging industry. She just rushed in blindly, and it was inevitable that she would suffer losses.

Tao Yushu decided to give her sister some trouble first. She put on a deliberately difficult attitude just to put some pressure on Tao Yumo.

Faced with her deliberate embarrassment, Tao Yumo was angry for a long time, and finally compromised.

She feels that a man can bend and stretch, so he should get the investment first no matter what.

"Okay, let's talk about equity.

2

Tao Yumo looked serious and said: "I will invest 800,000 in the game company, and you will also invest 800,000, but I am responsible for the management, so I want 60% of the shares."

"Okay. But what if we lose money?"

Tao Yumo stared, "How can there be a guaranteed profit from investing? Aren't you making things difficult for me?"

"You're a law graduate who hasn't attended classes for more than two years, and you have no experience in the gaming industry. I invest in you purely because of sisterhood."

Tao Yushu behaved like a black-hearted businessman, and Tao Yushu was so angry that his teeth almost broke.

Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. Don’t bully young people into poverty.

"If you lose money, I'll work to compensate you!" she said through gritted teeth.

Tao Yushu nodded with satisfaction, "Okay, but you have to calculate the interest!"

Tao Yumo couldn't help but feel bitter.

Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but remind him: "Are you borrowing money? Or are you looking for investment?"

Only then did Tao Yumo realize. After talking for a long time, what was the difference between this and borrowing money to start a company? The key was that she actually gave away 40% of the shares.

"Business is based on integrity. You just agreed, don't you want to go back on it?" Tao Yushu saw her hesitant look and said,

He resorted to aggressive tactics.

"Old and cunning!" Tao Yumo accused unwillingly.

Tao Yushu glanced at her lightly, "After registering the company, remember to tell A-Zhen that I will inject capital into you."

After saying this, Tao Yushu went out to work.

Tao Yumo looked at her back and was sulking, complaining to Lin Chaoyang: "Brother-in-law, why didn't you remind me earlier?"

"How could I have thought you were so stupid!"

Lin Chaoyang's merciless sarcasm completely broke Tao Yumo's guard, "You two are going too far!"

"You call it bullying. Why didn't your sister dare to say this when she was here just now?"

Tao Yumo was silent, and then quickly changed her mind. She knew that her brother-in-law usually gave her sister advice.

The family business is so big, my brother-in-law must take at least half of the credit.

"Brother-in-law, what do you think the first step in setting up my company should be?"

Lin Chaoyang laughed, "Weren't you full of ambition just now? Why do you need to ask me?"

"I---this isn't my first time opening a company. When my sister first started her company, didn't you also give her advice?"

"Can that be the same? Your sister's company is half as big as mine, and your company—"

Tao Yumo hesitated and said, "I'll give you 10% of the dividend."

"I care about your dividends."

"Then how much do you want?"

"At least 30%, shares." Lin Chaoyang emphasized.

"Why don't you go and grab it?"

"That's up to you."

Lin Chaoyang was about to leave as soon as he disagreed. Tao Yumo immediately stopped him and asked, "Can you guarantee that our company will make a profit within a year?"

"Profitability is certain, but whether you can achieve it within a year depends on your execution ability."

Hearing this, Tao Yumo's eyes lit up.

"I promise you."

30% makes 30%. Compared with being sucked out by the black-hearted boss at home, giving up 30% of the shares in exchange for a think tank is nothing.

Lin Chaoyang nodded with satisfaction and asked her: "Tell me what you think first, why do you have to play a game?"

Tao Yumo is a senior gamer and has played at least hundreds of games. At home, he has an Atari 7800, six or seven Nintendo Famicom and Sega Mega consoles, as well as an Apple 2, which is specially used for

Playing PC games such as "Witchcraft" and "Might and Magic".

In order to play games, she also bought a lot of British "Computer and Electronic Games" and Japanese "Comptiq"

Wait for electronic game-related magazines to collect the latest game information.

I worked harder than I did during the college entrance examination.

Tao Yumo scratched his head, "I know the market in Xiangjiang is small and there are piracy, but I just like games. I want to do something that interests me."

"You just said you want to make a game. The game industry is huge. You have no experience and no skills. Do you have any specific ideas?"

Then she regained her composure and said, "I want to make computer games!"

Lin Chaoyang asked curiously: "Why?"

Since Atari created the video game industry in the early 1970s, after more than 20 years of development, the game industry has gradually differentiated into several clear lines, namely console games, arcade games and computer games.

Tao Yumo usually plays console games the most, but when she wants to start a business, she thinks of computer games.

The development of computer games mainly relies on the development of personal computers, and it is still just a little brother in the emerging game industry.

"Console games include giants like Atari and Nintendo. Accessing their platforms requires authorization, which is equivalent to working for others. It is unrealistic for a small business to build a platform on its own.

If you want to make an arcade machine, you need to develop your own substrate, and the threshold is also very high.

Computer games are open source and free, and have the lowest threshold at this stage."

Tao Yumo's thinking was very clear. Lin Chaoyang couldn't help but praise him, "It's good to be able to find your own position!"

Tao Yumo's pretty face showed a bit of pride, "So, you think I'm doing it for nothing?"

She added: "Although the market in Xiangjiang is small, the game industry has developed early and there are many game fans. Although piracy is a problem, it will definitely be no problem to raise a game company. It can also spread to East Asia in the future."

When future generations mention Hong Kong’s video game industry, people have almost no memory of it.

But in fact, the electronic game industry in Xiangjiang started much earlier than that of Wandao, which is also a Chinese-speaking area.

Xiangjiang began to vigorously develop its manufacturing industry in the 1970s, among which the electronics industry was particularly outstanding.

Because of cheap labor, superior geographical location, and favorable government policies, Hong Kong attracted many foreign-invested electronics factories to set up shop at that time.

Among the many electronics factories, another company called Walmart Limited initially specialized in the production of circuit boards, styrofoam and hardware products. Later, it was reorganized into Wang Electronics Company in 1977, specializing in OEM electronic products for foreign companies.

For example, the UK's ZX81VTrch Laser200 computer and the Raspberry Pi's Acorn Microcomputer have chosen Wang Electronics as their foundry.

During such smooth development, Wang Electronics also became a partner of Atari, the dominant player in the American gaming industry, producing Atari 2600 game consoles and computers.

After 1978, due to increasingly close cooperation, the two jointly established Wang's Atari Company and began to act as agents for the sales of Atari game consoles, computers, and game cartridges in Hong Kong.

Wang's Atari agent cultivated the first generation of game fans in Hong Kong, and later Ximen Toys became an agent for Nintendo's handheld consoles and Famicom.

In addition to console games, arcade games have also flourished in Hong Kong since the 1970s, with hundreds of thousands of game enthusiasts in Hong Kong.

Seeing that Tao Yumo was becoming more and more confident as he spoke, Lin Chaoyang asked: "If you think so carefully, why are you asking me?"

Hearing this, Tao Yumo's confidence in guiding the country disappeared. She said with a smile: "Shit, I haven't practiced this yet. It's just an armchair exercise. I urgently need your guidance as an expert."

Lin Chaoyang nodded helpfully and said, "Okay. Since you asked the question sincerely, I will tell you."

Hearing this, Tao Yumo suddenly became excited and stared at Lin Chaoyang closely.

"Two directions, one is to imitate and draw on existing successful models, such as the game Monopoly——"

When people in later generations hear about the Monopoly game, they mostly think of the computer game "Monopoly" developed by Daewoo Games. In fact, the Monopoly game was born as early as the early 20th century.
To be continued...