Video Game Empire

The crimes involved in underworld-guilds mainly include drug-trafficking, organizing prostitution-prostitution, gambling-gaming, and extortion. The jobs in Hong Kong that are most closely related to the underworld include nightclub viewing, sparrow hall management, and debt collection by borrowing companies.

But in recent years, some associations have begun to get involved in the film industry and electronic manufacturing. The Hong Kong film industry has become more and more prosperous in recent years, largely due to the influx of funds. Some of these funds come from film dealers in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, and the other part is the gray income of local associations.

For example, Li Xuan's eldest brother Li Ke took over the Family Huan Pictures, which was originally a company used by He Le Tang to launder money. It's just that these people who are on the road, let them fight and kill is no problem, but doing business to make money is really not that kind of material.

So even if you can point a gun at Liu Dehua's head and ask him to nod to film for you, it will still be a bad film. It's just that for these drunken companies who don't want to drink, whether the movie can be released to make money is the second issue. In the process of making a movie, they can skillfully make a movie with an actual cost of only 1 million and use financial means to make it. Cheng is a 10 million big production.

This is equivalent to laundering 9 million of the funds. The cost of laundering money through this method is far lower than other methods. This is the real reason why the Hong Kong underworld got involved in the film industry in the 1980s and 1990s.

Otherwise, is the profit from filming + selling - fans making money? Even in a nightclub, a high-end nightclub in Tsim Sha Tsui pays at least a few million Hong Kong dollars a month. And making movies is by no means a business with guaranteed profits, even if it is the three giants of the Hong Kong film industry like Asia Entertainment, Golden Harvest, and Xinyicheng. There are not a few projects that fall into the sand every year.

And the reason why the underworld-guild intimidated the star to accept the script, in addition to hoping to use the star's popularity to sell movies. More importantly, it is for convenience. Because of a big production with a production cost of 10 million, if there are not a few popular superstars to support it. How can you convince the audit department of the Hong Kong government that 10 million was really spent on this movie project?

Of course, there are still some corporate film companies that are willing to play by the rules, such as Family Fun Films after Li Ke took over. And after seeing that He Le Tang not only easily laundered money, but also made a lot of money by making movies, Yongsheng Film Company was established several years earlier than another time and space.

As the saying goes, every line is like a mountain, and every line has a doorway for every line. Even if you are crossing the river, you can only really eat it if you are accepted by the local snakes. Enter a new industry. It is necessary to abide by the established rules of this industry. This is the premise that you can become bigger and stronger.

In addition to the film industry, the electronics industry is also one of the new industries that the Hong Kong community has begun to encroach on in recent years. The club bosses in Hong Kong do not fight and kill, but set up factories as bosses, which is actually inextricably linked with Li Xuan.

In the widely circulated history of "God of Wealth Li"'s fortune, his first pot of gold was in the summer vacation after graduating from middle school, when he was working in a foreign trade company, he invented a printer Han card, thus winning the trust of Japan's Seiko Epson Company. .

Then, through his talent, he successfully persuaded Seiko Epson to agree to sell arcade motherboards on credit, resulting in the advent of two classic arcade games, "Tank Wars" and "Hong Kong Cube".

And this is actually hidden by man. A not very glorious dark history. Li Xuan's real career started when he cooperated with Letang's Red Stick Scar Qiang to open a copycat factory that imitated popular Japanese arcade machines.

It's just that after accumulating the first pot of gold, Li Xuan quickly joined forces with the community. As well as illegal acts such as intellectual property infringement, the relationship has been separated. In order to launch himself smoothly, Li Xuan even designed an Apple gambling machine for Scar Qiang as compensation.

A few years ago, he was still the strong red stick of Heletang, and now he has been promoted to the club's seat. After Li Xuan quit. The copycat arcade machine factory, which was renamed Hutchison Electronics Company after being taken over by Scar Qiang, has now become a well-known electronics company in Hong Kong.

Including like Macau, Korea, Malaysia. And many well-known casinos in Las Vegas, USA, are important customers of Hutchison Electronics. Because of the rapid development of integrated circuits. Casino owners quickly began to use electronic slot machines to replace the original mechanical slot machines. And Hutchison Electronics is the world's largest electronic slot machine manufacturer.

Of course, Hutchison is definitely a law-abiding regular company, actively abiding by the laws and regulations of the Hong Kong government, and has never sold a slot machine in the local Hong Kong market where gambling is prohibited. But if you go to those underground casinos in Hong Kong that operate illegally under the guise of a mahjong hall, you will find that the rows of slot machines in the corners that are constantly sucking blood from the pockets of the gamblers are actually produced by Hutchison Company.

In the past few years, the Hong Kong Marine Police have seized many batches of old-slot machines that were exported for domestic sales. That's right, the emergence of the butterfly Li Xuan has made Hong Kong, a free port, even a trick of exporting to domestic sales.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the law-abiding Hutchison Company. In view of the particularity of its own products, Hutchison Company has even taken the initiative to report every order to the Hong Kong Police Force in advance, and actively assist the authorities Fight against illegal smuggling of slot machines.

Doesn't this sound particularly funny, but there are things that make Hong Kong police speechless. They can't wait for the 24-hour surveillance of He Le Tang, the current seat of the hotel, and now he has simply transformed himself into a well-known philanthropist in Hong Kong and Kowloon.

Hutchison Company and Scar Qiang individual donated as much as 5 million Hong Kong dollars to the Donghai Foundation under Li Xuan last year. Several members of the New Territories Legislative Council even put forward suggestions, hoping that the Governor of Hong Kong can bestow the title of Justice of the Peace on this generous philanthropist whose real name is Shao Wing-keung, so as to inspire more Hong Kong people to do good deeds.

Some people say that system is the basis for the real survival of the underworld, because the bosses of the society can pay the most powerful lawyers to exonerate themselves. For example, "Oriental Daily", the newspaper with the largest circulation in Hong Kong, its founders, the Ma brothers, were well-known gang tycoons in Hong Kong and one of the four underground families in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. Relying on smuggling white-pink to make a fortune.

Later, when the Independent Commission Against Corruption was established in Hong Kong, the Ma brothers were both wanted. The elder brother received the wind and fled to Taiwan-Taiwan in advance. After his younger brother was arrested, he was released on bail by a lawyer, and he immediately abandoned his bail and fled to Taiwan.

But the "Oriental Daily" they founded is still protected by law. And the business in Hong Kong is prosperous, and their sons are still living a life of drunken life in Hong Kong. And because the Ma family controls the "Oriental Daily", few people dare to expose their old bottom.

Since Hong Kong can have a newspaper tycoon born from a poisonous owl, and a philanthropist born from a club boss, it is not something to be surprised by!

Under the stimulation of Scar Qiang and He Le Tang, other societies in Hong Kong have also noticed the huge profits of arcade machines early on. It's just that they were not as lucky as Scar Qiang, and they were able to have Li Xuan quietly supporting them behind their backs.

Almost all of Hutchison Electronics' current technology research and development team are from Dongfang Group, and this poaching action is naturally tacitly approved by Li Xuan. And those electronic companies established by other Hong Kong associations followed suit. Naturally, it is impossible for Hutchison Electronics to be able to quickly launch its own fist products.

Most of these factories still rely on copycats of other popular arcade machines for a living. If you want to talk about the most popular company in the arcade industry in the past few years, it is naturally Dongfang Games. But Oriental Games' arcade machines are the hardest to counterfeit.

Because Li Xuan himself started by this means, he naturally made a series of preventive measures. One of the most effective methods is that on the main board of arcade machines produced by Dongfang Game Company, there are one or two indispensable chips, which are specially customized by Dongfang Game Company. Rather than a general-purpose chip that can be bought at will on the market.

In this way, even if other shanzhai factories want to imitate the arcade motherboard of Dongfang Game Company, they cannot find all the parts at all. Because these two custom chips were directly commissioned by Dongfang Game Company to be produced by Dongfang Semiconductor Company, and they were not sold on the market at all.

In the case of not being able to copy the arcade of Oriental Games Company. These knockoff factories had to settle for the next best thing, copying popular arcade machines from other companies like Sega and Namco. Since the rise of Oriental Game Company, Hong Kong has rapidly formed a huge industrial chain of arcade parts production and distribution. This also makes it easy to find these cottage factories. Production of various parts required.

And letting the knockoff factory squeeze the authentic arcade machines of competitors is naturally a happy thing for Dongfang Game Company. So after years of development. In Hong Kong, there is a large-scale production and sales market for knock-off arcade machines and other pirated electronic products.

And behind this is not without the help of the Oriental Group. certainly. The premise of the Eastern Group's acquiescence in the existence of these intellectual property infringements is that they cannot harm their own interests.

The Oriental Group itself has always been an important victim of copycat piracy. When its own interests are violated, the Eastern Group's countermeasures will never be lenient. One of the important tasks undertaken by Dongfang Commercial Company is to crack down on those counterfeit and shoddy and imitation infringements in the market.

Throughout the various main businesses of Dongfang Group, the technical threshold of semiconductor chips is too high, and the cottage factories have no ability to imitate them at all. The technical standards of the series of personal computers are basically semi-public, and everyone can produce compatible machines in an open and honest manner, and there is no need for sneaky imitations.

The rest of the game console and software industries are the hardest hit areas by copycats. In particular, the various software developed by the Oriental Application Software Company and the Oriental Business Software Company can almost be found in pirated software in those electronic businesses on Apliu Street in Mong Kok.

Oriental Commercial Corporation once conducted a random survey on local computer purchasers in Hong Kong, and found that more than 70% of the users had installed east-operating systems on their computers that were not genuine products. This also forced the Eastern Application Software Company to finally put pressure on the major computer manufacturers directly to require the PCs they produce to be pre-installed with the east-operating system before leaving the factory.

While putting pressure on computer manufacturers, Dongfang Commercial also uncovered several illegal factories in Hong Kong and Taiwan that were suspected of mass copying Dongfang's software, and shut down these factories with the intervention of government departments.

In addition to software, the various game consoles produced by Dongfang Game Company are also one of the key targets of the cottage factories because they are sold all over the world. Among them, the arcade is the most profitable, but the technical threshold is also the highest. However, after Dongfang Game Company took a series of preventive measures, it made it impossible for the cottage factories to start.

In contrast, the technical threshold of game consoles and game consoles is lower. Especially the handheld, its low price forced Dongfang Game Company to compress the cost to the extreme, and naturally it is impossible to spend extra costs on preventing piracy.

The difficulty of manufacturing is actually very low, so it has always been the hardest hit by imitation. Initially, most of these copycat factories were located in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but under the strong suppression of the Oriental Group, the illegal factories in these places were quickly investigated and banned by the authorities.

After all, whether it is Taiwan-Taiwan or Hong Kong, although the relevant departments of the authorities have not paid as much attention and strictness to intellectual property protection as decades later, at least they have already formulated perfect laws. Especially when the victim of the Oriental Group came forward to report in person, the relevant government departments were bound to take powerful measures to restore their responsible image.

And since last year, Dongfang Commercial Co., which is in charge of fighting copycat piracy, has discovered a new trend. With the deepening of reform and opening up in mainland China, many pirate factories have also begun to move northward, and cooperate with small domestic factories in the form of three to one supplement~www.readwn.com~ Compared with Hong Kong and Taiwan-Taiwan, which are relatively free and open Due to the business environment, the investigation progress of Dongfang Commercial Corporation in the country is more difficult. Even if some illegal factories can be found, the cooperation of local government departments is not very active.

In fact, China's patent law was not formulated until last year, and it came into effect on April 1 this year. Therefore, the difficulty of protecting intellectual property rights in China can be imagined.

More importantly, these three-to-one-fill orders mean that valuable foreign exchange can be obtained, so the tendency of local protectionism is very serious everywhere. The report of Dongfang Commercial Company was either shirked and delayed, or even ignored directly.

Faced with this new situation, Charlie Sen, the newly appointed general manager of Oriental Commercial, decided to take a new approach. Since Dongfang Group cannot obtain strong cooperation from government departments in mainland China, it will simply try to lure snakes out of their holes and bring these illegal products to regions that are willing to cooperate with Dongfang Company's actions.

As a result, the marketing department of Oriental Commercial Corporation began to place some fishing orders in the name of other companies. However, when these counterfeit products actually arrived in Hong Kong to be handed over, what the supplier waited for was the Hong Kong Customs who heard the news after receiving the report. (To be continued...)