Chapter 24: Raising an Eyebrow and Exhaling

  Nagano did not go back on his word and within two days, he had arranged for colleagues at headquarters in Japan to help find a small game company on the verge of bankruptcy. He poached the chief architect and art designer, persuading them to start anew in China.

  As for the supervisors of Sega's game cartridge production standards, they actually only need to operate according to Sega's standard documents, and it is not necessary to send out specialized engineers. Even if Sega sends them out, Yang Yun must not want them, because every move is under Sega's eyes, it's not safe!

  Yang Yun took in the two men, and the two Japanese experts had an annual salary of $30,000. The cost of food, lodging, and round-trip airfare was all paid for by Sega Corporation's headquarters, but personnel relations were all under Yang Yun's name. This was a sugar-coated bullet fired at the Japanese, digging into the corner of capitalism.

  The Japanese are good in this way, as long as they are given enough silver, they will die for their masters and be loyal like a watchdog.

  In addition, hiring two Japanese people to join the company is also for show, a face-saving project, and political achievement.

  Of course, Yang Yun would not be foolish enough to fully accept and completely open up to the Japanese.

  No matter how miserable Sega is, it's still the world's second-largest game manufacturer. Dancing with wolves and plotting with tigers, I'm afraid they don't know how to die.

  A mind intent on harming others is inadmissible; a mind intent on defending against others is indispensable. Yang Yun deeply understands this principle.

  In addition, Yang Yun visited the computer science students of Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Beihang University and China Central Academy of Fine Arts in turn, and had a good relationship with student unions, clubs and teaching affairs offices.

  Although these young people still have the pride of university students in 1989, especially graduates from famous schools who were directly booked by various departments and could go to work without even getting their graduation certificates, under the high salary and economically dominant environment, Yang Yun still recruited a few computer professionals to participate in the interview.

  Yang Yun has excellent eloquence and personal charm, which is also the kind of person that the students who have just experienced that turmoil admire most.

  It must be said that buying a building in Zhongguancun is a wise move, with huge recruitment advertisements hanging on the fifth floor, making it impossible for IT people passing by the first street of Zhongguancun to ignore.

  Yang Yun's recruitment conditions are really tempting, software engineer position, monthly salary 1,000, marketing, monthly salary 800 plus commission, has exceeded the average salary of Beijing in 1989, which is 124 yuan, by seven or eight times. The average salary in other parts of the country was less than 100 yuan, this price is equivalent to a annual salary of one million in Beijing's IT industry now.

  In just two days, nearly three-digit number of professional IT personnel have signed up and resumes are still pouring in.

  Under the care of the leaders in Zhongguancun Industrial Park, all procedures were completed in three days. Longteng Entertainment Game Company was established and recruitment went on in an orderly manner. Everything is ready, only waiting for the east wind!

  Yang Yun sat in the general manager's office, looking at a stack of resumes in his hand. After preliminary screening, there were 24 qualified candidates inside. He had already asked intern secretary Fang Huimin to notify them one by one.

  "Huimin, let's start inviting people in one by one."

  Yang Yun looks calm on the surface but is actually very excited, having been a subordinate in his past life, today he finally gets to be the superior and can interview others!

  For example, why are manhole covers round and not square? What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses? When you see a pretty girl, would you ask if she has a boyfriend? Yang Yun would never do such things, because these questions are too lame!

  Give them an IQ test. There are 5 houses in a row, each painted a different color: blue, green, red, white, and yellow. Each house is occupied by a person of a different nationality: American, British, Canadian, Indian, and Japanese. Each person has a different favorite drink: coffee, tea, milk, soda, and water. Each person also has a different pet: bird, cat, dog, fish, and horse. Using the following clues, can you determine the color of each house, the nationality of its occupant, their favorite drink, and the type of pet they own?

  * The Canadian lives in the first house.

  * The person who owns a bird lives in the house next to the person who drinks milk.

  * The person who drinks coffee lives in the house next to the British person.

  * The American lives in the red house.

  * The person who smokes Dunhill lives in the yellow house.

  * The person who drinks soda lives in the house next to the person who owns a cat.

  * The person who owns a dog lives in the house next to the person who smokes Blends.

  * The person who drinks tea lives in the house next to the person who owns a horse.

  * The German smokes Prince.

  * The Norwegian lives in the house next to the blue house.

  Who owns the fish?

  After saying so many conditions, it's just asking who raises fish?

  Yang Yun from his previous life had also been given a hard time when he was applying for a job at Game Base Magazine.

  Two game architects from Japan, Nao Ueda and Yoshino Matsumoto, sat next to Yang Yun, and they will test and screen the candidates at a technical level during the interview today.

  "Hello everyone! I am Liu Tianzhong from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Capital University of Science and Technology. I have been working for half a year now, as a researcher at the Technical Laboratory of Beijing Electronics Holding Company..."

  "Hello everyone! My name is Fang Jindong! I graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology, and three years ago I was assigned to the Harbin Machine Tool Factory, mainly working on electrical automation and CNC operation, proficient in single-chip programming..."

  "Let me introduce myself, I am..."

  Technical questions, basically two Japanese people asked and the interviewee answered, with a translator coordinating in between. Of course, most of the time they still communicated in English, except for a few older job applicants who couldn't speak English, university graduates could generally converse with the Japanese quite fluently.

  Yang Yun silently flipped through the resume. As long as the technology wasn't too bad and could produce basic game underlying code, it was a pass.

  Because the most important creative ideas of the game are all in his own mind, he can casually take out a few and let this group of passionate young people be busy for half a year, so Yang Yun temporarily does not need to arrange positions such as game planners.

  What Yang Yun wants is something beyond technology, such as social relationships, resources brought in, interpersonal communication skills, and most importantly, loyalty. As long as these pass the test, there's no problem.

  As for the previous plan to make things difficult, Yang Yun really couldn't bring himself to do it, that was too cruel.

  The Japanese are very responsible and do not know Yang Yun's true intentions, so they use all their skills to try to pick the best employee from among the more than 20 candidates and satisfy the boss.

  It is precisely because of this that the demanding Japanese made all applicants feel averse, but at the same time, some rational applicants thought that such strict requirements were necessary for rigorous IT development.

  Japan's software outsourcing system is strict and has a set of methods, which can compete with European and American software outsourcing in the future, this is not unreasonable, Yang Yun is very clear about it.

  Yang Yun finally settled on five people.

  Fang Huimin, his assistant secretary, is in charge of handling the company's daily affairs and reporting to him.

  Fang Jindong, a Northeasterner from Harbin Institute of Technology, was sent to Beijing on business by the Harbin Machine Tool Factory as a senior single-chip microcomputer expert. He served as deputy director of the R&D department and became the second-in-command to game development architect Inoue Osamu.

  Zhang Guoqiang, a senior student in the Department of Computer Science at Tsinghua University, still has half a year to graduate. He works part-time at Longteng Company. Yang Yun's promise to him is that he will produce results within three months, and if not, he can leave freely without affecting his graduation.

  Xiang Tian, a graduate of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, was assigned to work at Beijing Art Factory creating illustrations for children's films. He is honest and reliable, and followed Matsumoto Yoshino to learn graphic design using software.

  Jiang Shaoyun, a reporter for the Beijing Youth Daily, was mysteriously suppressed and transferred after exposing some dark events. In a fit of anger, he resigned and went into business, where he was taken under Yang Yun's wing to be in charge of marketing.

  These five people, plus two Japanese experts and Yang Yun, a total of eight staff members, made the large Longteng Building seem empty.

  Yang Yuzhuo convened the first company-wide meeting, which was later determined by scholars to be a pivotal conference that would influence the entire history of computer games.

  The other seven people who attended the meeting would proudly tell others decades later that they were also the founders and veterans of Longteng Game Entertainment Company, witnessing miracles in the computer industry and game industry!