Chapter 67: An Excellent Opportunity

  Yang Yun wanted to transfer Yi Zhongtian from Jiangcheng University to Renmin University of China, this person is not a well-known figure, and he is already 42 years old university lecturer, this idea was too shocking, making Zhao Yongping and Jiang Shaoyun temporarily at a loss for words.

  Zhao Yongping furrowed his brow, looking embarrassed: "Director Yang, the People's University is not a place that you can just enter at will. Many of the party's leaders and high-ranking officials have studied here, and the lecturers and instructors are all carefully selected after rigorous examination. Moreover, its history and Chinese language departments rank among the top five in the country. To think about transferring from Jiangcheng University to here... it's a bit..."

  Yang Yun nodded: "I know it's definitely going to be difficult. Is there anyone here who can make it work? Don't worry about the money, even if it costs tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, we'll all make a profit!"

  The national average annual salary of workers is only 25,000 yuan. Using 40 times or 400 times that amount just to motivate a university lecturer's job?

  Jiang Shaoyun and Zhao Yongping were both stunned. This was a huge sum of money! What kind of person was Yi Zhongtian, anyway? Was he worth such a great cost?

  Yang Yun came to his senses, this is 1989, not 2014... He coughed awkwardly and said: "Okay, my intention is to try our best, ten million or one hundred million is just a slightly exaggerated metaphor. If you can help me make it happen, that would be a great achievement!"

  If he could be transferred to Renmin University of China as a lecturer, Yang Yun believed that Yi Zhongtian would definitely take this opportunity to improve his family's living conditions and create a better learning environment for his children who were about to take the college entrance examination.

  Jiang Shaoyun asked, "Director Yang, this Yi Zhongtian is already 42 years old. Let's not talk about his professional level for now, but just from the perspective of age, is he really suitable to join our game company? And even if he joins Ren Da in the future, how will he balance and make choices between Ren Da and our company?"

  At 42 years old, Yi Zhongtian is much older than the average age of 27 for employees at Baidu. In terms of thinking and energy, Yi Zhongtian may not be suitable to join this team, as Jiang Shuyun said. Just one overnight work session to rush a project would be unbearable.

  And it's really a dilemma whether to continue teaching at school or join Longteng full-time after arriving at the People's Congress.

  Yang Yun was speechless for a moment, he knew that Yi Zhongtian's future achievements would be dazzling, the best-selling Yi Zhongtian's Three Kingdoms series books, the popular Hundred Schools of Thought lecture program, and the numerous halo of being a renowned expert and scholar would all shine brightly on Yi Zhongtian.

  But he couldn't say it out loud, and even if he did, no one would believe him.

  As a reincarnated person, there are things he can quietly do by himself without making a sound, but prophesying the future in front of others is a great taboo.

  Yang Yun values more is the fame brought by Yi Zhongtian and the positive image on the traditional cultural level.

  Such a researcher of the Three Kingdoms who personally participates in the game software of the Three Kingdoms, must be a commendable masterpiece game. In the future, whether it is the best-selling achievement of Sanguo Yanyi or Yi Zhongtian's success and fame changing people's wrong views on the game industry, either result is good.

  Yang Yun could only pretend to be mysterious, taking out the boss's dignity and saying: "You don't have to worry about his achievements, believe me, I've never misjudged anyone!"

  Given Yang Yun's discerning eye for people and gaming, the two no longer hesitated, each thinking of how to make an effort to bring this about.

  At this moment, Fang Huimin pushed open the door and said quickly: "President Yang, Inoue Takeo called from Japan on a long-distance call!"

  Is there any news from Japan?

  Inosuke Inoue brought good news that in mid-October, Japan will send a delegation of about 40 people led by the vice minister of International Trade and Industry, officials from the Ministry of Education and Science and Technology Agency, as well as representatives from famous electrical manufacturing and computer technology companies to China for an "ice-breaking" visit mainly focused on exchanges in science education culture and computer hardware and software technology.

  This is the first small-scale business exchange between China and Japan since 1989, with 90% of the delegation consisting of science and technology, education, culture, and entertainment games, including representatives from Nintendo and Namco Bandai Games. Kudo Akiko, as the main planner of Namco's Sangokushi game, was also among them.

  Half a month ago, the Japanese government just lifted the restrictions on Japanese people visiting China and Beijing. Inoue Yūji contacted Kudō Akiko as soon as he returned to Japan, using Yang Yun's "capitalist sugar-coated cannonballs" to depict a vast and promising scene, which indeed attracted this female planner.

  This time, Aya Koudou's entourage visited China. Apart from participating in the three-country cultural exchange activities held by both China and Japan, as well as the demonstration of Namco's Three Kingdoms game, the most important purpose is to visit Longteng Entertainment Game Company, to see if it's really as good as Inoue Osamu said, with such prospects.

  Hanging up the phone, Yang Yun clenched her fists and hit her palm, feeling invigorated. Since she was willing to come, he had a chance to make people stay!

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  The next day, Yang Yun first went to the Beijing Film Academy with Jiang Shaoyun, where they met Professor Qi, the head of the directing department, as well as two of his disciples, both seasoned screenwriters in their thirties.

  One named Huang Qingbo, worked as an independent screenwriter at Beijing Film Studio, the other named Miao Jianhua, worked in the production department of China Central Television, participated in the writing of many historical dramas and classical dramas, such as the 86 version of Journey to the West, the 87 version of Dream of Red Mansions.

  Yang Yun naturally warmly invited and strongly suggested that the two join Longteng in a suspended salary leave, as for the prospects, whether it's good or not, whether it's worth giving up the stability of a state-owned enterprise to join this emerging private enterprise without a quota, wait until the Three Kingdoms game is finished, and then let the two decide for themselves, with any losses incurred in between being compensated by Longteng.

  If Long Teng's remarks are applied to the popular corporate poaching propaganda of later generations, it would be: You came, we have no constraints or restrictions on you. If you can't stay in the future, that's our problem, and we didn't do well enough.

  Yang Yun is like that, openly and uprightly poaching people, then laying out all the advantages and disadvantages, good and bad, without forcing or coercing, if we can't be colleagues, we can still be friends.

  It's precisely because of this considerate attitude that the two screenwriters took a great liking to Yang Yun, and they chatted very happily.

  Yang Yun thought of Miao Jianhua's experience and asked, "Brother Miao, you used to work on 'Journey to the West' and 'Dream of Red Mansions' at CCTV. Now that I hear the 'Three Kingdoms' drama team has been formed, aren't you going to join?"

  Miao Jianhua smiled and said, "Logically speaking, I should have joined. However, over the past two years, Japan has been hyping up the production of a Three Kingdoms TV series, and several wealthy local stations in our country have followed suit, wanting to co-produce something with Japan. This has put our station in a very passive position. There is immense pressure from above, and opinions are not unified on all sides. The leaders' thoughts are also unclear to us below, and of course, there are other things that are not easy to say. In short, this matter is very complicated. So, I thought about jumping out of this circle and becoming an independent screenwriter, finding a more reliable cooperation company, without so many twists and turns, and being freer."

  Yang Yun finally understood that the water in this CCTV Three Kingdoms drama team was not ordinary, fortunately he didn't jump in, it's better this way, everyone has no relationship with each other, and it's more peaceful.

  After fixing these two screenwriters, they came to the Academy of Social Sciences again and visited Zhang Pei'an, a famous Three Kingdoms researcher in the cultural circle.

  He is more talkative, a researcher and an entrepreneur, two people who are not on the same path at all. Talking about game development or San Guo Yan Yi characters is simply impossible for them to discuss together. As a result, their common topic was simple, and the cooperative thing was just taking what they needed.

  Yang Yun made a commitment that when the Dragon and Tiger Three Kingdoms project was officially launched, if necessary, he would sponsor Zhang Pei'an's research topic at the first time, and then carry out in-depth cooperation between the two parties.

  For the next three days, Yang Yun stayed in the laboratory, and the project of Three Kingdoms was temporarily shelved. This was an urgent matter that couldn't be rushed, and all the things that needed to be explained had been handed over to others to handle, so he might as well supervise the work in the lab.

  In these three days, Zhang Guoqiang's project team made significant progress. The preliminary model of the Dragon Warrior game has been established, and the completion rate of character combat actions reached 60%. Cheng Long's agent in Hollywood also found a script that is more suitable for the Dare to Die game, which was faxed to the Longteng Laboratory.

  Yang Yun bought back the game "Red Fortress" and carefully studied its content with Zhang Guoqiang, breaking it down into independent functional modules that programmers could understand. According to the script, they set up six levels and drew out six large maps together with Song Benyi and Su Xiuyun.

  These two games will not be much higher than Salamander in terms of technical difficulty. When Inoue Yoshinori developed them, he brought over the entire development model of a Japanese game production company and set up standardized modular development packages, which greatly improved the production efficiency of domestic programmers and had a high fault tolerance rate.

  Yang Yun smiled and said: "Guo Qiang, these two games, don't mess them up, I'm counting on them to sell for a good price!"

  Zhang Guoqiang said seriously: "Director Yang, please rest assured, they are mine!"

  A strange laugh echoed around, and Su Xiuyun's face turned bright red. Zhang Guoqiang only then came to his senses, realizing he might have said something inappropriate, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing too.

  The lab side has just been processed, and Zhao Yongping's side has brought good news again.

  Deng Gong personally instructed that "the People's University mainly cultivates financial and trade, economic management cadres and Marxist-Leninist theoretical workers". However, after more than a decade of development, the People's University has also made great achievements in philosophy, history, journalism, and language research. Now, those interested in Yi Zhongtian are Li Cangnong, the head of the History Department.

  Zhao Yongping used many connections to find out Li Cangong's views. The history department did not want to be just a professional department forever, and they were eager to become the College of History, especially Chinese Ancient History, which is a national key discipline. They have been working hard to introduce famous teachers, improve themselves, and actively participate in academic discussions.

  It takes a certain number of faculty members, a sufficient number of high-quality papers, and a certain position in the academic community to be promoted to a first-class discipline. It's not something that can be accomplished in one or two years. When the water is full, the channel will be formed. The History Department of Renmin University is currently in the process of accumulation, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as "thirsty for talent".

  Yang Yun met Director Li Cang Nong under Zhao Yongping's lead and was immediately at a loss for words after the first sentence.

  Li Cangong asked: "I've heard of Yi Zhongtian, I don't know if he's willing to read my doctoral thesis?"

  Yang Yun is not Yi Zhongtian, how can he answer on his behalf...