Third year of Gaia, 25th day of the first month, World's Edge Courtyard.
The first alliance meeting of the Alliance of Mountains and Seas was attended by a total of nineteen people. Ouyang Shuo jokingly called it the meeting of nineteen.
Just a year had passed, but the people had changed.
Last year, Bright Moon Illuminates the River was still pursuing Red Eagle. But now, the two of them were openly a couple, making many single people envious.
Last year, Lin Jing used the Divine Weapon Seven Star Dragon's Well to stand out among the adventure-type players. Now that he had obtained the Tai 'e Sword's Sword Qi Thunderclap, he was competing with Lin Jing.
More importantly, Bloody Romance, who had thrown a million gold coins at the auction for War Blood, was the undisputed number one among the adventure-type players.
Last year, it was Mulan Lanyue who accompanied Ouyang Shuo. Now, it was Song Jia. The news of their wedding caused waves in the alliance.
Be it Baihua or Feng Qiuhuang, both of them looked at Song Jia strangely.
Last year, the Black Mamba, who was specially invited to attend, had long since disappeared along with the Rattlesnake Mercenary Group. Replacing it was the even more mysterious Black Snake and the terrifying Black Snake Guards.
The two brothers, Song Wen and Song Wu, also disappeared.
One of them was appointed as the city guard of Zhenhai City, while the other was appointed as the deputy commander of the Leizhou County Guard Division. After the new year, Ouyang Shuo was already prepared to promote Song Wu to the commander of the Xunzhou County Guard Division.
Since old people had left, new people would naturally join.
As an important member of the Guild Alliance, it was no surprise that [Threads of Affection] would attend the meeting. What was surprising was that Shadow Fox and Dream Clouds Devourer appeared in the World's Edge Courtyard.
Clearly, Ouyang Shuo wanted to use this opportunity to thoroughly integrate Shadow Alliance and Dream House into the alliance.
After going around and around, there were still nineteen people attending the meeting.
Apart from them, there was also a special existence — Wandering Scholar.
In May of the second year of Gaia, Wandering Scholar established the guild Wilderness Press. Just from the name, one could tell that this was a very special guild. The guild members were mainly reporters and editors.
The main business of the [Wilderness Newspaper] was to cooperate with the government. On the official forum, a news column, [Daily News], was opened. It was responsible for reporting interesting news and major events in the wilderness.
Although the Daily News was paid to read, with Bai Xiaosheng's team's ability to dig up news, it sold like hotcakes. Every day, there would be some good news.
The players joked that by subscribing to the [Daily News], they could easily understand the world's events without leaving their homes.
The reporters of [Daily News] not only covered the Nine King Cities but also more than 90% of the players' territories in the China server. Shanhai City was no exception.
By now, the number of paid subscribers of the Daily News had exceeded ten million. This meant that one out of every ten players in the China region had subscribed to Daily News.
If children were excluded, the ratio would be extremely shocking.
Reading the Daily News every day had become one of the habits of most players.
The price of the Daily News could be said to be very affordable. Players only needed to spend 2 copper coins a day to read all the news.
Even if it was ten years, it wouldn't even cost a single gold coin.
However, the huge number of paid subscribers still brought huge profits to the [Wilderness Newspaper]. If each person spent 2 copper coins a day, their daily turnover would be 2000 gold coins. It could be said that they were making a lot of money every day.
Other than paid readers, advertising revenue was the main source of income for the Daily News.
Whether it was a guild or a territory, if they wanted to publish a [Recruitment Order], the [Daily News] was the best choice. If it was published on the forum, other than a huge crocodile like Shanhai City, it would be like a stone in the sea.
Other than the [Recruitment Order], the commercial promotion of the territory's specialties, trading information of top-notch items, and the release of clues for chain quests were also popular advertisements published in the [Daily News].
The perfume, cheongsam, and other products released by the Song Empire had been published in the [Daily News].
To this day, similar news media kept popping up like mushrooms after the rain. Among them, there were regional media such as the [Capital Express] and professional media such as the [Isle of Heroes].
All kinds of news media fully satisfied the reading needs of all kinds of players.
Even so, the [Daily News] was still the most outstanding.
Because of this, the [Bai Xiaosheng] became famous and even entered the [Famous Celebrity List]. Some people joked that if [Who Says Wuyi] was a tycoon among the players, then the [Bai Xiaosheng] was a tycoon in the media.
Just a year ago, the [Bai Xiaosheng] was just a slightly famous critic on the forum. The sudden rise of the Bai Xiaosheng was due to the "unique" business model of the [Daily News].
The quiet rise of the news industry allowed countless people to see the business opportunities within. In other words, the sudden rise of the news industry once again impacted the players' inherent concept of the game.
To say that the [Daily News]'s business model was unique was actually a false proposition. This was because in reality, this kind of mobile paid reading model had already matured as early as one or two hundred years ago.
The breakthrough of the [Bai Xiaosheng] was to successfully transplant this business model into the game world. Just like the perfume, cheongsam, and other products released by the Song Empire, it impacted the players' inherent concept.
Between them, there was a common characteristic, which was to operate the game world as a real world, and not rigidly adhere to the usual game thinking to maintain the so-called "ancient charm" of the game.
To put it simply, it was back to the theory that Ouyang Shuo had previously mentioned, the players' group transmigration.
From Gaia's actions of setting up a column for the [Daily News] and other news media on the forum, it was not difficult to see that Gaia had an encouraging attitude towards this point.
Making the game world more realistic was one of Gaia's goals.
Even if the future immigration fleet arrived on Hope Planet, the [Earth On Le], a game that transcended the century, could still continue operating and become a part of people's daily lives.
After all, the tempering and selection of talents was also a process that lasted for a long time.
People with business sense had already drawn inferences from the prosperity of the news industry and sniffed out other business opportunities.
On the forum, there was no lack of the embryonic form of various industries, but they lacked a unified platform.
For example, online novels.
In fact, as early as a year ago, there were players who used the game [Earth On Le] as a foundation to create related YY novels. The themes included online games, fantasy, martial arts, history, military, and other major categories.
These novels were just written by the authors to pass the time.
However, with the support of the official platform, like the [Daily News], a specialized online novel reading platform was set up. Then, with professional operations and publicity, it could be immediately realized.
After all, in reality, paying to read online novels had long become mainstream.
Another example was online dramas and movies.
With the filming equipment provided by Gaia, combined with the game's natural elements of exploration, fighting, and war, as long as there was a professional writer and director, it was not difficult to produce very exciting television dramas and movies.
Now, the forum was filled with self-entertainment works taken by players.
Without a doubt, only a more sophisticated and professional production could have the ability to be realized.
All of these were within the scope of entertainment.
If one were to jump out of this framework, their imagination would be even greater.
For example, online shopping.
Ever since the super trading platform was canceled, cross-regional online shopping had become an extravagant hope.
However, in reality, online shopping had long become the mainstream consumption of the people.
With the help of the forum, an online shopping platform could be set up, and with the help of courier stations, a courier network could be set up. It could easily replicate the real Taobao website in the game.
All of these had unlimited business opportunities.
As a reincarnated person, Ouyang Shuo obviously knew that all of this had been realized in his previous life. Not to mention this, the future industry had long jumped out of the constraints of the official forum.
With the development of the game, there was no limit to the players' entertainment needs.
In the years to come, the singers in the real world would be reborn one by one in the game.
Ouyang Shuo clearly remembered that in the fourth year of Gaia in his previous life, the top superstar Lin Luo held a classical concert with the main theme of the game in Kyoto Square. The number of audience exceeded 200,000.
With just this concert, Lin Luo madly pulled in 500,000 gold coins and was known as the Queen of Money.
Not only the stars in reality, with the development of the entertainment industry, the game had also given birth to a new generation of stars. They were either the game's peerless experts or top-notch geniuses.
In short, the future of the game world would become more and more integrated with the real world.
The reason why Ouyang Shuo did not use his advantage as a reincarnated person to touch these industries was because he adhered to the saying: Every industry has its own specialization, don't bite off more than you can chew.
It was not a coincidence that Bai Xiaosheng was able to establish the Wilderness Newspaper. In reality, he was a senior media person with rich experience in the management of news media.
Otherwise, the Daily News would not have become so popular.
Similarly, for other industries to truly discover the business opportunities, they had to rely on similar professionals.
For Ouyang Shuo, instead of being distracted, it was better to wholeheartedly manage the territory. That was his main job. Just like now, even though Bai Xiaosheng was known as a media giant, he still felt flattered by Ouyang Shuo's invitation.
In the end, in Onle, the Overlord was at the top of the food chain.
Other than that, there was also the problem of opportunities.
Whether it was web novels, web dramas, online shopping, or even celebrity concerts, they all had a premise, which was the stability of the game world.
In the age of chaos and war, all of this was nothing more than a pipe dream.
In his previous life, it was only in the fourth year of Gaia that such industries gradually began to emerge.
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