If you build an Internet café from scratch, even if it is a small Internet café with 30 computers, the amount of capital invested is very huge.

The personal computer in 2001 was very expensive, and it cost seven or eight thousand yuan to match a Ben 3 computer, and if you choose a lower-grade Celeron, it will cost five or six thousand yuan.

These computers usually only have 128M RAM, 20G hard drives, and a large, clunky CRT display, and their performance is far inferior to the lowest configuration mobile phone 16 years later.

Ding Tianming's computers are all Celeron processors, with 256M memory at the high level, 128M memory at the low level, and the display screens are all 15-inch spherical picture tubes.

According to the second-hand electronics market at that time, each computer was about 1,000 to 151, and if it was packaged as a whole, it must be much cheaper.

"Brother Ding, if your Internet café is closed, how about selling me these computers?" Li Feng asked tentatively.

Ding Tianming raised his eyebrows, his elastic beer belly rose and fell, and he seemed to be very unconvinced: "Sold to you? Aren't you still in school, why do you want so many computers?"

"I've got my plans, man, no kidding. Li Feng patted Ding Tianming's shoulder, "I have to leave in advance, and I'll talk when I'm free." ”

Ding Tianming touched the slag on his cheeks, curious and surprised, and suspicious.

He was struggling with no liquidity and could not afford a second-hand truck.

And if these computers are sold to the second-hand market, they will definitely be slaughtered by those black-hearted traders, and even some of the machines with poor performance will be disposed of as waste.

He had inquired sideways that the second-hand market had the lowest valuation of obsolete computers from Internet cafes, and was the least popular. The reason is that the computers in Internet cafes are generally overloaded, and the users do not care about it, so the failure rate is relatively high.

Assuming that a private computer with the same configuration and service life can be sold for 1,500 yuan, then the Internet café computer is only 800 at most.

Moreover, the configuration of Ding Tianming's computers is very ordinary, and it is estimated that it will not be sold for eight hundred, and it may even be lower than six hundred.

It was for this reason that Ding Tianming did not dare to move the idea of closing the Internet café, until the landlord suddenly announced a price increase, and then he was forced to go to Liangshan.

If someone takes the initiative to take over, it is definitely good news, at least their losses will not be so big, and when these computers are disposed of, maybe they will be able to scrape together the money to buy a truck.

Ding Tianming nodded to himself, and immediately shook his head, five words flashed in his mind: Li Feng?

It was not yet three o'clock in the afternoon, and Li Feng had already gotten on the bus and returned to his home in the happy community.

Knock knock knock......

Li Feng knocked on the door, "squeak", the door opened, and in front of him was Zhang Guilan, a mother in her forties, full of black hair, and a young face.

"Feng Feng, why did you go home so early?" Zhang Guilan's face suddenly startled, "Oops, what's wrong with your forehead?!"

"Nothing, bumped. Li Feng said nonchalantly, "Lao Tian saw that I was injured, so he specially approved me to go home early to rest." ”

"Don't Lao Tian Lao Tian, that's your homeroom teacher, you have to respect the teacher. Zhang Guilan shook his head, "Is it really okay?" Do you want your mother to take you to the hospital?"

"It's really okay, Mom, you can rest assured. Li Feng threw off his schoolbag and dangled around the room.

Five years after Li Feng graduated from university, the old couple finally saved money and replaced it with a new house, and the small house of about 50 square meters in the happy community was also sold when the market was better, and the family's living standard was finally improved.

However, Li Feng still misses this small house in the happy community, which carries too many childhood memories. So at the moment he was walking around the house and watching.

The happy community is a staff house jointly built by the first and second machinery factories in Xianhu City at the end of the eighties, and this house is divided by my father's factory.

But soon, with the deepening of the reform of the market economy, the first machinery factory started restructuring in 98, and a large number of workers began to be laid off.

The second machinery factory, which has a slightly better efficiency, has survived to the new millennium, but it will soon start the restructuring process, some time ago, the factory has released rumors, as soon as the beginning of 2002, the first batch of workers will be laid off.

So Mama Li always sighed, often saying that Dad Li was not far from being laid off.

When she was young, she had the opportunity to work in government agencies, but how beautiful the state-owned enterprises were back then, with income, status, and technology in hand, it seemed that it was more than ten times stronger than doing miscellaneous work in government agencies.

However, the world changes, the tide of the times is wave after wave, once you choose the wrong direction, you will quickly fall behind and encounter the fate of being eliminated.

In the mid-to-late 90s, China's private economy developed rapidly, and the economic benefits of Xianhu woolen mills became worse and worse, and the products were gradually surpassed by private enterprises in terms of technical quality and aesthetic level.

For a time, the products of the woolen mill were seriously unsalable, the inventory was piled up, and the efficiency was declining all the way.

Later, the old state-owned enterprise was finally restructured in the millennium, and Li's mother was reduced to a laid-off worker, who could only receive 180 yuan a month for basic living expenses.

Now the whole family is supported by Li Wanmin alone, and when he is laid off, the family is really a little bit uncovered.

At that time, Li Feng didn't know what it meant to be laid off from both jobs, and always felt that although the family was hard, his basic food and clothing were still worry-free, who would have thought that these were all earned by his parents working hard outside in the scorching sun and wind and rain.

In just four years of college, for Li Feng's tuition and the living expenses of a family of three, Li Wanmin and Zhang Guilan died before they were fifty years old. It wasn't until Li Feng graduated from university and was able to earn money to subsidize his family that the family's economic situation began to gradually improve.

However, time flies and there is no return, and the gray hair of my parents will never come back.

"Feng Feng, the head teacher will give you a vacation, just go back to the room to rest, what are you wandering around, and my mother will make you pea rice in a while. Zhang Guilan said.

Li Feng was excited to hear it in his heart, since he graduated and went to work in Jiangzhou, he hadn't eaten pea rice made by his mother for a long, long time.

"Got it!" Li Feng returned to his room, lying on the bed of his youth, and began to think of his own Internet café plan in his heart.

Now that we have crossed back this time, we must not let our parents suffer anymore, and not only that, but we must also let the whole family live a good life!

Come to think of it, he needs money, at least fifty thousand yuan.

However, now he is a super loser, and today he crashed Lin Yuting's luxury car and lost 200,000 yuan, even if he didn't lose all of it, it was enough for him to drink a pot.

I only have a total of 800 yuan of New Year's money in hand, all in a passbook, which is not half a star away from the target of 50,000 yuan.

There is also the problem of opening an Internet café.

Ding Tianming's extensive business model has led to his low net profit, and if he runs Ding Ge's Internet café, he believes that he can increase his net profit by 10%-20%. But the rent of the internet café has risen by 30 percent, and because it is located near the school, it does not dare to blatantly put up a sign, sneaking up the upper floor of the fruit supermarket, resulting in its customer base being too single.

How much money can students have? Students alone are not enough to support an Internet café, and they must expand their customer base and move into earning migrant workers and white-collar workers.

Therefore, the positioning of the Internet café alone, Ding Tianming is not very clear, in a relatively high rent area, a large number of potential customers have been lost in vain, and the loss rate is at least 30%.

The most important thing is that his customer experience is also very problematic, the Internet café is dark and narrow, and there is a strong smell of stinky feet, how can the little white-collar workers stand it, only poor students who are eager to surf the Internet are willing to patronize.

This directly lowered the pricing of his Internet access fees, and virtually caused a net profit loss of more than 30%.

After calculating this account, if we can choose a more suitable location and reasonably operate an Internet café of the same size, the net profit should be 60%-80% higher than that of the Dingor Internet café, and it can exceed 6,000 or more per month, and the entire investment can be recovered in eight to ten months.

After thinking about it, Li Feng felt that it was still a good choice to set up an Internet café in this year.

"That's it!" Li Feng snapped his fingers and made up his own plan to make money.

At this moment, there was a "squeak", the door opened, and Li Wanmin came back from work.