Jiang Tao is very talkative and is the type that Zhou Peng likes.

There are many kinds of talkative, some talkative people like to joke, this kind of person sometimes can't grasp the scale, often offend people; some people are talkative because they like to tell jokes, like to make everyone laugh, and they are very happy when everyone laughs; some people are talkative, because they like to tell stories, story by story, endlessly.

Jiang Tao belongs to the third type of talkative person, and his stories are of high quality, which benefits Zhou Peng a lot.

"Just now, Brother Tao said that the owner of the Lexmark Internet Café on Cultural Road is the leading brother in the Internet café circle on Cultural Road, what story does he have?"

Zhou Peng heard that he was talking about the Internet café circle on the cultural road, and asked with a smile.

Jiang Tao drank some wine, and also talked about it, and while picking his teeth, he said: "Oh, speaking of Cui Xidong, the owner of this Lexmark Internet Cafe, his two brothers are both characters. Cui Xidong has an older brother named Cui Xicheng, a big boss who runs a company and earns millions a year. Cui Xidong, don't look at it as just an Internet café owner, the energy is not small. He has a good relationship with the Tianqiao gang to ask for food, and when the Internet café on Wenhua Road opens, he has to say hello to Cui Xicheng first, which Internet café wants to reduce the price and promote activities, and he has to nod and agree. ”

Zhou Peng pretended to be aimless and asked, "Then what if other Internet café owners don't greet him?"

"I'll give you an example, Si Zhenjiang, the owner of the Starry Sky Internet Cafe, is also a figure with a head and a face, who used to work in a film factory and was very familiar with the people from the Cultural Affairs Bureau, and later opened a Starry Sky Internet Café on Shifan East Road. ”

Jiang Tao took a sip of draft beer, moistened his throat, and then continued: "The Star Internet Cafe was opened in the first half of 02, and it opened to engage in activities, and it may be 100 to get 100 free, and the Internet fee was still 1 yuan an hour at that time, and the customers of the Lexmark Internet Cafe were directly robbed." Would you be happy if Trixidon could be happy?"

Jiang Tao stared at Zhou Peng and waited for an answer, and then Zhou Peng said, "If I were Cui Xidong, I wouldn't be happy." ”

"So what will you do?"

"I, I really can't help it, it's normal for people to open and engage in activities. ”

Jiang Tao smiled, and then said to Zhou Peng: "This means that we are not as good as Cui Xidong, guess what people should do, they directly brought in more than 30 stinky people who begged for food, and when they entered the Internet café, they begged for food with the people on the Internet, and then the network administrator didn't figure out the situation at first, but only pushed one to ask for food, and that beggar actually broke his bones!"

"Is his leg made of glass?" Li Keqing said angrily.

"Hey, I'll push you, and you've slammed your leg against the edge of the wall, and you're still broken. ”

Zhou Peng touched his chest, and said in his heart that this is too dark.

"It's not over, those beggars, they still ask Si Zhenjiang for red envelopes!"

Zhou Peng saw that Li Keqing was about to speak, so he hurriedly pressed his thigh from under the table, and then looked at Jiang Tao and said, "How much do you want for a red envelope?"

"If you want a thousand, give a hundred to your men. ”

Zhou Peng pretended to be surprised and looked at Jiang Tao: "What? Cui Xidong personally went to the Starry Sky Internet Café to make trouble? and asked the owner of the Starry Sky Internet Café for a red envelope? Then he is too blatant." ”

"No, brother, you listen to me, Cui Xidong must not be able to make trouble with his own food, he supported a gangster on the cultural road, called Song Jingang, the first two days I heard that Song Jingang is now directly going to Cui Xidong's Internet café as a cashier. There were two beggar leaders on the street of Wenhua Road, one was named Ma Qiang and the other was Hou Ming, both of whom listened to Song Jingang. It turned out that Cui Xidong had something to do, not only would he not go out by himself, but even Song Jingang didn't go out, it was Ma Qiang and Hou Ming. ”

Li Keqing hurriedly asked, "Is Hou Ming the overpass horse monkey?"

"Exactly, what? You know him?"

Zhou Peng's eyes rolled twice, and then asked with a smile: "Brother, are you afraid of that Cui Xidong?"

"What? Cui Xidong, Cui Xidong, he's just a little famous gangster in the school district, how can I be afraid of him? Don't talk about Cui Xidong, it's his brother Cui Xicheng, I'm not afraid, do you know who our boss is?"

Zhou Peng shook his head and looked at Jiang Tao.

"Our boss, but Cao Hongliang!"

Zhou Peng frowned, and muttered in his heart: Cao Hongliang, why is this name so familiar, could he be Cao Hongliang, the chairman of the Hongliang Group later?

This Hongliang Group, a well-known local real estate developer in Quancheng, has been involved in real estate since about 2005, and then by 2020, it has developed 20 residential areas in larger cities in Shandong Province, such as Quancheng, Island City, Bo City, and Windy City. And the real estate he developed is all very hot, a community is less than tens of millions, more than a billion to earn, by 2020, Cao Hongliang, the boss of Hongliang Group, is already counted in the province, worth tens of billions of big bosses!

Could it be that at this time in 2003, Cao Hongliang was still opening an Internet café?

Oh, it's really the same as the hero, I opened an Internet café in 2003, to be honest, but this is more than making money in real estate.

However, soon with the popularization of home computers, the scenery of Internet cafes was not there, and opening Internet cafes was not so profitable.

The most prosperous time of the Internet café was from 1996 to 2004, not to mention the free license of the Internet café, it was to open one and issue another.

Then from 2005 to 2010, it was a stable period for Internet cafes, and they still made money, but they were definitely not as popular as before.

Since 2010, a large number of Internet cafes have closed down, Internet cafes have stopped making money, and then many Internet café owners have changed careers to do other things.

It is not unusual for Cao Hongliang to still engage in Internet cafes, because investing in Internet cafes is an industry with a very high rate of return, and his involvement in real estate in 2005 is the most admirable.

In 2002, the average house price in Quancheng was 1,749 yuan per square meter, and in 2003, the house price in Quancheng reached 2,143 yuan per square meter, an increase of 22 percent.

However, compared to the windfall profit of 100% of the annual return on capital of an Internet café, real estate is still a little worse.

Then by 2004, the house price in Quancheng rose to 2,720 yuan per square meter, an increase of 27 percent.

By 2005, the housing price in Quancheng had risen to 3,608 yuan per square meter, an increase of more than 32 percent.

Those who have money find that investing in real estate seems to be a better way out.

As a result, Cao Hongliang, who made a lot of money by opening an Internet café, was able to get involved in real estate in 2005, and he has to say that he has a unique vision.

Zhou Peng felt that it was necessary to get to know this person and see what was so outstanding about the characters standing on the cusp of Quancheng in this era.

Zhou Peng also chartered two standard rooms on the second floor, and the price of 100 yuan a night was too expensive in the eyes of others, but in Zhou Peng's eyes, this was up to the four-star standard, not expensive at all.