The city of Ganzhou, since ancient times, is the most important city in the northwest, located in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, surrounded by mountains, and is the center of the chemical industry and nuclear industry. The roads in the city are either uphill or downhill, the buildings are gray, and a sense of ruin is coming.

Unlike other cities, there are very few large shopping malls in Ganzhou, because there are dozens of professional wholesale markets of all sizes in the city, with cheap prices and sufficient goods, so that the large shopping malls have no room for survival. Zhang Yi and Wang Xiaoming are going to a professional market that specializes in the wholesale of DVD players and pirated film and television discs.

Wang Xiaoming found a familiar businessman, picked dozens of DVD players, and then wholesaled a large number of VCD DVDs, made a good order, paid the money, and prepared to use a small cart to pull the goods and leave.

The boss pulled Wang Xiaoming and said: "Xiao Ming, I have a new batch of computer software CDs here, you can buy a little goods to try the water, this thing is in high demand, the sales are also large, and the profit is also very high." ”

In this era, computers are expensive, and many people have never seen them, let alone become familiar with them, and some people have never even heard of the software installed in them.

And Wang Xiaoming has never touched a computer, let alone knows the profit and popularity of computer software.

Therefore, he didn't have much interest in the computer software CD that his boss said.

Zhang Yi suddenly thought of the future generations, on the pedestrian street in Ningdong, there were densely packed vendors selling pirated CDs, and they were so enthusiastic that they couldn't wait to drag everyone who passed by to the hut to pick up CDs.

It is the first time that people have seen such enthusiasm from a vendor selling things. And this enthusiasm is due to the fact that pirated software discs are so lucrative.

He clearly remembered that the CDs in 1997 were all wholesaled from Qiuyuezhou, and the price was about 1 yuan a piece, but the selling price was 20 yuan a piece, 20 times the profit, which was an absolute profit.

He grabbed Wang Xiaoming, who was reluctant to look at the software CD, and said, "Let's go see things first!"

Zhang Yi and Wang Xiaoming were led to a small courtyard behind the wholesale market, with several large wooden boards on the ground and hundreds of CD covers.

These covers are colorful, there are software CDs, game CDs, including the Windows 95 operating system that Zhang Yi is familiar with, as well as Blade Runner and Red Alert, these well-known games of the year, there are all kinds of them, and they can't be seen.

On the cover of a CD in his hand, there is a big CCED name, which is the famous Chinese character processing software in later generations, which was more famous than Kingsoft's wps in the early days. Somehow, when I thought of CCED, an interface suddenly popped up in my mind, and there were lines of code densely listed on it.

Looking at the code style, it should be written in C, and the comments clearly state that this is the source code of CCED.

In a trance, the interface disappeared like broken glass!

What the hell is this, why do you want CCED word processing software, you can actually see the source code of the program, this is not scientific!

He shook his head, just thinking that the scene just now was just an illusion.

At this time, an idea popped into my mind. I didn't think about it these days, where can the first pot of gold in my life be dug out, but I didn't expect it, think about it, the first pot of gold is actually these CDs in my hand.

When I really looked back, the first pot of gold was within reach.

Looking at these CDs, Wang Xiaoming didn't know why, and looked uninterested, Zhang Yi saw this, pulled him aside, and asked, "Xiaoming, how much money do you have left?"

"Every time I buy goods, I will bring more money, but I am afraid that there will be good goods temporarily, and the money will not be enough! Now there are about 20,000 yuan left. Xiao Ming replied.

Zhang Yi knows that Ningdong, as the provincial capital, has not yet sold pirated CDs, and if these CDs are wholesaled to Ningdong, the profits will increase by at least 10 times, and even because of the monopoly reasons, the profits can be higher.

Zhang Yi pulled Wang Xiaoming into the corner and said to him: "Xiao Ming, I'll discuss something with you, do you remember? When our school was in the first grade of junior high school, I entered a batch of Great Wall 0520 computers, at that time, I had a good relationship with the physics teacher, so I entered the computer interest group, and learned computers, what five strokes of typing, computer keyboard blind typing, etc. So I think these computer discs are definitely going to be funny, with high profits and big sales. You enter the VCD now, just to help your sister, she is happy to give you more pocket money, and if she is unhappy, she will give you a little less, then she has the money she earns to spend happily!"

Wang Xiaoming's face was struggling, a little tempted, but a little scared. After all, all the money for these purchases is her eldest sister's, if he uses it without authorization, it is better to make money, if he loses money, he must be scolded by her sister.

Zhang Yi saw that Wang Xiaoming hesitated and couldn't make up his mind, and he was also a little depressed, but he was only a high school graduate with no income, and it was possible to ask his family for a few hundred yuan, and if he wanted tens of thousands of yuan, it was simply a fantasy.

Looking at Wang Xiaoming, who was hesitant, he had an idea and said: "That's it! The CD counts that the two of us will pay for it together, you have 10,000, I have 10,000, if the CD we purchased cannot be sold within a week, I will find a way to make up for the 10,000 yuan, what do you think?"

Wang Xiaoming looked at Zhang Yi, who had a resolute face, and said to the boss: "Uncle Li, we buy 20,000 goods, how much do you think the price is?"

The boss smiled and said: "Okay, you have courage, you have more courage than your eldest sister, I called her last time to mention this, she didn't dare to do it, for fear that she wouldn't be able to sell it! Now the wholesale price of the disc to the outside is 3 yuan a plate, if you buy 30,000 yuan of goods, you can press 2 yuan a piece, I will go a volume, I can't make much money for you." ”

In fact, Zhang Yi, who has decades of experience in later generations, understands that the price of shipments in Guangdong is about 1 yuan a piece, and the boss is 2 yuan for wholesale, which still has a great profit.

Wang Xiaoming said a little embarrassed: "Uncle Li, the two of us have more than 20,000 yuan left to buy the goods, and we can only buy 20,000 goods!"

The boss smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, I have been in business with your sister for many years, I have been to your house, and I am afraid that you will not be able to run away, and the money is not enough, give me 20,000 yuan first, and then settle the arrears when I purchase the goods next time." ”

has made up his mind to buy, stretching his head and shrinking his head is a knife, it doesn't matter if he buys 20,000 or 30,000 goods.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, the two little children who had just graduated from high school disposed of 20,000 yuan of purchase money at will in 1997 and owed 10,000 yuan to the supplier, which was really bold.

Wang Xiaoming didn't understand the work of picking pirated CDs at all, so he could only throw it all to Zhang Yi, and he whispered next to him: "Since you give half and I pay half, the profits from selling will be half of each of us, and my brothers will have to settle accounts!"

Zhang Yi said embarrassedly: "Now it's all your money, I said half of the money, but I don't know if I can ask my family to get it." I definitely can't ask for half of this profit, just give me some!"

"No, half of it is half, only you understand what is good to sell and what is not good to sell. After returning to Ningdong, after I put down the goods, I didn't go to see my eldest sister, she was busy there, and I guess I didn't have time to think about the payment. The most important thing is that we must sell the software disc quickly and return the funds quickly, otherwise, I will not be able to explain to my eldest sister. ”

Zhang Yi nodded heavily and said, "Don't worry, within a week, I will definitely be able to return more than 20,000 yuan, I am absolutely confident." ”

After paying the payment, I made an IOU of 10,000 yuan, packed the goods, pulled them to the long-distance bus parking point with a trolley, and put them into the luggage compartment at the bottom of the bus.

With apprehension, the two of them took a long-distance bus back to Ningdong, and after pulling the VCD to the DVD store, the purchase list was secretly hidden, and they ran away.

Looking at the two people who ran away, Wang Xiaoming's eldest sister who received the goods, was a little inexplicable, what happened to these two guys, they were secretive.

The two of them pulled the pirated software disc to Zhang Yi's house, opened the package of CDs, put the cover instructions outward, and put the CDs in soft plastic bags, and then packed them together. 10,000 discs, busy for most of the day, before it can be considered complete.

Looking at the neatly stacked discs, Wang Xiaoming suddenly patted his head and said, "We have forgotten an important thing?"

Zhang Yi smiled and said, "I guessed a long time ago, what are you going to say? Is it a question of where to sell?"

"Damn, you guessed it earlier, why didn't you say it earlier, it still worries me!" Wang Xiaoming said.

"The mountain people have their own tricks! wait for me to find something, and you'll understand when the time comes."

Zhang Yi rummaged through the cabinets from home and found two brand-new bed sheets, and then, holding the packing box containing the discs, took a taxi to the most prosperous pedestrian street in Ningdong, found a corner, laid out the sheets, and then put the beautiful CDs on the cover one by one.

Fortunately, at this time in 1997, the most powerful chengguan on the earth had not yet been seen! Otherwise, how could they dare to openly set up a stall next to the pedestrian street.

Zhang Yi opened his voice and shouted: "Don't miss it when you pass by, the latest release of Windows 95, Office 95, the most fun Blade Runner, Mark Payne, and the 95 version of Red Alert, the latest version of Norton antivirus, the most classic DOS6.22, the most awesome word processing software CCED, everything." ”

Wang Xiaoming did the same and shouted.

On the streets of Ningdong in 1997, in this way, for the first time, there were two brothers who sold pirated CDs. Many years later, the businessmen of Ningdong would mention these two brothers when they recalled the era when pirated CDs were crazy about making money.

Before the two of them could shout a few times, they were overwhelmed by the swarming crowd. Zhang Yi expected that pirated CDs would be very popular, but he definitely didn't expect it to cause such a big madness.

"How much is one, I'll get five?" asked a handsome guy who picked up the disc in his hand.

Wang Xiaoming was about to say 20 yuan a piece, but was pulled by Zhang Yi. He had no choice but to remain silent.

"Big brother, you really have a vision, these picks are the most commonly used, among which there are more than 300 software compilations, maybe some of them can't be used, after all, there are too many compressed things on a disc!"

"I understand, you just say how much is a piece, right?"

"30 yuan a piece, 50 yuan two, not easy to use, as long as the disc is not worn and the packaging is in good condition, feel free to come to us to replace it!"

As soon as the handsome guy heard that he could change it, he had nothing to say, so he picked one more, made up enough for six, paid 150 yuan, and left happily.

Hearing this price and seeing the 150 yuan in his hand, Wang Xiaoming's expression almost suffocated internal injuries.

leaned into Zhang Yi's ear and said: "The price you kid wants is really black, 15 times the profit, it's just a money grab!"

"We are here, now it is an exclusive business, while no one is competing, we will be black, if someone else does it, we will not be able to hold the price!"

For three days in a row, except for going home and sleeping at night, the two devoted all their energy to the business of stalling CDs.

Fortunately, it was the holiday time after the college entrance examination, and the parents didn't care about the two guys who couldn't see the shadow during the day.

These days, most of the 10,000 CDs have been sold, and looking at the bulging schoolbags full of large and small yuan, the fatigue of the two people has been replaced by full excitement.

The so-called standing on the tuyere, pigs can fly, and now the pirated CDs sold by the two of them occupy this blue ocean in this small northwest city.

In the era of 1997, earning money was to step on the punctuality, and the two of them really realized what it was like to count the money and count the cramps in their hands, and now both of them have a little cramps in their hands.

Seeing that it was getting dark, the two of them were afraid that it would be too late, and it was not safe to bring so much money, Zhang Yi told the customers who picked the plate that they would continue to be here tomorrow, and the stall would be closed today, so everyone slowly and reluctantly dispersed.