For a long time, in the eyes of Zhang Shun and Bai Jie, as well as Wang Xiaoming and others, the industries that Zhang Yi has invested in belong to the kind of asset-light and high-profit industries. The business models and methods of making money are also unprecedented, and there are many patterns.

However, the Internet café industry has subverted their inherent image of Zhang Yi.

At Zhang Yi's insistence, the property used by the Internet café must be its own property, not leased. And these self-owned properties are all in the kind of prosperous areas, or prime locations around universities, which results in a very large amount of funds used to buy real estate merchants.

Decoration, the purchase of network equipment, monitoring equipment, and computer equipment is an expense that occupies a lot of capital.

The investment is so large, but the payback cycle is particularly long, which is contrary to Zhang Yi's previous asset-light and high-profit business habits.

The two also reminded Zhang Yi that this kind of investment behavior may lead to great problems in the company's cash flow, and once the capital chain is broken, the company may be forced to recover by the bank as a countervail.

Zhang Yi expressed his gratitude for their persuasion, but only told them that the company would have some new plans next year, so that they would not have to worry about cash flow. As for the detailed content of the plan, Zhang Yi did not say it explicitly.

With the injection of bank loans, Zhang Yi's actions became even more crazy, inspecting the commissioners of various big cities, and he was driven away like a tuo, and he couldn't stop for a moment.

Market research, location inspection, and then completion of the report. Finally, it is handed over to the legal department to purchase the property, renovate it, and open a new store.

As if overnight, in the vicinity of universities in major cities, legendary Internet cafes have sprung up in front of many college students.

Until January 1, 1999, the legendary Internet café opened 30 Internet cafes across the country.

A bank loan of 100 million yuan was spent by him like flowing water. Although the interest rate of the bank is very low, the profit of the Internet café itself is relatively simple, and the time to recover the investment is very long. The recruitment of personnel is also continuous, and with Zhang Yi's habits, the standard of personnel salary is also higher than the local average.

The bank's people have also been paying attention to the investment behavior of micro-hardware and software, and when they found that the loan was basically spent by the other party, they began to sit firmly in the Diaoyutai, waiting for the other party, and came to the door to continue to ask for bank loans.

At that time, it was the banks that had the absolute advantage, and they had to get back everything they had lost last time. Let the boy come and beg them, and think of the refreshing scene of turning over a serf and singing, it is refreshing.

The president and vice president, as well as the director of the credit department, communicated several times to unify the tone of the young boss who was going to face Wei Hard.

On January 1, 1999, all 30 legendary Internet cafes distributed across the country hung up a huge poster in a prominent position on the façade: Legendary Online Game, a virtual world waiting for you to open. On the poster, the gorgeous shapes of the three professions of warrior, magician and Taoist priest are amazing.

The final tagline states: The new server is free to play for a month.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the doors of the Internet café opened, and people who surfed the Internet flocked in.

The open computer screen is different from the previous one, there is a gorgeous legendary icon, students who like to try it out, double-click to enter the game, and the registration panel pops up.

Thinking to myself, it is estimated that another tedious registration process will begin. What I didn't expect was that in the parallel options of the registration option, there was an icon of VV chat software, after clicking on it, you only need to enter the account and password of VV software to play happily, avoiding the annoying registration process.

Entering the game, according to the guidance process, everyone step by step, familiar with the game's interface and operation process, fighting monsters, doing tasks, with the increase of the level, unlocking more and more levels, the satisfaction of substituting the game, making people unconsciously forget the passage of time.

Until the management system of the Internet café pops up, the game time will reach 4 hours, please arrange the game time reasonably and pay attention to physical health. Many people are still unsatisfied and ask for more time online, but the service staff are not moved at all. Even the person who was sitting in his seat was forced out of the game, and the computer automatically shut down.

The crowd had no choice but to leave the computer, sit in the leisure area, and excitedly discuss this legendary game.

It's so much fun, how many levels have you gotten to?

Talking nonsense, some say level 8, some say level 10, legendary games, the upgrade in the early stage is very fast. Watching the characters under their control, through a series of tasks, fighting monsters, and gaining levels and equipment upgrades is one of the reasons why everyone is obsessed with this.

Unprecedented gameplay, intense fighting scenes, refreshing upgrade thrill, gorgeous skills. Such a legendary online game, two years ahead of schedule, entered the domestic market.

Unlike the previous life, the legend that just entered the country in the previous life is only a semi-finished product, and it is not perfect in many aspects.

The legendary online game in this life, under Zhang Yi's ear and face, all the development instructions were completed in accordance with his requirements.

The game map, class characteristics, skills, main quests, etc., have all been cloned by him, who was familiar with the legend in his previous life. The developer just implements the specific functions one by one according to his requirements, and does not have to think about anything else at all, so the development efficiency is particularly high. Originally, the development cycle of more than two years was compressed to less than a year, and it was completed.

After completion, the legend did not operate in the country of sticks as in the previous life, but was immediately introduced to China by Zhang Yi. You must know that in 1999, online games were completely new, and the introduction system was basically non-existent, and he only got a license copyright number from the cultural department, and he directly put it into operation.

In the previous life, when Shanda Company started to operate Legends, only two sets of servers in the south and north were opened, and the network congestion caused a large number of players to be unable to log in, and there were many complaints.

When the current legend began to operate, players found that as long as the game was crowded, resulting in queues, the game company would immediately open a new server. In addition, novice players can have a free transfer opportunity within one month.

Relying on the mature operation experience of VV chat software, Zhang Yi put VV chat software, idle servers and bandwidth resources into the operation of legend. In addition, a large number of backup servers and pre-configured bandwidth resources have been prepared, and in the event of server congestion, new servers will be opened immediately to ensure the quality of players' games.

In less than a month, looking at the number of people who were online at the highest of 400,000 at the same time on the server, Zhang Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

There are still too few people with computers, and the number of Internet cafes is very small. If it weren't for himself, he would have led a wave of investment in Internet cafes to the upsurge of investment, and the number of people online would definitely not reach the current number.

This is already an unprecedented number of people online in the online gaming industry. The early appearance of the legend led and created an industry, and in the next decade, online games will be the biggest blue ocean.