Chapter 15: Make money by plan
Gu's father and Gu's mother happily pulled pots and pans home the next day, preparing to Zhang Luo Heng's college banquet in advance, just waiting for the results to come out, they had to send out invitations and invite relatives and friends. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
When his parents left, Gu Heng saw that the two of them had straightened their waists and their faces were more radiant, as a son of man, he felt very relieved, all the flies and dogs, painstaking calculations, were worth it!
He didn't go back with his parents, he told Gu's father last night that he planned to apply for a computer major in college, and he wanted to take advantage of the summer vacation to find someone in the city who understands this aspect to learn first, and when he entered the university, he would have more advantages in starting.
Although Gu's father didn't read much, he also asked people privately about what major was better in college. Obviously, in his impression, computer science is a very promising major, and now his son wants to learn something in advance for college, he naturally agreed, and before leaving, he went to the bank to withdraw 3,000 yuan for him as tuition and pocket money.
In addition, the reason why Gu's father can rest assured that Gu Heng is alone in Lianshui City is that Gu Heng's second uncle is also renting a house in the city, and Gu Heng said that he will go to the second uncle's house to eat and live, and Gu's father is completely relieved.
Gu's father has a total of four brothers and sisters in his generation, and Gu's father is the eldest, with two older brothers and one sister.
When Gu Heng's grandfather died, Gu's father and three brothers separated, and the uncle divided the small shop opened by his grandfather, which is still in business today, but the benefits are not as good as before.
The second uncle was assigned a tractor, and now he runs loading and unloading transportation in the city, and his income is okay, but he has to load and unload hundreds of bales of rice and wheat bran every day, and he is tired enough.
As the eldest child, Gu's father was still young, he didn't get anything, he went to be a soldier, and now he works in the National Land Institute, but he is the most decent and the most weighty among the brothers.
Gu Heng has not yet been born when he splits the family, so he has no opinion on a few relatives, and besides, human nature is like this, and he can't be harsh too much.
In the final analysis, after all, it is a family, breaking bones and connecting tendons, even if they usually bump and bump, in their hearts, they feel closer than outsiders.
Gu Heng remembered that when he was a child, he had a good time with the cousin of the second uncle's family, but when he grew up, he didn't see each other for a long time and slowly got into a relationship, but as long as he went home, he would often meet together to fish, play cards, and brag.
Gu Heng didn't go to the second uncle's house immediately, but went to the Blue Moon Internet Cafe.
In the two days of the college entrance examination, Gu Heng did not come to the Internet café for daily maintenance, and there were several small faults on the machine, but it was not a big problem, and it was easily solved in less than half an hour.
Then he found a computer and habitually logged in.
Hey, there is actually a message reply, it is the reply message that I applied to add Xiao Xiao as a friend before!
Gu Heng was excited, clicked on it and looked at it, he was directly dumbfounded, how could this be the case? Could it be that the way to open it was wrong?
Gu Heng searched for the QQ number again from memory, that's right, it's this number, how could he refuse?
Seeing that the other person's avatar was lit up, he continued to send friend requests.
Or refuse!
Try again, refuse!
Try again, and the other party replied: Are you sick?
Gu Heng was very annoyed and replied: Do you have medicine?
In less than ten seconds, the opponent's avatar turned completely gray.
Gu Heng was discouraged, this is not scientific, how could Xiao Xiao refuse?
There is and can only be one answer: the account I added is not Xiao Xiao's, and I should have misremembered Xiao Xiao's QQ number.
Gu Heng could only think of this possibility, and completely dispelled the idea of establishing contact with Xiao Xiao before college.
Do you still have to follow the trajectory of your previous life, and when Xiao Xiao goes to college, take the initiative to contact herself? When did that come, it seems to be a sophomore, right?
Fortunately, these two years are just the right time to devote all your energy to entrepreneurship.
Gu Heng quickly adjusted his mood and began to think about other things.
In the past two months of his rebirth, he has often planned for his future, and now he has a relatively clear idea in his mind, and when the time comes, he can start preparing to start.
As for the moment, the most urgent thing is to save the first pot of gold and earn enough start-up capital for the project in the near future.
And the first pot of gold, he already has a plan!
In his previous life, he was familiar with the industries he was familiar with: programming, online games, and real estate.
The real estate industry is a golden mountain, but the threshold for entering the industry is too high for ordinary people to play, so he can only take root on the Internet at present.
Software programming was the first money-making plan he thought of.
He found that the owners of Internet cafes in Lianshui Room had never heard of a network management system with more functions such as game updates and maintenance management, except for a simple hourly charging application.
For this reason, he also deliberately checked the Internet, and finally came to the conclusion that in addition to a few of the simplest billing software on the market today, there is no perfect system designed for Internet cafes, that is, the Vientiane network management and other software necessary for Internet cafes in later generations.
Then, he got excited, and after the excitement he was over, he began to think calmly.
He analyzed that it is still 2001, and although the number of Internet cafes is increasing dramatically, it has not really formed an influence, and it has not developed into a spectacular scene of blooming everywhere a few years later. What's more, even today's truly networked games are only a few of them, such as King of Kings and Stone Age, and the rest are purely self-entertaining stand-alone games.
Obviously, in today's era when the average salary is less than 3,000 and the price of a computer is often tens of thousands, except for some big cities at the forefront of science and technology, and young people who regard computers as game consoles, the Internet is still a relatively new thing for the vast majority of people.
And this will be his opportunity to dig the first pot of gold.
A comprehensive and complete network management system generally contains three parts, in addition to the early billing software that has appeared on the market today, it also includes game updates, maintenance and management of these two types of applications.
Game updates, this feature is not very useful when there are not many online games today, but with the rapid increase of large-scale online games in the future, it will directly determine the business of an Internet café.
Think about it, if you have a game update software installed in an Internet café, as long as you update a game on any computer, the data will be uploaded and backed up to the main server of the Internet café, and the same game of all computers in the Internet café can be automatically updated through the server, not to mention saving time and effort. The most important thing is that people who play games online don't have to spend a lot of time updating every time, and they can play comfortably.
On the contrary, if the boss of an Internet café that does not install game update software by himself, he can only wait for everyone who comes to play games online to update, so that a game with one or two gs of memory is updated, and the Internet fee for one hour is almost gone. The most pitiful thing is that this update is good, and the next time you change your computer, you have to update it again, so that once or twice, the fool will not come again.
Compared with the game update system, the function of maintenance management is more for the Internet café owner, and the boss can use this software to monitor and manage other computers that are connected to the Internet, such as preventing someone from accidentally entering the virus crisis in the phishing website when watching the island movie. In addition to this, the app can also add small functions such as calling network managers, which is not only convenient for the boss, but also convenient for the customer.
Based on the above, Gu Heng believes that once a comprehensive network management system is launched, it will definitely be able to beat the software on the market with only simple billing functions with a crushing advantage, and occupy the booming market of Internet cafes.
Before, because he was about to face the college entrance examination, he couldn't spare time to develop software, but now that he has been completely liberated, of course, he can't miss this good opportunity to make money.
He has thought that the technical threshold of a relatively comprehensive network management system is not too high, and the real difficulty lies in the promotion and popularization, not in the technical development.
So he only thought about developing a relatively simple version to make a quick buck, and when competitors began to appear on the market, and the other party showed great strength, he would withdraw in time to hide his merit and fame.
So there is a problem to be solved right now, and that is to get a well-configured computer for software development.
Counted the money on his body, he originally spent 800 yuan each from Blue Moon and Yiwangshen to buy a mobile phone, and now after settling the remaining salary for a month, it adds up to more than 1,000, plus the 3,000 given by Gu's father before he went home, and Huang Yi's filial piety to buy MP3 for Yang Yan, a total of more than 4,000.
In these days, all devices that are related to technology are expensive, whether it is mobile phones, computers, or DVDs.
Obviously, 4,000 oceans is absolutely not enough, and he plans to buy a notebook and take it directly to the school after going to college, and he can't get it without 10,000 oceans.
Lack of money was very distressed, Gu Heng had no choice but to get up, go to a network to finish the work, and take a taxi to walk around the city.
Internet café, he is looking for an Internet café, and since the job of network administrator is still popular, of course, he has to squeeze out the last surplus value.
In addition, you can also do some market research by the way to see how the Internet cafes in Lianshui City are operating today, and whether the developed network management system will be as sought after by the market as he predicted.
After walking around, he could find only eight Internet cafes, all of which were in good geographical locations.
Seeing that the scale of several Internet cafes generally does not exceed 50 computers, he is a little confident, the number of Internet cafes in 2001 is pitiful compared to a few years later, and a market that has not yet ushered in an explosive period, the attention is very little, those technical cafes will not necessarily notice this market, even if they have noticed, they will not be as accurate as he can accurately predict the future development trajectory.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the domestic Internet is still in the development stage, and the three major portals such as NetEase and Sina, which are the best, as well as the future Internet hegemons such as Baidu and Tencent, are still stumbling forward, and it is not clear where the future Internet era will go.
How could other people have thought that in the next few years, with the rise of the game market, music video websites will emerge one after another, and develop at a jaw-dropping speed.
Gu Heng, who was in a good mood, had a small abacus and had in-depth exchanges with the owners of several Internet cafes.
During the conversation, a technologically blind Internet café owner said that he saw someone in the city open a computer room two years ago, and the business was very hot, so he followed the trend and opened one, but he did not expect that later a policy would be issued, and the computer room would be banned and the machine would be confiscated, and if the machine was to be retained, it would have to be connected to the Internet and develop according to the business rules of the Internet café. Stumbling all the way, he has made some money today, but he doesn't understand the advanced stuff of the Internet, and he always feels a little powerless to operate.
Several other bosses are in much the same situation, and there is even one who was cheated thousands when he installed a billing software, you know, the first billing software launched on the Internet was hung up on a forum by an Internet café owner, and it can be downloaded and used for free.
After a brief market investigation, a bold and feasible plan slowly took shape in Gu Heng's mind, with the skills to speak eloquently, and the maintenance skills that quickly improved in the Blue Moon and a network of deep Internet cafes, he finally reached a cooperation agreement with five Internet cafes and became the temporary network manager of several Internet cafes.
Two of the three unsuccessful Internet cafes had owners who knew some basic maintenance knowledge and were reluctant to spend money on hiring people. Another boss saw that he was young, and sent him away with the principle of "no hair on his mouth and no good work".
Among the five Internet cafes cooperated, four Internet cafes are located near several high schools, and his reputation for Brother Gu's ability to play seems to be very popular in several high schools in Lianshui City, relying on this reputation, he signed an agreement, left a mobile phone number and a series of means, and successfully advanced to half a month's salary, 800 per family, plus from the blue moon and a network of deep advances, the cash on hand can exceed 8,000.
There is still a gap, he didn't think about finding Huang Yi, the rich man, he still has to rely on the other party to pull the strings, and talk about a big business with the other party's father, and now he goes directly to ask for money, basically the possibility of deep friendship in the future is basically extinct, it is not worth it.
With the idea of temporarily buying a second-hand notebook to use first, he took a taxi to the computer city.
It is said that it is a computer city, but in fact, there are only a few small stores, and there are one or twenty computers in the store, which is far from being as tall as ten years later.
Walking into a store, Gu Heng was directly dumbfounded, why is the price so outrageous? Fifteen thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand, why don't you just grab it?
He remembered that when he bought a laptop as a sophomore in his previous life, a notebook with mainstream configuration at that time was only seven or eight thousand, why was it so expensive more than a year in advance?
Could it be that something has happened in the computer market in the past year or so that has caused the price to plummet?
The notebook can't afford it for the time being, and tens of thousands of tickets are enough to buy one or twenty square meters in Lianshui City, even if he can afford it, he won't spend this unjust money, so it's better to buy some second-hand equipment and go back to assemble a desktop by himself.
In the end, he spent nearly 7,000 oceans to find two mainframes, with monitors and mice and keyboards, one of which was sixty percent new, but the configuration was average. The other one is scratched everywhere and looks almost as tattered, but it's barely usable, and the configuration is considered mainstream.
In the laughter of the shop owner, Gu Heng pulled the computer back to the house that his father rented near the school, and the owner refused to rent it for a week at that time, so he had to rent it for a month, and now it is more than 20 days away.
After installing the two machines, he hurried to the telecommunications company and stuffed 200 red envelopes, telling them to be sure to install the broadband today.
By five o'clock in the afternoon, everything was finally done, but Gu Heng, after paying a few hundred yuan for opening 4m broadband for half a year, only a pitiful dozens of yuan were left at the bottom.
After trying out the machine, downloading some necessary software, and fixing some minor problems, he walked out of the room.
He still has to go to the second uncle's house, Gu's father has already called the second uncle when he goes back, if he doesn't show up at the second uncle's house today, it is estimated that Gu's father will have to run to arrest people tomorrow.