In another 20 years, in the era of smartphones and personal computers, it will not be fashionable to open an Internet café.

On the contrary, losing money is a high-probability event.

But at the beginning of the 99s, the Internet café was undoubtedly a terrible money-sucking monster, and the speed and scale of its profitability far exceeded that of the arcade machines at their peak.

A black Internet café located in a small alley or a dark and damp alley, four big-ass computers configured by the grandfather, 3 or 4 yuan of Internet fees an hour, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 10 o'clock in the evening, 14 hours a day, the cashier is as high as more than 200 a day, and nearly 7000 a month.

Even after deducting the cost of electricity, rent and operation, there is a net profit of nearly 5,000 in a month.

It will take less than 4 months or even less to pay back.

In a small county like Hongmei, where Internet cafes have not yet become rapidly popular, the Internet fee is even as high as 5 yuan per hour, and the scale of its profit is undoubtedly even more terrifying.

Some people may have such doubts, in 99 years when the average salary was less than 800, not many people could afford the Internet fee of 5 yuan an hour.

However, the opposite is true.

Because no matter what era it is, there will always be a high-spending group.

The smell of wine and meat in Zhumen, and the phenomenon of frozen bones on the road are by no means limited to the era in which Du Fu lived.

Li Yang still remembers that even in the first few years of the new century, when Internet fees were as high as 3 yuan an hour, a seat in an Internet café was still hard to find compared to the huge group of truant students, unemployed youth, and fanatical gamers.

There are even a large number of players standing in front of the service desk of the Internet café, waiting for the players to leave at the point to occupy a seat.

Of course

Li Yang wants to open an Internet café not only because of this.

The most fundamental reason is that Red M County is really too small.

The factor of population can directly limit the potential of arcade players.

In a small place with a permanent population of less than 200,000, arcade games, which are about to retire from their prime, don't have much prospect.

And Li Yang knows better than anyone how the domestic game market will change in the next 5 to 10 years.

With the advent of Internet cafes, single-player games and online games will enter the field of vision of gamers one after another, and expand at an extremely rapid rate.

The rapid development of stand-alone games and online games will greatly promote the development of Internet cafes.

Even in 1998, single-player games in Internet cafes actually began to show very strong market competitiveness.

And as the former game overlord, arcade machines will be squeezed into a very narrow corner in a very short time.

What followed was naturally the decline of the game hall.

In fact

Excluding the factors of historical process, what made Li Yang most urgent was that the influence of an arcade game hall could not cover the whole county, especially in the industry of video game halls, even if he had the ambition to swallow the sky, it was impossible to make it bigger.

The reason is also very simple, the game hall, which is not a proper thing in the eyes of ordinary people, has a great probability of being shot in the head.

But opening an Internet café is different.

Internet cafes were undoubtedly a novelty in the late twentieth century.

Although most people in the country did not know what an Internet café was in the early 90s, it was not until 1994 that the first Internet café in the country was born, and before 1998, the development of Internet cafes was relatively slow.

This slow-paced trend lasted for nearly five years, and it was not until the last two years of the 20th century, that is, from 1999, that Internet cafes began to show a blowout.

However, even so, except for the developed coastal cities, the development of Internet cafes in a large number of inland cities is still at a relatively slow and extensive level.

For example, Red M County.

By the end of 1998, there was not a single large-scale Internet café in the county, and there were less than 10 unlicensed black Internet cafes operating in the name of computer training institutions or game halls, and the scale of business was very limited.

The largest Internet café is the "Blue Crow Game Hall" near the county experimental middle school, which has 6 machines and only provides the simplest stand-alone game battle functions.

At the same time, the number of players with a demand for computer games is growing rapidly.

This is undoubtedly the best time for Li Yang to intervene.

So for Li Fenghe's invitation, Li Yang actually had a feeling that someone would send a pillow if he wanted to doze off.

Time waits for no one.

Li Yang rushed to the provincial capital the next day, that is, less than 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, and found Li Fenghe's Phoenix Electronic City with a familiar car.

Li Yang would come over so soon, and Li Fenghe was also a little surprised.

Originally, she thought that Li Yang would not come over until next weekend at the earliest, but fortunately, because she had reached a verbal agreement with the owner in the past few days, Li Fenghe also happened to be idle.

After chatting with Li Yang in the office for a while, Li Yang went straight to the point.

"Auntie, what do you have to say directly. ”

In fact, about the game hall, Li Yang had already made it very clear to Li Fenghe on the phone yesterday.

But obviously, Li Fenghe still had some doubts about his judgment, which Li Yang did not find strange.

Although Li Yang himself knows how much weight his words have, he may not necessarily agree with Li Fenghe.

To some extent, the trust between the two sides is still very limited, and Li Yang still hasn't figured out why Li Fenghe asked him to verify the truth of the news.

However, since Li Fenghe sent it to the door by himself, Li Yang will not hide it, in case it happens, then Li Fenghe will naturally owe himself a favor that says big or small, even if it doesn't work out, Li Yang also believes that in Li Fenghe's heart, his weight will add a lot of points.

After all, being able to predict the future is an ability that can easily impress people at any time.

"How sure are you in the arcade?"

Although Li Fenghe didn't make it clear, of course Li Yang knew that she was asking about the policy that would be introduced immediately.

It's just this kind of thing, he doesn't have enough reason to convince Li Fenghe at all, after all, it is a brainless thing, and it also involves central decision-making.

However, since Li Yang dared to speak in front of Li Fenghe, he was naturally prepared.

Taking advantage of Li Fenghe's efforts to pour tea, Li Yang spread out a few newspapers on the table with him, sorted out his thoughts and said:

"I can't say how sure I am, but if I had to choose, I still believe that this policy will come out in the near future.

Here are a few recent articles in the newspaper, aunt you can take a look at. ”

Li Fenghe frowned, but still picked up the newspaper and quickly browsed the places that Li Yang had drawn with a pen on the newspaper.

The newspaper was haircut in the past two months, and there were 4 opinion articles with the content of criticism and reflection on the vicious incidents of entertainment venues such as KTVs and game halls.

One of the articles clearly defined game halls as "electronic cigarettes" that affect the normal growth of young people, and proposed that entertainment venues, including video game halls, should be rectified and managed by law.

Li Fenghe was able to develop a video game hall to the scale of an electronic city, and his sensitivity to this information was naturally not low.

After reading the contents of the newspaper, the whole person did not say a word on the sofa.

Although Li Yang did not continue, he trusted Li Fenghe's judgment.

And that's exactly what happened.

Although Li Fenghe did not make a judgment immediately, she did have a deep feeling for the content in the article.

However, what surprised Li Fenghe even more was not the articles published in the newspaper, but Li Yang.

She was curious.

Li Yang, a young man who graduated from high school, has such an accurate insight into market policies.

It's not an exaggeration to say that you're evil.