Early the next morning, the sister and brother summed it up and went to buy a small house near the Xixi campus of Qianjiang University. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

In 2000, the house price in Qiantang was really not expensive, 70 square meters of multi-storey, 2-story apartment, 200,000 yuan to get it, but also with decoration. The transportation is also very convenient, and a bus can go back to the ancestral house of Qingbomen.

Gu Cheng knew that the elders in the family would not be able to develop the luxury habit of taking a taxi for a while, so he must choose a convenient place for public transportation.

There is nothing to say about the process of buying a house, just like buying groceries, signing a contract on the same day, giving money and handing over the keys. Pan Jieying went in and felt quite satisfied, and she could live in it after hiring a housekeeper to clean it for a few days.

Pan Jieying, whose name is written in the signatory, will be completed by her within one month.

Because Gu Cheng may not be able to live in China for a month.

I told my elders about buying a house on the same day. Everyone was very happy, and they cleaned up the clothes in the old house, bought some new ones, and moved in the second week.

After living in the west of the city, next to the community is the Digital City, and on the same road there is the headquarters of Oriental Communications and a large Huaxia Telecom branch.

Gu Cheng wasn't very busy for a while, so he just continued to stare at the business with Ding Sanshi. So every day when I am free, I go out to hang out, go to Oriental Communications to take a look, and go to Huaxia Telecom to ask about the market.

The main thing is to consult the server rental hosting, as well as the price point of the network bandwidth.

This is all in preparation for the future management work after winning the agency of "Legend".

The biggest hardware operating cost of an online game company is the money for renting/buying a server and finding a telecom company to package bandwidth.

In the future, he will definitely not have to handle these things personally, but he must know the market in order to control his subordinates.

Pan Jieying is in her senior year, and she is no longer in class, and only has her graduation thesis defense, so she also helps Gu Cheng with various inquiries when she is free. Or get some books and materials on the Internet and the entertainment industry by yourself, and make up for common sense.

Aunt Gu Wen used to work as an accountant in a state-owned enterprise, and she was in the same unit as her uncle, and she was not yet 35 years old when she divorced. After the divorce, she didn't want to be ridiculed in her original unit, so she resigned to a private company and took on accounts, and now she is just in her early 40s and has not yet reached the age of retirement.

As soon as Gu Cheng and Pan Jieying combined, a few months later, when Gu Cheng's company in China was opened, he asked his aunt to help him manage his finances.

After the business grows, the structure of the family business will definitely not work, not to mention that Gu Cheng doesn't want his aunt to work. As for the initial stage, it doesn't matter how you do it, trust is more important than skills.

In addition to business, Gu Cheng was also worried about his disfigured figure after leaving the entertainment company, and wanted to find a gym to apply for a card to exercise.

It turned out that in 2000 there was no gym at all.

He could only retreat and use Pan Jieying's student ID card to go to the university swimming pool to get a card.

The swimming pool in the university is not open to the public, and there are no social idle people, so it is very clean.

Theoretically, if you swim with this kind of card, you have to bring your student ID card for future reference every time. However, Gu Cheng's face looks very handsome, and the aunt who checks the ticket never checks him.

Gu Cheng was ready to go on time every morning at first, but later found that it didn't work: once someone found out his action rules, there would be a lot of fans in the swimming pool at that time of the day.

Even once, when Gu Cheng was practicing his waist strength in butterfly swimming, he saw a girl with glasses, earplugs, nose clips and fully equipped equipment lying under his swimming lane, sinking under the pool and backstroke.

was almost so frightened that Gu Cheng never dared to go to the swimming pool again.

From then on, it can only be randomly disrupted in the morning, noon and evening, so as not to be squatted.

……

Taking care of business, inquiry, learning, swimming and fitness every day, more than half a month has passed in a blink of an eye, and the time has entered the middle of June.

There are still 20 days to go before Huang Yi's NASDAQ IPO. Boss Ding also called over several times one after another, with a total value of more than 6 million yuan, of which the net profit was also 2 million.

After the funds were abundant, Gu Cheng gradually had a bottom in his heart, and together with Pan Jieying, he made a detailed table of the hardware cost of online game operation, as if the agency of the game had been held in his hands.

Pan Jieying is a layman, but since she can be admitted to the MBA, she is just practicing her skills.

On this day, Pan Jieying took the freshly baked plan and asked Gu Cheng to correct it.

"Nowadays, to make a MMORPG online game of the "Legend" type, to ensure that users do not feel that the network speed is stuck, at least 20KB of server-side bandwidth must be reserved for each player who is online at the same time. At present, the enterprise broadband of China Telecom is more than 1,000 yuan per M per year. If a user is online 24 hours a day, it will cost the company 70 yuan in broadband fees.

In terms of servers, if it is a little more stable and smooth, choose rental hosting in the early stage. I calculated that the average cost of a server per user online at the same time was about 65 yuan per year, which is slightly lower than the cost of broadband - all of which is calculated on a scale that supports 100,000 simultaneous users. In fact, the larger the scale, the better you can compete with suppliers. ”

Pan Jieying picked out the key points and read them to her cousin, and finally confidently reported the conclusion:

"Therefore, if our online game monthly card sells for 30 yuan, the annual revenue of each user is 360 yuan. There are about 135 pieces to be spent on the cost of game hardware, which accounts for 35~40%. ”

When Gu Cheng heard this conclusion, he said that the profit of online games is so low, and the hardware cost is 40%, so how can it be mixed?

He looked at it a little, couldn't help but laugh, and pointed out his cousin's low-level mistake:

"It's not that high - not all players who buy a monthly card will be online 24 hours a day. In fact, being online for 8 hours a day is considered a strong player. According to the calculation, the cost of fixed hardware is only a few hundred percent. And we don't necessarily sell a monthly card for 30 yuan. ”

Pan Jieying's face flushed: "Eh, I only played for so much time on a monthly basis? I thought that game houses were all wasted and forgot to eat." ”

Gu Cheng smiled: "Sister, let me say this, if you want to help me, it's not enough to rely on the MBA program in the university - what you lack now is to buy a computer yourself and find all the online games on the market to test the water." On paper, I finally feel shallow, and I never know that I have to do it. ”

Pan Jieying was distressed for a while: It seems that the girl is engaged in the online game industry, and she naturally has shortcomings!

Gu Cheng didn't wait for Pan Jieying to reflect, and continued to point out a lot of problems: "And the statement I just mentioned that 'fixed hardware costs account for more than 10%' is not necessarily accurate. In reality, it is impossible for the time distribution of players to be fully loaded with servers and bandwidth, and it must be more crowded at night and less during the day.

To get these data, you have to go to the Internet café to see the traffic and attendance rate of most Internet cafes at various times of the day. In this way, the hardware cost of future online games can be accurately calculated. It's not as simple as it seems. ”

Pan Jieying listened, and her whole face drooped: "The smell of cigarettes in the Internet café is so strong......"

It seems that she has a lot of troubles in the first stage of her MBA.

The two were chatting, and Gu Cheng's mobile phone suddenly rang, it was still an international call.

As soon as he saw that it was Wen Huiying's number, his heart was tight: the two sides always communicated by email and rarely called.

Pan Jieying saw that her cousin looked unkind, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, I'm in control. Gu Cheng comforted his sister, and then picked up the phone.

There was a burst of Yi on the other side, Pan Jieying has followed her grandmother since she was a child, and she can understand a little.

"Mr. Gu, I see that you are a friend of Xiaoche, so I helped you like this. You don't seem to be honest. ”

"Sister Wen, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. ”

"You always said that you hired me to attack Huang Yi's DDOS. Today's "Wall Street Journal" has published articles that especially 'praise' Huang Yi's recent internationalization strategy is appropriate, and the number of business visits has increased significantly -- you should know better than me how these 'growth' came about!"

Gu Cheng took a deep breath: Sure enough, he was still discovered, is it time for a showdown.

He had never imagined that this kind of business could be kept secret for a long time.

All he can do is try to be steady, delay, and earn as much as he can.

"Sister Wen, it doesn't matter what I hired you for. The more than 4 million I gave you is real money, not a penny. ”

"I only got 700,000, and more than 3 million were for other hackers. I'm just matching you, without me, you can't find such a large-scale resource -- and I'm almost famous now, and now the hackers who keep broilers in the Dongyi and Fusang circles know that I'm receiving goods! In less than half a month, those people will also communicate with each other, and they will soon find out that they are all supplying to the same customer. ”

Gu Cheng decisively interrupted the other party: "Hackers also have professional ethics, and the orders that have been accepted will be completed." And it doesn't reveal customer information, does it? ”

Even if hackers know who they're working for, what if they know who they are working for? When those people took over the DDOS business, they knew who their employer was, and they didn't see a hacker expose their employer.

If the hacker does that, the consequences are very serious.

It's as serious as a killer betraying an employer.

Therefore, Gu Cheng was not worried that Boss Ding would be exposed.

He only needs to worry about how long he can continue to do this business and what percentage of profit margins he can maintain.

Wen Huiying also knew this truth, so she sent out an invitation: "You come to Seoul, I want to talk to you in person." If it's still at the original price, I can't control those people. ”

Gu Cheng took a breath and calmly agreed: "Yes, I'll buy tomorrow's ticket." ”

Waiting for Gu Cheng to hang up the phone, Pan Jieying asked nervously: "Are you going to Seoul again?" ”

"Don't worry, it's just business. Everyone is a civilized person, what is the danger. ”

"Why is the other party a woman?"

"Hackers can't be women? Sister, you should go and see the hacker competition of Dongyi people every year, many women participate. ”

Pan Jieying always had a bad premonition, she bit her lip: "Then be careful yourself, I'll clean up your clothes for you." ”