After Zhang Min walked out of Xiujiang Real Estate, he took another taxi and prepared to go to the city government to get an Internet café business license.

At this time in 2001, it was relatively easy to obtain an Internet café license, but it became more and more difficult to obtain this license later.

Basically, after 12 years, most of the people who want to enter this field take over the old Internet café business license from someone else.

The government only checks whether it has expired, and he will not see if the certificate has your name written on it, and even later a certificate can be sold for 150,000 yuan, and it is still priceless.

Zhang Min remembers that in 2001, the computer penetration rate in China was still very low, according to the data of later authoritative surveys.

By the end of 2001, only 38 percent of households in China's 31 urban areas had a computer, and 12 years later that proportion had risen to more than 85 percent.

Later, with the era of smart phones set off by Steve Jobs and others, touch-screen mobile phones entered thousands of households.

It was also since then that Apple's mobile phone has really reached its peak, and its market value has repeatedly hit new highs.

Later, because of the rise of smartphones, the upward trend of computers stabilized, and since then, the number of users has not grown as rapidly as before 2012.

After 2015, with the advent of the 4G era in the country, the extremely fast network speed has greatly expanded the use of smart phones, such as Tencent's "Crossfire", "Honor of Kings", "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" and other mobile games are popular all over the country.

But before the 4G era, the speed of mobile phones can only be described in one word, that is, "turtle speed".

There is only a few tens of kilobytes of mobile phone speed per second, except for reading a novel, if you go to watch a video or play a big game, you will be stuck to death.

After the 4G era, this situation has changed dramatically.

Telecom, China Unicom, and mobile base stations are all over the city, and the network speed per second has risen from tens of kbs to thousands of kb.

The rise of smartphones will inevitably lead to the rapid decline of computers.

Of course, an era has a product of an era, as far as Zhang Min is now in 2001, science and technology have not been as developed as later, and there are not thousands of mobile apps for you to download.

Although the after-effects of the 2001 Internet bubble have permeated China's Internet community, a large number of Internet companies have gone bankrupt.

But it is precisely because of this drum storm that the concept of the Internet that has been overheated in previous years has cooled down.

From the perspective of later generations, the outbreak of the Internet bubble is actually a good thing, it eliminated some companies that only have promotion but no value, so that China's entire Internet has a better and benign development.

Well-known companies such as Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, as they became known later, all developed after this bubble.

However, it takes time to test what is a good company, and at that time, not many people were optimistic about these three companies.

Although Tencent had millions of registered QQ users and hundreds of thousands of online users, investors were still reluctant to invest in it.

It is true that there were a lot of users of QQ at that time, but Tencent did not have a profit model on QQ at all, and there was no precedent for similar software in the world to succeed.

For example, in 98, AOL spent $406 million to acquire ICQ, although in 98 its number of registrations exceeded 10 million, and after several years of development, it still did not find a profit model, who can say that other instant messaging software is better than ICQ, so all parties of instant messaging software were exploring at that time, and no one knew if it would die.

This phenomenon was not until 04 Tencent sold virtual character sets on QQ and made a profit, and this embarrassing situation without a profit model improved.

At this time, Alibaba's Jack Ma was still having a headache looking for investment, and who would have known that he would become the richest man in China in the future.

No, maybe there is only one person who knows it now, and that is Zhang Min.

Because he is a reborn, he knows best about the changes in China in the next ten years.

And in 2001, at this time, more people did not agree with the B2B business model.

And after the baptism of the Internet bubble in 2001, China's three largest portals, such as NetEase, Sohu, and Sina, which were hotly pursued before, are not as hotly sought after as before.

At that time, the excessively high market value of the three major portals was more speculated.

This is all because of the popularity of Yahoo's listing on the NASDAQ in the United States, and Yahoo's market value reached billions of dollars on the day of listing.

In the end, it evolved into a company that only had to do with the Internet, and it was popular with investors.

So when the financial trendsetters on Wall Street in the United States are agitating for the concept of the Internet to be hot.

Foreign investors also poured into the Chinese market, and they set their sights on NetEase, Sohu, and Sina, which accounted for more than 80% of China's Internet market at the time.

I hope to take advantage of the excessive pursuit of the Internet by shareholders at that time, and push China's three largest portals to the market and seek huge profits, and indeed they have done it.

In 2000, Sohu, Sina, and NetEase were listed on the NASDAQ market in the United States, and in just a few months, Sina's share price climbed by 2,830%, Sohu's stock price also rose by more than 3,500%, and NetEase's stock price rose by as much as 6,000%.

Behind these skyrockets are some Internet bubbles, of course, there are people who profit in the process, such as those on Wall Street, but most of the retail investors have become victims, and the market is like this, and the bookmakers eat everything.

In 2001, when the conceptual Internet bubble finally burst because it could not support its lies, the market value of the three major portals shrank by more than 50 percent at once.

Although the Internet in 2001 was not very sluggish, and even corpses were everywhere.

However, it does not affect the development of Internet cafes, and the rapid development of Internet cafes will be the general trend in the next nearly ten years, especially the development of games.

More people poured into Internet cafes, such as "Stone Age", "StarCraft", "Half-Life" and other games at that time.

There are even more people who have made an appointment to go to the Internet café all night.

So as long as he can get the business license of this Internet café, Zhang Min wants to open it quickly, and Zhang Min has already contacted the house or something.

It's in Xiujiang City, where Zifeng Square is located in the center of the city.

The last time he accompanied his family shopping, he happened to see a big shop for rent not far from the vicinity of Zifeng Plaza.

Previously, the shop was used to sell electrical appliances on behalf of others, but it was not continued due to poor management, and the previous operator moved away from here.

The area of Zifeng Square is the golden area of Xiujiang City, and every inch of land is valuable.

So the homeowner is in a hurry to continue renting it out, otherwise he will lose a lot of money every day.

Later, Zhang Minyou went to the rental land to see, the house has a lot of space, more than 160 square meters, and the location is also very in line with his requirements: one kilometer on the left is Xiujiang Middle School where he is located and Xiujiang Institute of Technology next to it.

On the right there are several large living quarters where tens of thousands of people live.

Not far from the front is Zifeng Square, where there is a lot of traffic every day, so there is great potential for development when opening an Internet café here.

And he also looked around, there was only one Internet café called Xingxing.

I went in and took a look, it was smoky, and the decoration was not too good.

And I didn't see any activities organized in the Internet café to mediate the atmosphere.

So he believes that as long as his Internet café opens, he will soon be able to occupy this market.

Thinking of this, Zhang Min calculated the approximate amount of money to be spent, except for the 4.2 million yuan to buy a house, he now has 800,000 yuan left in the card, 160 square meters of Internet café space.

He plans to buy 150 new computers. Originally, it cost about 3,000 yuan each, because the computers he bought were relatively large, and he had to understand the market and it could be a lot cheaper, so each computer was 2,500 yuan.

150 units will cost about 380,000. With the addition of the three employees invited, each of whom is 2,500 yuan per month, it will require nearly 100,000 yuan in labor costs in a year.

In addition to the sofa, each needs 1,000 yuan, that is, 150,000 yuan, and some expenses such as water, electricity, rent, etc. need more than 200,000 yuan a year.

He didn't have enough money at all, but it wasn't, it had to be paid all at once, and he had money in two weeks.

Zhang Min knew some of the development models of Internet cafes later, and he had also been to all parts of the country, which was considered to be a relatively high-end Internet café, and he felt that those simple and comfortable decoration styles were still worth learning from.

The indoor environment in the Internet café also needs to be paid attention to, because in the current situation, the Internet café is just emerging, and basically the entire room is connected together.

As soon as I walked in, it was full of smoke, and there were people doing everything, which seemed very chaotic.

Because Zhang Min does not smoke, and every time he goes to that kind of low-grade Internet café, there are many smokers, he blows, you blow, until the country has a ban on smoking, this phenomenon has improved slightly.

Therefore, Zhang Min planned to divide the Internet café he opened into several areas, with smoking areas in one area, non-smoking areas in one area, as well as VIP areas and some private rooms, in which he planned to decorate well.

In the future, when he goes to play by himself, he will be in a better mood when he looks at those decorations he likes.

At the front desk, he plans to set aside a space for some snacks and other items to sell.

This can also increase the turnover, in fact, Zhang Min's settings are a bit like the later Internet cafes, but at that time these settings were quite unique.

Originally, Zhang Min had no intention of entering this field, he knew that although it would definitely be profitable to open an Internet café now, he also knew that the door here was deep.

And I don't have any backstage, so I can't get this and that certificate.

And this situation changed after he met Mayor Chen Yun.

It's also very bloody to say.

That time, after Zhang Min was satisfied with the Internet café room, he went to the Suguo supermarket in Zifeng Building and bought a special roast chicken to take home.

When he carried the bag containing the roast chicken and walked out of the Suguo supermarket.

He saw that a truck did not know why, and the red light on the side of the road had been turned on and did not stop, but accelerated and continued to drive.

The goal is very clear, and he crashes into the side of the road, and he is about to hit a mother and daughter who are waiting on the side of the road.

The strange thing is that Zhang Min at that time suddenly felt that time seemed to slow down, although the Dongfeng truck was at least 120 yards or more, and it was frantically slamming forward on Chaoyang Road outside Zifeng Square, but in Zhang Min's eyes, it was like a snail crawling, very slow.

After all, it was two lives, so he rushed out, put his hands on the bodies of the mother and daughter one by one, and pushed them out.

And because of inertia, he leaned forward and rolled a few times before he stopped on the asphalt a few meters away.

Within a few seconds, Zhang Min heard a sound behind him like something hitting an iron plate, followed by a scream.

Zhang Min wanted to go back to see what was going on, but he felt that his body was heavy to death, his eyes were full of gold stars, his head began to ache sharply, and the figures of the mother and daughter who fell to the ground not far away became more and more blurred.

By the time Zhang Min woke up, he was already lying on the bed of the Municipal People's Hospital, still on a drip, and his body was much better, and he felt that there should be nothing serious.

He looked at this ward, and found that the whole ward was very large, but he was the only one, there was a yellow-brown cabinet next to the bed, and some fruits were placed on the cabinet, and the air conditioner above his head was still making a "whirring" sound, and a TV was placed not far in front of the bed, and the surroundings were very quiet, which was very suitable for patients to recuperate.

"Why am I here?" Zhang Minmin whispered with his head on the other hand that had not been dripped in his hand.

Suddenly, in the corridor outside the ward, there were some noisy sounds, and the sound of footsteps and conversation intersected, and the sound became louder and louder.

Obviously, the people outside the door were not far from the ward, so Zhang Min took some curiosity and leaned his ears to listen to what the people in the corridor were talking about.

"Mayor, the information of the truck driver you asked me to check is almost complete.

The driver's name is Jiang Tao, 45 years old, from Liulin Town, who was diagnosed with brain cancer at the Municipal People's Hospital two months ago, and it has reached an advanced stage.

The cancer has spread throughout the body, and doctors say that he will not live for more than three months, and he has a son named Jiang Lai, who is only 9 years old this year and is in elementary school.

Half a year ago, Jiang Lai was diagnosed with leukemia, so Jiang Tao sold his property and took his son around to see a doctor.

Later, he stayed in Ruijin Hospital in SH, and three months ago, Ruijin Hospital found a suitable bone marrow source in the China Bone Marrow Bank, saying that he could perform surgery immediately.

But it takes 500,000 yuan for the operation, but Jiang Tao's family can't come up with so much money, but I don't know why, his son had surgery a month ago, and the cost of the operation was paid in full.

When Chen Yun heard the man in the police uniform talk about this, he stopped walking.

Then he turned his head and looked at the man with wide eyes, and asked sharply, "Is the driver dead, and has you found out who gave the money?" ”

"The driver has died on the spot, as for his 500,000, because the other party is very hidden, the money is transferred through foreign accounts, so it is difficult to check, and there is no progress yet!"

The man in the police uniform replied in a low voice

"If he's dead, he's lucky, or he'll ,...," Chen Yun said to the wall next to him after his face became gloomy.

After a moment of silence.

Chen Yun regained his calm expression, turned his head and said to the man behind him: "Do everything you can to find out for me who did this."

No matter who dares to target my family, I will definitely not let him go, if it weren't for that young man this time, Qin Yun and Xin'er would be more than lucky.

"How is that young man doing now," Chen Yun then asked.

"He didn't have anything to do, it was all skin trauma, and Director Li said that as long as he got a little bit of inflammation, it would be fine."