Chapter 16: A Place of Peace
Even if Yuan Liang told Tang Shuchen, Tang Shuchen couldn't understand his confusion about the future of the chip field.
He was a layman, and he had no clue how to try it, and he had no idea where to start.
However, it is a field that is difficult to recover once the opportunity is lost.
Bidding farewell to Tang Shuchen, Yuan Liang went to a bland and boring professional class.
In the next few days, Yuan Liang called a few recruited classmates to simply decorate the storefront at the gate of Jiaotong University, and ran a few trips with Li Jianfang to Mintun Telephone Company, a week after Gates's visit to China, Yuan Liang and Li Jianfang finally got the first batch of telephones from Mintun Company after several setbacks.
There are a total of ten telephones, and after the installation method is guided by the technical staff of Mintun Company, Yuan Liang also feels that it is very simple.
It is not complicated to install a telephone, and it is carried out in the places that have been covered by posts and telecommunications, and part-time students only need to know how to wiring and wiring the machine. Yuan Liang and Li Jianfang had to do a good job of coordinating the progress and let people arrange the site for installing the telephone in advance.
The first batch of 10 telephones was the first to settle in Jiaotong University, because the university is also one of the partners, and the coordination work is relatively easy to do.
Under the guidance of four or five part-time students and Mintun technicians, it took only three days to install the ten telephones.
However, the focus of Yuan Liang and Li Jianfang has never been on Jiaotong University, and with ten coin-operated telephones and the school's original magnetic card telephones, Jiaotong University has been saturated with public telephones.
In Pudong, which has just begun to develop, Minhang, Xuhui and Hongkou are not only the economic center of Pujiang, but also scattered more than a dozen universities in Pujiang.
Yuan Liang planned to start with the administrative units and gradually spread the coin-operated telephones to every corner of the Pujiang River.
However, coordination has not been a smooth ride.
For example, in some schools and hospitals, they can't do anything about the preliminary negotiation work, and they are still used to the usual magnetic card telephone.
Yuan Liang did not force this, as the agent operator of post and telecommunications, Shengshi Communication has always been in a weak position.
Since these difficult bones are not easy to eat, they will be left to the post and telecommunications to gnaw on themselves after the market is slowly saturated. After all, the positioning of Shengshi Communication has always been that it cannot rob the dominant position of post and telecommunications in the project of coin-operated telephones.
Coin phones have been put on the market since the end of March, and in a month, Shengshi Communications has installed about 100 units.
Part-time students at Jiaotong University are mainly responsible for later maintenance, withdrawing coins, and saving money, and each person is probably responsible for more than a dozen units, which run regularly twice a week.
It was only a month after the telephone was installed, and Li Jianfang saw the potential of the coin-operated telephone.
Yuan Liang's previous profit forecast did not have any moisture, and the profitability of the telephone did not meet expectations, mainly because most people had not yet developed the habit of making phone calls with coins at this time.
Although Li Jianfang also made some suggestions for this, such as placing some coins in the shop next to the telephone set for easy exchange at any time, it had little effect.
It takes the market to slowly develop people's habits.
For this reason, Yuan Liang asked Li Jianfang to go to the newspaper office and publish some articles on the small pages of some newspapers to guide the public's habits.
"Do you call with coins?"
"When you go out, take two extra coins with you."
With the spread of these news reports, the people of Pujiang have gradually become accustomed to the way of making phone calls by coin.
"This money is really good to make, although it did not meet expectations, but it has only been more than a month to see the profit, and when the installed capacity rises a little, I am afraid that it will only take a month or two to return to the cost of the two million."
In the phone operation store at the gate of Jiaotong University, Li Jianfang looked at the financial data just reported in April, and his face was excited.
Counting the pre-charged phone bill, the cost of each coin phone is about 3,000 yuan.
But only 100 telephones were installed, and Shengshi Communication's daily profit was nearly 5,000. In other words, each telephone can bring an average profit of 50 yuan per day.
No wonder Yuan Liang said that it would only take one or two months to return to the capital.
As long as the installed capacity of telephones rises to a certain distance, the new installed business of Shengshi Communication can gradually be covered with profits.
"The time we entered the market was just right, and the post and telecommunications had plans to promote coin-operated telephones in Pujiang, otherwise they would not have been so eager to put some coin-operated telephones into the market last year. We came to the door, which just provided a platform for post and telecommunications to test the market. If the time limit of our business license is not two years but five years, I am afraid that the post and telecommunications will not easily open up the operation of coin-operated telephones. ”
On the one hand, the market performance of the more than 20 coin-operated telephones launched by the post and telecommunications last year was uncertain, and on the other hand, the Mintun Company was like a sheep waiting to be fed by the coin-operated telephones.
The market for coin-operated telephones is not like VCD, but exists anytime and anywhere, as long as the product comes into the market, it will give returns sooner or later.
"Then I'm also shit lucky, if you hadn't found me, I might still be dealing with Hanka in Fujie Market. By the way, I've been busy all this time, and I can't spare any time. During this time, the operation of the telephone gradually stabilized, and I plan to take some time to visit Anhui Province in a few days. The VCD you mentioned, I found it in the Fujie Market, not to mention, it's quite a novelty, people just put it in the storefront, and there are several people around the door. ”
After this incident, Li Jianfang also became more and more convinced of Yuan Liang.
Yuan Liang didn't immediately agree.
"It's really a coincidence, I also want to take a vacation and go home to see, otherwise I won't be so tight this month. There is so much turnover in the store every week, and the telephone is often stolen, so you have to keep an eye on it all the time. ”
The reason why a hundred telephones can be installed in more than a month is also the result of Yuan Liang's dedication to staring. In the past month, he hasn't been to class much, causing Tang Shuchen to come to the store to find him several times.
Yuan Liang actually wanted to go back when he received a letter from home in early April, his father had just been laid off and was facing reemployment, and Yuan Liang couldn't let his parents go back on the old road of life.
It's just that the coin-operated telephone had just been rolled out at that time, and although Li Jianfang said that he had done the distribution of Hanka, there were still many deficiencies in the specific installation and construction, so he dragged it to the present, but he didn't expect Li Jianfang to speak first.
"The VCD thing is not in a hurry for a while, after all, this thing is still very new to the market, and when I come back, we will discuss it carefully to see how to do it."
"Then you go back first, I'll keep an eye on the store first, and I'll talk about it when you come back." By the way, how long are you going to go? Hearing Yuan Liang say this, Li Jianfang felt a lot more at ease.
"A week or so!"
"That's okay, it won't delay for a week."
persuaded Li Jianfang, Yuan Liang turned around and found Tang Shuchen.
But as soon as he spoke, he was blocked by Tang Shuchen for a while.
"What are you going to do when you go back, do you know how many classes you had in April, and several teachers came to me to react. When you said you were going to start a business, how did you promise me? ”
Yuan Liang had a headache, he was an inconvenient place to know the identity of a student.
"Teacher Tang, I really have a hurry to go back, and I guarantee that I can keep up with other students in all the subjects this semester. In just one week, I'll be back as soon as possible. ”
"Another week? I didn't see you go to class when you were in school, how did you keep up with the other students, what happened when you went back? ”
Tang Shuchen didn't deliberately embarrass Yuan Liang, but Yuan Liang's performance in April did make her a little bad.
And Yuan Liang really didn't have any good reasons, his father's layoff was not enough to convince Tang Shuchen.
The main reason why he wanted to go back was because he was confused and felt the impetuousness in his heart.
Back in his freshman year, facing a world full of gold, he never found a way to make himself feel at ease.
In his previous life, even after the divorce, as long as his son was still around, he was never so confused.
This month, he can focus on the coin-operated telephone, and he just wants to numb himself. Now that the business of the coin-operated telephone has stabilized, Yuan Liang thought about going back to have a look.
The place of peace of mind is my hometown, and my hometown is the place of peace of mind.
But he couldn't tell Tang Shuchen about this.
Seeing that Yuan Liang didn't speak for a long time, Tang Shuchen couldn't help but look up at the big boy in front of him. But as soon as he touched Yuan Liang's empty eyes, Tang Shuchen was stunned for no reason.
The big boy in front of him seemed to be back to the edge of the playground a month ago.
Confused, hesitant, and overwhelmed.
She didn't know what happened to Yuan Liang, and it was still like this after a month.