Chapter 3 The Way to Make Money

As a traverser, how can you make a fortune in 1987, when the economy was underdeveloped?

Geng Wenyang held his head with his hands and thought hard.

Plagiarizing web novels? It's a pity that he only remembers the general plot of the famous Internet masterpieces, and the specific details are all vague.

What's more, in the late 80s, there was no online literature, and it was still a one-man show in traditional paper media. Novels written by authors can only be published through periodicals and magazines, or through publishing houses. In addition to Jin Guliang and other famous people, no matter how good the books written by unknown authors are, few people care about them, and the manuscript fee is even lower and scary.

It seems that this is not the way to go!

Plagiarizing pop songs? It's okay for him to hum two sentences of those Internet celebrity songs, but it's impossible to sing them all. And in this era, everyone basically has no awareness of copyright, so the copyright fee can't be sold for a few dollars.

Moreover, the popularity of songs must be suitable for the development of the times, and songs that do not meet the tastes of the times may not necessarily be liked by the people, and it can only be taken for granted that they are forced to be sung.

Neither will this road!

Do stocks to buy funds? Although he already had stocks in the late eighties, it was a pity that he didn't know the market trend of stocks during that period, and he didn't have tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of capital, so what kind of capital could he use to speculate?

It's a dead end!

After thinking about it, the remaining way to make a fortune is to buy a house.

It's just that in the late eighties, this road was not even thought about.

Because from now until the mid-to-late nineties, it is still mainly welfare housing, and there are very few commercial houses, not to mention the price, which is incredibly high.

Taking Shencheng as an example, in the late 80s, housing prices were about 2,000 yuan per square meter, while the monthly income of local workers in the same period was mostly less than 200 yuan, and the housing prices were more than 10 times the monthly income.

Geng Wenyang's salary plus bonus is at most thirty or forty yuan a month, and the total income of a year is only three or four hundred yuan, and he can't even buy a half-square-meter house in Shencheng. What's more, as a third-tier city, Baicheng City currently has no commercial housing construction projects, and even if you have money, you can't find a place to buy it.

I don't know how difficult it is if I don't experience it personally, and I think it's simple to make money, but I really have to implement it to know that it's really difficult! Especially in the era when food stamps are still needed to buy an early meal in some places, it is not realistic to make a living by selling barbecue!

Geng Wenyang looked up to the sky and sighed: "We still have to think about it in the long run!" Think long-term! ”

Since you can't make a big fortune, let's take a step back and find a way to make a small fortune, at least to improve the current standard of living.

He thought back to the routines that made money in the eighties in the online articles of his previous life, and the more he thought about it, the more anxious he became. He is not an electrical engineer, he can't make an electric water heater, he can't handle TV antennas, and he can't repair household appliances.

Although collecting waste is simple, it is definitely a challenge for him to be an introvert, not to mention that Zhuang Fujin, who has always loved neatness and tidyness, will never allow him to put miscellaneous things in the yard.

Most of the people in later generations look forward to crossing, but when you really encounter crossing, you will find that crossing is actually a technical job. If you don't learn all the skills, even if you travel to the past, it's not easy to live better than ordinary people.

"What should I do......?"

When he was helpless, his mind suddenly lit up: "That's right! How did I forget I was in the printing shop? ”

In his previous life, Geng Wenyang was a literature lover, and in his spare time, he also wrote three or four million words of novels on a website, and his writing should be okay. Now the most popular is Jin Guliang's traditional martial arts novels, why not rely on everyone's masterpieces to rub a little popularity, write a few prequels or prequels, and print them directly to sell in the market.

In the eighties and nineties, taking advantage of the popularity of Jin Guliang's traditional martial arts novels, many unknown authors did write many martial arts works with imitation style. Some even made a lot of money by selling counterfeit works, so Geng Wenyang's idea was not groundless.

He thought carefully about the feasibility of the operation, and silently pondered: "The books sold in the bazaar don't have to be very well-bound, as long as you can read the words clearly. As long as it is acceptable to booksellers, the printing cost is reduced to a minimum as much as possible. ”

If the cost price of a book is three yuan, and the price is increased by about one yuan to sell to the bookseller, the retail price should be about five yuan after the increase in profit. If calculated on the basis of a net profit of one dollar, 1,000 copies of printing can earn 1,000 yuan, and 10,000 copies can earn 10,000 yuan.

Whether it was $10,000 or $1,000, it was a considerable amount of money in the late eighties. For a working class living on a meager wage, it is an unimaginable figure.

When he thought of making a fortune, Geng Wenyang was full of energy, where could he still sleep?

Just do it! He quickly put on his clothes and got off the kang, came to the table and turned on the lamp, looking left and right but could not find a pen that worked.

"Really!" Geng Wenyang smiled bitterly: "It's okay to study badly, I don't even have a pen, I really convince you!" ”

After rummaging through the cabinets, I finally found two half-new ballpoint pens. Geng Wenyang didn't care about dislike, collected another pile of stationery, and immediately spread it out on the table.

"What to write?" He frowned and pondered for a long time, then raised his pen and wrote down a few words: "Don't pass on the smiling proud rivers and lakes, the payment is Jin Yong's masterpiece." ”

The famous family is called so-and-so.,I'll take a so-and-so giant.、So-and-so big.,Or so-and-so's new pen name.,The stalk that was rotten in the previous life.,I didn't expect to really use it after crossing.。

Wen Siquan couldn't notice the passage of time, the sky outside the window was quietly getting brighter, and there was even the sound of a rooster crowing in the courtyard downstairs.

Geng Wenyang stretched his waist, glanced at the more than 20 pages of scribbled manuscripts on the table, and said silently in his heart: "Old man Jin Yong, you do extraordinary things at extraordinary times, the kid temporarily uses your fame to earn a small amount of money to beg for life, and apologize if you meet in the future." I'm sorry for the offense! ”

After the first mental pass, it was inevitable that he was a little sleepy, and Geng Wenyang lay down on the kang with his clothes and took a nap. was sleeping in the room, when he suddenly heard a girl's light and pleasant voice outside the window: "Aunt Li, you got up so early!" ”

Li Yufen smiled: "Xiaomeng, you got up very early!" ”

Geng Wenyang couldn't help but look out of the window, and saw Uncle Zhuang's only daughter Zhuang Xiaomeng wearing a beige fashion windbreaker that was rare in Baicheng, standing slim at the door of her house, gossiping with her mother.

"I work early in the institute, and the leaders will have opinions if I go late." After graduating from Baicheng Commercial School the year before last, Zhuang Xiaomeng was assigned to the Xicheng Branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China as a front desk salesman.

Zhuang Xiaomeng was born with a beautiful face and elegant temperament, and he worked in a bank, so his personal conditions can be described as quite outstanding. Now she is a hot and excellent girl in the eyes of unmarried young men in the neighborhood, and the introducer of Baoxian Matchmaker has almost broken through the threshold of the family.

Zhuang Xiaomeng is three years older than Geng Wenyang, the two of them have been playmates since childhood, and they grew up together in the yard, and they can definitely be regarded as genuine childhood sweethearts.

Although Geng Wenyang's childhood memories are full of Sister Xiaomeng, but now the status of the two is very different, and he is ashamed of himself, so he naturally doesn't dare to have half of the extravagant thoughts about the former Qingmei, so he can only hide in the corner and feel sad silently.

After the crossing, Geng Wenyang is of course much more promising than him. Although Zhuang Xiaomeng's appearance, temperament and connotation are very much in line with his requirements for choosing a mate, he will not easily have feelings with the opposite sex in two lives.

It's hard to cross once, and the entrepreneur is the first priority. As for love, it is definitely a desirable luxury for him at the moment, and it is not yet time to talk about it.

Seeing Zhuang Xiaomeng's slender figure disappear outside the Hanging Flower Gate, Geng Wenyang pulled back and said to himself: "I know you like this sister, but I really don't have the energy to fall in love and chase girls now." When I finish what I need to do, if possible, I will find a way to fulfill your dream and marry Sister Zhuang to you as a wife. ”