Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start. N...
Zhou Bingde had no intention of going to Shenzhen, so Wan Feng turned around and tried to persuade Yu Jiadong to go to Shenzhen.
"Why go to Shenzhen? I think it's pretty good here too!"
"Uncle Yu, you've been doing this for so many years, how come you haven't realized this? Don't you have the idea of gathering a group of people and becoming the boss yourself?"
Zhou Bingde is about to retire, so Wan Feng's move doesn't count as poaching his employees.
In fact, he had wanted to let Yu Jiadong work on his own before, but he didn't have the courage to say it out loud.
"Is it me who recruits people to do it?"
"If you want to be rich, recruit some people to help you. Ten years from now, you might be famous all over the world. There's no point in doing this now."
Yu Jiadong's business is now semi-contracted, and about half of the profits have to be handed over each year.
Although you can save tens of thousands of dollars a year, it is obviously not enough to make you a rich man.
Moreover, there is not much of a market here in Hongya. If Jiangwei did not have these infrastructure projects, their construction company might have to be idle for half a year a year.
"I've already found someone in Shenzhen. He'll be responsible for acquiring the land, establishing connections, and selling things. You'll be responsible for building it, and I'll be responsible for paying for it. The profit will be 3133. Consider it."
"Here I hand over half of my profits and only have a few tens of thousands left a year. Wouldn't thirty-one thirty-three be even less over there?"
"You're calculating. Can Shenzhen be compared to Jiangwei? Everything is expensive there. Prices are more than four or five times higher than here. You make tens of thousands a year here, but you can make hundreds of thousands, millions, or even tens of millions there."
"Really?" Yu Jiadong was tempted.
He believed in Wan Feng's words without a doubt, and he said that it was almost accurate.
"I've already paved the way. I'll give you three months to think about it. The East Bay residential complex should be completed in three months. You can make a decision then. If you're still unsure, you can go to Shenzhen for an inspection during this period."
Wan Feng can't stay at home all the time, he still has a lot of things to do.
It doesn't matter whether he is there or not for the transaction on Heihe's side, but the problem that Li Mingze wants to report cannot be solved without him.
Although he told Yang Jianguo that if Li Mingze came, he could write down the information Li Mingze brought over, but this intelligence still depended on him to contact the military.
But he couldn't leave until the goods he purchased were arranged.
As soon as Xu Bin returned from Shenzhen, he began to make game console chassis with great fanfare. He then removed two billiard tables from the first floor of his house and moved them to the second floor, and moved the game room on the second floor to the first floor.
The remaining two tables are temporarily put away and can be placed outdoors in the summer.
While Xu Bin was cleaning up his entertainment city, Wan Feng rented five shops next to each other in the Electronic Street of Wahou Market.
A shop of more than 20 square meters has an annual rent of 400 yuan.
Among these five stores, except for one owned by Xu Bin that sells game consoles, the other four sell electronic components.
A counter was installed in the store, and after it was installed, we waited for the goods to arrive.
The distance from Shenzhen to Bohai is 4,500 miles, plus the 300 miles from Bohai to Hongya, it is nearly 5,000 miles.
In 1988, when there were no highways, it would take at least 60 hours for a truck to drive from Shenzhen to Bohai even if two drivers drove non-stop.
This is just theoretical data. If there are any breakdowns or accidents on the road, it will probably take some time. Therefore, on average, a one-way trip will take about 100 hours.
Five days later, Zhang Shiqian's motorcycle convoy finally arrived in Jiangwei.
All the goods were unloaded at Happy Entertainment City.
After Xu Bin's baseboards arrived, he started assembling them overnight. In addition to adding twenty machines to his own game hall, he took all the other assembled machines to the Wahou Market for sale.
An ordinary baseboard costs RMB 2,650, an 18-inch monitor costs RMB 1,300, and other accessories cost RMB 200. The cost of a game console is around RMB 4,200.
A game console with an expensive baseboard will cost another thousand yuan.
Wanfeng priced these two game consoles at 7,100 and 7,900 yuan respectively.
The ten game consoles brought to the market on the first day were sold out in one day.
Xu Bin saw that he had earned nearly 30,000 yuan in a day and he couldn't sleep all night.
Compared to the booming sales of game consoles, the sales of electronic components are much slower.
Wan Feng distributed these electronic components according to categories to Xu Jun, An Bo, Li Jun and Liu Yong.
These capitals were lent to them by Wan Feng, and they would pay them back when they made profits.
The retail price is twice the cost price, and the wholesale price is half the cost price.
At the end of the day, when the inventory was taken in the evening, everyone had achieved sales of around 1,000 yuan.
This is already pretty good. Even so, there is still a profit of four or five hundred a day.
This is because some electronic users in the north are still unaware that high-end electronic components are already being sold in Wahou. If they knew, the sales volume would be even higher.
After these stores had settled down, Wan Feng returned to the Nanwan factory with two Zhonghua learning machines he brought back from Shenzhen.
Give it to Qin Guanghui.
The Zhonghua Learning Machine can be regarded as the first generation of domestically produced personal PCs that were truly market-oriented in China. The performance of the first generation of Zhonghua Learning Machines initially launched on the market was comparable to that of the world's mainstream Apple II, which was the Apple computer at the time, and was even slightly stronger.
This shows that China's strength in computers was still quite strong at that time.
The main unit of the Chinese Learning Machine can be combined with a home color or black and white TV and a cassette recorder to form a basic system.
Students can use computers at home. Its structure is flexible and its functions can be expanded according to different needs. By plugging in components of the Chinese character system and floppy disk drive interface circuit, and then connecting a floppy disk drive, a microcomputer system with more powerful functions and Chinese character support can be formed.
The Zhonghua Learning Machine was compatible with the Apple IIe microcomputer and could run a wide range of software available on the Apple II, including numerical and non-numerical calculation software, supplementary teaching software for primary and secondary schools, and games. The main unit was equipped with a built-in monitoring program, BASIC, Chinese BASIC, and LOGO.
It was a very powerful microcomputer for its time.
Moreover, compared with Apple computers that cost tens of thousands of yuan, the price of the Zhonghua Learning Machine is around 960 yuan, which is really a good deal.
Wan Feng bought two of these things and brought them back to have the electronics team disassemble and study them.
However, the biggest flaw of the Zhonghua Learning Machine was that it did not have a slot for game cartridges. In the late 1980s when copycat FC game consoles began to become popular, it did not make a big impact like the Little Overlord a few years later. The inability to play games was probably the main reason.
Also, its keyboard is different from a standard computer keyboard.
It is a 69-key keyboard, not a 104-key or 106-key keyboard.
Wan Feng bought these Zhonghua learning machines for the purpose of modifying them.