The earliest game bar in Hongya was probably in 1998. It was a small room with four or five computers. There was no Internet, so a few computers played games online.
The most popular game at the time was Red Alert.
Four dollars an hour.
A friend of Wan Feng persuaded him to work in Wulu, telling him that he was guaranteed to make money.
When Wan Feng found out that a computer cost more than 8,000 yuan, he almost shook his brains out.
He invested 30,000 or 40,000 yuan in 1998, but he himself was not worth the price.
Later, a man named Zhang Yong from Hongya County came to Wulu to open a game bar. It should have been in 2000.
It seemed like the Internet had just appeared, but Zhang Yong’s game bar was not connected to the Internet, which gave another company an opportunity.
Because it was just to the right of Wan Feng's house, Wan Feng would go there to help Zhang Yong look after the machine when he had nothing to do.
Besides games, there are only a few copied movies on the computer.
The games are still mainly Red Alert, followed by domestic RPGs such as The Legend of Sword and Fairy, as well as games such as Moto Heroes.
Later, another Internet cafe opened to the left of Wan Feng’s house, because at that time there was only a building of the supply and marketing cooperative in Wulu, which was the commercial center of Wulu Town.
Therefore, whenever there was a problem with the computers of these two companies, Wan Feng would be contacted. Although he could not tinker with the computer hardware itself, he dared to tinker with the monitor.
Although there are differences between the monitor and the TV, he will be able to do it after fiddling with it a few times.
If he invested in computers in this life, he would be able to research it, but time did not allow it.
Time is one factor, but the main reason is that his group currently has too many investment projects and it is impossible to produce everything by itself.
Wan Feng rejected the idea of setting up his own factory and began looking for a replacement. After thinking about it, he thought of Factory 774.
In 1991, Factory 774 suffered a loss of 65 million yuan for the whole year, borrowed 360 million yuan, and had fixed expenses of 80 million yuan. Even if the factory did nothing every day, it would still have expenses of 230,000 yuan.
Factory 774 had a glorious past. From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, its average annual profit reached more than 43 million yuan.
If the relationship between China and the Soviet Union had not deteriorated and the country had not started to build the Third Front and had transferred personnel and machinery, Factory 774 would have become a leader in China's electronics industry.
During the 28 years from 1956 to 1984, Factory 774 built 31 factories with foreign aid, trained 2,000 leaders, and trained more than 1,300 skilled workers of various types.
Many production lines and branches in our factory have been transferred and merged to other locations.
In the past thirty years, the scale of our factory has not expanded at all, but has continued to shrink.
By the end of the 1980s, Factory 774 had become a drained enterprise. Thousands of machines in the factory were all from decades ago, and not a single new machine had been added.
Especially in the past two years, Factory 774 has reached the point where it organizes its employees to load and unload cabbages, fold and bind books, have female workers knit sweaters, and provide cleaning services in restaurants.
Salaries and pensions have not been paid for 11 consecutive months, and some old employees have resorted to picking up cabbage leaves at the vegetable market.
The former factory director Yao nominated a man named Wang Desheng to be the factory director. In May, Factory 774 was officially renamed Beijing Oriental Electronics Group Corporation.
As soon as Wang Desheng came to power, he announced the Four Fives Plan: to increase the group's sales to 500 million yuan in five years, the annual total profit and tax to 50 million yuan, and the average annual income of employees to 5,000 yuan.
However, slogans are easy to shout but difficult to do. Jingdongfang now has no funds and no projects, and is in a stage of groping in the dark.
Wang Desheng could only raise funds on his own. The company cadres contributed 5,000 yuan and ordinary workers contributed 500 yuan. He finally managed to raise 6.7 million yuan.
But this amount of money is only enough for Jingdongfang to pay three months' salary.
The money they had finally raised certainly wasn't enough to cover salaries, so Jingdongfang was now running a bit crazy, practically like a department store. They sold Dongfang teapots and refreshing liquid, health and nutritional teas, energy-saving lamps and refrigeration equipment, applied to establish a border barter trading company, operated a Beijing roast duck restaurant, and set up an appliance repair center...
This information was told to Wan Feng by Mi Guangnan.
When Mi Guangnan told Wan Feng the news, Wan Feng was very surprised. Although Nanwan Group and Factory 774 had no direct business dealings, the two parties knew each other.
The then director of Factory 774 came to Nandawan a few years ago. Why didn’t you come to see him?
Since 774 is now called Jingdongfang, some things can be done.
Wan Feng called Gu Hongzhong over and explained the structure and principle of the CRT monitor by speaking and demonstrating.
Gu Hongzhong was surprised: "Boss Wan! How do you know all this?"
"Hey! I want to say that I dreamt someone taught me, do you believe it?"
"I don't believe you!"
"It doesn't matter how I know this. Can you make me a circuit diagram?"
"Give me two days." After saying that, Gu Hongzhong left.
As soon as Gu Hongzhong left, Wan Feng dialed a number.
"Hello! Are you from State-owned 77…Jingdongfang?"
A nasal male voice came from the microphone: "This is Jingdongfang, formerly Factory 774. Who are you?"
Does this person have a cold?
"I'm the director of the Beiliaonanwan Factory. My last name is Wan, and I want to talk to your leader."
"Nanwan Factory? I'm Wang Desheng, the factory manager of Jingdongfang."
Wang Desheng didn't have a cold now, but maybe because of anxiety and getting angry, his throat was very bad and his voice was muffled.
"Director Wang, we're looking for some computer monitors. I remember your factory once made cathode ray tubes. I wonder if you can make monitors?"
“How many can you take?”
"That's possible. If sales are good, hundreds of thousands or even millions won't be a problem."
Wang Desheng took a deep breath and said, "Director Wan, I need to discuss this with the people in the factory. Can I give you a response tomorrow?"
"Okay, please write down my phone number, 8XX009."
Wang Desheng wrote down the phone number and said, "Director Wan, I'll go investigate right away. Goodbye."
After Wang Desheng hung up the phone, he did not investigate anything.
He knew that they couldn't make this thing called a computer monitor now.
Although Jingdongfang's predecessor had developed color cathode ray tubes, televisions and monitors look similar, but there are big differences inside.
Furthermore, they don’t have a production line. Even if they could figure it out, where would they get the money to buy one?
Can it be made purely by hand?
But if you don't do it, this is a piece of meat that is right at your fingertips.
Hundreds of thousands or even millions of units.
They are in the electronics industry and are very clear about the profits in this industry. They certainly know how much money they can make from a monitor.
Of the 5,000 to 6,000 yuan price of a 14-inch monitor, more than half is profit.
There is no way around it. If you can't produce it yourself, foreigners will show their fangs to you.
At this price, it’s up to you to buy it or not.
If the volume really reached hundreds of thousands of units, their company would be able to make millions, and perhaps Jingdongfang would survive.
Wang Desheng thought for a long time but couldn't make up his mind. He decided to ask the old factory manager to help him make a decision.
So he rode his bicycle to the home of the retired factory director Yao Min.
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