Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 162: Teaching people to fish on the forum

Spend 600,000 to buy 20 points of shares, and then sell them when they become valuable. As for the promotion issue, coordinate resources if possible, otherwise just let it grow wildly.

Today's Internet founders are all capable, but they are also arrogant. Many of them have sold too many shares and then quit.

Those venture capitalists can only get a large number of shares in rounds of financing, rather than all at once.

"I'll listen to you. I don't have much money anyway."

When Qin Dahe heard his uncle's boastful words, he knew that they had raised a lot of money.

"How much money did Mr. Wang take?"

"Four million. He's quite optimistic about the four of us. He's helped him recruit quite a few people this year."

In order to obtain investment, the four major shareholders made great efforts, using all their connections and doing favors. He even introduced a German classmate, who was a talent in automotive engineering and was no worse than the top professors in China.

Mr. Wang was willing to invest money only after seeing the attitude of the four people towards work.

"Uncle, there's someone in your city who uses QQ. I tried it for a while and thought it was pretty good. You can go ask him too."

"What's wrong? This software is also in our research materials. It's very popular, with 2000 million registered users, but the monetization is too poor and the price is much higher."

"And compared to web-based social networking, this is not convenient at all, and shareholders are not optimistic about it."

Damn, web social networking? This thing will be beaten to the ground in a few years, and it is not worthy of being compared with QQ.

If he remembered correctly, the number of QQ registered users exceeded 200 million two years later. At that time, there were only a few Internet users in China, and it was no joke that each person had three or four QQ accounts.

"I think QQ has great potential, but I only mentioned it after hearing that your company has been established."

Qin Dahe is not a good person. He will not disclose this information unless the equity of the company established by his uncle is clearly distributed.

It’s okay if he doesn’t make a lot of money, and it’s the same if he lets his uncle make money, but he will never do anything to help others make money without thinking.

"Other people have to download a software to use it. I tried it myself and it was impossible to use it when none of my colleagues around me were using it."

"Haha, but once it takes off, social networking with software becomes very convenient. You only need to install it once."

After discussing it for a few sentences, he still couldn't explain it clearly. After all, this was not his job in his previous life.

There is no need to force it. There are many opportunities. QQ is just one of them.

"I heard that Yanyan is pregnant? You are really quick." The uncle said with a smile.

"Of course. I'll come back next year and give you a doll to play with. The one you have is too heavy."

"Haha."

After hanging up the phone, Qin Dahe put the QQ matter aside. There was no need to worry about it.

I don't want to get involved in these things. I just want to live my own life in the countryside. If my uncle missed it, I'll give him one next time. This is the thing he has the most in his mind.

Back inside, Yanyan was trying to type using one-finger typing. When she saw him coming, she quickly pulled him over to ask him to teach her.

"If you want to learn typing, I'll buy you a learning machine later."

"Is that expensive?" I spent a lot of money on surfing the Internet today.

"It's only a few dozen dollars. Erhu and his friends bought one and played with it at home."

"Oh, then buy me one. I want to learn how to type."

Seeing that all the songs had been downloaded, he unplugged his MP3 player and started playing on the computer.

I registered two QQ accounts first, and then I had to send text messages to 168 and get charged. It's outrageous.

Never mind, it was only fifty cents each, so he just registered two.

"Yan'er, I'll help you register QQ. Please give it a name."

"What is QQ?" The little girl looked at him blankly.

“It’s a social software that allows remote chatting.”

"No, I can hear both of us talking, why do I need QQ?"

"Forget it, I'll help you come up with a name."

He wrote "little wild boar" on it. Yanyan snorted when she saw it, thinking that she just ate more.

Then he named himself "Wild Boar Hunter".

"Hate it! Why do you call me a wild boar and a hunter?" The little girl was not happy.

"This name is pretty good, a couple name."

She hesitated for a moment, and thought, it's just a couple's name, so let it be. She went back to looking at the computer and smiling foolishly, glancing at him from time to time.

Qin Dahe chuckled, memorized both QQ numbers, and then started surfing.

Nowadays, surfing the Internet means going to portal websites to read news or going to some forums to read posts. At that time, the posts contained real content.

Last time Qin Dahe shared his experience in fishing for crucian carp on the forum, there are already three comments.

Two of them were talking nonsense, and the remaining one was seriously asking how to adjust the flavor of bait when fishing for carp.

Qin Dahe thought about it and replied.

"When the water temperature is relatively high, you can use steamed sweet potato puree with corn for fishing, or ferment corn with white wine. Natural rivers are definitely useful."

"In spring or late autumn, when the water temperature is low, carp need high protein to replenish their energy. You can choose bait with a higher protein content. Earthworms, snail meat or silkworm pupae are all good. It's up to you to choose."

After replying this post, he began to look through some entertainment posts, novel posts, and the like.

In 2001, if you wanted to read online novels, you could only go to some forums to read serials. These people wrote novels just for fun, and they were all doing it for the love of it.

There are also many people sharing useful information here, just like he wrote some knowledge about fishing. Everyone uses sincerity to make friends with strangers on the unfamiliar Internet.

In reality, this is not the case. Everyone is wary of each other.

After reading a novel titled "First Intimate Contact", he smiled faintly. It was all about youth. He read a part of it with great interest, but found that he no longer had the mood to appreciate it carefully.

He seemed to have watched a movie of the same name in his previous life. The characters of Pi Zi Cai and Qing Wu Fei Yang made him feel very involved in the story, and even sparked a craze for online love.

A man and a woman who do not know each other fall in love because of an encounter in an online game.

The Shamatte and Zangai Family are about to become popular. There are so many memories, but in his current state of mind, he can't empathize with them at all, so he can only click off the post with regret.

He had just replied to his fishing post, which should have been pushed to the top. He took a look and found that someone was still asking him how to catch big grass carp.

"You can use melon vines, or grass or cow dung to make the nest. The melon vines must have fresh, tender and juicy stems and leaves. Make a few nests before you go fishing."

The other party quickly replied: "Thank you, the host. You are such a kind person."

Qin Dahe was a little amused and helpless. He was given the nice guy card.

"You can ask local experienced anglers. Fish in different places have different living environments, so their choice of bait will also be different. What I say may not be correct."

Fishing really needs to be adapted to local conditions. It is complete nonsense to use one bait everywhere.

Yanyan was still practicing one-finger Zen. Seeing his skillful typing, she was so envious that she came over again.

"Brother, help me open this too. I want to read your post."

"Okay." He opened the forum for her and pointed to the URL: "Remember this. Just enter it next time you log in."

"Yeah, I get it." Yanyan took a look and didn't want to remember it anymore, so she started surfing. Anyway, with her brother around, why would she bother to remember the website address?

At this time, another post appeared on Tianya Forum titled "Internet Bubble?"

The above detailed analysis of the reasons for the collapse of the Internet economy last year, and bold predictions, the domestic Internet will definitely usher in a wave of growth in the future.

"The number of internet cafes and personal computers in China has been increasing since the millennium, while the cost has been gradually decreasing. As the number of Internet users in China continues to rise, the internet economy will rise again."

Qin Dahe looked at it and silently nodded in his heart, this analysis was on point.

Countless people responded below, some agreed and some refuted.

There are even some people who are very pessimistic about the future economic development, thinking that computers may not become popular in individual households.

Qin Dahe also joined in and responded to questions about the appeal of social networking and games to young people.

If there was Internet in the countryside, he would definitely leave his uncle's computer behind. It's really fun to surf the Internet now.

The two of them played for an hour and a half without realizing it. Qin Dahe looked at the time and it was almost half past ten.

"Yan'er, let's go. If you keep looking, you'll go blind."

"Oh."

Yanyan reluctantly put down the computer. She had just been reading a novel and found it very interesting.

The little girl spent ten dollars to pay at the front desk, and she felt distressed immediately because her daily salary was only a dozen dollars.

"Brother, we won't come here anymore. It's so expensive."

"It's okay, your brother can make money." He chuckled.

He certainly won't come here every day, it's too expensive, and he may not even pay attention to this when he can fish.

"Then shall we go buy a learning machine?" The little girl looked at him eagerly.

"We don't have it here. If you want to buy it, you have to go to Yuncao or the city. I'll buy it for you this afternoon."

"Thank you, brother." The little girl was immediately happy when she heard that she would be able to play with the learning machine in the afternoon.

Sitting in the passenger seat, she happily told him about the posts she had seen. Today was an eye-opener for her.

“The novels those people write are so interesting.”

"Do you want to read it? If you want, I'll buy you two copies."

"No, I'm just talking. It's worth spending money." Yanyan frowned.

She knew that the food she ate every day was expensive, but when she was hungry, the baby also needed to eat, so she couldn't save money.

Just spend less on other things. You still have MP3 and VCD at home to relieve boredom.

"It's okay. I'll take you to rent novels. It's only a few cents a day. I can help you pay it back every day on my tricycle."

After checking the time and seeing that there was still time, I took him to the intersection, where there was a bookstore where he could rent novels.

The two of them went in and took a look, and found that most of the novels nowadays were pirated products from Taiwan or Hong Kong.

Even the "First Contact" that she had just read was included. The little girl took three novels back and memorized the names of the rest.

"Brother, please help me change after I finish reading."

"Okay, I'll go rent some DVDs."

The little girl didn't say anything when she heard this. The discs that the brother rented were not very serious.

Qin Dahe gave a cigarette to the boss, and the two went to the back to choose discs.

I just bought this one, it’s two yuan per copy, and I can study it repeatedly when I get home. If I rent it, it’s fifty cents a day, which is not cost-effective.

It was already half past eleven when the two of them got home. They quickly put their things away and started eating.

"Daha, drive to Chenwan tomorrow morning to pick up the goods from me." said the old man.

"Dad, can't we finish the job by boat?"

"We can't finish it. We got over 10,000 kilograms of corn. You can take a truckload and deliver it directly to the feed factory. We've already contacted them."

"Okay." Qin Dahe nodded. The feed factory needed a large tricycle to transport the goods.

"Is there going to be any trouble over at Chen Wan?"

"Don't worry, I'm here for you. Corn is cheap now." The old man chuckled.

The price of corn this year is 47 cents. I just asked the feed factory this morning.

He turned to look at his daughter-in-law and said, "Yan Yan, if you have time this afternoon, call the grain station and ask. If there are any price changes, please let me know."

"I know, Dad. They still have a while to go to work this afternoon. I'll call you later."

"Ah."

Qin's father was also very satisfied with his daughter-in-law. Not only could she know the real-time price of grain and go to receive the goods, but she could also get a salary while resting at home.

After dinner, Qin Dahe drove out again. When my mother asked him, he said he was going to Yuncao to buy some raw walnuts to fry, as raw ones were cheaper.

In fact, when you go buy a learning machine for your wife, you can also buy some game cards so that you can play them yourself.

Speaking of which, the learning machines of this era seem to be specially used for playing games. If you want to learn, you can't do anything except playing a typing game.

Sitting on the ferry, the flowers and plants on both sides of the river began to flourish.

The spring breeze blowing by the river is quite cool, and there is a hint of warmth. I guess the temperature will rise soon.

It was already afternoon, and coupled with the busy farming season, there were few people on shore in a big town like Yuncao.

Walking through the center of the street, there are more people here, and some stalls are still holding their ground.

Passing by a tobacco and alcohol wholesale department, Qin Dahe thought for a moment and decided to go in to take a look.

Cigarette consumption is high nowadays. When driving a three-wheeled vehicle or doing welding, you have to send people when you meet acquaintances.

Don't think he's idle. Erhu and the others are busy all the time, and he is the one who delivers the orders.

Originally, Qin's father and mother were not happy about it. They thought why should they give money to others when they could make money themselves. But he said that it concerned their grandson, so they stopped talking. It would be much nicer to just get some commission themselves.

"Boss, how much are Shuangxi and Shengtang? I need a large quantity." I went in and found the boss directly.

"Just these two?" The boss frowned.

The sign here is the wholesale department of the tobacco company. Of course, the business is his own, and he has to sell many hard-to-sell cigarettes as well.

"No, I just smoked it myself." He shook his head. His family didn't run a convenience store.

"Sheng Tang's minimum order is three pieces, 2.2 yuan, and Hong Shuang Xi's is 6.5 yuan. If you order more, we'll give you a discount."

"Forget it, there are only these two. Sheng Tang takes five and Shuang Xi takes three."

This price is much cheaper than the retail price in supermarkets, but if you buy the whole piece there, Shengtang costs 2.3 yuan, while Shuangxi costs 6.7 yuan, which is only a difference of about ten yuan.

After I got the cigarettes and paid for them, I only had a little over two hundred yuan left in my pocket. I had to go back and ask my wife for some money to put on me so I could use it.

(End of this chapter)