Reborn in the Millennium: Building a Fortune from Fishing

Chapter 515: The Underwater Camera
The next day, Qin Dahe drove to the county to apply for a new phone card.

Qin's father will also change his card later. The phone bill is thousands of yuan a month. Wouldn't it be nice to save the money to buy meat?

Because the card in his hand is not in his name, the package fee cannot be changed. The long-distance call costs more than one yuan, so it is completely unusable.

The most ridiculous thing is that when he goes out of town and makes long-distance calls, he will be charged double for long-distance and roaming, which is a sky-high price.

If I don't do anything else in a year, the phone bill will be tens of thousands. How can I afford it?

Now most of the external contacts are outside the province, so it is more cost-effective to change the card directly.

When he arrived at the county's mobile business hall, the staff were very enthusiastic when they heard his needs.

"This package is 388 yuan a month and comes with minutes of free long-distance calls, including both incoming and outgoing calls. However, if you're traveling out of town, roaming charges are charged separately."

When Qin Dahe heard about a thousand minutes, his eyes lit up. He only had about fourteen hundred to fifteen hundred minutes a month. Now that he had handed over the small orders to his father, a thousand minutes was more than enough.

"How is the excess calculated? How much is the roaming?"

"Long-distance calls over a thousand minutes are 40 cents per minute, and local calls are charged according to the basic rate." The staff was slightly pleased to see his excited look, and the order was done.

"Roaming is 0.6 cents. Direct calls and calls received in the roaming area are only charged roaming charges. All calls made and received outside the roaming area are charged roaming + long-distance charges."

He kept talking on and on, and Qin Dahe was a little confused. It was the same as before.

However, with an extra thousand minutes of call time, according to his current needs, he can save at least seven or eight hundred yuan per month.

The portion exceeding the free fee, even long-distance and roaming, only costs one dollar, which is much more cost-effective.

"Help me get one, this 388 package." He waved his hand and asked for it directly.

The salesperson was overjoyed and immediately went to get the contract.

He was not so anxious when signing the contract and looked at it over and over again.

There is a two-year deadline on it. I curled my lips and said, what a bad character!

There are no other problems, and the charges are much cheaper than the original card.

I immediately topped up a thousand yuan for phone bills. It turned out that there were still a few dozen yuan left on the card, but I was too lazy to renew it.

I took out the phone book and started notifying everyone one by one about changing their number.

Nowadays, phone cards are easy to get, and you can even buy an anonymous one for just a few dozen dollars when you report your phone being cancelled. Changing numbers is common.

Of course, for normal business, it is best not to change your number frequently. He changed it because he was forced to do so by the long-distance roaming charges. Now this 388 package is definitely enough during the contract period, and he will not change it easily in the future.

It was already half past ten when I walked out of the business hall. As soon as I went out, I saw Qin's father's car stopped.

The county is so small that the father and son often meet on Tongjiang Avenue.

"Which package do you have?"

"This one, 388, comes with a thousand minutes of long-distance calls." After a brief introduction, he got in the car.

The CDs arrived today, and I have to go to the city to pick them up and send them to four agents.

The place where the CDs were engraved was in a house by the river, a very simple workshop.

The cost of this thing is pitifully low and the selling price is also cheap. Most of the pirated music CDs on the market come from these small workshops.

They even put together their own songs, recording the popular ones and making a hodgepodge to sell.

VCDs are extremely common nowadays. The wholesale price of a music CD is only a few dollars, and it is a must-have item for countless families.

When I walked in, I saw several rural women operating the machine. CDs were "spitted out" one by one, and then simply packed in a paper box and neatly stacked in a box.

"Boss Qin." A young man in his twenties came over politely.

He took out a Yuxi cigarette from his pocket and gave it to him.

Qin Dahe lit it, took a deep breath, and said with a smile, "Excellent student, we meet again."

This person's surname is Liu. He is a college student majoring in electronics and originally had a bright future.

It seems that he was ostracized while working at a computer equipment company and simply resigned.

You can easily earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by starting a piracy business.

The two arrived at the office. There were three computers placed in the room, various data cables flying everywhere, and the space was very flat.

"Boss Qin, 20,000 copies have been burned. Please introduce more of this kind of business next time." This is a legitimate business, much more comfortable than piracy, and there is no need to worry about being investigated.

"Xiao Liu, play it first, let me take a look."

"Ok."

The other party had already prepared it, and the eight boxes at the back door were the goods this time.

Qin Dahe walked up and opened a box, pulled out a card at random and started playing.

Xiao Liu processed it and the splicing of several videos was very smooth. They were all his introductions to his own fishing gear.

The camera shows the convenience of the fishing box and fishing platform. The last shot shows the scene of heavy fishing in Hubei, with a lot of camera shaking.

"I can't handle this. Next time you can try using a sports brace."

"Nothing, just for fun." He said nonchalantly. "Your craftsmanship is good, but doing this is a waste of your talent."

"There's no other way. I offended someone before. The only option is to go to a small factory." Xiao Liu sighed.

After inspecting the goods, I started to pay.

Sixty cents per ticket, a total of twelve thousand, which is quite cheap.

"By the way, Xiao Liu, let me ask you something." He took out a black pine cigarette and handed it to Yuxi, who was completely unaccustomed to it. "Do you understand cameras?"

"Just a basic understanding."

"When the water is eight meters deep, can we assemble an underwater camera ourselves and protect it with glue?" He lit a cigarette and took a deep puff, feeling a little worried.

He also asked his uncle, and he learned that underwater cameras are extremely expensive even in Shenzhen.

"Eight meters! The water pressure is a bit high, so regular glue won't work." Xiao Liu considered it for a moment. "The light is also low at this depth, so the internal image processor needs to be better, and I'll have to adjust the white balance myself."

"Do you need a display screen? Or just video storage?"

Qin Dahe felt a headache after hearing this. Why were there so many details? He didn't understand any of this.

But it is obvious that this guy is being modest. He knows more than just the basics. I guess his employment is related to cameras.

"There are professional underwater cameras in Shenzhen that can detect depths of dozens of meters, but they cost 18,000 yuan each and come with a small monitor."

This does not meet his needs. Eight meters of water is already very deep for fishing. Five or six meters is the limit for normal people. There is no need to use such a good fishing rod.

"I was thinking of assembling a batch myself to save some money." Underwater cameras can also be sold as fishing gear. If I make more and send them to Shanghai and Wuhan, there will definitely be people who will buy them.

"If you can help me with this, I'll let you do it. I'm afraid I'll get ripped off if I go to Shenzhen to find a manufacturer."

Xiao Liu's eyes lit up when he heard this. "A batch" means that a lot of things need to be assembled, so he can do his old job.

He was originally in charge of cameras in the R&D department of the electronics factory. Underwater cameras don't cost so much money.

"Boss Qin, how many do you want?"

"It depends on the price. If three thousand is enough, I'll make sixty or seventy of them." He took a deep drag on his cigarette, thought for a moment, and then continued, "I want the kind with a monitor."

"Wait a minute, let me do the math."

Xiao Liu immediately took a pen and paper to calculate. The shell process is the simplest, except that the glue is a bit special. Anyway, the camera does not need heat dissipation.

“Is the camera in a fixed position?”

"Fix it. Just throw it down and see the image. No need to move it."

After quickly listing all the required modules, Xiao Liu stroked his chin and said, "I'll help you with this order, but I need to go to Shenzhen to purchase parts, and the travel expenses must be paid."

"Including the display screen, image processor, and so on, we need to go there to check the market price, but the cost will definitely not exceed three thousand."

Display screens may seem very expensive to outsiders, but as TFT and CSTN begin to gradually replace STN, cheap and low-cost screens have become available this year.

Many mobile phones have begun to gradually add video playback functions.

Even if he quits this industry, he will keep an eye on this information and be ready to make a comeback once he saves enough money.

"Okay." Qin Dahe was overjoyed when he heard that.

To be honest, underwater cameras are essential for studying bait. Even if it costs 18,000 yuan each, he has to grit his teeth and buy it.

But he needs not just one, but at least a dozen to observe the effects of bait and nest materials on fish.

At that time, we will recruit a group of people to conduct fishing experiments in our own large lake, and then summarize the data. The workload is not small.

We also have to consider the problem of camera damage and buy some spare ones, which costs four or five hundred thousand yuan at a time.

If Xiao Liu can do it, he can accept it even if the quality is a little worse or the loss rate is a little higher.

He doesn't care how much money the other party makes. Professionals do professional things. In their field of expertise, no matter how much they make from a single deal, it is their due.

"Are you in a hurry?" Xiao Liu asked anxiously. "Can I go to Shenzhen in August?"

His own factory is in the peak production period, with more than 10,000 discs per day. This batch of orders is enough to keep him busy for a month.

"Haha, it's okay, as long as we can get it done this year." Qin Dahe said indifferently.

There are only two months left in the peak fishing season. In winter, except for the big crucian carp, other fish cannot be observed because their activity trajectories have changed.

"If you don't mind, come with me to Shenzhen in September. I'll cover your food and accommodation."

"Sure." It doesn't matter if the boss accompanies me on the business trip.

(End of this chapter)