Who would still start a business seriously after being reborn?

Chapter 28 Handong University Town

Cheng Yi walked around the Internet cafe. The computers here were all well-configured, especially the monitors, which were LCD monitors that had just come out this year.

The cost of a single set of host monitors is probably over 7,000.

There are more than a hundred computers here, which means nearly 700,000 Chinese yuan.

This is an outrageous but realistic number.

The cost of 700,000 yuan can be recovered in a year at the current rate of income, and then it will be pure profit.

"Fuck! The card's expired." At this moment, a young man angrily slammed the table, pulled out fifteen yuan, and shouted, "Hey, you, ride your bike to Donghua Software and buy me a card."

"Okay." A young man who looked like a younger brother ran over and rushed out of the Internet cafe.

Point card.

Cheng Yi remembered something else.

Point cards are a new thing and have not yet been introduced into Internet cafes. To purchase them, one usually goes to a computer video store.

After looking at the games they played, I found that they didn't require a very good processor at all.

Strictly speaking, 486 can barely run it. Even for the national online game Legend that is about to be launched, the recommended configuration is only a Pentium 1 processor.

The biggest problem now is still the Internet speed.

Nowadays, most customers who go online cannot tell whether the problem is with the computer or the network speed.

Anyway, as long as the web page opens slowly or the game is disconnected, it is defined as lagging.

Cheng Yi walked to the back corner of the Internet cafe and saw a pile of computer cases and large monitors scattered around in the corner.

He squatted down and checked. The hard drive and motherboard in the case were still there. It was obviously a discarded computer.

Back at the bar, Cheng Yi asked, "Boss, how much are those computers in your corner selling for?"

The Internet cafe owner yawned and said, "The host computer and monitor are a set of 1200. They were just replaced not long ago. They can be used."

"What processor?" Cheng Yi asked.

The Internet cafe owner said, "Celeron 1, I spent over when I bought it."

Celeron 1 is a simplified version of Pentium 2.

The performance is not much different from Pentium 2, but the price is nearly half.

Seeing Cheng Yi was interested, the old man in the internet cafe continued, "If you really want it, I can give you a discount. I'll give you 1000 yuan for a set. Even if the old computer recyclers come to your door, the price is about the same. It's just that those grandsons are picky and find a lot of problems with you to lower the price."

"Okay, I'll think about it. I'll get it if you need it."

The Internet cafe owner handed Cheng Yi a cigarette and said with a smile, "You should be a student in that popular training class, right?"

"How did you know that?" Cheng Yi was stunned.

The internet cafe owner laughed and said, "Who would buy this thing these days, besides computer science students like you? Not only is it ridiculously expensive, but the internet fees are also unaffordable, don't you think?"

"That makes sense." Cheng Yi smiled and said, "I just signed up for the mass training class."

Cheng Yi chatted with the Internet cafe owner for a while and got a general understanding of the Internet cafe industry in the provincial capital.

There are now more than 20 large-scale and licensed Internet cafes in the provincial capital, three of which have opened more than a dozen branches. There are also more than a hundred unlicensed black Internet cafes. Because there are sufficient customers, the competition is not fierce.

After all, opening an Internet cafe in this era is like picking up money.

Every night, these Internet cafe owners would pack up the money coming into the Internet cafes in a suitcase and take it home to count. If there were many Internet cafe owners, the whole family would join in the counting. They could not finish counting the money even if they kept counting the money for an entire night, and their hands would cramp from counting the money.

Cheng Yi understood the general situation and pulled the reluctant Du Yusheng out of the Internet cafe.

"Boss, please stay a little longer. That guy just wanted me to play for a while." Du Yusheng pleaded. "You can play as long as you want in the future." Cheng Yi smiled mysteriously.

"Is this true?" Du Yusheng was a little unconvinced.

He followed Cheng Yi onto a tricycle and heard Cheng Yi say, "Master, let's go to Handong University Town."

"it is good."

In 96, in order to solve the congestion problem in the city center and revitalize the surrounding economy, the province held four consecutive seminars and finally determined the plan to establish Handong University Town in the southern suburbs.

All universities in Jingzhou City were unconditionally relocated to Handong University Town.

There are seven undergraduate colleges and eleven vocational colleges in Handong University Town, with a total of more than 400,000 college students.

What drives countless investors crazy is that the developer built a unique commercial street in the heart of the university town, called University Town Commercial Street.

This commercial street, which is home to more than 400,000 college students, attracted a buying frenzy as soon as it was put on sale.

But soon they discovered the problem.

I thought college students would spend like crazy here, but in fact, on weekends, college students would take the bus to the bustling city center for shopping, while from Monday to Friday, they mostly spend money on campus.

This makes the situation of the commercial street awkward.

The worst thing is that whenever summer and winter vacations come, the commercial street in the university town is like a ghost town. Apart from scattered fallen leaves and dust, there are almost no people to be seen.

Gradually, waves of merchants who could not withstand the pressure began to withdraw, and waves of merchants who thought they had discovered a gold mine began to move in.

After several years of continuous harvest, the commercial street finally became deserted.

Cheng Yi clearly remembers that when he first enrolled in school, there were almost no other businesses in the commercial street except for restaurants and hair salons.

Even the now booming Internet cafe industry had three of its businesses killed by the four-month holiday.

Handong University Town is not far from Shinan District and can be reached in less than 20 minutes.

It is the holiday season now, and the commercial streets are deserted. Most of the shops are closed. Everywhere you look, you can see signs saying "Houses for Rent."

A breeze blew, and the fallen leaves on the ground made a rustling sound.

Crisp and pleasant to the ears.

"Why are we in the wilderness?" Du Yusheng exclaimed.

Cheng Yi paid five yuan, pulled Du Yusheng down, and said with a smile: "This is where you will stay for the next three years, Handong University Town."

"Ah? I have to stay here for three years?" Du Yusheng felt that his dream of going to college was about to be shattered.

This, this is too fucking outrageous, right?
"It's only like this during the holidays. When school starts, there will still be a lot of people here." Cheng Yi smiled and said, "What do you think about opening an internet cafe here?"

"Open an internet cafe?" Du Yusheng looked at Cheng Yi in disbelief and questioned, "Opening an internet cafe requires a lot of money. Do you have the money?"

"It doesn't take that much money." Cheng Yi smiled and walked towards the most remote location of the commercial street.

He remembered that on the right side of the end of the commercial street, there was a shop known as the Merchant Terminator.

This shop has four floors, each floor is nearly 260 square meters.

The number of merchants who left here almost reached one-third of the entire commercial street.

There have been restaurants, clothing stores, training classes, Internet cafes, gyms, and even hourly rooms here.

Without exception, all of them went bankrupt.

(End of this chapter)