Chapter 39: Profligate Merchant
Seeing Li Yiwen hesitant, Lu Yiming teased, "Why? Are you really going to work for others for the rest of your life, cousin?"
This question, which hit the soul, made Li Yiwen unable to hold back his excitement.
There is no doubt that he is not happy in his current job.
Nowadays, the domestic market is experiencing wild growth, and all kinds of inhumane practices have been learned from various capitalists. However, the laws and regulations have not caught up, so the market is full of good and bad people. For example, the boss of Li Yiwen's company is quite inhumane, and he had long since quit.
Now Lu Yiming said he wanted to open an Internet cafe, and it was a super large Internet cafe with 600 computers, which was quite significant. Li Yiwen thought about it and thought, what's the point of working like a slave for others? Now there was an opportunity in front of him, and he felt that he should not miss it.
Li Yiwen is a very opinionated person. After thinking for a few minutes, he made up his mind: "Okay, then I will resign tomorrow."
Although opening an Internet cafe is very profitable, Lu Yiming knows very well that this business cannot be run for a lifetime, and his ambitions are far greater than this. So he told Li Yiwen: "After the Internet cafe is opened, I will only tell you the most basic operating principles, and I will not interfere with the rest. And if you invest 100,000, I can let you own 10% of the shares."
After the calculation just now, Li Yiwen felt that opening an Internet cafe could really make money. When he heard that Lu Yiming wanted him to own 10% of the shares, he felt even happier.
This must be a monthly income of tens of thousands.
What does it mean to have a monthly income of over 10,000 yuan in 1998?
However, after hearing Lu Yiming say that he had to pay another 100,000 yuan, Li Yiwen's face turned dark.
"Why didn't I realize before that you are such a good businessman? Your calculations are too loud, aren't they? You bought the computer on credit, you didn't spend a penny, and I had to pay for the rest, and you own 90% of the shares? Get out of here, I don't have any money."
Lu Yiming smiled and walked forward to put his arm around Li Yiwen's shoulders: "Didn't your aunt and uncle save money for you to get a wife? Just use that money! Don't worry, if you can't get married in the future, I'll introduce you to a few, I guarantee you'll be satisfied."
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Li Yiwen suddenly regretted his decision to resign.
My cousin is not treating me like a human being anymore.
Seeing that Li Yiwen looked unhappy, Lu Yiming patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Being a boss is like this, take it easy, when you have money in the future, you can also exploit others."
Li Yiwen sighed.
After all, it’s still because they don’t have the money.
In fact, he also understood that it was only natural for Lu Yiming to take the 90% shares.
If Lu Yiming didn't have 300,000 US dollars, Qian Hongli would never have accepted the condition of delivery first and payment later. Moreover, the method was also found by Lu Yiming, and the operation of funds also depended entirely on his various tricks.
It can be said that without Lu Yiming, this deal would never be concluded. Even if Li Yiwen could pay 100,000 yuan, there would be no place for the money to make money.
It was just a matter of reason, but Li Yiwen still felt a little unhappy. Can rich people bully others like this? Is there still reason in this world?
With full of resentment, Li Yiwen quickly got into character and began to suggest to Lu Yiming: "Now that we have computers, we need a storefront."
Of course, Lu Yiming couldn't go and find a storefront by himself, so he told Li Yiwen, "Buy the store directly. As for the location, try to choose one that has a school or high-end office building nearby."
"Just buy it? And beside a school and a high-end office building? Do we have that much money? Or should we just rent a house?"
Obviously, Li Yiwen didn't think spending money to buy it was a good idea.
In his opinion, although the $300,000 in the card is a lot, he cannot touch it carelessly. In three months, the payment of more than two million for the computer must be repaid. It will be troublesome if he cannot pay it back.
Lu Yiming was not impressed: "Find a place first. As for the money issue, can it be called a problem if it can be solved with money?"
"Okay, let's go back and eat first, and I'll go find a place to go in the afternoon."
Lu Yiming had already made a decision, and Li Yiwen could only nod in agreement.
Li Quanwang couldn't help but ask Lu Yiming: "Aren't you going with us?"
Lu Yiming shook his head: "I have other work to do."
After returning home and having dinner, Lu Yiming came to school, took out his key and opened the door of Zhu Hanwen's dormitory.
The class teacher Zhu Hanwen and his family have all returned to their hometown, and Lin Yuzhen is not in Baiyun either, so Lu Yiming just has some peace and quiet.
He turned on his computer and started writing code.
If you want to open an Internet cafe, how can you do it without Internet cafe management software?
Nowadays, when you go to an Internet cafe to surf the Internet, you usually give money to the network administrator, who then takes out a small notebook, compares it with the alarm clock at hand, and writes down the time you logged on, the length of time you logged on, and the time you logged off.
Then when the time came, they started to kick people out one by one. It was not high-tech at all.
So usually, Internet cafe operators dare not leave the bar at all, because they have to urge people who come to log off or renew their subscriptions at any time.
If Lu Yiming wanted to be a hands-off boss in peace, the first thing he had to do was to write a software that could deduct fees based on time and lock the computer.
Relying on manpower to charge fees is really too low. Moreover, if too many branches are opened, there might be people who are treacherous and secretly defraud the Internet cafe of its money.
Therefore, it is better to do it in one step and follow the operating model of Internet cafes in later generations to arrange the billing software first for easy management.
Moreover, Internet cafe software itself is a very profitable project, which is worth investing time and energy into research and development.
Billing software is the easiest to make. Just set up a timer and lock the desktop when the time is up.
What is really difficult is the diskless system used in Internet cafes in later generations.
The so-called diskless system means that all sub-units in a network do not have hard disks installed, and all are started through the network server. Such a network is a diskless network, and these workstations are called diskless workstations.
Internet cafes before 2002 did not have this kind of technology. In order to facilitate future management and maintenance, Lu Yiming had to use the virtual hard disk technology he had mastered.
In his previous life, Lu Yiming had taken many private orders like this and made money from some wealthy bosses of Internet cafes, so now he can do it with ease.
The diskless system is very important for an Internet cafe, and its main task is to ensure the normal operation of the network.
In an ordinary network with disks, such as an Internet cafe, if there is a problem with a computer in the network and it cannot be turned on or access the Internet, or the software in the network needs to be upgraded, the Internet cafe without a diskless system will have to invite a professional to be the network administrator, who will be responsible for adjusting each machine, installing new software, and even reformatting and partitioning the hard disk of each machine, installing the system, etc.
Perhaps before long, the system is accidentally damaged by the customer, which then requires tedious installation and debugging, which is not only troublesome but also delays work and affects the normal use of users.
Considering these troubles, and in order to save management and operation costs, Lu Yiming personally took charge of developing a diskless network based on the Linux system.
After a day of typing, an Internet cafe management software has taken shape. And Li Yiwen also brought good news to Lu Yiming.
