Chapter 88 Opening
In the next week, Lu Wei's Qidian Internet Cafe started trial business. Lu Wei found a classmate in the art class to help make a few promotional posters, which wrote in eye-catching large fonts: During the trial business, all online will be charged for two yuan. Lu Wei also printed many flyers and asked everyone to help post them near the school after class.
Internet cafes, at the end of 1998, was definitely a very new thing for most people. During the trial business of Luwei's Internet cafe, each machine was almost 24 hours a day and night. Qidian's network environment was elegant and the machine configuration was very high. The Seventeen flat monitor, pIII800 processor and independent graphics card made it very smooth no matter what game it runs. The machine is pre-installed with dozens of popular games nowadays, from big games such as Interstellar and Resident Evil to various small games such as Tetris. The stand-alone game alone made everyone have fun. During the trial business, several people often waited in front of a machine. Those without machines watched others play. People kept asking from the network administrator: Is there anyone who wants to get off the machine?
The network administrator Yu Wenhan introduced to Lu Wei was named Zhou Ming, a 26-year-old young man with a thin face and glasses. Zhou Ming's technology was as outstanding as Yu Wenhan said. During the business period, some minor faults in computer software were basically cured by hand, which made Lu Wei very satisfied.
Zhou Ming is also very cheerful. He often jokes with Lu Wei freely and talks about his views on computers and the Internet. Lu Wei found that when he talks about the Internet, Zhou Ming became rumored, often for more than an hour. Lu Wei also likes to listen to him talk about these things very much. Although sometimes it is a bit of a bragging element, Lu Wei likes his enthusiasm for the Internet. Lu Wei knows that sometimes, the most important thing to do a good job is to have this enthusiasm.
Zhou Ming also has a very good impression of himself, he has no airs and gives employees a very good treatment. After two days of using Zhou Ming, Lu Wei decided to let Zhou Ming go to work, with a basic salary of 2,000 yuan per month. This treatment is much higher than that of ordinary public institutions. Zhou Ming was very grateful and worked very hard when working. He often had to stay for a while after work, and give some computer skills to take over Yu Wenqi.
Internet cafes are doing well every day, but what makes Lu Wei laugh and cry is that although he stated that this is an Internet cafe, most people still play it as a computer room, and often play games for a long time after sitting. The IE browser is basically not open, and only those who need to check the information will occasionally click on IE. This also made Lu Wei realize a problem, how to attract everyone's attention to the Internet? Think about it, there were too few entertainment functions on the Internet during this period, without QQ, online games, online music and movies. Do you let everyone read the boring information on the Internet for a long time? I guess not many people are willing. It seems that I have to put QQ on the agenda as soon as possible.
In order to promote his own, Lu Wei told Zhou Ming that he asked him to change the IE homepage of all the computers on the first floor to Qidian Chinese pages. At the same time, he also applied to the school to live outside and slept in the bedroom on the second floor at night to facilitate his writing.
The week's trial business passed quickly. Lu Wei made a rough calculation. Apart from the water and electricity and some other expenses in Internet cafes, the net profit actually reached more than 8,000 yuan. It seems that opening an Internet cafe at this time was indeed a huge profitable industry.
On Sunday, Lu Wei's Internet cafe had a rainbow door set up early, and a few long firecrackers were laid on the ground, making a festive atmosphere.
All the people from 306 and 305 arrived and helped Lu Wei run around and busy. Under Kang Xiaoling's pressure, Lu Wei took off his usual casual clothes, changed into a black suit, and stood at the door to welcome all the gods attending the opening ceremony.
This was also something Lu Wei deliberately did. He was a student and had no influence here. If he didn't pull up a few tiger-skinned banners, the future troubles would definitely be inevitable. Lu Wei contacted the relevant leaders of local culture, industry and commerce, taxation and other major situations through Mr. Ma's relationship a few days in advance, and invited them to attend his opening ceremony. He also hinted in his words that he would "express" at that time. Sure enough, these leaders expressed very happily that they would participate if they had nothing to do.
An Audi A4 parked in front of the Internet cafe. Mr. Ma walked out of the car, stretched out his thick palm from a distance and walked towards Lu Wei, smiling and said, "Brother Lu, congratulations, young people are brave and started their business so early. I wish you a great success!" As he said that, he took out a bronze sculpture with an eagle spreading its wings from the car and handed it to Lu Wei, "This is what I gave to you by my brother."
"Mr. Ma, you are so polite. Thanks to your strong support in this small company, Lu Wei took the bronze sculpture and smiled.
"Why are you polite to your brother! If you have any good works in the future, don't forget your brother. Yes, Xiaohua gave me your Canon song. It's so nice. I didn't expect that you are so talented on the keyboard, haha." Mr. Ma said, walking towards the rostrum that was arranged.
Before nine o'clock, all officials from all walks of life came to attend the ceremony one after another, and there were also many people watching the fun and preparing to go online, mostly students and young people, because Lu Wei had already announced that on the day of opening, all machines were free to access the Internet, and each person was limited to one hour, which naturally attracted a large number of people to wait here.
At about nine o'clock, several people at 306 lit firecrackers on the ground together, and festive music was played on the sound. After all this, Lu Wei took the microphone and said, "Hello, guests! Today is a great day for the opening of Xinqidian Network Company and Qidian Internet Cafe. Thank you for your visit. First of all, please allow me to grandly introduce the leaders who attended the celebration today. They are: Director XX of the Cultural Bureau, Director YY of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau..." With Lu Wei's introduction, several officials nodded to everyone one by one. Although those who came were not the top leaders of each bureau, Lu Wei habitually omitted the word "deputy". This is also a hidden rule in the officialdom, and it makes people feel comfortable and happy.
After the introduction, the ribbon cutting ceremony was held. A videographer stood in front of everyone and took the photo down the ribbon cutting process.
Then, Director XX, the highest-ranking Cultural Bureau present, delivered a simple speech, which was nothing more than praising Lu Wei's youthful and promising importance of the Internet as the era of technology, etc.
Finally, when Lu Wei arranged for his leader to leave the seat and go to the hotel to have a meal, and then announced that the Internet cafe was officially opened. Today, when it was free, everyone who had been waiting outside for an hour suddenly ran into the Internet cafe, and forty machines were immediately filled.
Instructing Zhou Ming and Yu Wenqi to look forward to the store, Lu Wei rushed to the hotel to accompany the leaders. Lu Wei spent more than 2,000 yuan in one meal. After the meal, Lu Wei also gave each leader a red envelope, which naturally made the group of people smile and kept calling Lu Wei brothers, saying words like "If you have any trouble in the future, come and find me." Lu Wei also pretended to be grateful and kept saying thank you. Although he knew that these words after drinking were basically nothing, no matter what, it would be harmful to him to get along with these people.
After seeing these masters off, Lu Wei returned to the Internet cafe, and it still looked crowded. Lu Wei came to the second floor and saw his machine, Kang Xiaoling was concentrating on playing mahjong games.
Walking gently to Xiaoling, Lu Wei wrapped Xiaoling's soft waist from behind.
"Oh, I was scared! Why did I come back and drink a lot of bars?" Kang Xiaoling turned around and saw Lu Wei, leaned his head against his chest and said.
"Well, I drank a little, you know, these people can't afford to offend me, I have to accompany you." Lu Wei gently stroked Xiaoling's beautiful hair.
"I'll pour you some tea and relieve the wine." Xiaoling said as she was about to get up.
"No, it's okay, just sleep for a while." Lu Wei put his face on Xiaoling's hair.
"Be careful in the future and try to drink as little as possible, which is bad for your throat." Xiaoling told Lu Wei like a wife.
"I know, thank you for your concern." Lu Wei gently rubbed between Xiaoling's hair, smelling the fragrance of the hairline.
"Don't get tired of it, go lie in and rest for a while. Be good." Xiaoling patted Lu Wei's head and was talking when a scream came from the door: "Fourth brother!Four brother! Let me tell you good news, ah~~~"
Chapter completed!