Chapter 345 Jiang Niannian’s Object
In 1996, one industry that we have to mention is Internet cafes.

In fact, there were similar Internet cafes in Shanghai in 1995, but in 1995, they could only be called computer rooms. There were no computer games, and they were mainly for people who needed to access the Internet.

In 2, a man named Ma set up an Internet company and created the China Yellow Pages, which was considered the first BB website in the history of the Internet.

The real Internet cafe is actually the “Weigate Computer Room” which opened in Shanghai in 1996. It provides a local area network and single-player games.

In this era, any brand name computer costs between 8,000 and 10,000 yuan. If you can assemble it yourself, buying accessories will cost you around 5,000 yuan.

So in the late 1990s, people who could assemble computers really made money.

In many cities, people find the Internet cafe business quite interesting. They provide computers and charge about 10 yuan. Although computers are expensive, even if one computer costs 8,000 yuan, 10 yuan an hour, not to mention that one computer is used 24 hours a day, if it is calculated as 10 hours, one computer can make back 100 yuan a day.

Although investing in an Internet cafe is costly, if it is well managed, the investment can be recovered in about three months.

In fact, for many businesses, if the profit is more than 20%, the market will be active. If the profit is 50%, some people will dare to take risks. If the profit is 100%, then it is a desperate risk.

Internet cafes are a new industry these days, and according to the current Internet fees, it is worth the risk for many people to open one. Especially when someone takes the lead, many people will borrow money to set up five or six computers in a random room and turn it into an “Internet cafe”.

It’s not good to have too few computers, because there are no stand-alone games now. You need to have four computers at the beginning, because you need to play the LAN game “Red Alert”, at least two on two.

At the end of 1996, Jiang Cheng bought some computer accessories in Hong Kong and then set up an Internet cafe with eight computers in Changcheng.

The Internet cafe was managed by the daughter of Jiang Yan, Jiang Yan’s younger sister. Jiang Yan also favored boys over girls, so she asked her to open a small shop near the soy sauce factory and gave them the former game room. Jiang Yan also sold breakfast at the factory gate, and there were several billiard tables at the factory gate.

Speaking of which, Jiang Yan now earns a lot of income with her children, but after her daughter got married, she really didn’t get any share of the property.

According to Jiang Yan, even if the child born by a married daughter does not have the surname Chen, it is good enough to give her a generous dowry when she gets married. When she gets old, she will naturally rely on her son to support her, not her daughter. And in this era, there is indeed no such thing as a daughter supporting her parents in their old age.

Jiang Cheng opened an Internet cafe. It’s not that the industry is bad, but for Jiang Zhaozhao and the others, it was just another mess.

Even if there are many people playing computer games, so what? Even if you can earn 10,000 yuan a month, so what? It’s not that this industry can’t make money, it’s just too difficult to manage. You have to collect cash and use a notebook to record the time people spend playing computer games.

Instead of having our own people guarding the Internet cafes, we hired people to guard and collect the money. People would hide dozens of dollars in their own pockets every day and not record them in a notebook. It is impossible to open a large-scale chain of Internet cafes.

Computers don’t have a cash register function yet. Internet cafe owners have to set up a table and use a notebook to record the time other people spend playing. When the time is up, they have to shout it out, and if they don’t pay more, they have to let others in.

Jiang Cheng’s children advised him to stop playing and stay at home to enjoy his life. But Jiang Cheng just wanted to play. It had been more than 20 years since he had played computer games again.

Although there is only one Red Alert game on the LAN, and the others are all stand-alone games, it is enough to make Jiang Cheng addicted for a while. He is an uncle-like man, fighting with some young people in the Internet cafe every day.

However, Jiang Cheng was only addicted to it for a few months before he got tired of it. This kind of LAN competitive game is nothing compared to the later Internet competitive games.

But he would get bored after a few months, but others would never get bored. Every day after school or on weekends, there would be one or two people standing by each computer. As soon as someone was replaced, someone else would take over.

At the beginning of 1997, Jiang Cheng transferred the computer room directly to his niece, Jiang Yan’s daughter. After all, Jiang Cheng was her uncle.

Instead of asking his niece to pay first, he asked her to pay 5,000 yuan in sales every month, and he would not ask for it after four months. As for computers, Jiang Cheng also added four more.

But in 1997, some Internet cafes followed suit in Changcheng. The city is big enough, so if they are not located nearby, it will not affect business and prices. But if one Internet cafe follows suit, it will not take long for them to spread everywhere.

Jiang Zhaozhao got married during the Chinese New Year in 1997. At this point, Jiang Cheng found that he didn’t feel bad, maybe because he had too many daughters. In addition, he had already experienced his own daughter being taken away by other men, so he was very calm.

Jiang Fei in Hong Kong already has a new boyfriend. She had that experience when she was in college, and it is even more impossible for her to control it now.

Jiang Yue also has a boyfriend. My daughter is old and I can’t control her finding a partner.

Jiang Cheng has also let go of the fact that his daughter is possessed by another man. At his age, he has long since let go of such matters between men and women.

However, Jiang Cheng discovered something wrong with the third brother Jiang Nian Nian, which could be said to be quite embarrassing.

Jiang Niannian shouldn’t be allowed to sell discs, especially pirated ones. Hong Kong actually has a lot of costume movies of a certain level, and many well-known actors have filmed them.

Jiang Cheng was bored once again, so he wanted to go sit with the good girl Jiang Niannian. After all, the eldest and second child were not around, and the others were still in school. Only the third child lived not far away, so it was normal for Jiang Cheng to go to her place when he was bored.

However, when he went there that time, he didn’t find Jiang Niannian, and her office was not locked, and she was not there. Jiang Cheng was bored and didn’t go back to the office that was reserved for him, so he went directly to Jiang Niannian’s office to watch a DVD.

But when I turned on the DVD player, I saw a disc inside and started playing it. Oh, it was so hard to describe. Then I found some more discs in a drawer in a corner of the office.

Faced with such a thing, Jiang Cheng had no choice but to pretend he didn’t know. Not only could he not say anything, but he also had to pay attention to his daughter’s privacy in the future. He would knock on the door before entering his children’s room. If someone was a little slow in opening the door, he would ask, “What are you doing in your room?”

In July 1997, the day Hong Kong returned to China, Jiang Cheng took his family to Hong Kong. After July 1, there was no such thing as China or foreign countries in Hong Kong. At least, Hong Kong could no longer be said to be a foreign country, and Hong Kong citizens were also Chinese citizens.

The return of Hong Kong has a great impact on Jiang Panpan’s tourism career. At least Hong Kong tourism has become popular. Many people in China want to go to Hong Kong to see this place that has been occupied by others for 150 years.

In the days since Hong Kong returned, Jiang Cheng’s ten children have all been together and seen each other. Jiang Zhaozhao’s belly is also big at this time, and it won’t be long before Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying are going to be grandfathers and grandmothers.

Also in this year, Jiang Cheng, who had a generation gap with his children and could only make money by luck, made another small fortune.

Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue have been playing with stocks for two years. Especially after Jiang Yue started working in a bank, she became a little arrogant and traded stocks even more aggressively than Jiang Fei.

But in July of 1997, the Asian financial crisis broke out. First, the Thai currency depreciated, which then caused a currency crisis throughout Southeast Asia and quickly spread to Hong Kong.

Hong Kong was affected by the financial crisis and the stock market fell. Jiang Yue was very aggressive and wanted to buy at the bottom to close the position. This meant that if the stock was originally bought at 10 yuan, but it fell, if the same number of stocks were bought at 7.5 yuan, the average purchase price would be yuan.

If you add positions in this way, you don’t need to wait until the stock price rises back to 10 yuan. As long as it exceeds 7.5 yuan, you can get your money back. If it really rises back to 10 yuan, you can make a profit. Jiang Fei saw that her sister was so aggressive, so she followed suit.

But the stock market did not recover. There was even an international speculator named Soros who brought some people to Hong Kong to short the Hong Kong stock market.

In the end, Jiang Fei and Jiang Yue were both trapped, and a lot of their mother Shen Li’s savings were borrowed.

The funny thing is that Jiang Yue also dragged her boyfriend into this. The stock market plummeted in October, and they broke up after a quarrel.

This is just the beginning. Hong Kong is a small place, and once there is a big fluctuation in the stock market, it will be reflected in reality quickly. The economy will slow down, the unemployment rate will rise, and the real estate market will also be affected, and house prices will fall sharply.

The key is that the non-performing loan ratio of banks has increased. If the loans cannot be repaid, the mortgaged houses will be taken over by the banks for auction.

Jiang Cheng, who was believed by his children to have made his fortune through luck, acquired many high-quality properties in Hong Kong at low prices by directly operating within the bank.

The good properties are collected by banks. There are no online auctions in Hong Kong now, and there is no such thing as a sale that does not affect the lease in Hong Kong at this time.

The house was privately divided up by the bank, and they were not afraid that the owner would refuse to leave the house, so they would just arrange for someone to drive him out. The underworld has always existed in Hong Kong. You should know that the first movie of the Young and Dangerous series was released in 1996. In Hong Kong, the house that was taken over by the bank would not be refused to leave.

Why do stock market crashes occur in Hong Kong and why do so many people jump off buildings? It’s because it’s hard to become a deadbeat. If you are in debt, even your only home can drive you out.

Jiang Cheng does not develop real estate, but he has invisibly acted as a real estate mover.

The business has been handed over to the children for several years, and although they seem to be doing very well, Jiang Cheng picked up a bargain this time, which is enough for them to earn money for several years.

Of course, Jiang Cheng could not be considered to have picked up a bargain when the stock market crash was not over. Soros and his group of international speculators were still shorting the Hong Kong stock market, but local people in Hong Kong were also taking corresponding measures. A sharp drop might be difficult to occur, but a rise in the stock market would not happen in the short term.

Jiang Cheng knew that housing prices in Hong Kong would continue to rise sharply in the future. Not to mention buying at a bargain price now, even if he did not develop a property himself, he could still make a lot of money in the future by buying a large number of houses at high prices.

But Jiang Cheng’s mind has never been on real estate. Even though the Jiang Group, which has been established in China, has also extended its hand into the real estate industry, Jiang Cheng has not told his children that real estate can actually be invested madly for twenty years.

Jiang Cheng is still concerned about the food problem. He has always believed that the domestic food problem would only appear in the next decade or so, but he finds that it has actually become very serious in this era.

Some problems cannot be solved after being reported by the media. In the era without developed Internet, many things are actually not reported.

For example, the current problem of cooking oil. The oil in most snack stalls and breakfasts, if it is used for frying foods, is reused.

If someone pays attention, they will see that during this period the sewers of some hotels and food stalls are often cleaned at night.

Since Jiang Cheng didn’t have an internet cafe yet, he went to Shenzhen and asked Jiang Zhaozhao to set up a cooking oil processing factory. This cooking oil is at least more reliable than the ice pack and spicy noodle factory that Jiang Cheng had planned to set up before.

With hundreds of supermarkets in hand, Jiang’s Group is basically guaranteed to make money if it wants to produce consumer products even if it is not large in scale. So no matter how profitable it is, since Jiang Cheng specifically came to Shenzhen to ask to build an edible oil processing plant, even if the scale is a little larger, the investment is only tens of millions.

In 1998, a case broke out in Guangzhou where waste cooking oil was refined and flavored and sold in large quantities. Waste cooking oil became an issue that attracted the attention of the entire nation, and the Jiang Group, currently headed by Jiang Zhaozhao, seized the opportunity and immediately put up advertisements on TV to promote the production environment and process of Jiangdonglai’s self-produced cooking oil.

Also in 1998, the second child, Jiang Panpan, also found a partner and would get married at the end of the year. Her partner was also excellent and worked in the system in Shanghai.

What made Jiang Cheng worry was that the third child was a good girl. She was not young, she was in her twenties, so it was normal for her to have a boyfriend. But she found a boyfriend that Jiang Cheng was not optimistic about. Her family conditions were not a good match for the Jiang family.

Jiang Cheng didn’t look down on ordinary family backgrounds, even if they were from rural areas. But Jiang Cheng didn’t care too much about the high school education.

But he doesn’t have a job, but he is quite fair-skinned, of good height, and quite handsome.

Judging from the comprehensive conditions, he is clearly a gigolo.

Damn it, Jiang Cheng himself didn’t have a gigolo in his previous life and could only make a living as an online ride-hailing driver. How could he let others eat his daughter’s gigolo in this life?

But no one knew what kind of drug Jiang Niannian was given that made her, a good girl who always listened to her parents, refuse to break up with that man.

Jiang Cheng was so angry that he really wanted to cut off Jiang Niannian’s dividends from the Jiang Group. But even so, he couldn’t cut off her relationship with that pretty boy.

Because for that pretty boy, his family conditions are average, and Jiang Niannian is pretty. Even if he cuts off Jiang Niannian’s income, he will get a beautiful wife for free.

Jiang Cheng and Zhou Lingying actually thought about giving money to the pretty boy to get him to leave their daughter, but they were afraid that if their daughter knew about it, it would backfire.

If he had to pay, Jiang Cheng felt that it would be better for him to violate the rules once, because he had the ability to make people disappear without anyone noticing.

Finally, Jiang Cheng found Jiang Zhaozhao and Jiang Panpan and asked them to help find a better partner for the third child. He didn’t have to be as good as their own partners, but he had to be handsome.

Jiang Cheng felt that although Jiang Niannian looked like a good girl, she was actually a lustful person in private.

As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and outstanding people are often surrounded by outstanding friends. Take Jiang Zhaozhao for example. Apart from other things, many of her and her husband’s classmates and friends, let alone their personalities, at least they all had to go to Tsinghua University to become classmates.

It is much better to find a handsome one among their friends than for Jiang Cheng to look for one himself.

Moreover, Jiang Zhaozhao’s husband is her junior, younger than her. If her husband knows any suitable classmates or friends, he would actually be a good match for Jiang Niannian in terms of age.

Just to see if Jiang Niannian would be moved and then change her mind after finding him. Although it seems that this is asking her daughter to be more unfaithful and not stay with a gigolo, it can barely be considered a solution.

If this doesn’t work, Jiang Cheng doesn’t mean to break up the couple. If the pretty boy wants to be a gigolo, he can please Jiang Niannian all his life and not mess around outside. Even if he is a bit useless, Jiang Cheng will have to admit it in the end.

(These following chapters are just for your consideration. I don’t want the results to be too bad. I have to be fully present this month. And then there has to be a decent ending.)
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