"This wealth, the data is getting more and more accurate!" Boss Jia muttered when he saw the latest list of the top 500 companies in the world.
Although there was still a big gap between 25 billion and the actual turnover of 28.4 billion USD, the fact that the Daqian Internet Cafe didn't release any financial data was already amazing. It even made Boss Jia admire this reporter.
However, Hua Xia was once again excited.
The 120th company in the world, this was another historic breakthrough for Hua Xia. The financial media all over the country reported this news crazily. Even the news broadcast gave Boss Jia a minute to express that this was a new breakthrough for Hua Xia, that Hua Xia would be better in the future, and then reiterated their support for the reform.
Anyway, Boss Jia was already the most famous entrepreneur in the country, and there was no other. If it wasn't for the underdevelopment of the internet, Boss Jia's fame would definitely surpass that of Ma Yun and Ma Huateng in the future.
Speaking of the Internet, Boss Jia thought of his Internet Cafe.
It had been more than half a month since the opening of the Internet café. However, it was different from the bustling and bustling situation that he had imagined. In the past half a month, the Daqian Internet Café had been operating miserably. The business was quite bad. The number of people who opened their cards every day did not exceed 20.
Most of them came to see something new. They would use the Internet for at least half an hour to experience what it was like to go online, and then they would leave.
After all, Internet Cafe fees were not cheap these days. A computer cost 1 yuan per hour.
This fee was very cheap in the future, but in 1997, it was absolutely expensive.
All in all, after half a month, the total turnover of the Daqian Internet Cafe was less than 200 yuan. Not to mention the cost, it wasn't even enough to cover the salary of an Internet Cafe manager. It was miserable to the extreme!
This made Boss Jia a little confused. Before 2010, Internet Cafes were a profitable business. No matter how many Internet Cafes were opened in a city, they would always be full. Sometimes, they couldn't even find a computer. How could there be no Internet users here?
However, after some investigation, Boss Jia understood the reason.
It was simple. Internet Cafes in this era were not attractive enough.
Boss Jia walked around the internet café, but he didn't even see a child playing games. The few people who were surfing the internet were still holding an English dictionary in one hand and searching for all kinds of information on the external network.
Most of the customers in Boss Jia's Internet Cafe were actually there to learn. This was the most unbelievable thing in the world.
Fortunately, Blizzard saved Boss Jia at the crucial moment.
Three days later, on the 12th of April, 1997, Blizzard announced that Diablo OL would be in open beta in twenty-seven countries around the world. Of course, Huaxia was one of the twenty-seven countries that were eligible for the beta test.
Daqian Games had already made preparations to be the agent for Diablo OL, and Daqian Internet Cafe was naturally the first Internet cafe in the country where players could play Diablo OL!
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Zhang Zahui was a famous stubborn person in Yuzhang City. He didn't like to study and dropped out of middle school. But because his father worked at the Daqian Company and was an old employee of the Daqian Group in 1991, the Zhang family became one of the first ten thousand yuan households in Yuzhang City.
Now, it was said that the Zhang family had more than a hundred thousand yuan in savings. This was the hard-earned money that Zhang Zahui's father worked at the Daqian Company.
Zhang Zahui wasn't sure if the Zhang family had such a huge amount of money. But he knew that no matter how much he played outside, he never let his family go hungry.
Therefore, Zhang Zahui was grateful to the Daqian Company.
Every time he passed by the Daqian Building, he couldn't help but look up at the Daqian Building with yearning in his eyes.
In fact, Zhang Zahui also dreamed of joining the Daqian Group. But Zhang Zahui also knew that the Daqian Group didn't want people who didn't even graduate from middle school.
According to his father, the threshold for joining the Daqian Group was very high.
This was because the Daqian Group didn't have any direct production departments other than some old production lines. These production units were all transferred to the Daqian Group's army.
Therefore, the Daqian Group needed high-quality people. At the very least, they had to have a bachelor's degree, and they had to have at least one university. Fortunately, there weren't any 985 or 211 universities. Otherwise, this requirement would be inevitable.
It was impossible for a son to inherit his father's business. The Daqian Group wasn't a state-owned enterprise. They wouldn't give priority to their own employees.
In fact, if Zhang Zahui's father wasn't an old employee of the Daqian Group, Zhang Zahui's father would've already been fired. After all, Zhang Zahui's father only graduated from middle school. He couldn't keep up with the Daqian Group's speed of development.
Moreover, he was restricted to the production line for the rest of his life. At most, he would be a line leader. It was impossible for him to go any further.
Every time Old Zhang thought of this, he wanted to beat Zhang Zahui up. Unfortunately, this was his own son. He couldn't bear to do that.
Usually, when he passed by the Daqian Building every day, he would take a look at it out of habit before leaving.
But today, when Zhang Zahui took a look, he noticed that something wasn't right. Outside the glass wall of the Daqian Building, there was a large colored poster.
There were five characters holding different weapons and in combat positions. One of them was an archer girl wearing leather armor, revealing her flawless snow-white thighs and waist. Zhang Zahui almost got into a fight when he saw her.
"Welcome to the Global Open Beta of Diablo OL. Players can use their ID to register for a card. The first hour will be free. After that, they will get 20 free if they top up 100 yuan!"
"Diablo? Isn't that the popular PC game? " Zhang Zahui was instantly tempted. As a member of society, Zhang Zahui's hobbies were basically naughty.
Naturally, Zhang Zhahui had heard of computer games before. Previously, Zhang Zhahui had even used his father's connections to get a ticket to watch the game.
That was why Zhang Zahui had been itching to play PC games for a long time. However, Zhang Zahui's father couldn't afford to buy an expensive PC. Yuzhang didn't have an internet cafe either, so Zhang Zahui could only look at it and sigh.
Now that he saw a place where he could play Diablo OL, and there was even a free first hour, Zhang Zhahui's interest was piqued. He walked into the internet café curiously and stepped into a whole new world.
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