"33,250 yuan, this batch alone earned nearly 100,000 yuan. Your mother and I never even dreamed of it, hehe."
Fang Shi said gleefully, his eyes narrowing into two curved slits as he smiled.
He never expected his son to have such a talent for business; their days of hardship were finally over.
With seven to eight hundred people and over a hundred households in the entire village, his family's net worth could rank among the top ten.
Several families had been running small workshops in the city for years, and two families had been earning money abroad for a long time, so they couldn't compare to them for now.
But in terms of earning speed, his son was definitely number one in the village; even some small business owners couldn't compare to him.
His son was truly capable!
Many locals were wealthy, with quite a few earning money abroad. If this were in a rural area of some other province, let alone 100,000 yuan, even 10,000 yuan might make someone the richest in the village.
Of course, there were also many poor people in the village who barely ate meat a few times a year, no different from rural areas in some other provinces.
Comparing himself, Fang Shi felt a faint, almost imperceptible sense of pride, and he straightened his back. After all, his son was earning money by doing business, and he had also contributed, so it gave him face to talk about it.
Those students called him Boss or Old Fang, which showed they recognized him.
Fang Bai calculated on paper and quickly figured out the total revenue and cost for the first batch. He said, "We had 390 TVs in the first batch. Procurement cost 11,300 yuan, transport fees 500 yuan, labor costs approximately 1,500 yuan, and shared rent and stall fees were not much.
A total of 194 TVs were sold, generating 110,291 yuan in revenue.
Excluding the tricycle, expenses were about 13,520 yuan, making the net profit about 96,770 yuan.
There's also a 32-inch color TV and a 21-inch color TV at home that haven't been moved, plus some spare parts, totaling about 10,000 yuan in value."
Without a computer, these statistics were troublesome to compile, but he calculated quickly, getting a precise figure in a short while.
It could be said that the net profit was 100,000 yuan!
Fang Bai then calculated the cycle: he departed for T City on October 21st and finished selling on November 3rd, a total of 14 days.
The time he personally spent was probably only a few days.
Calculated this way, it was truly super profitable.
In this era, earning money was hard work, but it was really easy to earn, with no real competitors.
Well, Fang Bai was using his Golden Finger; otherwise, others wouldn't be making such exorbitant profits.
Earning 100,000 in half a month completely crushed Hengli Valve Company and Berly Valves Company.
Of course, once an enterprise grows, it earns money much faster later on.
"Son, how many TVs are in the second batch? I feel like there should be more than the first batch, and the proportion of color TVs is very high." Fang Shi had been busy moving TVs all afternoon and hadn't asked about this.
"About 500 TVs, with 400 of them being color TVs. 14-inch color TVs sell well."
"If we really sell out the second batch of color TVs, we'll definitely earn more than the first batch."
"It will definitely be much more. The specific amount depends on how many TVs can be refurbished. If we can get half, that would be very good."
"I don't know how many we can sell in Wen City. If we can keep selling for a year, that would be fine too."
"Our small number of TVs, two hundred in half a month, four or five hundred in a month, simply can't satisfy the entire Wen City market. As long as no one causes trouble, we can sell until I go to university."
"Then will you still sell TVs after you go to university?" Fang Shi asked; he was already addicted to selling TVs.
"Dad, we'll see then. It's hard to say if we can even sell until the college entrance exam," Fang Bai said. The future was truly hard to predict.
Because he relied on himself to test TVs, the upper limit of money earned from selling TVs was limited.
However, running a company, although it doesn't earn much at first, if done well, it grows rapidly every year. After a few years, it might be worth hundreds of millions. If it goes public, it's incomparable to selling TVs.
But no matter what, refurbishing TVs was one of the fastest ways to accumulate wealth in the early stages.
After Fang Shi gave his son the money, he chatted for a while and then left, not wanting to disturb his son's studies.
Fang Bai watched his father leave, put the money away, and then opened his Golden Finger virtual screen.
[Personal Wealth: 105,800 yuan]
(Money given to family and some expenses are not counted as personal wealth; personal fixed assets are counted as personal wealth)
[Prompt: The middle finger can be upgraded. Upgrade?]
Fang Bai had tried how to upgrade. He silently thought "confirm," and his Fang Bai's Middle Finger Golden Finger directly upgraded to Level 2.
Suddenly, he felt a warmth in his right middle finger.
A moment later, the warmth subsided, and he saw that his middle finger's swelling had slightly reduced, almost back to normal, and it was a bit more flexible than before.
However, he felt that if he lifted heavy objects, he still couldn't exert much force.
It had recovered 30% overall, and pressing on the scar no longer caused pain.
Complete recovery would take too long, but at least there was this opportunity.
He even thought mischievously, if all ten fingers were broken, would he have ten Golden Fingers?
This thought, once it appeared, was too dangerous.
Fang Bai didn't dare to try. Even if it really turned into a Golden Finger, he wouldn't be able to use his hands normally for many years in the future, bringing many inconveniences to his life, like not being able to wipe his butt cleanly, which would be very painful.
He would absolutely not do such a foolish thing!
After upgrading, a new function was added.
[Middle Finger LV2: Analyze design flaws in physical objects such as mechanical and electronic equipment]
After reading the information, Fang Bai was overjoyed and immediately tried it out.
He took out his bp machine and silently thought "LV2 function analysis and detection!"
A transparent 3D image appeared, a dark green, different from the light pea green of LV1.
There were no other colors. Normally, green represented qualified.
As it analyzed, a prompt popped up with no delay whatsoever.
[Analysis Result: No design errors]
Seeing this result, Fang Bai felt something was off.
Shouldn't it prompt for localization directions, or more advanced design directions?
If analyzed with a future perspective, this bp machine's design definitely had problems.
It seemed he had misunderstood the function of LV2.
It couldn't optimize designs!
To understand the new function more deeply, Fang Bai went downstairs and brought a TV to test.
He found that for a faulty circuit board, using LV1 quickly pinpointed where the fault was.
When using LV2's design flaw analysis function, the circuit board still appeared entirely dark green.
In other words, there was no problem with this circuit board's design?
Fang Bai didn't think so.
Then, he meticulously read the function description.
Since it mentioned design flaws, it was highly likely that it referred to very obvious design flaws that could be analyzed, while things that already functioned could not be analyzed.
To verify if his guess was correct, Fang Bai aimed at his bicycle.
With so many parts, there should be some design flaws, right?
He walked to the bicycle, touched it with his middle finger, and performed an LV2 analysis.
Indeed, under the transparent 3D image, there were over a dozen red dots.
For example, at the handlebar, the analysis result: The pipe opening was not designed with a chamfer, making it inconvenient to install the plastic sleeve.
Seeing this result, Fang Bai immediately understood.
Normally, a chamfer is partly to prevent cuts and partly for manufacturing convenience, such as installing other components.
However, this analysis pointed out a design flaw but didn't specify how large the chamfer should be, whether it should be a rounded or straight chamfer; only someone who understood mechanical design would know these details.
Fang Bai then observed other design flaws, such as the hole diameter being too small, making bolt installation difficult, and so on.
After more than ten minutes, Fang Bai finally understood the new function of LV2 and also had a clearer understanding of LV1.
For example, with the bicycle just now, it had no faults because it could be used, so LV1 couldn't detect anything.
But using LV2 to detect it could find flaws in the original design.
However, it could help Fang Bai point out where the flaws were, but it didn't tell him how to optimize them.
Anyway, I'll tell you where it's wrong.
But what about the optimization plan?
None, you have to figure it out yourself.
So stubborn!
It can be simply understood as: if a design is below what the system considers 60 points, it can point out where the flaws are. As long as you correct them properly, the design is qualified.
But it cannot achieve optimization to 70, 80, or even higher points; it has no optimization function.
Moreover, it can only analyze physical objects.
If Fang Bai drew a design, it couldn't analyze where the design had problems; only after a physical object was manufactured could it help analyze it.
"Sigh, never mind. Compared to LV1, it seems a bit useless."
"Perhaps, after reaching a higher level, it will have the functions I want."
Fang Bai couldn't help but complain, but he had to admit that for him, it was still very useful.
Just like the bicycle in front of him, he only needed to touch it to know where there were obvious design flaws.
If these flaws were corrected, the product design would be better, production efficiency would increase, and costs would decrease.
In the future, when he establishes a real industry company, the company will certainly have many products, and this function will be very useful to him, preventing him from making major directional mistakes.
After understanding the new function, Fang Bai returned to his bedroom to sleep.
He was still very happy, as it indicated that after the Golden Finger upgraded, new functions would appear, and existing functions might also be enhanced, rather than remaining unchanged.
Since his rebirth and obtaining the Golden Finger, he had always had this concern.
Now that it had upgraded, the function was still not powerful enough.
But as long as the level was raised, the future was promising.