Valley Emperor

Valley Emperor

It has to be said that the development of history is always strikingly similar, and there will not be too many turning points due to changes in the times and people.

The same is true for the development of Shanghai. Although Li Xuan did not deliberately lead Shanghai to the future development path, the development trend of Shanghai in this era is still very similar to the development of Shanghai in later generations.

Taking advantage of the opening up of the empire and encouraging the development of industry and commerce, Shanghai took full advantage of its crucial geographical location and embarked on the path of industrial and commercial development.

Even the industries developed and the detailed regions are strikingly similar.

Historically, the early development of Shanghai was also dominated by overseas trade and textile industry, and now Shanghai is also led by trade and textile industry. Of course, there are still many differences in details, that is, Shanghai in this era. Has a lot of heavy industry.

This situation is not the result of Li Xuan's deliberate leadership. In terms of policy support, there are not only one trading port in Shanghai, but a full nineteen in the Datang Empire, with Tongzhou and Ningbo next door.

From south to north, coastal port cities that are basically more suitable for overseas trade have been gradually opened up as trading ports.

Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, Chaoshan in Guangdong, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Dayuanfu in Fujian, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo in Zhejiang, Shanghai in Jiangnan Road, Tongzhou in Jiangbei Road, and the estuary in Huaian County), Jiaozhou (Qingdao), Dengzhou (Fucheng Penglai) in Shandong, Tianjin in Hebei, Jinzhou (Lushun) in Liaodong, Seoul, Busan, etc., are all coastal trading ports that the Datang Empire has started successively in recent years. .

It is worth noting that the commercial ports that the Datang Empire can carry out foreign trade are limited to coastal ports, not including inland cities, such as Yangzhou, Jinling City, Huaian Fucheng and other inland riverside cities, then they are not as trading ports. in use.

Each of the above-mentioned commercial ports has basically set up a commercial zone and given the same policies.

However, there are only a few cities that really rely on overseas trade to develop, and the scale comparison is nothing more than the two cities of Guangzhou and Shanghai. Although others have also developed, they are similar to Guangzhou and Shanghai. In comparison, it is not worth mentioning.

It is also a commercial port. Why is there such a big gap in development? Geographical factors are extremely important reasons. The reason why Guangzhou can develop is because it has undertaken the main task of trade with Southeast Asia and even India and Europe.

The early development of Shanghai was through undertaking the fusang trade and at the same time serving as a transit point for domestic coastal trade.

One Nanyang, one Fusang and domestic coastal trade, this is what created the rapid development of these two cities in the early days.

And step by step, step by step, this development is fast, and later it has more advantages, such as a larger well-known place, more businessmen gather in it, and more tax can be used to develop ports, transportation, etc. Infrastructure, and then more businessmen are willing to come to these two places, and it is very difficult for latecomers to catch up.

But more importantly, these two places are not only the distribution centers of goods, but also the production bases of major industrial products.

Whether it is Guangzhou or Shanghai, they both have large industrial areas with numerous factories.

As a result, whether it is Guangzhou or Shanghai, its development speed far exceeds that of other cities in China, and Shanghai is even more obvious.

In Guangzhou, light industry is still the main focus today. Although there are some heavy industries, but not many, Shanghai has a large number of heavy industries.

But in terms of the ease of access to resources, Guangzhou cannot be compared with Shanghai.

There are more heavy industries, and more space is occupied. Any shipyard or steel factory is a monster that occupies a huge area. These heavy industry factories occupy a large amount of land. In addition, there are almost uncountable small and medium factories. This also makes the industrial land in Shanghai increasingly insufficient, the industrial land is not enough, and the relative residential land is also insufficient.

In this case, Chen Lifu had the plan to incorporate some areas around Shanghai into Shanghai.

Nowadays, Shanghai's ad hoc county, Huating county and Jiading county are in a competitive relationship. They are fighting to death, and Huating county is unwilling to provide land for the second industrial zone in Shanghai as a living support, because this is for them. No benefit at all.

In this case, Chen Lifu had no choice but to make other plans. Since there were conflicts between them, he would simply merge the three counties. When the three counties became one family, there would naturally be no conflict of interest.

However, Chen Lifu couldn't decide this kind of thing himself, and even he didn't know what the above would say about it.

Therefore, he was very cautious and wrote a document to Jinling City. The document did not directly request the merger of the three counties mentioned above, but focused on discussing the development of Songjiang Prefecture, and said about the Shanghai side. The lack of available land resources has greatly restricted the development of Shanghai's industry and commerce, and it is looking forward to the future. If the development plan of the entire Huangpu River area is used in a unified plan, then it will definitely be more effective.

This seal, he is just using it to test the reaction of the central government!

However, after this envelope was sent to Jinling City, it was not a secret envelope directly presented to the Emperor, but an ordinary official envelope.

If it is a secret book, the book will be sealed and passed all the way. After entering Jinling City, it will be sent directly to the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, and then directly to Li Xuan's hand. During this process, the secret envelope will not be opened by any organization or person. In theory, no one will know what is written on the secret envelope except for the memorial itself and Emperor Li Xuan.

But what Chen Lifu posted is of course not a secret. This is just an ordinary government affair. If it is made into a secret, it will be scolded. Chen Lifu doesn't want to learn from the other unlucky bastards. Going up, one letter is not counted, and it takes three days or two days to write a secret statement. In the end, the fiery Li Xuan stripped him of his official hat and rushed home to farm.

Therefore, Chen Lifu's booklet was just an ordinary government booklet. After arriving in the capital, he was sent to the Secretary of General Affairs, and then transferred to the imperial study.

After the minister on duty in the imperial study reviewed the book, he did not approve of Chen Lifu's proposal to merge the three counties.

Because in this way, it will directly destroy the political structure of Songjiang Prefecture!

Today, the political structure of Songjiang Prefecture consists of four counties under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture. Although Shanghai is a special county and the magistrate's rank is of the fourth grade, it is still only one county.

If Shanghai merges with Huating and Jiading counties, then Songjiang Prefecture will only have Shanghai and Qingpu counties, and Qingpu County will have a very weak sense of existence now, and it will definitely be weaker in the future.

In this case, there is no need for Songjiang House to exist.

This will cause a lot of trouble. Based on the principle that one more thing is worse than one less thing, several ministers on duty in the imperial study gave their review opinions after circulating them. That is to let Chen Lifu strengthen the relationship between the subordinate counties and do a good job in the economy of Songjiang Prefecture. Development matters, as for the merger of the three counties, there is no need, because the land of the four counties belongs to the merger to some extent, because they all belong to Songjiang Prefecture.

Since they all belong to Songjiang Prefecture, naturally there is no need to merge the three counties into one large county, because even if it is really merged, it will actually produce lower-level administrative divisions. Whether it is a district or a town.

In the end, the gap between the above three places will exist!

Such disputes over local interests cannot be resolved by turning counties into districts or towns.

If we really want to solve it, we still have to rely on the superior department to coordinate. What superior department?

Songjiang Prefecture prefect yamen ah!

In the end, it was very rude to say that Chen Lifu was shedding the responsibility of coordination that he should be responsible for, but pushed it to the three subordinate counties to solve it.

Afterwards, this booklet was forwarded to the Hanlin Academy with the review comments of the imperial study. Although this booklet was about a merger~www.wuxiaspot.com~, it was still for economic development, so it was finally sent to the Hanlin Academy. College of Commerce and Industry.

The young officials of the Department of Industry and Commerce made the opposite criticism. They believed that if the merger could be carried out, it would greatly promote the development of industry and commerce in Songjiang Prefecture.

Afterwards, the documents that had been approved by the Imperial Study Room and the Industrial and Commercial Department of the Hanlin Academy were sent to the secretariat!

The secretaries of the secretariat, classify the countless papers sent every day, and sort them according to their importance. The highest priority is naturally the military papers, then the important ones, such as natural disasters, and then some. Ordinary government affairs papers, in which if the approval opinions of the imperial study and the review opinions of the various departments of the Hanlin Academy are inconsistent, then Li Xuan will be given priority to review it in person.

In fact, hundreds of excerpts are sent every day, and it is impossible for Li Xuan to read them all by himself!

This is why he set up the duty system of the Imperial Study Room and the Imperial Academy at the same time. In fact, the functions of these two institutions are similar, and they both help Li Xuan to approve a large number of documents.

The difference is that the imperial study room is full of important ministers of the empire, the ministers on duty are ministers of the second rank and above, and the walking ministers are also ministers of the second rank.

The approval opinions of the imperial study basically represent the opinions of the core high-level officials of the empire.

However, the various departments under the Imperial Academy were mainly young and middle-level officials drawn from all over the empire, and their opinions were sometimes different from those of the high-level officials.

In fact, their work is very similar to that of the ministers in the imperial study. They all review the papers and then give their opinions.