Considering that rash changes to the administrative system can easily cause trouble, for example, if there are similar problems to Shanghai, there is actually Guangzhou. Guangzhou is a prefecture, and the prefecture and even the provincial capital are actually the county seat of Panyu.

The contradictions and conflicts between Panyu County and several surrounding counties are also very serious.

If Shanghai is merged, will Guangzhou also be merged?

More importantly, this merger is only a nominal merger and is of no use in solving the problem.

After some consideration, Li Xuan directly instructed, "Ask Songjiang Prefecture to increase coordination with the counties, and postpone the merger issue for further discussion!"

This basically agrees with the cabinet’s opinions!

However, after reviewing it like this, he felt that he should say a few more words, and then he rang the bell and called the secretary waiting outside, and then said: "Draft the decree, let Chen Lifu let go of the four counties of Songjiang."

Through coordination, each county can make certain adjustments when necessary, so that the industry and commerce of Songjiang Prefecture can be brought to a higher level!"

In fact, it is okay to give instructions directly, but Li Xuan still issued a special edict, which reflects the importance he attaches to Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai, letting Chen Lifu know that since he has taken the position of Songjiang Prefecture magistrate, he must pay attention to it.

to do things.

In addition, Chen Lifu was also given certain authority to make subtle adjustments to better develop industry and commerce.

Therefore, Chen Lifu's suggestion did not cause any ripples in the upper echelons of the empire. However, after receiving Li Xuan's imperial edict, Chen Lifu still knew that although he could not directly merge the three counties, he could do so to a certain extent.

Make adjustments, and this adjustment is enough.

How to adjust? The Holy Emperor didn’t say it clearly!

Is it an adjustment to the jurisdiction of each county? Or is it an adjustment to officials? Or is it an adjustment to economic policies?

The Holy Emperor didn't say it clearly, so Chen Lifu could only think about it on his own and then find a solution.

Anyway, the goal of both the Holy Emperor and himself is to develop the industry and commerce of Songjiang Prefecture!

Under this premise, it is also feasible to make some necessary adjustments.

It is impossible to directly adjust the jurisdiction, because the adjustment of the jurisdiction must be reported to the central government in the end, and there is a high probability that it will be rejected. However, officials still have certain authority to make adjustments and policy adjustments.

Immediately, he held an economic meeting directly at the Songjiang Prefecture magistrate's office, and then quickly determined the extension plan for Yanjiang Avenue and other main roads!

Nowadays, the Yanjiang Avenue in Shanghai is limited to Shanghai's North Bank Industrial Zone, Business District, Old City and the First and Second Industrial Zones. What Chen Lifu wants to do now is to extend the Yanjiang Avenue from north to south.

In the north, it extends to Jiading, and in the south, it extends to Huating. Of course, it is not the entire area, but only a certain distance.

On the Huating side, Yanjiang Avenue will be extended to Huating Development Zone, starting from the Second Industrial Zone and ending at the southernmost end of Huating Development Zone, a total of about seven kilometers.

The construction standards of this seven-kilometer extension will be the same as those of Yanjiang Avenue in Shanghai, with the same width and hardened pavement!

As for the funding issue, the road sections in Shanghai are solely borne by the Shanghai Finance Department, while the road sections in Huating County are funded by a small part of the Huating County Finance Department, and the bulk is funded by the Songjiang Government Finance Department.

The same is true in Jiading.

To put it bluntly, it means using government-level financial funds to assist the infrastructure construction of Huating and Jiading.

At the same time, regarding the issue of public transportation, Chen Lifu personally came forward to interview the Shanghai Public Carriage Company, and then interviewed officials from Jiading and Huating counties, asking them to come up with a cooperation plan no matter what.

The Shanghai Public Carriage Company is also a state-owned enterprise. Although it is an independent commercial operation, at this time, it inevitably needs to undertake some political tasks, and in the end it pinches its nose and gives up some of its benefits.

Under the leadership of Chen Lifu, the Songjiang Prefectural Government funded the Songjiang Public Carriage Company to unifiedly operate the public carriage business in the four counties of the prefecture. However, the Shanghai Public Carriage Company still operates independently, but it is limited to business within the county.

At the same time, three branches were established in Huating, Jiading and Qingpu to operate the business within their respective jurisdictions.

The inter-county public carriage service is coordinated and operated by Songjiang Public Carriage Company.

However, as compensation, the Shanghai Stagecoach Company occupied an overwhelming majority of the shares in the new company.

After the Songjiang Public Carriage Company was established for unified coordination and management, the public transportation problems that had been plaguing the three counties were quickly solved, and multiple public carriage routes were quickly opened.

More importantly, the rail carriage will also extend from the Second Industrial Zone to the Huating Development Zone.

In this way, it will greatly solve the transportation problem of tens of thousands of people currently living in Huating Development Zone going to work in the Second Industrial Zone.

Although it is only a few kilometers apart, there is no public carriage, so it is too far to just walk. And if there is no rail carriage, the fare is too high and ordinary workers cannot afford it.

If there is a rail carriage, the transportation volume will increase significantly and the transportation cost will be greatly reduced. By then, the price of this rail carriage will make even ordinary workers affordable.

At present, the rail carriages in Shanghai have begun large-scale operations!

Although the initial investment cost was huge, the carrying capacity was indescribable. Only two horses were needed to drag a carriage carrying dozens of passengers, and the speed was faster and the ride was more comfortable.

Now this rail carriage transportation system has begun to assume the main transportation capacity of Shanghai's urban transportation!

It’s just that the investment in this kind of rail carriage is huge. Currently, only Shanghai can have the financial resources to develop it on a large scale. Even in Jinling City, it has only built an experimental rail carriage route, and it is not for

The passenger service is for cargo transportation. To put it bluntly, it just extends the original port freight line by a few kilometers.

Similar is Guangzhou, which is also starting to do it on a small scale.

But there is still no way to directly build rail carriages on a large scale like Shanghai, or even to cover the whole city.

So far, Shanghai has completed about 50 kilometers of rail lines, and it is worth noting that half of these rail lines were constructed last year, which shows the rapid development speed.

Originally, in the 17th year of Xuanping, Shanghai had planned about 40 kilometers of rail lines, preparing to completely cover all major urban areas. Now, a line connecting Huating and Jiading has been added, and additional lines have to be added.

Plus about fifteen kilometers of route.

After all the above lines are completed, by the 18th year of Emperor Xuanping's reign, the length of rail public transportation lines in Shanghai and surrounding areas will reach more than 100 kilometers, assuming the main tasks of carrying passengers and freight in the city.

This development will be faster than a simple railway!

This is because urban rail transit is only laid directly along major highways and has a solid land base. It only needs to be simply leveled, compacted, and then laid with rails, and the designed carrying capacity does not count.

It is large and does not have high requirements on roadbed and rails.

But it is much more difficult to build real railways. Real railway construction is all in the wilderness. It requires digging mountains, digging tunnels, and building bridges. The design standards are also very high, because it is not simply a matter of building existing railways.

It was prepared for a horse-drawn rail car, but for a real steam-powered train, so the design standards are very high.

The Beijing-Zhenzhen Railway has been under construction for several years now, but it is still not completed. Optimistic estimates suggest that it will not be fully completed and open to traffic until the autumn of the 18th year of Xuanping.

However, Li Xuan is not in a hurry about this. The high-pressure steam engine has not been developed anyway. If the high-pressure steam engine does not come out, the train will not be able to come out. If you just use a carriage, although the effect is good, it is still not as good as a real train.

By opening up land transportation from Shanghai to Huating and Jiading, Chen Lifu initially integrated the resources of the three places.

Later, he used government finance to support the construction of a wharf in Huating Development Zone!

This series of measures can be seen as Chen Lifu's policy in Songjiang Prefecture. He no longer continues to use the whole government's strength to support the development of Shanghai, but instead supports the development of Huating and Jiading.

However, this support actually supports the development of Shanghai!

Because in Chen Lifu's policy, Shanghai is still the core, and Jiading, Huating, and Qingpu are allowed to carry out supporting development for Shanghai.

For example, if Jiading is allowed to develop the shipbuilding industry, the area along the Huangpu River in Jiading is actually larger and the conditions are better. Developing the shipbuilding industry and some heavy industries here will allow Shanghai to retain valuable land resources, but at the same time it will also be able to obtain various parts of the heavy industry.

supporting resources.

In Huating, it is engaged in auxiliary supporting industries such as some spare parts. By accepting the settlement of small and medium-sized enterprises, it provides supporting services to a large number of enterprises in the first industrial zone and the second industrial zone.

In order to attract enterprises to settle in the Huating Development Zone, Chen Lifu made the decision to cancel some of the financial subsidies to Shanghai and then transfer them to the Huating Development Zone. Of course, these financial subsidies are limited to Songjiang Prefecture's own financial subsidies and Jiangnan Road's financial subsidies.

Chen Lifu has no right to touch the financial subsidies from the central government.

As for Qingpu, this is not easy to do. For the time being, we can only provide some agricultural supporting facilities for Shanghai, such as grain processing and trade. Shanghai is a huge city and needs to consume a large amount of agricultural products every day. Qingpu provides various types of agricultural products nearby.

Agricultural products and those engaged in agriculture still have a future.

Chen Lifu passed a series of policies in order to allow enterprises to change from being clustered in Shanghai to flourishing around Shanghai!

As soon as this policy was implemented, it achieved partial results. More than 20 small and medium-sized enterprises began to settle in Huating Development Zone, but the overall number was still not enough, and the scale of these enterprises was relatively small.

Nowadays, major enterprises still have great concerns about Huating and Jiading!

In Jiading, except for typical heavy industries such as shipyards, steel, chemicals, and machinery that require a large area of ​​land, there are basically no other companies to invest and settle in. On the Huating side, there are only a few but no strength. In Shanghai

Only small and medium-sized enterprises that feel a lot of pressure will consider moving to Huating.

And it is only limited to factories. As for the company headquarters and so on, it goes without saying that they will all stay in Shanghai.

For large companies like Jiangnan Shipyard, their main shipbuilding base is actually built in Jiading, but their company headquarters is in the business district. There are actually more companies like Jiangnan Shipyard.

There is no way, everyone is gathered in Shanghai. If you set up your company headquarters elsewhere, people will be too lazy to go there to discuss business. It is not as convenient as in Shanghai. If you walk around the Yanjiang Avenue in the business district, you can basically find all types of companies.

The headquarters or branches of large enterprises.

Within a radius of one thousand meters, there is no business that cannot be done, even big business worth hundreds of thousands or millions can be done.

However, at any rate, Shanghai is finally connected to the three surrounding counties. The effect achieved is actually similar to the Greater Shanghai County envisioned by Chen Lifu.
Chapter completed!