The reform of the securities industry is not only accompanied by new trading rules for a single securities, but also industry reshuffles, new taxes, and new supervision. All of this is new to the imperial financial industry.
Incomparable stuff!
And Chen Lifu, who was responsible for all this, has successfully become famous all over the world, although in the hearts of many people, this Yang has a bad reputation!
But Chen Lifu still doesn't care, he is even very satisfied!
In recent years, although his rank is not high and he has not been a big official, and he is still 18,000 miles away from entering the imperial study, but this does not affect his growing reputation!
Today, few people probably know who Xie Yiwei is, but when it comes to Chen Lifu, many people must know.
Such Chen Lifu should be regarded as the most famous mid-level official in the Tang Empire, at least one of them!
But in December of the 10th year of Xuanping, which was the securities reform, and even the subsequent continuous reform of the entire financial industry, Chen Lifu's name was instantly forgotten by everyone!
Because there is one person who successfully stole Chen Lifu’s limelight!
He is Zhou Lide, the magistrate of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, Jiangnan Province!
In the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper in December of the 10th year of Xuanping, the front page is naturally the same as the Holy Emperor, but this time the front page reports that the Holy Emperor convened an imperial cabinet meeting and asked relevant agencies to strictly investigate official corruption.
Behavior!
The following second page reported that the Supervisory Office held an internal swearing-in meeting to convey the Holy Emperor's anti-corruption will and prepare for a nationwide anti-corruption campaign, dispatching inspections to every Gyeonggi agency and every provincial highway.
The team strictly investigated official corruption. What the report did not mention was that Li Daobing, the leader of Hantong, also participated in the swearing-in meeting within the Inspectorate and promised to provide some confidential information to the Inspectorate. What information, it is naturally information about official corruption.
There is a lot of information on official corruption in Hantong's archives.
The third edition is very rare and reserved for a sixth-grade official: Zhou Lide, the magistrate of Shanghai County!
Why was this Zhou Lide able to occupy the third page of the Tang Dynasty Daily for the first time, and even occupy an entire page to himself?
You must know that in the past, only ministers could appear on this page, or even the governor of a province!
Because this Zhou Lide was sentenced to Lingchi and punished the three clans for many crimes such as deceiving the emperor, embezzling taxes, accepting bribes, giving bribes, dereliction of duty, murder, rape, etc.!
This was the first time since the founding of the Tang Empire that people from three clans (three clans in a narrow sense, that is, father, brother, and son) were sentenced to death not for treason, and more than a thousand people were implicated.
Why is all this happening?
For no other reason, just because Zhou Lide was appointed as the magistrate of Shanghai County. In just one year and eight months, he made money by stealing taxes, illegally selling state-owned assets, accepting bribes, and taking advantage of his position to make profits.
More than 2.2 million taels of silver!
When this case was reported to Li Xuan, Li Xuan was shocked. This was not tens of thousands of taels, but more than two million taels. It was more than Yunnan's annual fiscal revenue last year.
Much more!
Therefore, Zhou Lide was sentenced to Lingchi, punished the three clans, and successfully stole Chen Lifu's limelight!
Zhou Lide was just a county magistrate, and his rank was only the sixth grade. Why he could be greedy for so much money had to do with the special economic status of Shanghai County.
If you don’t understand Shanghai in this era, it is almost difficult to believe that Zhou Lide can be greedy for so much money!
Shanghai County belongs to Songjiang Prefecture, and Songjiang Prefecture was called Huating Prefecture in ancient times. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, there were three counties: Shanghai, Huating, and Qingpu.
According to the old system of the pre-Ming Dynasty, Songjiang Prefecture was established to govern Huating. In the sixth year of Xuanping, in order to better regulate and manage the transportation of the Huangpu River and cooperate with Songjiang Prefecture to open ports for trade, Jiading County of Suzhou Prefecture was placed under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture.
In the seventh year of Ping Dynasty, Shanghai County and Huating County were divided into parts of each, and Nanhui County was newly established.
In the eighth year of Xuanping, with the opening of the port for trade, Shanghai's economic status became more and more important, and the government of Songjiang Prefecture was changed from Huating to Shanghai County.
Therefore, today, ten years after Xuanping, Songjiang Prefecture has a total of five counties under its jurisdiction, namely Shanghai, Huating, Qingpu, Jiading, Nanhui, and Fuzhi Shanghai.
Shanghai County here is the core. It is not only the government of Songjiang Prefecture, but also the economic core area of the entire Songjiang Prefecture and even Jiangnan. Because Shanghai County is close to the Huangpu River, when Wang Shi first entered Songjiang Prefecture, he took advantage of the powerful navy.
The power controls the coast of the Huangpu River, and then radiates to the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and even the entire Yangtze River estuary.
In fact, there is another place that is more strategically important than Shanghai, and that is Wusongkou. However, this place was built as a pure military base by the empire from the beginning. It is the main home port and headquarters of the Imperial Navy's First Fleet.
The location is a military base from head to toe and has nothing to do with civilian use.
Therefore, even in the early days when Master Wang entered Jiangnan, Wusongkou was more important, but later when the port was opened for trade, Wusongkou still did not choose to be here. Instead, he chose to set up a business zone in Shanghai.
In this way, not only will it not affect the operation of the Wusongkou military base, but the existence of the Wusongkou military base can also effectively protect the Shanghai business district.
Therefore, strictly speaking, the Shanghai Business District these days is not a coastal port city, but an inland port city. The area facing the sea, which is the area belonging to the newly established Nanhui County, is barren and has no coastal areas.
Set up a dock or something like that.
With security guaranteed, policies that facilitated the opening of ports for trade, and transportation by sea and river, the rise of Shanghai County became a matter of course.
After the opening of the port for trade, a business zone was established in the north of Shanghai County along the bank of the Huangpu River. The area of this business zone gradually expanded. In the past, the total area was less than four square kilometers. However, due to the increasing number of merchant ships coming and going,
The more people there are, the more developed the business is. Coupled with some preferential policies of the business zone, many domestic merchants choose to set up companies here to do business. This place will soon be insufficient.
Therefore, it has experienced two expansions. Up to now, the total area of Shanghai Business District has reached more than 20 square kilometers. Along the north bank of the Huangpu River, a rectangular area about six kilometers long and four kilometers wide has been formed.
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Its area is already much larger than the old Shanghai County over there!
The original Shanghai County was actually just a small county with a circumference of a few hundred meters. Even if the outer city was included, the area was only over one square kilometer, but it was very small.
Calculated purely in terms of area, the business district is already more than twenty times the size of the old county seat.
But today, the old county town of Shanghai, which is still surrounded by city walls, has actually become a purely administrative area, because there is also a Shanghai Industrial Zone in the south of Shanghai County town.
Shanghai Industrial Zone is currently the third largest industrial zone in China, second only to Guangzhou Industrial Zone and Dangtu Industrial Zone.
Here, there are a large number of textile companies represented by reeling, weaving, and spinning. In addition, there are traditional processing industries such as tea making, porcelain, and wood processing. Of course, there is no shortage of machinery, glass, steel, etc.
Industry in the new era.
Shanghai Industrial Zone, as the third largest industrial zone in China, is naturally not just an industrial zone for light industry, but a comprehensive industrial zone that includes all walks of life, including light industry and heavy industry. In this regard,
It is even more outstanding than Guangzhou Industrial Zone and Dangtu Industrial Zone.
Dangtu Industrial Zone is a typical heavy industrial zone, with the steel industry as the core and machinery manufacturing as the supplement. As for light industry, it is basically irrelevant.
Although the Guangzhou Industrial Zone is large in scale, it mainly focuses on various light industries. This does not mean that the empire has not deployed heavy industries in the Pearl River Delta region, but that most of these heavy industries are not set up in the Guangzhou Industrial Zone.
They are scattered throughout the Pearl River Delta, and there are actually more heavy industrial enterprises in Foshan than in the Guangzhou Industrial Zone.
The Shanghai Industrial Zone is different. This place is home to a large number of factories from various industries, including light industry, heavy industry and even traditional handicrafts.
Here, there is the Songjiang Arsenal, the main arsenal of the Jiangnan Arms Company, and the Shanghai Shipyard of the Jiangnan Shipyard. There are also many private textile companies, and then there are various small and messy factories with only a few dozen employees.
There are even a lot of family workshops with just a few people.
In this small Shanghai Industrial Zone, there are more than 3,000 registered companies of various types. Although most of them are small factories or workshops with only a few or a dozen people, it has to be admitted that the number
The Shanghai Industrial Zone has more than 3,000 companies and employs more than 60,000 people, making Shanghai by far the most dynamic industrial gathering place in the entire Tang Empire.
Here, you can find almost all the industrial products that can be found today. At the same time, relying on sea and river transportation, you can also buy various industrial raw materials from all over the country and even the world, and then sell the products all over the country and even the world!
A business zone and an industrial zone have made Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture!
To illustrate how serious the economic status of Shanghai County is, it can be better judged from the fiscal revenue!
In the tenth year of Xuanping, the Ministry of Finance estimated the fiscal revenue budget of Shanghai County to be eight million taels of silver!
According to the Ministry of Finance's estimates, the entire Songjiang Prefecture's fiscal revenue budget is only over nine million taels!
Zooming in on the entire Jiangnan Province, the richest and economic heart of the empire, its estimated fiscal revenue budget is only 14 million taels!
Even if it is enlarged to the entire four roads of Zhili plus Chengtian Mansion, this number is only 35 million taels of silver!
Among them, Shanghai alone holds 8 million!
Or to be more precise, it should be the small area of Shanghai Industrial Zone and Shanghai Business Zone, which together only cover an area of more than 40 square kilometers, and contributed 8 million taels of silver!
Therefore, it is not surprising that some people say that what flows on the Huangpu River is not water, but gold!
Zhou Lide made a fortune in this Huangpu River, where gold flows, and then succeeded in getting himself in Lingchi. He died without telling anyone, and he also involved his relatives and were executed by three clans.
However, Zhou Lide stole Chen Lifu's limelight and caused huge repercussions in the country. He even used this as the source to launch a nationwide anti-corruption investigation. It is estimated that many officials will die in this incident in the future.
In the anti-corruption campaign that has spread across the country!