The first thousand one hundred and thirty-six chapters were served by the Shanghai Terminal Company
The ship Chen Lifu was riding was a new type of schooner. The speed was naturally much faster than those traditional ships. It didn't take long for him to leave Jinling City behind and head towards Shanghai.
When Chen Lifu was the first to leave, the Chen family continued to prepare. His concubine and eldest son, accompanied by dozens of servants and maids, would take their own Chen family's ship to Shanghai and Chen Lifu.
Meet!
However, Chen Lifu was too lazy to take care of these things. There would naturally be a housekeeper to handle these affairs. Even if the housekeeper failed, his eldest son would still be there.
Even though his eldest son is only in his teens, most people these days are precocious. Women can get married at the age of fourteen. Men in their teens are usually the strong laborers of the family.
If you are a scholar, by the age of thirteen or fourteen you can usually travel hundreds of miles to study alone.
These days, men who are thirteen or fourteen years old, especially when he is still a scholar, are basically more mature and can even take charge of their own affairs.
With his housekeeper and eldest son around, Chen Lifu is not worried about his family's subsequent schedule. He has more important things to do.
As far as he knew, the county magistrate of the special county in Shanghai and the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture have not yet been officially selected. For such two important positions, there is still a big debate among the cabinet. Even the Emperor Sheng did not make the decision easily.
Before leaving Beijing, Chen Lifu heard that the Holy Emperor planned to meet several candidates before he could make a decision.
In this case, it is estimated that we will not be able to make a decision in less than half a month!
Therefore, when Chen Lifu arrives in Shanghai, theoretically, he will be the highest-ranking person in charge of the entire Songjiang Prefecture. Of course, even if he is theoretically the highest-ranking person in charge of Songjiang Prefecture, in fact,
It is impossible for him to actually act as agent for Songjiang Mansion's affairs.
Because now the Taoist priests from Jiangnan Dao are personally stationed in Shanghai!
However, even so, Chen Lifu hopes to use this time difference to lay some foundations and create some conveniences for his subsequent tenure in Shanghai.
Therefore, while on the ship, he had been studying the situation in Songjiang Mansion!
Songjiang Prefecture, because of the existence of Shanghai, is destined that the entire affairs of Songjiang Prefecture are actually conducted around Shanghai. There is no way, who can let the economic volume of a mere Shanghai County occupy the entire Songjiang
More than 90% of the government.
If it weren't for this, Shanghai County wouldn't be able to become a special county, and a mere county magistrate wouldn't be able to be in the fourth grade.
After the Zhou Lide case, most of the officials not only in Shanghai County, but also in the entire Songjiang Prefecture were purged. Those with problems were either beheaded, imprisoned, exiled, removed from office, or devalued, even if there were no problems.
Some officials were also transferred.
The remaining officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were not able to stay in their original positions due to the upgrade of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai County.
After all, after the reform of Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai County, the grades of the leading officials have been greatly improved. Correspondingly, the grades of subordinate officials will also be improved.
In the past, the grade of a section chief in Shanghai County was only the seventh grade, but now, the grade of a section chief in the Shanghai Special County is the fifth grade.
Naturally, it was impossible for the large number of low-level officials to be promoted several levels out of thin air at once. Therefore, most of the officials were transferred from other places.
The Ministry of Personnel has been busy with matters in Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai for more than a month. Except for a few important positions, such as Songjiang Prefecture Magistrate, Tongzhi, and the County Magistrate of Shanghai Special County, most of the other positions have been filled
was determined.
In other words, after Chen Lifu arrived in Shanghai, he would not face the situation of having no one available, because the Ministry of Civil Affairs had basically restructured the Songjiang Prefectural Prefecture Yamen and the county Yamen of Shanghai's ad hoc counties.
This kind of situation involving the transfer of hundreds of officials might have been very difficult in other dynasties and could easily cause confusion.
But for the Tang Dynasty, it was not a big problem!!
After all, the current Tang Empire was only founded more than ten years ago, and it only took more than two years to truly unify China. During the Unification War, every time the Tang Dynasty conquered a place, it basically needed to rebuild the local political system.
This kind of thing happened not once or twice, but hundreds or thousands of times. The officials of the Tang Dynasty already had a complete set of mature plans for this.
Therefore, after the reform of Songjiang Prefecture was confirmed, a large number of officials, like Chen Lifu, arrived in Songjiang Prefecture to take up posts.
Chen Lifu can be regarded as a relatively recent official to take office. After him, only the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture and the magistrate of a special county in Shanghai are left.
The transport ship of the Post Office was indeed very fast. It didn't take long for their ship to arrive in Zhenjiang. In Zhenjiang, people and documents and materials were moved off the ship. At the same time, people, materials and documents were also moved onto the ship.
However, the stay was not long. After just an hour, the transport ship set sail again and continued down the river.
Then we arrived in Yangzhou, Changzhou, Tongzhou, and Suzhou one after another. During this period, people boarded and people disembarked.
Finally, the ship arrived at Wusongkou and then headed to Shanghai along the Huangpu River!
This is a regular official flight between Jinling City and Shanghai, passing through Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Yangzhou Prefecture, Tongzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai.
This was not the first time that Chen Lifu came to Songjiang Mansion. Not to mention that he had been here many times before he became an official. Even after he became an official, he had been here many times for official duties.
So he thought he was relatively familiar with Songjiang Prefecture and Shanghai.
But this sense of familiarity was a bit strange after I actually arrived in Shanghai, because the Shanghai I saw was a little different from the Shanghai I remembered.
Looking at the north side of the business district on the north shore from the bow of the boat, Chen Lifu remembered clearly that the last time he came to Shanghai, this area was still desolate, but now, there are a lot of unfinished houses and buildings there.
There are many facilities, but there is only a lonely construction site, but no workers are busy.
Although Chen Lifu didn't know much about engineering, he could tell at a glance that this was probably a dock being built.
Faced with this change, even Chen Lifu couldn't help but exclaimed: "This change is really fast. How long has it been since we have to build a new port?"
At this time, someone next to me said: "Isn't it right? When the empire established a trading port here, the dock in Shanghai was just a small dock. But now, look at it, there are two large ports alone.
, the ports in this commercial zone and the industrial zone, no matter which one they are, are quite huge, and now a third port is being built. I heard that this port is the third phase of the project developed by Shanghai Terminal Company.
Well, the basic investment alone has reached more than 200,000 taels of silver. However, the Shanghai Terminal Company was deeply involved in the Zhou Lide case some time ago. I heard that many of the company's projects have now been suspended!"
Chen Lifu frowned slightly when he heard the keywords Shanghai Terminal Company and shutdown!
As a member of the officialdom and the newly appointed magistrate of Songjiang Prefecture, he naturally knew that the Zhou Lide case was detonated from this company!
Shanghai Terminal Company, this is a local state-owned enterprise, nominally under the management of the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, but in fact it is led by Songjiang Prefecture. This company is also different from many other state-owned enterprises of the Datang State-owned Enterprises Ministry. Other state-owned enterprises
Most of the domestic enterprises are manufacturing-based, such as the three major weapons companies, Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company, etc.
But this Shanghai Terminal Company is a port service and real estate development enterprise. Its biggest asset is the land management rights on both sides of the Huangpu River.
When it was decided to open a port in Shanghai for trade, in order to better build a business zone and carry out various developments, the government expropriated the entire land along the Huangpu River at market prices in advance. Most of this land was various types of tidal flats and wasteland.
Part of it is farmland, and the officials paid a high price to acquire the land.
Not only a large amount of monetary compensation was provided, but also several large new villages were specially built, with a large number of houses inside to supplement the resettlement of the relocated people.
However, at that time, the finances of Shanghai County and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture could not afford so much money, not to mention that there would be various infrastructure construction and development in the later period.
At that time, the central finance of the empire was also relatively difficult, and the domestic unification war was in full swing. How could there be any extra money to support local development?
At that time, the officials of Songjiang Prefecture just thought, Damn it, why do we need the finance to finance it? We can just set up a port company to develop it.
As a result, the Shanghai Terminal Company was established here. The government used the management rights of a total of 34 square kilometers of land on both sides of the Huangpu River as the company's assets, and Shanghai County Financial Holdings held 6%
10% of the shares, and Songjiang Prefecture Finance holds the remaining 40% of the shares.
At the same time, it is clearly stipulated that the company's shares cannot be changed in any way.
The land acquired by the company is not the ownership of these lands. The ownership of these lands still belongs to the empire. What the terminal company has is management rights and free authorization, and it is a free authorization without a clear period, because the authorization of this management right can be
Take it back at any time!
That day, the government took back the management rights of these lands. The Shanghai Terminal Company was actually worthless!
This was done to avoid the loss of state-owned land. After all, no one had ever tried to use state land to run a business. What if the company was acquired by others during commercial activities? Wouldn't that even be state-owned?
All the land has been acquired, which is definitely not possible.
In order to avoid policy risks and obtain approval, officials in Songjiang Prefecture simply restricted share transactions and could withdraw land management rights authorization at any time.
But even so, the establishment of this company still aroused great discussion by the central government. After it was finally approved, it also triggered a wave of government-run enterprises in various places.
But now, this company has fallen into a wave of corruption!
The corruption incident not only wiped out the company's management, but more importantly, it also shook up the company's business development.
The construction of the third phase of the wharf has been suspended. This is a very bad signal!
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