The first thousand one hundred and sixty-eight chapters are full of gold in Shanghai (Chapter 5)
The construction of the Second Industrial Zone in Shanghai required a total investment of one million taels, but the Shanghai Special County County itself contributed 800,000 taels, and the finance department of Songjiang Prefecture and the finance department of Jiangnan Province shared the remaining 200,000 taels.
Money, as for the central finance, not a cent has been released!
This is eighty taels of silver, not ten thousand and twenty thousand!
You must know that these days, most of the prefectures that focus on agriculture, even the upper-class prefectures in the land of plenty, only have a few hundred thousand taels of tax revenue per year, and this is still a high-grade prefecture. As for the lower-grade prefectures, the tax revenue is less than ten thousand taels.
Tens of thousands of taels of silver is normal. For example, in remote places in the southwest or northwest, the annual tax revenue is only tens of thousands of taels of silver at most.
The Shanghai Special County is quite special in the entire empire. Basically, there is no other similar place. To be honest, in fact, the Tang Empire’s support for the Shanghai area was actually a few years ago.
They spent a little money, and then gave them a trade port policy. The rest was basically developed by themselves.
However, the empire now has a dozen open trading ports, not to mention overseas territories. Just talking about the mainland, there are as many as twelve. But why can't other trading ports develop as fast as Shanghai? This is naturally because of the problems in other places.
Its geographical and other advantages are not as good as those of Shanghai.
Shanghai is backed by the entire Zhili region, is located at the estuary of the Yangtze River, and is in the middle of the imperial coastline. Its geographical and transportation advantages are unmatched by other places.
Even Guangzhou, which was very popular in the early years, is now not as good as Shanghai.
Of course, this is also related to the flat development in Guangzhou. Although the industrial zone in Guangzhou is also large, many small and medium-sized enterprises are not actually in the industrial zone, or even in the city of Guangzhou, but in the city.
There are actually factories in nearby surrounding areas, such as Foshan and the entire Pearl River Delta region.
It seems scattered, but to be honest, in terms of boosting the local economy and making people richer, Guangzhou is actually doing better.
As for Shanghai, it is concentrated in the industrial zone, attracting almost the entire industrial power of Songjiang Prefecture and even Jiangnan. The siphon effect is too powerful.
So this has led to a situation like this. The special counties in Shanghai are extremely rich, but the other counties in Songjiang Prefecture next door are still ordinary agricultural counties with basically no industry.
The counties under Guangzhou Prefecture have developed relatively evenly.
This is because the two places have different measures to develop local economies, and the effects are also different.
Of course, even if the entire economic power of Guangzhou Prefecture combined, it is still unable to compare with a special county in Shanghai. Shanghai's advantages are simply too great.
A special county can invest 800,000 taels of silver to develop the second industrial zone. This fund cannot be placed in other places, let alone a county. It is impossible for those high-level governments, and even most of them
In fact, it is impossible to save money.
The Shanghai Special County is rich, and the money in the local finance does not have to be turned over to the national treasury. If the benefits used to serve as officials are extended, I am afraid that Jia Wenbo, the magistrate of the Shanghai Special County who has just taken office, will immediately go to jail.
Such a large fiscal surplus cannot be put in the bank, and it cannot earn interest. It is better to invest it directly in infrastructure construction.
The Second Industrial Zone is also a product of this background. Strictly speaking, this Second Industrial Zone is an expansion of the original Shanghai Industrial Zone. The distance between them is not far, and the area is larger.
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The money invested by the official is mainly used to acquire land, balance the land, build roads, build docks, build factories and other infrastructure. Once these infrastructures are completed, coupled with preferential tax policies and other advantages, there will be no worries.
No businessman invested in setting up a factory.
When Shanghai builds industry, they all have experience. As long as businessmen come to invest and build it, it will basically be a one-stop service.
There is no need for merchants to build factories. There are factories already built in the industrial zone. It is also easy to purchase machinery and equipment. There are a large number of companies in Shanghai that do everything. As long as the machinery that the empire can produce, you can basically buy it in Shanghai.
Recruiting talents is equally easy. Shanghai is the largest industrial and commercial gathering place in the country. There are many companies and there are many technical talents working here. Even the second government-run technical school in the empire is set up in Shanghai. Even if it doesn't work, you can still recruit others.
The corner of the enterprise.
As long as you have money, factories, equipment, and talents can all be found here. As an investor, you can even hire professional managers to take care of things without knowing anything.
In short, due to the development of industry and commerce in Shanghai, it is far less difficult to start a business and build a factory here than in other places. Those capitalists only need to come with bank checks, and everything else can be found here.
Of course, whether you end up making money or losing everything depends on the situation.
There are definitely risks in doing business. Although the current overall policy is to support the development of industry and commerce, it is also very common for you to lose all your money if you cannot understand the market situation clearly.
In recent years, people who have failed in business often jump into the Huangpu River out of despair.
So even if the empire supports industrial development as a whole, what to do and how to do it are still very important!
When the Shanghai Second Industrial Zone was established, the old Shanghai Industrial Zone next door was now renamed the First Industrial Zone. A young man wearing a brocade robe walked into the office in the industrial zone with a few servants. About
Half an hour later, he came out again.
When he came out, he already had several newly stamped documents in his hand, including business licenses, tax registration forms, etc., all the procedures currently required to open a company and build a factory in the empire.
A respectable servant who was about fifty years old and wearing a robe said: "It is indeed well-deserved. Before I came here, I heard that the centralized certification model here would be very convenient for us to invest and build a factory, but I didn't expect it.
, it only takes half an hour to apply for these documents. If it were our hometown, it would probably take at least five days!"
After listening to this man's words, the young man in brocade robes turned around and said, "Steward Feng, now you know why I convinced the old man in my family to invest and build a factory in Shanghai!"
Butler Feng said: "The young master has a sharp vision. It seems that he can't go wrong in choosing to set up a factory in Shanghai!"
The young man who was called Young Master by Butler Feng said: "I saw it when I was studying in Shanghai before. The world is so big and there is no place where it is easier to make money than Shanghai. This time when I come to Shanghai, I, Yang Cheng, will definitely do something."
Let me show you some results so that the old man can see that even if I, Yang Chengcheng, fail to pass the Imperial Academy, I can still get ahead and be no worse than my elder brother!"
When he said this, Yang Cheng's face was very serious!
Seeing Yang Cheng's expression, Butler Feng behind him didn't say anything. He knew that his young master had been hit hard in the past two years. Although his attitude was still very tenacious, if the factory failed this time, I'm afraid it would be a disaster.
His status in the family will be completely marginalized.
This Yang Cheng is from Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province. The Yang family is also a famous local gentry family. A gentry family is naturally based on studying and serving as an official.
However, Yang Cheng did not do well in school since he was a child. When he was admitted to Jiujiang Prefecture Middle School a few years ago, he took the exam for two consecutive years before he could pass the exam. Then when he applied for the preparatory college, he failed to pass the exam.
The admissions teacher at Nanchang Preparatory School told him tactfully, don't apply for the preparatory school every year. You are wasting your own time and our time.
You actually only got 8 points out of 100 points on the math paper. With your ability, you dare to apply for Nanchang Preparatory School. Can you have some self-awareness?
If you can pass the exam like this, you are simply looking down on tens of thousands of students in Jiangxi...
In the end, I had no choice but to spend a lot of money and go to Shanghai to study at a private normal school, that is, Songjiang Normal University. I wanted to save the country through a curve. After studying at the normal school, I could apply for the Imperial College or directly take the examination.
As a result, he couldn't even pass the preparatory college entrance examination. He wouldn't become awesome just because he paid to go to a private normal school, and then suddenly get admitted to university...
If you can’t even pass the college entrance examination, you will most likely not be able to pass the exam...
In the end, I had no choice but to give up on the imperial examination.
But as a son of a gentry, if he gave up the imperial examination and became an official, he basically gave up the life arranged by his family.
This was already unlucky for him, but he had a talented elder brother as a comparison. He was a must-passer in every exam. He graduated from the Imperial College last year, and successfully passed the doctorate exam in Jinling City. Now he is assigned to serve in the Ministry of Rites.
The future may not be bright, but it is definitely better than that of Yang Cheng.
Compared with his eldest brother, he has become the laughing stock of the family!
Not only his eldest brother, but also several of his cousins, etc., although their grades are good and bad, they still can't take the preparatory school's 100-meter paper for only ten minutes.
After staying at home for a few months, I really couldn't stand the cynicism at home, so I told the old man at home that there was no way I could succeed in this career. My IQ was only so low, and there was nothing I could do if I couldn't pass the exam. Otherwise, I would go to Shanghai.
Let's do business. Opening a factory can be regarded as responding to the call of the Holy Emperor.
His old man thought the same thing. With his second son's IQ, he really couldn't continue taking the exam.
Sometimes, he wonders if this is his own seed. The Yang family has been a famous local gentry for more than two hundred years. They dare not say that generations of people have been officials, but they are also an old scholarly family with a profound foundation. Juren
But every generation has been cut off. If Yang Cheng and his eldest brother hadn't looked so much like him, I would have wondered every night if his wife had cheated on him.
With this IQ, I can’t go to college or become an official. Now I might as well go into business. After all, I’m not just having fun!
Therefore, he gave Yang Cheng a principal of ten thousand taels of silver and let him go to Shanghai to make a living. He knew that this second son was not good at studying, but he had studied abroad for several years and his behavior was acceptable.
Apart from anything else, he is a super college scumbag and can be brothers with a group of top students who have been admitted to college. This ability is not available to ordinary people!
Yang Cheng and his father were very relieved that he would come to Shanghai to make a living, and Yang Cheng was also full of confidence. When he arrived in Shanghai, he was ready to start an industry and build a factory. He rented factory buildings, purchased equipment, and was waiting to recruit people to start work.
As a result, half a month after arriving in Shanghai, he discovered that Shanghai was indeed as rumored, with money everywhere, and it was extremely easy to make money.
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