In fact, given the Huangpu River's width of 400 meters, it would be hard to be cruel. Those geniuses from the Royal Institute of Technology were able to design a bridge and then complete the construction.
However, after the construction of such a bridge, it will facilitate cross-strait exchanges, but the shipping on the Huangpu River will basically be abolished.
With the current technology, the bridge built must have a large number of piers, otherwise it will not be able to support more than 400 meters, and the height of the bridge will not be too high. In this case, the boat will definitely have no impact, but those
Basically, you can’t expect big ships to pass through.
Therefore, if we really do this, it will seriously reduce the navigation capacity of the Huangpu River.
You must know that today's Huangpu River is one of the busiest waterways in China. Large ships of hundreds of tons or even thousands of tons ply on the Huangpu River every day.
With current technical capabilities, if we build a bridge over the Huangpu River, it will basically eliminate half of the Huangpu River's shipping capacity.
Therefore, building a bridge is not feasible, at least until the technology develops to a certain level.
But if there is no bridge, cross-strait transportation will become a big problem. We can't just rely on boats to ferry!
Transportation difficulties are an important reason for the development of the east bank of the Huangpu River. It is even impossible to solve it in a short time. Even if it is developed, it will only be developed on a small scale at most, or as a separate industrial zone or commercial zone, but it is very large.
It is difficult to integrate with the West Bank’s business district, the first and second industrial zones.
Transportation difficulties are the focus of development on the east bank of the Huangpu River, and they are currently difficult to solve.
Therefore, Chen Lifu now has only one place left, and that is to go north and develop the north bank across the Wusong River.
Geographically speaking, the north bank of the Wusong River is also close to the Huangpu River and is also close to the trade area, which is more suitable for industrial and commercial development. In addition, although the widest area of the Wusong River is six to seven hundred meters, the narrowest area is only
It’s only fifty or sixty meters long, so it’s easier and more convenient to build it across the river.
At the Wusong River estuary, which is adjacent to the Huangpu River, its width is only about 100 meters. To build a bridge, only about 100 meters will be needed.
At the same time, although the Wusong River is also an important shipping river, it is not very navigable by large ships. It is mainly used by small and medium-sized ships. Therefore, when building a cross-river bridge, there is no need to consider navigation too much. This will undoubtedly greatly reduce the cost of the cross-river bridge.
Design and construction difficulty.
If the problem of the cross-river bridge can be solved, then the development of the north bank of Wusong River will become possible.
Because the development of the north bank of the Wusong River, like the development of the east bank of the Huangpu River, requires solving traffic problems. On the east bank of the Huangpu River, because the Huangpu River is too wide and navigation issues are taken into consideration, the bridge will not be built for a while.
However, when developing on the north bank of Wusong River, the difficulty is greatly reduced!
Although the difficulty has been reduced, Chen Lifu still doesn't know whether it can be built.
Although he is a traditional scholar and doesn't know much about mathematics, physics and chemistry, it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand. He just knows that these are important.
So during these times, he also asked some professionals, especially the heads of large companies, because the purpose of developing the North Shore was to serve those companies, not to develop any residential areas.
According to feedback from people in the business community, they believe that if a factory is to be built on the north bank of the Wusong River, a cross-river bridge must be built. Moreover, this bridge cannot be a small bridge that only carries pedestrians, but must be able to carry heavy transport carriages.
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Because the freight volume of the enterprise and factory is very large, they need such a bridge to transport goods, connecting the Unicom Business Zone and the First and Second Industrial Zones. As for the direct transportation of goods by ship, please, this is a little longer distance.
Too much trouble.
And if we transport it by ship, wouldn't it be better to go directly to the east bank of the Huangpu River?
Therefore, there must be a bridge that can bear the passage of a large number of freight carriages!
At the same time, this bridge cannot affect the navigation of Suzhou River and cannot hinder the traffic of ships.
Although the Wusong River is not very wide, and most of the traffic is small and medium-sized ships, it is also an important inland waterway in Shanghai and cannot be blocked by a bridge. Therefore, the bridge must be large enough and high enough not to affect the passage of ships.
However, with the current technical capabilities, can such a bridge be built?
Chen Lifu himself didn't know, so he called in a professional, Kang Weide, a top student from the Department of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology.
This person, like most of the teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology, is young, only twenty-three years old this year. However, this person has already graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Royal Institute of Technology and has stayed at the school as an associate professor.
And his rank is a third grade, he lives in a large mansion provided by the government, and travels with more than a dozen followers, and all are provided by the government. This person enjoys a variety of political treatment that is much higher than that of Chen Lifu.
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After learning that this person had arrived in Shanghai, Chen Lifu did not dare to neglect and went to the pier to greet him in person!
"Professor Kang, please come all the way. I feel really sorry for you!" Although Chen Lifu was older than him, he was not as good as him in class.
Don't think that because Professor Kang is a teacher, you can't give him face. You must know that this person participated in the design work of the palace reconstruction, and he participated in many important projects.
Chen Lifu gave him face, but Kang Weide didn't give him much face!
He just hummed softly and then got on the carriage.
Outsiders may think that Chen Lifu is a potential figure in the officialdom and is expected to enter the cabinet in the future, but in Kang Weide's view, it is just like that. Even if Chen Lifu enters the cabinet, he still does not need to give him face.
Students at the Royal Institute of Technology generally have high political status, and those who can stay at the school to teach and obtain the title of associate professor or full professor, which grade is not starting from the third grade, and many of them still have the title of nobility, never mind
Regardless of whether they are cabinet ministers or army and navy bosses, they all have to be polite when they see a professor from the Royal Institute of Technology.
Especially for the Navy, in order for the Royal Institute of Technology to develop a high-pressure steam engine as soon as possible, it had to be the grandson of a few professors responsible for researching high-pressure steam engines.
There is no way. It doesn’t matter if someone has a high rank or a high title. Who can let someone master the top technology in the country? The Navy wants a high-pressure steam engine, but no one can make it for them except the teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology.
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Chen Lifu also knew that the students at the Royal Institute of Technology were all high-minded and thought that they were only smart and that everyone else was mentally retarded.
The students are like this, not to mention the professors, who dare to directly criticize the many big shots in the cabinet as a bunch of idiots...
In fact, compared with these geniuses at the Royal Institute of Technology, others are really mentally retarded!
The gap in IQ is there, you have to accept it even if you don’t agree with it!
Chen Lifu didn't care about this either. He was just a group of scholars in an ivory tower. Although his IQ was high, his emotional intelligence was low. Chen Lifu was too lazy to get to know them.
Of course, he would never say anything because he was afraid that if he said something harsh, people would turn around and leave.
After Kang Weide came to Shanghai, Chen Lifu originally wanted to host a banquet for him for a few days, and then personally accompany him around Shanghai, go shopping, and appreciate the prosperity of Shanghai.
But then I thought that Kang Weide said that he was very busy, so he stopped doing all these miscellaneous things and went directly to the Wusong River for on-site inspection to see in detail how to design the Wusong River Bridge.
When Chen Lifu heard this, he felt very happy and immediately accompanied him to Wusongjiang for a field trip.
During the inspection process, Chen Lifu also talked about his plan. He hoped to build a bridge directly at the mouth of the river and directly connect the Yanjiang Avenue in the business district. In this way, when the north bank of the Wusong River is subsequently developed, the north bank of the river can be directly connected.
DaDao also contacted me directly.
Whether it is a business district, a first industrial zone, or a second industrial zone, their most important main roads are the roads along the river.
Because it is close to the dock, it is the most important road for transporting goods.
If the north bank of Wusong River is to be developed, the roads along the river are naturally the most important and must be connected.
Kang Weide also wrote down Chen Lifu's request, and then took several of his students ashore for another inspection. Then he said to Chen Lifu: "We still have a few more days of inspection, so Chen Lifu can go and be busy!"
Seeing his expression, Chen Lifu clearly felt that he was getting in the way, so he immediately left without asking for trouble.
Three days later, Kang Weide found Chen Lifu and gave him a simple design plan, saying: "This is a preliminary design plan. If there are no problems on your side, I will make a detailed design plan later!"
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Simple design solution?
Chen Lifu picked it up and took a look. The first thing he noticed was a charcoal sketch of a bridge. However, upon closer inspection, he discovered that the bridge was not a wooden bridge or a stone bridge, but a steel bridge.
Building a bridge with steel, well, although Chen Lifu didn't know if it was possible, but since he had given this plan, he thought it was feasible for the time being, but when he looked at the cost, he was speechless!
Five hundred thousand taels of silver!
Seeing this number, he wanted to curse.
Is this building a bridge?
This is a robbery!
It costs half a million taels to build a bridge. Don't bully me, Chen Lifu, who doesn't understand construction and just messes around. Moreover, even if the cost is real, Shanghai's local finance can't come up with so much money!
Looking at Chen Lifu's expression, Kang Weide on the side showed a look of disdain. It was only five hundred thousand taels of silver. This was still the cost of streamlining and streamlining the construction. Chen Lifu did not even think about it. His need for weighing the bridge was so high.
, and also required that it not affect navigation. Such high requirements are almost impossible to achieve except for steel bridges.
And steel is very expensive these days!
If he could build it with five hundred thousand taels of silver, he should be laughing!