The Wusong River Bridge completed the final design at an unimaginable speed, and then began the construction phase.
And the construction unit is not any other unit, it is Shanghai Terminal Company.
Shanghai Terminal Company is not just a company that operates terminals. Their business actually includes developing and operating terminals, as well as developing and operating commercial real estate near the terminals.
Therefore, the company also has a strong construction branch called Shanghai Terminal Construction Company. This construction branch not only serves themselves, but also undertakes business for external parties, such as Shanghai's business district, county town, first
The expansion and hardening project of the Yanjiang Avenue in the Industrial Zone and the Second Industrial Zone is being carried out by their construction company.
At the same time, the company is actually the only company in China that has experience in the construction of medium and large steel bridges, because the company contracted the construction of all steel railway bridges on the Zhenjiang section of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway.
A number of steel railway bridges have been built cumulatively. Of course, the steel railway bridges built before were not large in scale. The largest railway bridge was only more than 20 meters long.
The construction cost of steel bridges is still too high, and Datang Railway Company is not willing to build steel bridges. For small and medium-sized bridges, they are more willing to use reinforced cement to build cement bridges instead of pure steel bridges.
As for large bridges, what should we do if the cement construction does not meet the standards?
Sorry, Datang Railway Company has never built any large-scale bridges.
In order to avoid excessive construction costs, railway companies give priority to flat terrain when planning railway lines. They will only build bridges when encountering small rivers that cannot be bypassed. Even when building bridges, reinforced concrete bridges are preferred.
, rather than some steel bridge.
As for medium and large rivers, it is simpler. Instead of building a bridge, just set up stations on both sides of the river and change boats.
Nowadays, no one knows the operating market of railways, so naturally they dare not invest a lot of money to build large-scale steel railway bridges.
Otherwise, the millions of taels of silver would not be enough to build several 100-meter steel bridges.
Although the steel bridges built by the Shanghai Terminal Construction Company are all small bridges, at any rate, the Shanghai Terminal Company has also built several steel bridges of ten to twenty meters, so it can barely be considered experienced.
The construction company under the Shanghai Terminal Company started construction after receiving the relevant design drawings.
On the day when construction officially started, Chen Lifu also announced an ambitious development plan for the north bank of the Wusong River, intending to build a super-large new district on the north bank of the Wusong River within the next two years, a super-large new urban area integrating commerce, industry, and residence.
Shanghai's special county finance department is expected to invest no less than one million taels of financial investment in the next two years to level land, build roads, lay water pipes, build factories and other basic investments.
Once completed, the North Shore Development Zone will be a larger industrial zone than both the First Industrial Zone and the Second Industrial Zone.
At the same time, in order to speed up the construction process, the North Coast Development Zone will also conduct new investment promotion and provide land to settled companies at the most favorable prices for the construction of factories, office buildings, dormitory buildings, etc.
Of course, like several previous industrial zone developments, these lands are only for rent and not for sale.
Even if the industrial zone in Shanghai is newly developed, its land value is extremely high. What's more, in the early years, the Shanghai official expropriated all the land in the surrounding areas and took it into government ownership. Naturally, it is impossible to do so again at this time.
For sale.
At present, in the entire urban area of Shanghai, in addition to the county seat and the surrounding old urban areas due to historical legacy factors, the business district, the first industrial zone, the second industrial zone, the North Bank Development Zone that has just begun to be developed, and the undeveloped east bank area of the Huangpu River, these lands,
Especially commercial and industrial land, most of it is owned by the government.
This is in Shanghai, and it is absolutely impossible for this situation to exist elsewhere.
In other places, companies are more willing to purchase land by themselves and then build factories. Even in industrial zones, many of them purchase land by themselves for construction. The local government often does this in order to attract companies to settle down.
But the reason why they are like this is that if there are no companies, their land will not be worth much. After directly selling the land to the company, the tax collected and the jobs provided by the company will be introduced.
In other places, yamen pay more attention to it.
But Shanghai is different. Shanghai has geographical and policy advantages, and because it developed first, it has great advantages and is not afraid of no companies coming to move in. Therefore, it is naturally impossible for the government to directly transfer land at a low price.
Officials are more willing to be the local landlords themselves and rent out the properties in a steady manner.
Of course, there are also a few parts of land that are still privately owned. Most of this part is concentrated in areas adjacent to major districts and old cities. As for the land, it is classified into the business district, the first industrial zone, the second industrial zone and the North Shore Development.
District, the land on the east bank of the Huangpu River that is the development zone is all owned by the government.
The ad hoc county government offices in Shanghai are the largest landowners in Shanghai!
In fact, this situation was common in every place in the Tang Empire!
You must know that the officials of the Tang Empire were the largest landowners in the country.
The amount of official land accounts for 30% of the country's arable land, and this number is only after many years of rent-to-purchase and land distribution for the military.
But even so, the number of official fields is still very large!
As for all kinds of undeveloped land such as barren mountains and wastelands, 90% of it is concentrated in official hands.
The government is the largest landowner in the entire empire!
As for the second largest landowner, it is naturally Datang Western Company, but most of the land owned by this company is overseas!
The company owns almost the entire Mindao Island, a small half of Luzon Island, a small half of Banten Island, an entire Gohe State and a large area of land on the Nanyang Islands. Datang is almost the most valuable colony in the Nanyang region, and most of them are
Some of them belong to the company, such as Luzon City in Luzon Prefecture and Banten City in Banten Prefecture. All urban land in these two cities, including land in the suburbs, basically belongs to the company...
These lands are the property of Datang Western Company, and Datang Western Company also has exclusive trading rights, tax dividend rights, and administrative assistance management rights in Gohe State and the area west of Malacca.
Otherwise, how do you think this company achieved a market value of more than 60 million taels? The annual trading profits alone cannot support the market value of 60 million taels.
Most of the land owned by the Tang Western Company came from the colonies.
Most of the arable land owned by the Tang government in the country came from the clan land of the pre-Ming Dynasty, the land of dignitaries, the original official land of the government, and newly reclaimed land.
When Chen Lifu was developing the North Shore Development Zone in Shanghai, he could not directly buy the land, otherwise he would be involved. However, he used another trick, which was to create a long lease.
It is stipulated that if the investment amount of the resident enterprise reaches a certain amount and the company builds its own factories and other buildings, it can rent the land for fifty years at a time.
And this is not the key. The key is that there is another one, which is the priority right to rent land. If the company's investment in the land and the number of employees on the land meet the demand after fifty years, the lease can be renewed for free.
Fifty years.
Free lease renewal for fifty years.
Adding the two together, it's one hundred years.
In fact, this is almost the same as buying land.
This model is similar to buying land, but the rent is also different. In the previous First Industrial Zone and Second Industrial Zone, the rent was basically paid annually. The rent was only the market price. At most, it would increase year by year.
How many at most terms.
But in the North Shore Development Zone, fifty years of rent must be paid in one lump sum!
Although the total amount of rent paid in one lump sum is huge, it is less than the total amount of rent paid in annual installments over fifty years, much less.
With such operating methods, it can basically be seen that Chen Lifu is not leasing the land at all, but buying the land directly.
There is nothing Chen Lifu can do!
Although Shanghai's finances are rich, there are too many projects that cost money, and he wants to build the North Bank Development Zone as soon as possible. There is a lack of money in all aspects. He said that he will invest one million taels of silver to build the North Bank Development Zone.
District, where does the money come from?
Although existing fiscal revenue can partially solve the problem, there will still be a very large gap.
How to solve this gap?
Relying on loans again?
It’s not like Chen Lifu opened the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank. How could it be so easy?
Across the country, countless local government agencies are following the advice of the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank, and are trying their best to obtain loans from these two official banks to develop the local economy.
In Jinling City, around the headquarters of the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank, there are a large number of local officials from all over the country rushing around to get loans for various local projects.
They even created a special ranking called "Running Two Lines".
Although Shanghai's special counties are a bit special and can receive some special care, this care is also limited.
Although Chen Lifu's face is not small, in the two major banks, the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank, the face of the cabinet bosses is not easy to do, let alone Chen Lifu's.
Money from the two major banks is not that easy to get!
Local fiscal spare funds are limited and there is no hope for loans. How can we raise money for development?
As soon as Chen Lifu hit his head, Chen Cang came to secretly rent and secretly sell land to raise money!
Anyway, many companies actually very much hope to purchase a piece of land in Shanghai to use as a long-term base, even if it is a one-time payment of a relatively high price.
In this way, the two sides just hit it off.
It’s just that not long after this plan was proposed, Chen Lifu was given a copy!