Li Xuan thought carefully about the case about Chen Lifu presented to him by the Inspectorate and decided not to comment on it.
The Son of Heaven left the Zhezi in the middle and said nothing, which can express different meanings in different situations.
Sometimes it means tacit consent. You can do it, but it does not mean that I agree. If something goes wrong, then I will punish you.
Sometimes, in order to protect a certain minister, especially when it came to the impeachment of Chen Lifu, Li Xuan made it clear that I pretended not to see it, and you don't have to mess around with it.
In Li Xuan's view, Chen Lifu's problem is not that he sold the land at a low price. In fact, he did not sell it at a low price. He also agrees with Chen Lifu's point of view, that is, you cannot apply the current price based on how much it will be worth after the development is successful.
There is no way to calculate it.
Li Xuan is concerned about Chen Lifu's operation, which is obviously a land finance operation method.
There are advantages and disadvantages to land finance. The advantage is that it can significantly increase fiscal revenue when the economy is in difficulty. However, the disadvantages are also very obvious. This will stimulate the rise in land prices, leading to simultaneous increases in costs for all walks of life, affecting economic development.
Otherwise, the economy will develop and regress, and as the economy gets worse and worse, local governments will become more dependent on land finance, thus forming a vicious cycle.
Of course, in the Tang Empire, it was impossible to engage in pure land finance because the Tang Dynasty implemented private ownership of land.
Although the Tang Empire officially controlled a large amount of land, the majority of the land was still in private hands.
Moreover, even the land controlled by the government can also be sold to private individuals. This kind of thing has always been done in the Tang Empire. The large-scale rent-to-purchase method has always been implemented. It is expected that in the 20th year of Xuanping
, you can see initial results.
At that time, the area of arable land in the hands of the government will be reduced by more than 70%, and all of this reduced arable land will be converted into land for landless and landless farmers.
Shanghai is an exception. Most of the land owned by the government in urban areas was expropriated in advance during the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. This situation is rare in other places, even in Jinling City.
This situation will occur.
In the newly developed Dongcheng District, Xicheng District and Nancheng District in Jinling City, although the government owns part of the land, it is not much, only about 30%, and the remaining 70% still belongs to private land.
The development of the new urban area in Jinling City is under the guidance of the government and is jointly developed by the private sector. It is not the same as in Shanghai, where everything is done by the government and then the government directly acts as the landlord.
When most of the land is privately owned, then the supply of land is no longer decided by the local government. If there is no complete monopoly on land supply, then land finance will naturally not be able to continue.
The special situation in Shanghai gave Chen Lifu the foundation to play with land finance. After Li Xuan thought about it, he felt that this situation should not be widespread on a large scale because in other cities, the government did not have control over all the land.
, there is simply no way to completely monopolize land supply.
With limited influence, Li Xuan turned a blind eye to Chen Lifu's actions. As long as Chen Lifu could build the North Bank Development Zone on his own without relying on superior finance or central finance support,
Then it is a great achievement.
Li Xuan made no mistake, and the ministers below him were all smart people, and they immediately understood how to deal with this matter.
The Central Supervisory Office directly issued instructions to the Jiangnan Provincial Supervisory Office, asking them to continue the in-depth investigation, but suspended the filing of the case.
The reason for continuing the investigation is because the Inspectorate is somewhat unwilling to do so. They want to continue digging for evidence to see if they can bring down Chen Lifu. As long as they can bring down a star official like Chen Lifu, it will definitely cause a sensation across the country.
In the entire Inspectorate system, down to the local level and up to the central government, I don’t know how many Inspectorate officials will benefit from this and get promoted and make a fortune.
Postponing the filing of the case is due to the political risks. The Holy Emperor has stayed in China and not made any progress. This means that the Holy Emperor has no objection to leasing and selling the land, so they cannot continue to insist on it.
Therefore, the case cannot be filed, otherwise it will affect the development of the North Bank Development Zone and even arouse the resentment of Emperor Sheng.
The officials in the Inspectorate are also smart people, so they made the decision to "continue the investigation and postpone the filing of the case."
As for how long it will take, it will naturally be when they find the key evidence.
When Chen Lifu learned that the investigation team from the Jiangnan Province Inspectorate returned to Suzhou, he breathed a sigh of relief.
His operation method of renting and selling also has certain political risks. After all, whether this is right or wrong, and whether it can be done, actually he has no say. Whether the Supervisory Office says it or not, only the upper echelons and even the Holy Emperor can say it.
That’s all.
Now, although the superiors have not explicitly supported his method of operation, they have no objections either!
He was relieved immediately, but he didn't dare to continue doing this.
Anyway, six pieces of land, large and small, have been transferred and 630,000 taels of silver have been recovered. This amount of money is enough for him to show off his skills on the north bank of Wusong River.
Ever since, after filing the application, just like the original business zone, first industrial zone, and second industrial zone, the Shanghai Special County North Bank Development Zone was officially established.
The administrative level of the Yamen of the North Coast Development Zone is the sixth grade, which is roughly equivalent to the county-level Yamen of ordinary state capitals. It is the same administrative level as the Yamen of the Commercial and Trade Zone and the two industrial zones.
However, although the Development Zone Yamen was established, the supporting officials were not uniform at that time, so Chen Lifu chose to personally preside over the work of the Development Zone.
On this day, he took a boat from the dock in the old town of Huangpu River and headed along the Huangpu River to the Wusong River Estuary. On the bow of the boat, he had already seen a large number of construction ships on the river, and they were building bridge piers on the bottom of the river.
The bridge piers will be piled deep into the river bottom and will use reinforced concrete structures. The construction is not easy. However, the Bridge Branch of Shanghai Terminal Company, which is responsible for the construction, has rich experience in construction in the water. Their main job is to build port terminals.
, it is normal to carry out construction in water.
The bridge piers are already under construction, and the steel structure of the bridge has been commissioned to be produced by Jiangnan Iron and Steel Company. Everything is going extremely smoothly.
The official next to Chen Lifu explained: "If nothing goes wrong, the initial completion should be completed by the end of next year, and it can be officially put into use in March of the following year at the latest. At that time, several projects in the North Bank Development Zone happened to be
When major enterprises are completed and put into production!”
Chen Lifu nodded slightly and said nothing more.
The construction of the Wusong River Bridge is being watched by many people. As long as they know the progress, there is no need to ask too many details.
In order to avoid disturbing the construction, Chen Lifu did not run over to inspect nearby, but directly ordered the ship to continue moving forward. Not long after, their ship docked at a simple pier.
The trestle of this simple wharf is still wooden. It is obvious at first glance that it is a temporary transitional product. Near this temporary wharf, a large number of workers are also under construction. This place is the construction site of Shanghai Wharf Company.
They are planning to build a north shore pier here, which is expected to provide a total of twenty-six berths, the largest of which can accommodate large ships up to 100 meters long.
Although this place now looks like just a construction site and a few temporary wooden piers, judging from the construction capabilities of the Shanghai Terminal Company, it will take at most three months to take initial shape, and some of the piers can be used.
Within a year, the entire dock project can basically be completed.
The importance of the wharf to the North Bank Development Zone is undoubted, because the North Bank Development Zone is close to the Huangpu River, and during the process of industry and commerce, a large number of ships will transport various goods in and out.
This is not just the North Coast Development Zone, but actually the entire Shanghai. It is quite exaggerated. The area along the river from the business district to the First Industrial Zone is actually a port area.
Relying on Shanghai's huge freight throughput, the Shanghai Terminal Company, which provides terminal and port services, is one of the best. Now, even if it does not have to rely on real estate development along the river, the company can already survive by relying on the income from terminal services alone.
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After disembarking from the simple temporary wharf at the North Bank Pier, Chen Lifu and a group of officials got on the carriage and continued to move forward. Wherever they passed, there was still a construction site.
The most conspicuous thing is the construction of various roads. In order to meet the huge freight demand in the future of the industrial zone, the road planning of the North Bank Development Zone is very huge.
There are two north-south main roads and five east-west main roads planned, all of which are expected to use cement-hardened pavement. At the same time, the width of the roads will reach more than 30 meters. The largest main road among them is naturally the Yanjiang Avenue.
This riverside avenue, like the riverside avenues in the business district, the first industrial zone, etc., will be the most important main road. Its width reaches 40 meters. It also uses cement hardened pavement and is divided into two-way multi-lanes.
It's a sidewalk.
There is also a green belt isolation fence in the middle.
If you only look at the surface, it is easy for people to misunderstand that this is a modern highway of later generations.
But if you actually study deeply, you will find that this kind of road uses relatively little cement. It is just a layer of cement laid on the surface, and there are no steel bars inside. The strength of this kind of road is incomparable to that of later generations of roads.
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There is no way, cement is expensive these days, and steel bars are even more expensive. Too much is used in paving roads, and the cost is too expensive.
Fortunately, the load capacity of freight carriages these days is generally only about one ton, and only a few of them exceed 1.5 tons. The current cement road is fully sufficient.
The transportation construction in the development zone is currently the largest investment project in the development zone. Whether it is docks, bridges, or cement roads, they are the first major construction targets, because transportation is the prerequisite for subsequent development.
Nowadays, the road construction in the development zone has just begun and is still in the stage of smoothing the road surface, so there is dust everywhere.
As for other buildings in the development zone, construction has basically not started yet. The only one that is currently under construction is the office building of the Yamen of the North Bank Development Zone next to the pier.
However, the office building has not yet been built, so the officials of the development zone's Yamen currently work in a simple wooden building next to it.