It has to be said that the development of history is always surprisingly similar, and there will not be any big changes due to changes in times and people.
The same is true for the development of Shanghai. Although Li Xuan did not deliberately lead Shanghai on the development path of later generations, the development trends displayed by Shanghai in this era are still very similar to the development of Shanghai in later generations.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the empire to open up and encourage industrial and commercial development, Shanghai took full advantage of its vital geographical location and embarked on the road of industrial and commercial development.
Even the developed industries and detailed regions are surprisingly similar.
Historically, Shanghai's early development was also dominated by overseas trade and the textile industry. Today's Shanghai is also guided by trade and the textile industry. Of course, there are still many differences in details. That is Shanghai in this era.
It has a lot of heavy industry.
This situation was not the result of Li Xuan's deliberate leadership. In terms of policy support, there were not just one commercial port in Shanghai in the Tang Empire, but a total of nineteen, with Tongzhou and Ningbo right next door.
From south to north, coastal port cities that are basically more suitable for overseas trade have been gradually opened up as trading ports.
Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, Chaoshan in Guangdong, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Danyuanfu in Fujian, Wenzhou in Zhejiang, Taizhou, Ningbo, Shanghai in Jiangnan Road, Tongzhou in Jiangbei Road, and the mouth of Huai'an (at that time the mouth of the Yellow River, Xinjiang)
Counties), Jiaozhou (Qingdao), Dengzhou (Fucheng Penglai) in Shandong, Tianjin in Hebei, Jinzhou (Lushun) in Liaodong, Hancheng, Busan, etc. are all coastal trading ports that the Tang Empire has started to establish in recent years.
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It is worth noting that the trading ports where the Tang Empire could carry out foreign trade were limited to coastal ports and did not include inland cities. For example, cities along inland rivers such as Yangzhou, Jinling City, and Huai'an Fucheng were not treated as trading ports.
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Each of the above-mentioned trading ports has basically set up a trade zone and given the same policies.
However, there are only a few cities that have truly relied on overseas trade to develop. The cities that are relatively large in scale are only Guangzhou and Shanghai. Although others have also developed, they are not as good as Guangzhou and Shanghai.
In comparison, it's nothing worth mentioning.
It is also a trading port, so why is the development gap so big? Geographical factors play an extremely important role. The reason why Guangzhou can develop is because it undertakes the main task of trade with Southeast Asia and even India and Europe.
Shanghai's early development was through undertaking the Fuso trade and serving as a transfer station for domestic coastal trade.
A Nanyang, a Fusang and domestic coastal trade, this is what created the rapid development of these two cities in the early days.
And step by step, step by step, this development is faster, and later it will have more advantages, such as a larger well-known place, more businessmen gathered in it, and more tax revenue can be used to develop ports, transportation, etc.
Infrastructure, then more businessmen will be willing to come to these two places, and it will be very difficult for latecomers to catch up.
But more importantly, these two places are not only cargo distribution centers, but also production bases for major industrial products.
Whether it is Guangzhou or Shanghai, they both have large industrial zones with many factories.
As a result, the development speed of both Guangzhou and Shanghai far exceeds that of other cities in the country, and Shanghai is even more obvious.
Guangzhou is still dominated by light industry. Although there is some heavy industry, there is not much, while Shanghai has a large amount of heavy industry.
But in terms of the ease of obtaining resources, Guangzhou cannot be compared with Shanghai.
The more heavy industry there is, the more space it takes up. Any shipyard or steel plant is a monster that occupies a huge area. These heavy industry factories occupy a large amount of land. In addition, there are almost countless small and medium-sized factories.
This has resulted in the increasing shortage of industrial land in Shanghai. There is not enough industrial land, and the corresponding residential land is also insufficient.
Under this circumstance, Chen Lifu had the plan to incorporate some areas around Shanghai into Shanghai.
Nowadays, Shanghai's ad hoc counties are in a competitive relationship with Huating County and Jiading County. They are fighting each other to the death. Huating County is unwilling to provide land to Shanghai's Second Industrial Zone for living facilities, because this is too difficult for them.
There's no benefit at all.
In this case, Chen Lifu had no choice but to make other plans. Since there were conflicts between them, he might as well merge the three counties. When the three counties became one, there would naturally be no conflict of interest.
However, Chen Lifu himself could not decide on this matter, and even he did not know what his superiors would think about it.
So he very cautiously wrote a letter and sent it to Jinling City. The letter did not directly ask for the merger of the three counties mentioned above, but mainly discussed the development of Songjiang Prefecture, and talked about the situation in Shanghai.
The available land resources are insufficient, which has greatly restricted the industrial and commercial development of Shanghai. Looking into the future, if the development plan of the entire Huangpu River area is used in a unified plan, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.
He was just using this note to test the central government's reaction!
However, after this envelope was delivered to Jinling City, it was not a secret envelope presented directly to the emperor, but an ordinary official envelope.
If it is a secret fold, the envelope will be sealed and delivered all the way. After entering Jinling City, it will be sent directly to the Secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, and then directly to Li Xuan's hands. During this process, the secret fold will not have any
It was opened and read by an organization or person. In theory, no one except the person who wrote the memorial and Emperor Li Xuan would know what was written in this sealed fold.
But of course what Chen Lifu reported was not some secret information. It was just an ordinary government matter. If he reported it as a secret information, he would be scolded. Chen Lifu did not want to imitate the other unlucky guys and write a secret information for all the big things.
He went up, not counting one letter, but spent three days and two writing secret documents. In the end, the furious Li Xuan took away his official title and rushed home to farm.
Therefore, Chen Lifu's excerpt was just an ordinary government excerpt. After arriving in the capital, it was sent to the General Affairs Department and then transferred to the Imperial Study Room.
After reviewing the document, the minister on duty at the imperial study did not agree with Chen Lifu's proposal to merge the three counties.
Because doing this will directly destroy the political structure of Songjiang Prefecture!
The current political structure of Songjiang Prefecture is that Songjiang Prefecture governs four counties. Although Shanghai is a special county and the rank of the county magistrate is the fourth grade, it is still just a county.
If Shanghai, Huating, and Jiading counties are merged, then Songjiang Prefecture will only be left with Shanghai and Qingpu counties, and the presence of Qingpu County among them will be very weak now, and it will definitely be even weaker in the future.
In this case, there would be no need for Songjiang Mansion to exist.
This will cause a lot of troubles. In line with the principle of doing more things than doing less, several ministers on duty in the imperial study circulated the review and gave their review opinions, which was to ask Chen Lifu to strengthen the connections between subordinate counties and do a good job in the economy of Songjiang Prefecture.
Regarding development matters, there is no need to merge the three counties, because to a certain extent, the land of the four counties is already merged, because they all belong to Songjiang Prefecture.
Since they all belong to Songjiang Prefecture, there is no need to merge three of them into one large county, because even if it is really merged, it will actually produce lower-level administrative divisions, regardless of
This is true whether it is a district or a town.
In the end, the gap between the above three places will exist!
This kind of dispute over local interests cannot be resolved by turning counties into districts or towns.
If we really want to solve it, we still have to rely on the higher-level department for coordination. What higher-level department?
Songjiang Prefecture Magistrate’s Office!
In the end, he said very rudely that Chen Lifu was shirking the coordination responsibility he was supposed to be responsible for, and instead pushed it to the three subordinate counties to solve the problem.
Subsequently, this paper was forwarded to the Hanlin Academy with the review opinions of the imperial study room. Although this paper was about merger matters, it was still for economic development, so it was finally sent to the Business Department of the Hanlin Academy.
Young officials from the Industrial and Commercial Department made the opposite comment. They believed that if the merger could be carried out, it would greatly promote the industrial and commercial development of Songjiang Prefecture.
Afterwards, the papers that had been approved by the Royal Study Room and the Industrial and Commercial Department of the Hanlin Academy were sent to the Secretariat!
The secretaries in the Secretariat classify the countless information sent in every day and sort them according to their importance. The highest priority is naturally the military information, then the information of great importance, such as natural disasters, etc., and then some.
For ordinary government affairs documents, if the approval opinions of the imperial study room and the review opinions of various departments of the Hanlin Academy are inconsistent, then priority will be given to Li Xuan to review it personally.
In fact, there are hundreds of discounts sent every day, and it is impossible for Li Xuan to read them all in person!
This is also the reason why he established the imperial study room duty system and the Hanlin Academy at the same time. The functions of these two institutions are actually similar, and they both help Li Xuan approve a large number of documents.
The difference is that the people in the imperial study room are all important ministers of the empire. The ministers on duty are ministers of the second rank or above, while the ministers on duty are ministers of the second rank or above.
The approval opinions of the Imperial Study Room basically represent the opinions of the core high-level officials of the empire.
However, the various departments under the Hanlin Academy are mainly composed of young middle-level officials drawn from various parts of the empire, and their opinions are sometimes different from those of the senior officials.
Their work is actually very similar to that of the ministers in the imperial study room. They review the manuscripts and then give opinions.