The first thousand four hundred and sixty-three chapters
Chen Lifu, who returned to Jinling City, did not have much time to carefully prepare his policy plan, because he was summoned the day after he returned to Jinling City.
Li Xuan did not summon him in his office or any conference room, but summoned Chen Lifu in the afternoon on the wall garden in the front hall of the palace.
After many years of renovation, although the construction period has been delayed again and again, it still took more than ten years to complete. The main building of the palace is now basically completed.
Because the original Ming Palace was too dilapidated, the construction of this palace was not actually a restoration based on the original Ming Palace, but a push-over.
The completed palace covers a large area. In addition to the original Ming Palace area, the original palace courtyard was also added, integrating the two into one.
The architectural model of the palace is also different from the traditional palace.
The periphery of the palace is a large area of grassland and a square paved with stone slabs. It looks empty on the surface, but in fact there are responsible defense facilities.
Those seemingly inconspicuous rockeries are actually extremely strong fortresses, in which artillery can be deployed. Those ditches that look like ordinary drainage ditches are actually trenches.
These defense facilities are connected through trenches and even tunnels.
Although it is useless on weekdays, if the enemy attacks the palace, these defense settings are enough to deploy more than 5,000 defensive troops for outer defense.
The outer lawns and stone squares are basically semi-open. There are only simple low walls and railings on the outermost periphery. Of course, although they are simply defensive, ordinary people cannot enter because these areas are already
It is an area belonging to the royal palace, and there are many soldiers of the Guards patrolling and garrisoning the outside.
Those who can come in are usually those who work in the palace.
The imperial palace of the Tang Dynasty was not only the emperor's residence or the place where important ceremonies were held, but it was also the office location of several important institutions.
In the huge square, there are many office buildings!
The four major institutions that currently work in the front hall of the palace include the Hanlin Academy, the Imperial Study Room, the Naval High Command, and the Army Privy Council.
Of course, the offices of these institutions are all in the peripheral areas of the palace.
In the middle of the huge lawns and squares is the palace in the true traditional sense. It is different here. The entire internal building of the palace is surrounded by high palace walls. At the same time, these palace walls are not traditional boxy.
Instead of a square palace wall, it has an irregular rhombus-shaped structure.
As for why the city wall has a diamond-shaped structure, it is naturally because the entire palace is a huge bastion. There are many forts set up above the palace wall, which can deploy a large number of artillery.
The Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty was essentially a huge military fortress!
Of course, a palace is a palace after all. In addition to military functions, it must also have good political functions and daily life functions. Therefore, inside the palace, there is still a traditional front hall, which is just a decoration on weekdays and is only used to hold large-scale ceremonies.
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At that time, Li Tian's crown prince canonization ceremony was held in the front hall.
At the same time, the imperial meeting was also held here.
However, Li Xuan would not summon his ministers here on weekdays.
He usually works in the Imperial Study Room!
However, this imperial study room is said to be a study room, but in fact it is an office building with very complete office functions. It is a two-story building. The first floor is the office space for the accompanying secretaries of the Secretariat and several ministers on duty and other accompanying officials.
The second floor is Li Xuan's office and conference room.
Li Xuan usually handles military and political affairs and meets with ministers in his office on the second floor, while the conference room next door is mainly used for daily morning meetings.
The small court meeting was held in the large conference room of the Hanlin Academy in the front hall.
The great court meeting was naturally held in the front hall.
In addition to the office area, it is also the living area of the royal family, which basically occupies two-thirds of the palace area. It is also a garden design, with dozens of courtyards of different styles scattered in an orderly manner.
In the first half of the office area, there is also a large amount of green area, among which the city wall garden is a place that Li Xuan prefers to go to.
This walled garden is actually built directly on the city wall. The highest point is even tens of meters high. Standing on it, you can see the large lawns and squares outside the palace, and you can also see the scene of the city.
Today, Li Xuan summoned Chen Lifu in the City Wall Garden!
Li Xuan walked in front, Chen Lifu followed a step behind, and further back were the accompanying secretary and several guards. There were also ordinary guards and secretaries nearby.
Except for Chen Lifu, these people all followed Li Xuan every day. They were used to the scene of Li Xuan summoning his ministers on the city wall garden, but this was the first time for Chen Lifu to be a saint on such an occasion.
At this time, he only heard Sheng Tianzi say: "During the years Aiqing has been working in Shanghai, I have often heard reports about Shanghai. However, I have never been able to see it with my own eyes, which is a pity!"
Over the years, Li Xuan has rarely left the capital. When he occasionally goes out, he only goes to factories on the outskirts of Jinling City or to inspect Dangtu. Over the years, he has never been to Shanghai once.
As for the scene in Shanghai, he mostly learned about it through reports and other people's narrations.
At this time, Chen Lifu said: "Your Majesty, Shanghai has developed rapidly in recent years, which is very good. Not to mention compared with ten years ago, even when I went to inspect Shanghai last month, I felt that Shanghai has developed rapidly in the past two years.
A lot has changed!”
"Oh, really, what new changes have taken place?" Li Xuan was still very concerned about the changes in Shanghai.
Chen Lifu said: "I went to Shanghai last month and presided over the opening ceremony of the North Bank Bridge, the third bridge on the Wusong River. This North Bank Bridge was started when I was the governor of Songjiang Prefecture. It took three years of construction and was only opened this year.
Once completed, this North Bank Bridge is also the first reinforced concrete bridge in Shanghai, with high design standards and high construction standards!"
"I remember that when I first went to Shanghai, there was only a simple wooden bridge on the Wusong River. Later, in order to develop the north bank, the Wusong River Bridge was built. Then as the traffic on the north bank and Shanghai urban area became increasingly busy, another Wusong River Bridge was built.
The Second Bridge across the Yangtze River was built, but this was still unable to meet the busy traffic connections, so the North Bank Bridge was built."
"The length, width and load-bearing capacity of this North Bank Bridge far exceed that of the Wusong River Bridge in the early years. Now it has become an important channel connecting Shanghai City to the North Bank!"
Chen Lifu started with the North Bank Bridge and then gradually expanded on the development of Shanghai in recent years.
He said that Shanghai's urban rail carriage transportation is now fully rolled out. You can take a rail carriage all the way from Huating Development Zone to the North Bank Development Zone, and the required fares are also extremely low.
At present, Shanghai's urban transportation, especially people's daily travel, is already undertaken by rail carriages. Countless rail carriages transport tens of thousands of people to various parts of the city every day.
The Shanghai mentioned by Chen Lifu, to Li Xuan's ears, already has a feeling of later modern Shanghai, or even surpasses it.
In addition to technical limitations, especially the limitations of electrification technology, there are currently no trams, no electric lights, and no elevators in Shanghai, so buildings generally cannot be built too high, and they are usually two or three floors.
Occasionally there are seven or eight-story high-rise buildings, but there are no taller ones, because without elevators, it will be very inconvenient for people to travel up and down the floors.
The Shanghai mentioned by Chen Lifu made Li Xuan interested in seeing it!
"It seems that Shanghai has developed well in recent years. If you have the chance, you must go and take a look!"
Hearing Li Xuan's words, Chen Lifu said: "If His Majesty can come to Shanghai, it will be a blessing to the people of Shanghai and even Songjiang!"
Well, it is also a blessing to Chen Lifu and other officials who were born in Shanghai. Shanghai has developed well, and His Majesty has seen it. These ministers who have served in Shanghai and contributed to the development of Shanghai
, his official career will naturally be smoother.
However, Li Xuan also knew that he had a special status, so how could he just leave? Although he had some thoughts today, he stopped talking about it and continued to ask Chen Lifu about Shanghai, Songjiang Mansion and even the entire Jiangnan.
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Although he knew many of these things through reports, after all, he still had a more intuitive understanding without listening to Chen Lifu himself.
After talking about Shanghai and Jiangnan, the topic inevitably extended to Guangdong!
After all, everyone knows that Li Xuan recruited Chen Lifu to return to Beijing to report on his work, just for Guangdong.
In this regard, Chen Lifu also expressed some of his thoughts.
Although most of them sound like clichés to Li Xuan, such as increasing agricultural development in Guangdong, not only the Pearl River Delta, but also other regions in Guangdong, whether it is eastern Guangdong or western Guangdong.
In northern Guangdong, agricultural development is still relatively backward and needs timely follow-up.
The Pearl River Delta region, more accurately speaking, Guangzhou urban area and surrounding Foshan and other places, should further focus on developing industry and commerce, especially manufacturing.
In terms of industrial development, Guangzhou has great geographical advantages. Relying on the Pearl River Basin, it can radiate the entire Guangdong and Guangxi regions. At the same time, relying on sea transportation, its products can be transported to Fujian, Zhejiang and other regions, not to mention overseas trade.
Guangdong, which is so close to Nanyang, has natural geographical advantages in overseas trade, which even Shanghai cannot compare with.
Over the years, Guangdong's exports accounted for a huge proportion of the Tang Empire's exports. There were more ocean-going merchant ships moored in Guangzhou Port than in Shanghai.
Although more than half of the more than 100 domestic ocean-going trading companies with overseas trade licenses are headquartered in Shanghai, Guangzhou is actually the headquarters of more trading companies.
The reason why the company's headquarters is set up in Shanghai is mainly for financial and talent introduction purposes.
In the past year, affected by the war between the Tang Empire and the Portuguese, Guangdong's overseas trade has also been affected to a certain extent. In this regard, the solution proposed by Chen Lifu is not to deliberately expand domestic demand, because in the domestic market
In terms of competitiveness, Guangzhou and Shanghai are still incomparable.
The solution proposed by Chen Lifu is more interesting, which is to face the difficulties!
Today's overseas trade has been affected, but it does not mean that overseas trade cannot continue. On the contrary, behind these difficulties there are greater opportunities.
This opportunity is India!
This idea surprised Li Xuan. The main argument in the domestic political arena today is to solve the problem by stimulating domestic demand when overseas trade is affected.
But Chen Lifu said that he would face the difficulties and still focus on the Indian market to open a new channel for Guangdong's overseas trade!