Chapter 1472 The railway company that beat the blood
In order to make political achievements and gain the attention of the Holy Emperor, Chen Lifu still proposed the railway construction subsidy reward plan he proposed, even though he knew that there might be certain political risks.
In order to be able to build the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway during his term of office, it would be best to also build the Guangdong-Hunan Railway, as long as these two railway arteries exist.
This will lay the solid foundation for Guangdong’s economic development!
But Chen Lifu didn't know that he thought that the plan he proposed had huge political risks. If he made a wrong move, he might be known as politically immature, and such a reputation was not for a high-ranking official of the Tang Empire.
In other words, that is almost a fatal blow. At least, don't expect to go further.
Although it caused a huge commotion in the court, when this plan was reported to the Holy Emperor Li Xuan, it did not make the Holy Emperor very dissatisfied as outsiders expected.
On the contrary, when the ministers in the royal study saw the Emperor Sheng's approval on this matter, they all looked puzzled and even surprised.
They didn't understand why the Holy Emperor, who had always been prudent and even conservative in many matters, was so radical on this matter.
Sheng Tianzi's reply was relatively long, with hundreds of words written eloquently. The core point is that although this idea has many problems, the starting point is still good and it has certain feasibility. Is this method feasible? Is there any
What's the problem? You can try it first. How can you know if it's good or bad if you don't try it? So I asked Yu Shufang to come up with a detailed charter and conduct a pilot project on the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway.
As for the detailed charter, it is natural to issue a detailed plan.
Because the plan proposed by Chen Lifu before was just a general plan. This general plan would appear to have a lot of loopholes in the eyes of thoughtful people, and now, the job of the Imperial Study Room is to plug these loopholes.
Avoid expansion, corruption, etc.
For this reason, although the ministers in the imperial study did not understand the Holy Emperor, since the Holy Emperor personally set the tone for this matter, their job could only be to find and fill in the gaps as much as possible.
After the ministers of the imperial study personally presided over it, many departments related to the matter also participated, such as the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Finance and other institutions.
Finally, the final detailed plan was determined. First of all, this plan is only a trial plan, limited to the construction project of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway. The first page of the plan clearly warns that except for the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway project, other similar financial projects
Subsidies and incentive programs shall not be carried out without the approval of Jinling, and violators will be severely punished.
This is to avoid the rapid expansion of this matter, and many ministers must control the impact of this matter to avoid possible large-scale corruption in the future.
Secondly, in order to improve supervision and to allow the cabinet to control the matter at any time, it is stipulated that the Guangdong local government is not allowed to have direct contact with the Railway Corporation.
The Ministry of Transportation will do the work on its behalf, and then directly contact and supervise the Railway Corporation.
Of course, the money required for interest subsidies and construction bonuses still require local financial expenditures in Guangdong, and Jinling will not spend such a large sum of money in addition.
In addition, in order to prevent the railway company from cutting corners to shorten the construction period and then defrauding the construction bonus, the railway's construction supervision and subsequent completion acceptance will be carried out independently and simultaneously by the three agencies.
They are the Construction Supervision Office under the Ministry of Industry and the construction supervision personnel dispatched by Guangdong.
In addition, there is an independent agency responsible for the final completion acceptance, which is an expert in the transportation department of the Royal Institute of Technology.
Among the three agencies, the first two are responsible for independent construction supervision, and are also responsible for the completion acceptance of the latter.
Scholars from the Department of Transportation at the Royal Institute of Technology are only responsible for the final acceptance of the work. Only when these three institutions review and approve the work at the same time can the Railway Corporation receive the construction bonus.
At the same time, the Railway Corporation will merge several other subsidiaries on the basis of the Guangdong Railway Company, and then establish a new large-scale subsidiary, the Southern Railway Company, which will be mainly responsible for the construction and operation of railways in the southern provinces.
This model of large subsidiaries is actually similar to that of the Zhili Railway Company, which is responsible for the construction and operation of the Jiangnan Railway, the Zhongyuan Railway Company, which is responsible for the construction and operation of the Beijing-Tianjin Line and the Northwest Line, and the Zhili Railway Company, which is responsible for the construction and operation of the Prairie Railway and the Northeast Railway.
Northern Railways is pretty much the same.
The subsidiary jointly borrowed funds for the road construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway from the Royal Bank, Imperial Development Bank, and Guangdong Pearl River Bank (Guangdong local government bank), and the funds were earmarked and could only be used for the construction of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway. The loan was provided by
The local finance department of Guangdong provided a guarantee and advanced 60% interest.
In addition, a construction reward program has been formulated. As long as the Southern Railway Company completely defines the road section within a limited time, it will be able to obtain the construction reward for the road section. In addition to the section rewards, there are also final completion and opening rewards. In addition, within the limited time,
For each completed day ahead of schedule, an additional bonus will be paid.
The interest subsidy and basic bonus add up to 4.3 million yuan. If the railway company can complete the entire line and open it to traffic ahead of schedule, this number can rise further. It is not impossible to reach more than 5 million yuan by then.
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When the people from the Railway Corporation saw this total bonus, their eyes almost popped out of their heads.
In recent years, the Railway Corporation has owed a lot of debt in order to build railways. Although it has made a lot of revenue with the operation of the Jiangnan Railway and the Beijing-Kaifeng Line, it is simply a drop in the bucket for the huge debt.
Not to mention this era, even the railway construction of later generations is a typical investment with heavy capital investment and a very long payback period. In order to use commercial capital to build railways, Li Xuan created a state-owned enterprise controlled by the Ministry of Finance.
When the Railway Corporation came out, although its senior officials were all officials, the company's operations were purely commercial.
This commercial company naturally has to pay attention to costs and profits.
Now, the railway has not been built yet, but it is expected that the maximum subsidy and bonus will be more than 5 million yuan. After all, although it is difficult and costly to build the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, if it is divided equally,
The construction costs are not unacceptable.
What's more, if the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway is connected to the Jiangnan Railway at Jiujiang Hukou Station after it is opened to traffic, it will be equivalent to opening up the railway connections between many of the most important economic towns in the empire.
Once Hangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhenjiang, Jinling, Dangtu, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Ganzhou, Guangzhou and other cities along the way can be connected, the huge economic influence they will exert is beyond ordinary people's imagination.
Not to mention, in addition to being connected to the Jiangnan Railway, the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway can also connect to Changsha through the future Southern Long Line and Wuchang through the Nanwu Line.
You can even take the Yangtze River Ferry and connect to the Beijing-Kaifeng Line and the Han-Kaifeng Line.
Such a huge railway network can be completely rolled out, and the economic impact it will bring will be huge.
The Railway Corporation will also gain huge operating income from the operation of these railway networks.
If it were not for the huge profits in the future, the Railway Corporation would not have been able to agree so happily.
After the contract was signed, the speed of the Railway Corporation exceeded everyone's imagination. The contract had just been signed and the notes had not been written yet. People from the Railway Corporation had already officially announced that the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway would start from today.
Construction will officially begin.
As for the early survey routes, I'm sorry, they started doing it a few years ago. The route maps are all ready-made, and the mechanical equipment and so on are directly dispatched from the nearby northern Jiangxi area, and the technical backbone is also immediately transferred from
Nationwide dispatch is even simpler for ordinary construction workers, who can be directly recruited locally.
By the way, Datang's railway construction plan has also brought huge employment opportunities to local farmers in many places. Although building railways is very hard, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can earn a salary.
Besides, Datang Railway Corporation is not an ordinary black-hearted enterprise. Although it is a commercial company, it still has a strong official nature. Therefore, the treatment of the workers cannot be said to be very good, but it is not too bad either. It is considered ordinary.
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At the same time, if workers have done a good job and want to continue working, the railway company will not fire them directly after completing the local project, but will take them to construction sites elsewhere to continue working.
From this point of view, the railway construction of railway companies across the country has provided considerable assistance to the employment of the empire, especially the employment of idle labor in rural areas.
Compared with railway construction in other countries, there is another huge advantage in Datang's railway construction, that is, Datang has a large number of people, and the labor cost is not very high.
Recruiting workers is quite easy.
By the time the Guangdong Chief Envoy and others sent by Chen Lifu to the capital to take charge of related affairs returned to Guangdong, the railway company in Jiangxi had officially started construction.
Not only in Jiangxi, in order to meet the construction deadline and obtain construction rewards, the Southern Railway Company, a subsidiary of the China Railway Corporation, which is specifically responsible for the construction and operation of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, adopted a method of constructing multiple sections at the same time.
They relied on the Xiangjiang River to transport a lot of equipment and rails directly to Ganzhou, and then started work directly there.
Guangdong is no exception. Based on the original railway network in Guangdong, they started to close the railway from Huizhou Prefecture to the north!
In this way, there are actually three starting points for large-scale construction of the entire Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway, and the starting points of these three places are mainly for follow-up projects such as track laying.
As for the preliminary construction of the railway, especially some ordinary civil engineering projects that do not require much mechanical equipment and can be completed by manpower alone, they are all carried out simultaneously across the entire line.
The Southern Railway Company has set up construction teams in every county along the railway line to carry out construction at the same time. If it is completed one day earlier, there will be an extra day's bonus.
In order to earn construction bonuses, Southern Railway Company worked hard enough.
As for Chen Lifu, he saw that the Southern Railway Company was like a chicken. On the one hand, he was relieved, but on the other hand, he was a little worried. If the railway was built too fast, there would probably be a large bonus.