The first thousand five hundred and thirty-seven chapters must be moved and moved by the scene
You can't let a modern person who is used to seeing skyscrapers of hundreds of meters high and modern cities with bustling traffic be shocked and have their jaws dropped when they see such a half-baked city.
However, Li Xuan was extremely calm. The same could not be said for the officials who came with him, especially those who had never been to Shanghai before. They were all looking at him with their eyes wide open.
They had seen various descriptions of Shanghai from documents before, including articles describing the city, and reports listing countless data.
But any articles or reports cannot compare with the Shanghai they saw with their own eyes!
Beside Li Xuan, several important officials in the imperial study room were also talking about it.
At this time, someone said: "In the past, I heard people say that Shanghe is half of Jiangnan and thought it was an exaggeration, but now it seems that it is not an exaggeration!"
"Yes, you won't know the prosperity of Shanghai unless you come to Shanghai!" someone echoed.
But as he spoke, Zhou Yiran said: "The current situation in Shanghai is really not suitable for being an ordinary county, even a special county!"
Li Xuan heard Zhou Yiran's words, but still did not look back. Instead, he continued to stand in the carriage and looked at the Shanghai city outside through the glass.
Zhou Yiran seemed to be chatting with other colleagues at this time, but everyone knew that he was talking to Li Xuan, because he had always advocated that Shanghai, an economic powerhouse, be directly placed under the direct jurisdiction of the central government.
Why?
Because in this case, the central government will be able to directly govern Shanghai and at the same time obtain more central fiscal revenue.
Although Shanghai is currently a special county, there is still Songjiang Prefecture and Jiangnan Road above it. The various taxes collected by the Tax Department from Shanghai are divided into four parts according to a certain ratio after being aggregated. One part is directly divided into four parts.
Turn it over to the national treasury as central fiscal revenue.
One portion will be handed over to the finance department of Jiangnan Province, one portion will be handed over to the finance department of Songjiang Prefecture, and one portion will be handed over to the finance department of Heshe County for retention.
If the central government can go directly to Shanghai, then the fiscal division of accounts between the state and government levels will naturally be eliminated.
However, this proposal has been talked about for many years. Zhou Yiran is not the first to say this, but it has never been passed. Naturally, he has his reasons.
Because Songjiang Prefecture and Jiangnan Province are strongly opposed by local governments, because to put it bluntly, the finances of these two levels depend on Shanghai. Songjiang Prefecture can develop several other counties only by relying on Shanghai's finances.
Then support and subsidize several other counties. If this support is lost, how can the other counties develop?
The same is true for several other state capitals in Jiangnan Province!
Therefore, the issue of direct jurisdiction of Shanghai was raised almost ten years ago, but there is still no conclusion yet.
The Holy Emperor Li Xuan himself has never expressed his stance on this matter, allowing his ministers to argue and debate. However, this lack of expression is actually against the issue of direct jurisdiction to a certain extent.
Shanghai, the first large city in the empire, originally had a strong siphon effect and a strong ability to radiate economic development. Although it stayed in Jiangnan Dao, it also absorbed various resources from Jiangnan Dao, but in turn it would also
Contributed a large amount of fiscal revenue to support the development of other areas in Gangnam Province.
But if it is under direct jurisdiction, then Shanghe will absorb various resources from Jiangnan Province, but will not feed back to other areas.
In order to prevent the uneven development of Jiangnan Road, Li Xuan kept delaying it.
But when he saw the current scene in Shanghai today, he knew that the direct jurisdiction of Shanghai must be put on the agenda.
It is still inappropriate for such a giant city with a population of more than one million and a temporary population of hundreds of thousands to continue to be treated as a county, even if it is a special county and the county magistrate is a full-rank official.
Because such a city, in terms of importance, is even comparable to an ordinary city.
If a war breaks out, Li Xuan would rather lose a few border areas than Shanghai.
The ministers were talking to the Shanghai city outside the window, and at this time Li Xuan sat down again. At this time, the accompanying secretary from the Secretariat came over and asked softly if he was tired and wanted to go back to the dormitory to rest.
Likewise, Li Xuan waved his hand lightly and told him to go about his business and stop talking nonsense.
He said he was tired, but he just felt like that and bored after just watching. He simply sat down and thought about the direct administration of Shanghai.
When Li Xuan, along with his ministers and guards, entered the city of Shanghai on a huge special train, the Shanghai North Shore Railway Station and even the entire city of Shanghai entered the highest level of alert.
Although Li Xuan repeatedly emphasized not to spare the people, but at the end of the day, it still needs to be done.
On the surface, there is no martial law, but the roads that should be blocked will still be blocked, and the company and school will still have holidays.
Forget about other areas, but the area of several hundred meters on both sides of the street where the Holy Emperor passed, as well as several key enterprises and some important landmark buildings that the Holy Emperor planned to inspect, also needed to be thoroughly cleaned.
The Second Division of the Guards, which arrived first, has already taken over the defense of Shanghai city and completely blocked some of the streets that the Holy Driver is scheduled to pass through. They directly set up posts every ten steps and cleared all the buildings on both sides of the street, waiting for the Holy Driver to pass by.
Only then can you return.
Of course, there will still be people to greet him, and there are quite a few of them. There are about 10,000 people welcoming him on the streets.
But these more than 10,000 people are all carefully selected. Except for local officials, celebrities and other local representatives in Shanghai, the remaining ordinary people are generally dominated by family members of officials and military personnel, and they are not from Shanghai.
It’s selected, but selected from the entire Gangnam Province!
All of them have passed the strict political review of Hantong.
In addition to these ordinary family members and military personnel, there is also a group of ordinary people who look like ordinary people, but are actually Hantong agents!
Hantong, as the main structure responsible for the emperor's security during the Holy Patrol, directly dispatched more than a thousand elite soldiers and generals to disguise themselves as ordinary people and act as ordinary people waiting in the road to welcome him.
In fact, they will watch everyone around them and immediately arrest the suspicious people around them if there is any movement!
Except for officials, family members of officials, family members of military personnel and Hantong agents, there would be no more than 500 real civilians, and these 500 people were almost all famous and fortunate celebrities in Shanghai. To put it bluntly, they were also members of the gentry class.
There are no real ordinary people!
It's not that ordinary people don't want to welcome the Holy Emperor and see the beauty of heaven, but they can't go!
Anyway, no matter whether it is the Guards or Hantong, they are not willing to let ordinary people get close to the Holy Emperor. It is too dangerous.
Of course, these Xijie Holy Emperors will definitely not know. After all, the Holy Emperors are too busy. As ministers, they do not need to report these newcomers. They are responsible for their own security.
In this way, they have done a good job of security and His Majesty is not in any danger.
And His Majesty was able to see the warm welcome from the people, which boosted his confidence and satisfied himself.
Hello, hello, everyone, why do you have to ask for trouble and arrange for a group of ordinary people who don't know the details to get close to the Holy Emperor?
The entire city of Shanghai is fully prepared to welcome the Holy Emperor, and people who are prepared in advance are already waiting on the streets early, holding dragon flags issued by the government.
At that time, according to the government's advance instructions, ten thousand people will come shouting long live long live long live, long live long live, long live long live, and there will also be several specially arranged actors. At that time, they will cry and shout, try to get closer, and shout long live your majesty.
Risking life and death, just to get a close look at Li Xuan, just for one look!
In short, under the premise of ensuring safety, officials at all levels have also spent a lot of effort to ensure that if there is a big scene, there will be a big scene, if there are details, there will be details, and if there are touches, there will be touches. The Holy Emperor must be
My uncle came to take advantage of the excitement and returned.
To put it bluntly, I tried every means to make Li Xuan's service comfortable!
And it was precisely because Li Xuan knew the urinal nature of these local officials that he reiterated three or five times not to make a big deal about it.
But of course there is no egg!
Officials would listen to other matters, but when it came to pleasing the Holy Emperor, they would not listen.
Don't you see, Grand Scholar Wang has remained in the political arena for more than twenty years because of his ability to flatter him. Although the Holy Emperor also scolded him, he never punished him for flattering him.
Even if sometimes the flattery is wrong, the Holy Emperor usually doesn't care too much.
Although the vast majority of officials in the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they were civil or military, despised Great Scholar Wang, at least 99% of the civil and military officials also envied Great Scholar Wang.
At the North Bank Railway Station, Xu Chenbing, the current magistrate of Shangheshe County, was also very nervous at this moment. Although he was an official in the imperial heart, and before he came to Shanghai to serve as the ad hoc county magistrate, he was already a member of the Ministry of Commerce.
The director of the comprehensive department is ranked from the third grade.
Therefore, when he came to serve as the magistrate of Shangheshe County, his rank was already higher than the fourth-level official rank of the magistrate of Shangheshe County, and this was not his special case. In fact, after Chen Lifu, several people in Shanghai
The county magistrates of the special counties are all senior officials of the third rank, while the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture has been promoted to the third rank.
As for the Taoist officials of Jiangnan Province, their official positions were also promoted to the second rank, just like the governors of other provinces.
Before coming to Shanghai to take up the post, he was already a high-ranking official in Gyeonggi Province. He was considered to be a high-ranking official. Coming to Shanghai to take up the post was also considered a promotion, because after a few years of transition in this position, he could basically get a third-grade official, and then
Then you can compete for the position of provincial road minister.
Only in this way will he have the opportunity to move up step by step and hope to enter the Imperial Study Room.
However, it was precisely because he thought this was the case that he was nervous. He had been in charge of Shanghai for more than a year, and he had not had a sound sleep or even a day's rest in this year.
But even so, he still encountered a lot of criticism when he took charge of Shanghai!