Chapter 1538 It's not easy to be Chen Lifu's second
Speaking of which, Xu Chenbing also felt aggrieved. Outsiders only knew that the magistrate of Shangheshe County was a position of great glory and unlimited future, but how could anyone know the huge pressure of the magistrate of Shangheshe County.
Even though all the successive magistrates of Shangheshe County have become high-ranking officials in the empire, such as Jia Wenbo, who is now the right minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Chen Lifu, who has been in charge of Guangdong for many years, there are rumors in the political circles that Chen Lifu is expected to be transferred.
Back to Gyeonggi.
Once an important local minister like the governor of Guangdong is transferred back to the capital, he will never be looked down upon. At that time, he will inevitably be a minister. Even if he is not a minister, at the end he will be the Zuo Shilang of an important ministry. In the next few years, he will be a minister.
, walking around the Imperial Study Room is also a matter of course.
Perhaps within a few years, we will be able to see Chen Lifu enter the Imperial Study Room.
As for wanting to be like Zhou Yiran and directly join the imperial study room as soon as he returns to Beijing and become the only nine ministers on duty in the imperial study room in the empire, this is unlikely.
Zhou Yiran served many times as Fu, and accumulated strong qualifications and prestige before he was able to join the imperial study as soon as he returned to Beijing.
As for Chen Lifu, his qualifications are still a bit low. If he wants to join the imperial study as soon as he returns to Beijing, he will probably have to spend another ten years as governor. It is better to be transferred back to the capital to serve as minister and minister, and then
I'll wait a few years before trying to get into the imperial study room.
But it is not easy to become Chen Lifu's second. Chen Lifu rose to the top of the political arena by presiding over the overall situation of Shanghai for ten years, developing Shanghai into the largest industrial and commercial center in the empire, and increasing Shanghai's economic output.
It accounts for about 10% of the national economy.
However, when Chen Lifu developed Shanghai, although Shanghai was already the largest city in the country, it was still in its infancy and still had great potential for development, which could improve Shanghai's economy in many ways.
But now, Shanghai has developed very well. It is not easy for such a Shanghai to continue to find more economic growth points, not to mention that the outside world generally has great expectations for Shanghai, hoping that Shanghai can
Maintain the current high economic growth rate.
Although Xu Chenbing was known among the middle and senior officials of the empire for being good at developing the local economy and was very familiar with the situation in the Yangtze River Delta, he still felt powerless in the face of a place like Shanghai.
It has been nearly twenty years since he returned to his hometown and became an official, and he has never felt so powerless!
He was also an early official from Conglong. When Wang Shi entered Guangdong, he became an official. Not long after Foshan was established as a county, he became the first magistrate of Foshan County. However, he did not serve as an official in Guangdong.
He had been an official for too long. After serving as magistrate of Foshan County for two years, he was transferred to Zhenjiang Prefecture in Jiangnan Province because of his contribution to local development.
He served in Zhenjiang Prefecture for nearly ten years and became the prefect of Zhenjiang in the 16th year of Xuanping.
During his tenure as the prefect of Zhenjiang, he vigorously promoted the development of light industry in Zhenjiang. He took advantage of its proximity to Jinling City, the capital, to accept various light industries transferred from the capital. He also took advantage of the transportation advantages of being right on the Yangtze River and close to the North-South Canal to encourage local enterprises to go out and bring their products to the market.
Products are sold nationwide.
In addition, he also has a major contribution that when he was the prefect of Zhenjiang, he was the earliest railway section of the Jiangnan Railway, that is, during the construction of the Beijing-Zhenjiang Railway. During his tenure as the prefect of Zhenjiang, the Beijing-Zhenjiang Railway was successfully completed.
You know, as the first long-distance railway in the empire, the construction of the Beijing-Zhenjiang Railway was very difficult, especially the social impact. Many people thought that the passing of the railway would affect Feng Shui and so on. At that time, many ignorant people in Zhenjiang
People are obstructing railway construction under the instigation of thoughtful people.
At that time, Xu Chenbing, as the prefect of Zhenjiang, made great efforts to rectify local security in order to ensure the smooth construction of the railway.
Finally, he served as the prefect of Zhenjiang and made outstanding contributions to local development. He successfully became a high-ranking official of the third rank. In the 20th year of Xuanping, he was transferred to Zhejiang as the right inspector.
The left inspector, who belongs directly to each governor, and the right inspector together constitute the governor's subordinate officials. It is said that the two inspectors on the left and right are respectively responsible for part of the state capital or some special affairs in the province, and their rank is from
Third grade.
However, whether the powers of the left and right governors are large or small basically depends on the arrangements of the governor.
Because in the provincial-level institutions of the Tang Dynasty, the governor was the boss, starting from the second rank.
The Chief Envoy and the Inspection Envoy are tied for second place. They are both of the third rank. The Chief Envoy is mainly responsible for all civil affairs such as people's livelihood, industry, commerce, and economy, while the Administrative Envoy is responsible for the main judicial affairs and other matters.
Next, there are the left and right patrol envoys, whose ranks are from the third level. Among them, the left patrol envoy is mainly responsible for all kinds of messy silk fabrics in the governor's yamen, while the right patrol envoy is responsible for personnel promotion, etc. In addition to their own duties, the general
Chao Fu will also arrange for them to be responsible for other parts of the affairs, such as being in charge of the silk of some state capitals and being in charge of specific affairs.
Then there are the departments under the Provincial Governor's Yamen, including the Department of Industry and Commerce, the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, the Patrol Department, etc., and the directors of the departments sing the fourth grade.
Among them, the left and right envoys were actually restructured from the Geshishudao in the early years.
However, there were Taoists in the official system of the Tang Dynasty, and they were the Taoists of the four Zhili Dao. As a result, the names of the Patrol Dao and the Taoist priests overlapped somewhat, so the Patrol Dao was renamed the Patrol Envoy, and the previous indefinite number of members was changed.
It became a fixed patrol of one person each for the left and right patrols, and at the same time, the duties and responsibilities were fixed. The left patrol patrol was mainly responsible for silk fabrics, while the right patrol patrol was responsible for personnel promotion, etc.
However, their powers are still somewhat limited, and they can only be regarded as ordinary third-grade officials.
They are not considered to be local officials. There are actually only two real important officials in a province, one is the governor and the other is the chief envoy. Even the chief inspector cannot be counted.
The chief envoy is in charge of all civil affairs. This power is very huge, and the most important thing is that if the chief envoy is courageous and has a deep enough background, he can resist the governor without falling behind.
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When Xu Chenbing served as the left inspector of South Anhui Province, he was also reused. In addition to being responsible for the silk in the governor's office of South Anhui Province, Dangtu Industrial Zone, the largest heavy industrial zone in the country, was also under his jurisdiction.
It was precisely because of his meritorious service in managing the Dangtu Industrial Zone that he was transferred back to the Gyeonggi Ministry of Commerce and served as the director of the Comprehensive Department.
Looking at his resume, it can be seen that he was able to get up all the way because of his ability to develop the industrial and commercial economy. Whether it was during his early tenure in Foshan, or later as the prefect of Zhenjiang Prefecture and the left inspector of South Anhui Province,
Everything we do is to develop the local economy.
After three years of experience in the Comprehensive Department, he was sent out again and became the magistrate of Shangheshe County.
Although careful calculation shows that he has not moved up a level for seven years, but even though his level has not changed, everyone knows that he is steadily rising.
From the left patrol envoy to the director of a powerful department such as the General Department of the Ministry of Commerce, he then served as the county magistrate of Shanghai, a special county that attracted the attention of both the government and the public.
Ordinary officials don’t have this opportunity!
I don’t know how many high-ranking officials of the third rank want to come to Shanghai to become county magistrates, but they can’t.
Because everyone knows that after serving as the county magistrate of Shangheshe County, it is no surprise that everything is the most basic, and there is a high probability that he can become an important minister, even if he is not a member of the imperial study, but a walk in the imperial study.
Not bad.
As for why I say this, it is because in the four previous magistrates of Heshe County before Xu Chenbing, three of them have become second-grade high-ranking officials, and the remaining one is Xu Chenbing’s predecessor, who has not yet
He has become a high-ranking official of the second rank, but now he is already a chief envoy of the third rank. In a few years, he will definitely get a chief envoy.
The four predecessors have all become or are about to become second-grade senior officials. From this, you can imagine how high Xu Chenbing is!
With this qualification, it is not a dream to become a Shifu or even enter the Imperial Study Room.
But is it really that easy?
Where is Shanghai?
It was originally an important industrial and commercial area. Under the previous administration of the special county magistrates, it has achieved remarkable development. However, the larger the area, the more difficult it is to develop.
Over the past year or so, Xu Chenbing has deeply felt that it is not easy to govern Shanghai. Let alone develop as rapidly as his predecessor, even if he wants to maintain Shanghai's current economic growth rate, it is quite difficult.
What is Shanghai's current economic growth rate?
Basically maintaining an annual growth rate of more than 15%!
I didn’t know this before, but when I saw this data, I almost worried Xu Chenbing to death!
It is understandable how difficult it is to maintain an economic growth rate of more than 15% in a city like Shanghai, which is even a city with well-developed industries in all walks of life.
If the economic growth rate slows down under his watch, people will not care about anything else and will only say: How could Shanghan maintain such a high development rate before? If it slows down in your hands, it must be because you are not capable.
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Xu Chenbing must be scolding. It would be great if other places can maintain a growth rate of 10%. More importantly, those places are originally poor and can achieve very high growth rates by doing anything.
But what is the concept of maintaining a growth rate of more than 15% in Shanghai?
Generally speaking, if Shanghai's fiscal revenue paid to the state treasury this year is more than 23 million, next year this number will reach more than 26 million, and the tax burden on the people and enterprises cannot be increased!
He has been in charge of Shanghai for more than a year. Although the economic growth rate can barely reach about 15%, he can clearly feel that the development potential has been exhausted.
This year's economic growth rate is very likely to fall short of expectations.
For this reason, he has been having trouble sleeping and eating well for a long time, thinking hard about various development and economic policies.
It is precisely because of worries about the economic development of Shanghai in the coming period that I am naturally a little uneasy in the face of the imminent arrival of the Holy Emperor. If His Majesty sees that Shanghai's economic data this year has declined compared with previous years, I am afraid that I will have to bear an unbearable responsibility.
Shirking the responsibility.
In the light case, he might just be reprimanded a few words, but he still retains hope in himself. But in serious cases, the Holy Emperor may be completely disappointed in himself.
Once the Holy Emperor is completely disappointed with himself, it can be said that his career will come to an end.
However, not everyone in the Shanghai North Bank Railway Station was as uneasy as Xu Chenbing. Most of them were waiting for the arrival of the holy train with anticipation and nervousness.