Chapter 235 Songjiang is difficult to be an official
Songjiang Prefecture wants to develop the east bank of the Huangpu River because the current technical limitations and some traditional concepts of the Tang Dynasty people make the urban development direction of the Tang Empire towards big development, not high!
How should I put it? People in the Tang Dynasty actually don’t like high-rise buildings very much, especially in terms of living. They prefer small buildings, especially those in the middle and high-income groups. They prefer two- or three-story buildings with gardens in the suburbs.
Small building.
It would be best to build a large manor in a place that is close to the city but has beautiful mountains and clear waters!
How should I put it, the upper class society of the Tang Dynasty still had a strong traditional literati atmosphere, which emphasized elegance and was very repulsive to tacky things.
The entire social atmosphere is actually that the bottom class learns from the middle class, the middle class learns from the upper class, and the upper class learns from the powerful.
The upper class atmosphere was like this, and the entire Tang Dynasty people basically followed suit. Just like the people of the Tang Dynasty today, regardless of whether they are from upper class or poor families, they always pay attention to dignity. It is all caused by the social environment.
As for the multi-story apartments built with cement and steel that have sprung up in recent years, they are generally inhabited by middle- and lower-class people who cannot escape the city. Middle-class families who even think they are respectable will not live in these places.
At the same time, local officials are also more inclined to flatten development and will not develop only the city center.
This can be seen in many cities, such as Guangzhou. In fact, the urban area is not large, but the counties and even towns below have developed quite well. The railway network is very dense and implements a flat system.
develop.
Even in Shanghai, there are so many high-rise buildings, but the actual urban area is also very large.
Of course, this is also related to the limited construction technology and high cost, so even Songjiang Prefecture has adopted the strategy of developing towards the suburbs in order to seek continued development, which has resulted in the urban area becoming larger and larger.
But even so, it still feels like the land is not enough, because the urban area is larger, and the transportation cost has also increased.
Finally, Songjiang Prefecture finally made up its mind to build a Huangpu River Bridge and then develop the east bank of the Huangpu River. As for the funds, they raised it themselves. Songjiang Prefecture was not short of money anyway.
Local officials have a headache every year over how to spend such a large amount of local revenue.
In fact, Songjiang Prefecture has not only built a super project like the Huangpu River Bridge, but has also built a subway, which is even more expensive!
But then again, if you don’t build these costly infrastructures, how can Songjiang Prefecture spend so much of its local fiscal revenue in a year?
This money can no longer be put into one's own pocket. Even now, the higher authorities do not allow Songjiang Prefecture to subsidize enterprises casually, because the empire wants to develop other places. Songjiang Prefecture provides subsidies every day, sucking up all the resources. The empire's top officials will not
willing.
Even though many names have been used and more fiscal revenue has been turned over, there is still so much local finance left.
Therefore, Songjiang Prefecture will find various ways to spend money every year, such as supporting provincial roads. Last year, they reached a cooperation agreement with Guizhou and prepared to support a total of about two million Tang Yuan for local Guizhou.
For educational development, that is, building schools and other things, Songjiang Prefecture is always the first to send money when there are natural disasters in other places...
As for themselves, all kinds of infrastructure that they can think of have basically been built, or are already being built.
In fact, they can also repair, dig, and repair, which makes it easier to spend money.
However, the censors in the Supervisory Council all regard Songjiang Prefecture as the best place to gain political achievements, and they all stare at the mistakes of local officials in Songjiang Prefecture with their eyes wide open.
In the words of the imperial censor, Songjiang is so rich that they either don't make mistakes, and if they make a mistake, it will be a big mistake. As long as they catch one at random, it will be a great achievement, and promotion and wealth will not be a problem!
If you had come up with a major case in Songjiang Mansion that day, you would have become famous all over the world in an instant!
How should I put it? In fact, many officials, especially middle- and senior-level officials, don’t really like serving in Songjiang Prefecture because they are under too much pressure!
You have worked hard to develop the economy, but people will not say that this is your credit. They will say that Songjiang Prefecture is already so awesome. If a cat or dog comes in, even if you sleep every day and do nothing, the annual economic growth will be ten percent.
A few percentage points.
What you say is that you can stand and talk without back pain!
It's a pity that the successive magistrates of special counties in Shanghai and the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture worked hard to develop the economy, but except for a few people, most of them were not recognized.
But once the economic development fails to meet expectations, then it is your problem.
If you make any mistakes while in office, even if it is just a small mistake, you will be watched by a group of people, and then it will become a big problem.
In short, no matter what you do, outsiders will stare at you with a magnifying glass in one hand and a knife in the other, ready to cut you down at any time.
Being an official is difficult, and being an official in Songjiang Prefecture is even more difficult. If you are an official responsible for spending money, it will be even harder!
Although they can easily handle hundreds of thousands or even millions, they would not dare to greedy even a single copper among them if they had the courage to do so.
Don't say you are really greedy, if you show even a little bit of this intention, a lot of political opponents will pounce on you and bite you to death.
Of course, never underestimate the wisdom of officials!
It’s hard to spend money, and it’s even harder to spend it reasonably!
So what to do?
They just build all kinds of messy infrastructure, especially the high-looking ones. For this reason, they have built more than 20 bridges across the Wusong River...
Surprisingly, in the horse-drawn carriage era, a cement and asphalt highway tens of meters wide and more than 100 kilometers long was built along the Huangpu River.
Even if this road were placed in the 21st world of later generations, it would be classified as a high-grade highway!
It is said that for a while, they even laid wooden boards on the streets in several core blocks in the business district to act as hardened pavement!
Then they built kerosene street lamps throughout the city and water supply facilities throughout the city.
Not to mention the sewer facilities throughout the city. The sewers they built can even run a horse-drawn carriage...
Songjiang Prefecture, which has so much money, would spend countless funds to build a Huangpu River Bridge. If it were any other place, it would never be possible to do this kind of thing, not even Jinling City.
The completion and opening of the Huangpu River Bridge can be regarded as the prelude to the construction of super bridges in the Tang Empire.
Using the Huangpu River Bridge, the Tang Empire overcame many difficulties in bridge design and construction and accumulated sufficient experience.
The Tang Empire also officially started the construction plan of other super bridges.
The first to bear the brunt is the Yangtze River Bridge, especially the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge and Hanyang Yangtze River Bridge, because these two bridges can connect to railways, and then completely open up a seamless connection between the north and south railways.