Valley Emperor

The reform of the securities industry is accompanied by not only a mere new trading rules for securities, but also industry reshuffles, new taxes, and new regulations. All these are new to the imperial financial industry. Incredible stuff!

And Chen Lifu, who came up with all this, is also well-known all over the world, although in the hearts of many people, this Yang's is notorious!

However, Chen Lifu still doesn't care, and is even very satisfied!

In the past few years, although his grade is not high and he has not been a big official, he is still 18,000 miles away from entering the pavilion and entering the imperial study, but this does not affect his growing reputation!

In this world, when it comes to who Xie Yiwei is, it is estimated that few people know, but when it comes to Chen Lifu, many people must know.

Such Chen Lifu should be regarded as the most famous mid-level official in the Tang Empire, at least one of them!

But in December of the 10th year of Xuanping, that is, when the securities reform, and even the subsequent continuous reform of the entire financial industry, Chen Lifu's name was instantly forgotten by everyone!

Because there was one person who successfully stole Chen Lifu's limelight!

He is Zhou Lide, magistrate of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, Jiangnan Province!

In the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper in December of the 10th year of Xuanping, its front page was naturally the same as the Son of Heaven, but this time the front page reported that the Son of Heaven held a meeting of the imperial cabinet and asked relevant agencies to strictly investigate the officialdom* *Behavior!

The next second edition reported that the Inspectorate held an internal swearing-in meeting, conveyed the Son of Heaven’s anti-corruption will, prepared to conduct a nationwide anti-corruption campaign, and dispatched inspections to every Gyeonggi institution and every province. The team strictly investigated the officials. What the report did not say was that Li Daobing, the head of Hantong, also participated in the swearing-in meeting within the Inspectorate, and promised to provide some confidential information to the Inspectorate. In Hantong's archives, there are a lot of information about officials' corruption.

The third edition was reserved for a very rare official of the sixth rank: Zhou Lide, the magistrate of Shanghai County!

Why is this Zhou Lide able to occupy the third page of the Tang Dynasty Daily for the first time, and he still occupies an entire page?

You must know this page. In the past, only ministers of ministries and halls could show their faces on it.

Because this Zhou Lide was sentenced to Ling Chi and Zhu clan for many crimes such as deceiving the emperor, embezzling taxes, accepting bribes, offering bribes, dereliction of duty, murder, and bribery!

This is the first time since the founding of the Tang Empire, not because of treason, but was sentenced to the execution of the three clans (three clans in a narrow sense, namely father, brother, and son), and more than a thousand people were implicated.

What is all this for?

For nothing else, just because Zhou Lide served as the magistrate of Shanghai County, in just one year and eight months, he collected money by stealing taxes, illegally selling state-owned assets, accepting bribes, and making profits from the convenience of his position. More than 2.2 million taels of silver!

When this case was reported to Li Xuan's side, Li Xuan was taken aback. This was not tens of thousands of taels, but more than 2 million taels, which was more than Yunnan's fiscal revenue last year. more!

Therefore, Zhou Lide was sentenced to Ling Chi and Zhu clan, successfully stealing Chen Lifu's limelight!

Zhou Lide is only a county magistrate, and his grade is only the sixth grade. Why he can greedy so much money is related to the special economic status of Shanghai County.

If you don't know about Shanghai in this era, it's almost hard to believe that Zhou Lide can be greedy for so much money!

Shanghai County belongs to Songjiang Prefecture, while Songjiang Prefecture was called Huating Prefecture in ancient times. In the former Ming Dynasty, Shanghai, Huating and Qingpu counties were established.

In accordance with the old system of the former Ming Dynasty, the State Dynasty established Songjiang Prefecture, which was governed by Huating and Xuanping for six years. In order to better rectify and manage the transportation of the Huangpu River and cooperate with Songjiang Prefecture to open ports and trade, Jiading County, Suzhou Prefecture was placed under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture. In the seventh year of Pingping, it was divided into parts of Shanghai County and Huating County, and Nanhui County was newly established.

In the eighth year of Xuanping, with the opening of Hong Kong and trade, Shanghai's economic status became more and more important, and the government of Songjiang Prefecture was changed from Huating to Shanghai County.

Therefore, today, ten years after Xuanping, Songjiang Prefecture has a total of five counties under its jurisdiction, namely Shanghai, Huating, Qingpu, Jiading, Nanhui, and the prefecture administers Shanghai.

The Shanghai County is the core. It is not only the government of Songjiang Prefecture, but the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and even the economic core area of ​​the south of the Yangtze River. Because Shanghai County is close to the Huangpu River, when Master Wang first entered Songjiang Prefecture, he used the powerful navy. The strength controls the coast of the Huangpu River, and then radiates the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and even the entire estuary of the Yangtze River.

In fact, there is another place whose strategy is more important than that of Shanghai, that is Wusongkou, but from the very beginning, this place was built as a pure military base by the empire. Here, it is the main home port of the Imperial Navy's First Fleet, the headquarters The location is a military base from head to toe, which has nothing to do with civilian use.

So even in the early days of Master Wang's entry into Jiangnan, Wusongkou was more important, but when he opened the port for business later, he still did not choose to be here, but chose to set up a business district in Shanghai.

In this way, not only will it not affect the operation of the Wusongkou military base, but the existence of the Wusongkou military base can also effectively protect the Shanghai business district.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the Shanghai business district these days is not a coastal port city, but an inland river port city. The area facing the sea, that is, the area belonging to the newly established Nanhui County, is barren and has no coastal areas. Set up a pier or something.

Safety has been guaranteed, policies have facilitated the opening of ports and commerce, and transportation has been facilitated by sea and river transportation. The rise of Shanghai County has become a matter of course.

After the opening of the port, a commercial and trade zone was established along the bank of the Huangpu River in the north of Shanghai County, and the area of ​​this commercial zone was gradually expanded. In the past, the total area was less than four square kilometers. The more businesses there are, the more commerce there is. Coupled with some preferential policies in the business zone, many domestic businesses have chosen to set up businesses here, and this place will soon be insufficient.

Therefore, after two expansions, up to now, the total area of ​​Shanghai Business District has reached more than 20 square kilometers. Along the north bank of the Huangpu River, a rectangular area with a length of about six kilometers and a width of about four kilometers has been formed. .

Its area is already much larger than the old Shanghai county over there!

The original Shanghai county is actually only a small county with a circumference of several hundred meters. Even if the outer city is included, it is only over one square kilometer, but it is very small.

In terms of area, the business district is already more than 20 times that of the old county seat.

But today, the old county town of Shanghai, which is still surrounded by city walls, has actually become a purely administrative area, because in the south of the county town of Shanghai, there is also a Shanghai Industrial Zone.

Shanghai Industrial Zone, currently in China, is the third largest industrial zone after Guangzhou Industrial Zone and Dangtu Industrial Zone.

Here, there are a large number of textile enterprises represented by reeling, weaving, spinning, etc., as well as traditional processing industries such as tea making, porcelain, and wood processing. Of course, there will be no shortage of machinery, glass, steel, etc. New age industry.

Shanghai Industrial Zone, as the third largest industrial zone in China, naturally cannot be just an industrial zone of light industry, but a comprehensive industrial zone that includes all walks of life, light industry and heavy industry. It is more prominent than Guangzhou Industrial Zone and Dangtu Industrial Zone.

Dangtu Industrial Zone is a typical heavy industrial zone, with the iron and steel industry as the core and the machinery manufacturing as the supplement. As for the light industry, it is basically unfavorable.

Although the Guangzhou Industrial Zone is huge in scale, it is mainly based on various light industries. This does not mean that the empire has not deployed heavy industries in the Pearl River Delta region, but most of these heavy industries are not established in the Guangzhou Industrial Zone. They are scattered all over the Pearl River Delta, and there are actually more heavy industrial enterprises in Foshan than in Guangzhou Industrial Zone.

The Shanghai Industrial Zone is different. There are a large number of factories in various industries, including light and heavy industries, and even traditional handicrafts.

Here, there are Songjiang Arsenal, the main arsenal of Jiangnan Arms Company, Shanghai Shipyard of Jiangnan Shipyard, many private textile enterprises, and various small factories with only dozens of employees. Even a few people's family workshops are very many.

In this small Shanghai Industrial Zone, there are more than 3,000 registered enterprises of all kinds. Although most of them are small factories or workshops with only a few people or a dozen people, it has to be admitted that the number of The Shanghai Industrial Zone, with over 3,000 companies and a total of 60,000 employees, has made Shanghai the most dynamic industrial gathering place in the entire Datang Empire so far.

Here, you can find almost all industrial products that can be found today. At the same time, relying on sea and river transportation, you can also buy various industrial raw materials from the whole country and even the world, and then buy the products to the whole country and the world!

A business zone, an industrial zone, the achievements of Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture!

To illustrate how serious the economic status of Shanghai County is, it can be better judged from the fiscal revenue!

In the ten years since Xuanping, the Ministry of Finance estimated that the fiscal revenue budget of Shanghai County was 8 million taels!

According to the estimates of the Ministry of Finance, the fiscal revenue budget of the entire Songjiang Prefecture is only more than 9 million taels!

Zooming in to the entire Jiangnan Road, this empire is the richest and the economic heart, and its estimated fiscal revenue budget is only 14 million taels!

Even if you zoom in to the entire Zhili Four Dao and the Chengtian Mansion, this figure is only 35 million taels of silver!

Among them, ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Shanghai exclusively owns 8 million!

Or to be more precise, it should be the small area of ​​Shanghai Industrial Zone and Shanghai Commercial and Trade Zone, which together are only more than 40 square kilometers, and contributed 8 million taels of silver!

Therefore, it is not surprising that some people say that what flows on the Huangpu River is not water, but gold!

Zhou Lide, who fished a handful of gold in the Huangpu River, succeeded in putting himself in the middle of nowhere, not to mention his own death, and also involved his relatives being punished by three clans.

However, Zhou Lide stole Chen Lifu's limelight, and it also caused huge repercussions in the country, and even took this as the source to set off a nationwide anti-corruption investigation. It is estimated that it is not known how many officials will die in this scene. In the nationwide anti-corruption campaign!

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