It has to be said that the development of history is always strikingly similar, and there will not be much turning point because of the changes of the times and people.

The same is true of the development of Shanghai, although Li Xuan did not deliberately bring Shanghai to the development path of later generations, but the development trend of Shanghai in this era is still very similar to the development of Shanghai in later generations.

Taking advantage of the Empire's opening up and encouraging the development of industry and commerce, Shanghai took full advantage of its vital geographical location and thus embarked on the path of industrial and commercial development.

Even the industries that are being developed and the regions that are detailed are strikingly similar.

Historically, the early development of Shanghai was also dominated by overseas trade and textile industry, and the current Shanghai is also guided by trade and textile industry, of course, there are still many differences in details, that is, Shanghai has a large number of heavy industries in this era.

This situation is not the result of Li Xuan's deliberate leadership, if you want to talk about policy support, there is not only one treaty port in the Tang Empire, but there are nineteen, and there are Tongzhou and Ningbo next door.

From the south to the north, the coastal port cities that are basically suitable for overseas trade have been developed as treaty ports one after another.

Lianzhou, Qiongzhou, Guangzhou, Chaoshan in Guangdong, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Dayuanfu in Fujian, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Ningbo in Zhejiang, Shanghai in Jiangnan Province, Tongzhou and Huai'an estuaries in Jiangbei Province (at the time of the Yellow River estuary, newly established counties), Jiaozhou (Qingdao) and Dengzhou (Fucheng Penglai) in Shandong, Tianjin in Hebei, Jinzhou (Lushun), Seoul, Pusan, etc., in Liaodong, are all coastal treaty ports that the Tang Empire has started in recent years.

It is worth noting that the treaty ports that the Tang Empire could carry out foreign trade were limited to coastal ports and did not include inland cities, such as Yangzhou, Jinling City, and Huai'an Fucheng, which were inland cities along the rivers, so they were not used as treaty ports.

In each of the above-mentioned treaty ports, a trade zone has basically been set up and the same policy is given.

However, there are only a few cities that really rely on overseas trade to develop, and the scale is nothing more than Guangzhou and Shanghai, although the others have also developed, but compared with Guangzhou and Shanghai, it is not worth mentioning.

It is also a treaty port, why is there such a big gap in development, among which geographical factors occupy an extremely important reason, the reason why Guangzhou can develop is because it undertakes the main task of trade with Nanyang and even India and Europe.

The early development of Shanghai was by undertaking the Fusang trade and at the same time serving as a transit point for domestic coastal trade.

One Nanyang, one Fuso and domestic coastal trade, this is what contributed to the rapid development of these two cities in the early days.

And step by step, step by step, this development is fast, and then it has more advantages, such as a larger well-known place, more businessmen gather in it, more taxes can be used to develop ports, transportation and other infrastructure, and then there are more businessmen willing to come to these two places, and it is very difficult for latecomers to catch up.

But more importantly, these two places are not only distribution centers for goods, but also production bases for major industrial products.

Whether it is Guangzhou or Shanghai, they have large industrial zones with many factories.

As a result, both Guangzhou and Shanghai have developed at a rate far faster than other cities in China, with Shanghai being the most obvious.

Guangzhou, in the case of light, is still dominated by light industry, although there is also a part of heavy industry, but there are not many, while Shanghai has a large number of heavy industries.

But in terms of the ease of access to resources, Guangzhou cannot be compared with Shanghai.

There are more heavy industries, and there are more places to occupy, any shipyard, steel mills, are huge monsters, these heavy industry factories occupy a large amount of land, in addition to almost impossible to count small and medium-sized factories, which makes the industrial land in Shanghai increasingly insufficient, the industrial land is not enough, and the relative residential land is also insufficient.

In this case, Chen Lifu has the intention of incorporating some areas around Shanghai into Shanghai.

Nowadays, Shanghai's ad hoc counties and Huating County and Jiading County are in a competitive relationship, and they are fighting to the death, and Huating County is unwilling to provide land for Shanghai's second industrial zone to make living facilities, because this will not benefit them at all.

In this case, Chen Lifu had to make another plan, since there were contradictions between them, then simply merge the three counties, and when the three became one, naturally there would be no conflict of interest.

However, Chen Lifu himself can't decide this kind of thing, and even he doesn't know what the opinion of the top will be on it.

Therefore, he was very cautious to write an excerpt and send it to Jinling City, which did not directly ask for the merger of the above three counties, but mainly to discuss the development of Songjiang Prefecture, and said that the available land resources in Shanghai have been insufficient, which has greatly restricted the industrial and commercial development of Shanghai, and is looking forward to the future, if the development plan of the entire Huangpu River area is used for a unified plan, then it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

This letter, he just used it to test the reaction of the central side!

However, after this fold was sent to Jinling City, because this was not a secret fold directly presented to the Son of Heaven, but an ordinary official fold.

If it is a secret fold, this fold will be sealed and passed all the way, and after entering Jinling City, it will be directly sent to the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, and then directly to Li Xuan's hand. In this process, there will be no institution or person to open the secret fold, and theoretically, except for the person who played the fold and the emperor Li Xuan, no one will know what is written on the secret fold.

But Chen Lifu is naturally not a secret fold, this matter is just an ordinary government affairs, and he will be scolded if he reports it as a secret fold, Chen Lifu doesn't want to learn from a few other unlucky guys, write a secret fold for big things and send it up, one letter is not counted, and he writes a secret fold for three days and two days, and finally was deprived of his official hat by Li Xuan, who is hot, and rushed home to farm.

Therefore, Chen Lifu's excerpt is just an ordinary government excerpt, and after arriving all the way to the capital, he was sent to the General Administration Department, and then transferred to the imperial study.

After reviewing the excerpt, the minister on duty in the imperial study did not approve of Chen Lifu's proposal to merge the three counties.

Because in this way, it will directly destroy the political structure of Songjiang Prefecture!

Nowadays, the political structure of Songjiang Prefecture is that Songjiang Prefecture has jurisdiction over four counties, and although Shanghai is a special county, and the grade of the county is the four products, it is still only one county.

If Shanghai is merged with Huating and Jiading counties, then Songjiang Prefecture will only be left with Shanghai and Qingpu counties, and Qingpu County's sense of existence is very weak now, and it will definitely be weaker in the future.

In this case, there would be no need for Matsue Prefecture to exist.

In line with the principle that more is better than less, several ministers on duty in the imperial study gave a review opinion after circulating, that is, let Chen Lifu strengthen the connection between the subordinate counties and do a good job in the economic development of Songjiang Mansion, as for the merger of the three counties, there is no need, because to a certain extent, the land of the four counties originally belonged to the merger, because they all belonged to Songjiang Mansion.

Since they all belong to Songjiang Prefecture, there is naturally no need to merge three of them into a large county, because even if it is really merged, it will actually produce a lower-level administrative division, whether it is a district or a town.

In the end, the gap between the above three places also exists!

This kind of conflict of local interests cannot be resolved by turning counties into districts or towns.

If you really want to solve it, you still have to rely on the superior department to coordinate, what superior department?

The Yamen of the Governor of Songjiang Prefecture!

In the end, he said very unceremoniously that Chen Lifu was shirking the coordination responsibility that he should have been responsible for, but pushed it to the three subordinate counties to solve it.

Subsequently, this excerpt was forwarded to the Hanlin Academy, because although this excerpt was about a merger, it was still for the purpose of developing the economy, so it was finally sent to the Industrial and Commercial Division of the Hanlin Academy.

The young officials of the Business and Industry Division, on the other hand, made the opposite decision, believing that if the merger could be carried out, it would greatly promote the development of industry and commerce in Songjiang Province.

Subsequently, the excerpts that had been approved by the Imperial Study and the Industrial and Commercial Section of the Hanlin Academy were sent to the secretariat!

The secretaries of the secretariat classify the countless excerpts sent every day, and sort them according to their importance, the highest priority is naturally the military excerpts, and then the important excerpts, such as natural disasters or something, and then some ordinary government excerpts, among which if the approval opinions of the imperial study and the review opinions of the various departments of the Hanlin Academy are inconsistent, then it is also the priority for Li Xuan to review them personally.

In fact, there are hundreds of excerpts sent every day, and it is impossible for Li Xuan to read them all in person!

This is also why he set up the imperial study duty system, and at the same time set up the Hanlin Academy, these two institutions, in fact, have similar functions, both to help Li Xuan approve a huge number of excerpts.

The difference is that the ministers in the imperial study are all important ministers of the empire, and the ministers on duty are ministers above the second rank, and the walking ministers are also ministers at the level of waiters from the second rank.

The approval opinions of the Imperial Study basically represent the opinions of the core high-level of the empire.

However, the various departments under the Hanlin Academy were mainly young middle-level officials drawn from all over the empire, and their opinions were sometimes different from those of the higher-ups.

Their work is actually very similar to that of the ministers of the Imperial Study, which is to review the excerpts and then give their opinions.

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