The final design of the Wusongjiang Bridge was carried out at an unimaginable speed, and then the construction phase began.

The construction unit is not any other unit, it is the Shanghai Wharf Company.

Shanghai Terminal Company is not only a company that operates a terminal, but also develops and operates commercial real estate near the terminal.

Therefore, the company also has a strong construction branch, called Shanghai Wharf Construction Company, this construction branch is not only for their own services, but also will also contract business, such as Shanghai through the business zone, the county, the first industrial zone, the second industrial zone along the river avenue expansion, hardening project, is their construction company engaged in.

At the same time, the company is actually the only company in China with experience in the construction of medium and large steel bridges, because the company contracts the construction of all steel railway bridges in the Zhenjiang section of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway.

A number of steel railway bridges have been built cumulatively, of course, the scale of these steel railway bridges built before is not large, and the largest railway bridge is only more than 20 meters long.

The construction cost of steel bridges is still too high, and Datang Railway Company is not very willing to build steel bridges, and on small and medium-sized bridges, they prefer to use reinforced concrete to build cement bridges rather than pure steel bridges.

As for large bridges, what should I do if the cement building is not up to standard?

I'm sorry, Datang Railway Company has never built any large bridges.

In order to avoid excessive construction costs, when the railway company plans the railway line, it is to give priority to the flat terrain, and only when encountering some small rivers that there is really no way to bypass will the bridge be erected, even if the bridge is to give priority to the reinforced concrete bridge, rather than the steel bridge.

As for encountering medium and large rivers, it is simpler, do not build bridges, directly set up stations on both banks, and just change boats.

Nowadays, no one can know the operation market of the railway, and naturally they dare not invest a lot of money in building any large-scale steel railway bridges.

Otherwise, the million taels of silver would not be enough to build a few 100-meter steel bridges.

Although the steel bridges built by the Shanghai Wharf Construction Company are all small bridges, it is easy to say that the Shanghai Wharf Company has also built several steel bridges of 10 meters and 20 meters, and it is barely experienced.

The construction company under the Shanghai Wharf Company began construction after receiving the relevant design drawings.

On the day of the official start of construction, Chen Lifu also announced an ambitious development plan on the north bank of the Wusong River, intending to build a super-large-scale new area on the north bank of the Wusong River in the next two years, a super-large new urban area integrating commerce, industry and residence.

In the next two years, it is expected that no less than 1 million taels of silver will be invested in the financial investment of Shanghai County Finance for basic investment such as leveling land, building roads, laying water pipes, and building factories.

Once completed, the North Shore Development will be a much larger industrial zone than both the 1st and 2nd industrial zones.

At the same time, in order to speed up the construction process, the North Shore Development Zone will also attract new investment, and provide land for the construction of factories, office buildings, dormitory buildings, etc. to the settled enterprises at the most favorable price.

Of course, as with several previous industrial developments, these plots are only rented and not sold.

The industrial zone in Shanghai, even if it is newly developed, but its land is also extremely valuable, not to mention, in the early years, the Shanghai government has already expropriated all the land in the surrounding area to the official ownership, and it is naturally impossible to sell it at this time.

At present, in the entire urban area of Shanghai, except for the county seat and the surrounding old city due to historical factors, the business zone, the first industrial zone, the second industrial zone, the development zone on the north bank of the development zone that has just begun to be developed, and the area on the east bank of the Huangpu River that has not yet been developed, most of these lands, especially commercial and industrial land, are owned by the government.

This is also in Shanghai, and this is absolutely impossible to exist elsewhere.

Elsewhere, companies prefer to buy land and then build factories, even in industrial zones, and many do so in order to attract companies to settle in.

But the reason for this is that if there is no enterprise to come, their land is not worth a few dollars, which directly sells the land to the enterprise, and introduces the enterprise, and the tax collected and the jobs provided are what other local yamen value more.

Shanghai is different, Shanghai has geographical and policy advantages, and because of the first step of development, its own advantages are very large, and it is not afraid that there will be no enterprises to move in, so it is naturally impossible for the official to sell land directly at a low price.

Officials prefer to own their own local owners and rent them out for a long time.

Of course, there is also a small part of the land that is still privately owned, and most of this part is concentrated in the adjacent areas of the major districts and the old city, as for the land that is classified as the business zone, the first industrial zone, the second industrial zone and the north bank development zone, and the east bank of the Huangpu River is the development zone, all of which are officially owned.

Shanghai's special county yamen is the biggest landlord in Shanghai!

In fact, this situation is common everywhere in the Tang Empire!

You must know that the official of the Tang Empire is the largest landlord in the country.

The amount of official land accounts for 30 percent of the country's arable land, and this figure is still the figure after many years of practice of renting instead of purchasing and dividing land among military personnel.

But even so, the number of official fields is still very large!

As for the barren mountains and wasteland, 90 percent of the undeveloped land is concentrated in the hands of the government.

The government is the biggest landlord in the whole empire!

As for the second largest landowner, it is naturally Datang Western Company, but most of the land owned by the company is overseas!

The company owns almost the entire Mian Lao Island, the small half of Luzon, the small half of Banten Island, the entire Gehe Prefecture and a large area of land on the Nanyang Islands, and the vast majority of the most valuable colonies of the Tang Dynasty in the Nanyang region belong to the company, such as Luzon City, the capital city of Luzon Province, Banten City, and all the urban land of these two cities, including the land on the outskirts of the city, basically belongs to the company......

These lands belong to Datang Western Company, and in the area west of Gohe State and Malacca, Datang Western Company also has exclusive trading rights, tax dividends, and administrative assistance management rights.

Otherwise, how do you think the market value of this company of more than 60 million taels of silver came out, and this little bit of trade profit alone every year can't support the market value of 60 million taels of silver.

Most of the land of the Tang Western Company came from the colonies.

Most of the arable land owned by the Datang government in China comes from the clan land of the former Ming Dynasty, the land of high-ranking officials and nobles, the original official land of the government and the newly opened land.

Chen Lifu is engaged in the North Shore Development Zone in Shanghai, and he can't buy the land directly, so he will be involved, but he has played another small trick, that is, to create a long-term lease period.

If you can set a certain amount of investment in the company and build a factory or other building on your own, you can rent a land for 50 years at a time.

And this is not the key, the key thing is that there is another one, that is, the right of first refusal, if after 50 years, the company's investment in the land and the number of employees meet the demand, then the lease can be renewed for 50 years for free.

Free lease renewal for 50 years.

Add the two, and that's a hundred years.

In fact, this is almost no different from buying land.

In the previous first industrial zone and the second industrial zone, the rent was basically paid annually, and the rent was only the market price, at most there was a clause that increased year by year.

But in the North Shore Development Zone, 50 years of rent has to be paid all at once!

This lump sum rent, though enormous, is much less than the total rent paid over 50 years.

With such a means of operation, it can basically be seen that Chen Lifu is not renting out land at all, but buying land directly.

Chen Lifu can't help it!

Although Shanghai has money, there are too many projects that cost money, and he wants to get the North Shore Development Zone out as soon as possible, and there is a shortage of money in all aspects, so he said that he will invest one million taels of silver to build the North Shore Development Zone, where does the money come from?

Of course, some of the existing fiscal revenues can be solved, but there will still be a very large shortfall.

How to solve this gap?

And with a loan?

The Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank were not opened by Chen Lifu, so it's so easy!

Throughout the country, I don't know how many local yamen are trying their best to borrow money from these two official banks to develop the local economy under the guise of the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank.

In Jinling City, around the headquarters of the Royal Bank and the headquarters of the Imperial Bank, a large number of local officials from all over the country have been rushing to ask for loans for projects in various places all year round.

They even came up with a proprietary ranking, called 'running two lines'.

Although Shanghai's special counties are special and can receive some special care, this care is also limited.

Although his Chen Lifu's face is not small, in the two major banks of the Royal Bank and the Imperial Bank, the face of the cabinet boss is not good, let alone his Chen Lifu's.

The money of the two major banks is not so easy to get!

The local government has limited idle funds and no hope for loans, so how can we raise money for development?

As soon as Chen Lifu's head was patted, he came to a dark Chen Cang, renting and secretly selling land to raise money!

Anyway, many companies are actually very eager to buy a piece of land in Shanghai as a long-term base for use, even if it is a relatively high price at one time.

So the two sides hit it off.

It's just that not long after this plan was proposed, Chen Lifu was given a copy!