The reform of the securities industry is accompanied by not only the new trading rules of a securities, but also the reshuffle of the industry, as well as new taxes, and new regulations, all of which are extremely new for the imperial financial industry!

And Chen Lifu, who made all this, is also famous all over the world, although in the hearts of many people, this Yang is notorious!

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

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

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 middle-level official in the Tang Empire, at least one of them!

But in December of the tenth 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 is one person who has successfully stolen the limelight from Chen Lifu!

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

In the latest issue of the Tang Dynasty newspaper in December of the tenth year of Xuanping, its front page is naturally the same Shengtianzi, and this time the front page reports that the Shengtianzi held a cabinet meeting in front of the emperor and asked the relevant institutions to strictly investigate the corruption of officialdom!

The second edition of the next report is that the Inspectorate held an internal pledge meeting to convey the anti-corruption will of the Son of Heaven, prepare to carry out a nationwide anti-corruption campaign, and send inspection teams to every Gyeonggi institution and every provincial highway to strictly investigate official corruption. There is a lot of information about official corruption.

And the third edition is very rare to leave to a six-grade official: Zhou Lide, the county magistrate of Shanghai County!

Why was this Zhou Lide able to occupy the third page of the Tang Dynasty Newspaper for the first time, and he also monopolized the entire page.

You must know this page, in the past, only ministers of the ministry could show their faces on it, and no matter how bad it was, it had to be the governor of a province!

Because of this, Zhou Lide was sentenced to Ling Chi and the three clans for many crimes such as bullying the king, embezzlement of taxes, accepting bribes, offering bribes, dereliction of duty, murder, and forcible anything!

This is the first time since the founding of the Tang Empire that more than 1,000 people have been sentenced to punish the three clans (the three clans in the narrow sense, that is, the father, brother, and son) not for rebellion.

Why is all this?

If nothing else, just because Zhou Lide was in office as the county magistrate of Shanghai County, in just one year and eight months, he collected more than 2.2 million taels of silver by stealing taxes, illegally selling state-owned assets, accepting bribes, and making profits by taking advantage of his position!

When this case was reported to Li Xuan, Li Xuan was taken aback, this is not tens of thousands of taels, but more than two million taels, more than the financial revenue of Yunnan last year!

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

Zhou Lide is just a county order, and the grade is only six grades, why can he be greedy for so much money, which is related to the special economic status of Shanghai County.

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

Shanghai County, belongs to Songjiang Mansion, and Songjiang Mansion, called Huating Mansion in ancient times, set up Shanghai, Huating, Qingpu three counties in the former Ming Dynasty.

In accordance with the old system of the former Ming Dynasty, the dynasty set up Songjiang Mansion, the government of Huating, Xuanping six years, in order to better renovate and manage the transportation of the Huangpu River, with the Songjiang Prefecture to open the port and trade, the Suzhou Jiading County was included in the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture, Xuanping seven years, divided into Shanghai County, Huating County each part of the area, the new establishment of Nanhui County.

In the eighth year of Xuanping, with the opening of the port to 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, namely Shanghai, Huating, Qingpu, Jiading, and Nanhui, and the government governs Shanghai.

Shanghai County here is the core, it is not only the government of Songjiang Prefecture, but also the economic core of the entire Songjiang Prefecture and even the south of the Yangtze River, because the county seat of Shanghai is close to the Huangpu River, when Wang Shi first entered the Songjiang Mansion, he used the strong naval strength to control the coast of the Huangpu River, and then radiate the entire Songjiang Prefecture, and even the entire Yangtze River estuary.

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

Therefore, even in the early days when Wang Shi entered the south of the Yangtze River, the importance of Wusongkou was greater, but later when the port was opened for trade, he still did not choose to be here, but chose to set up a business zone 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 area.

Therefore, strictly speaking, the Shanghai Business Zone in this year is not a coastal port city, but an inland port city, facing the sea, that is, the area belonging to the newly established Nanhui County, is a barren area, and there is no coastal wharf or the like.

The safety has been guaranteed, the policy has the convenience of opening the port and trade, and the transportation is also convenient for shipping and river transportation, and the rise of Shanghai County has become a matter of course.

After the opening of the port to trade, it is in the north of Shanghai County, along the bank of the Huangpu River set up a business zone, and the area of this trade zone is gradually expanding, the total area in the past is less than four square kilometers, but because there are more and more merchant ships coming and going, commerce is becoming more and more developed, coupled with some preferential policies in the business zone, it is also so that many domestic businesses are choosing to set up enterprises in this place to do business, this place is soon insufficient.

Therefore, after two expansions, the total area of the Shanghai Business Zone has reached more than 20 square kilometers, along the north bank of the Huangpu River, forming a rectangular area about six kilometers long and about four kilometers wide.

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

The original county seat of Shanghai is actually only a small county town with a circumference of several hundred meters, and the area is only more than one square kilometer even if the outer city is added, but it is very small.

In terms of area alone, the business area is already more than 20 times the size of the old county.

However, today, the old county seat of Shanghai, which is still wrapped in the city wall, has long been turned into a purely administrative area, because in the south of the county seat 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 silk reeling, weaving, spinning, etc., in addition to traditional processing industries such as tea-making, porcelain, wood processing, and of course, there will be no shortage of machinery, glass, steel and other industries of the new era.

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

Dangtu Industrial Zone, which is a typical heavy industrial area, with the steel industry as the core, supplemented by machinery manufacturing, as for the light industry, it is basically not a climate.

This is not to say that the empire did not deploy heavy industry in the Pearl River Delta region, but most of these heavy industries were not set up in the Guangzhou Industrial Zone, but were scattered throughout the Pearl River Delta, and there were more heavy industry enterprises in Foshan than in the Guangzhou Industrial Zone.

The Shanghai Industrial Zone, on the other hand, is a large concentration of factories in various industries, including light and heavy industries and even traditional handicrafts.

Here, there is the Songjiang Arsenal, the main arsenal of the Jiangnan Arms Company, and the Shanghai Shipyard with the Jiangnan Shipyard, as well as many private textile enterprises, and then there are all kinds of small factories with only a few dozen employees, and even a few family workshops with a few people.

In the 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 and more than a dozen people, but it has to be admitted that the Shanghai Industrial Zone, which has more than 3,000 companies and a total employment of more than 60,000 people, has made Shanghai the most dynamic industrial gathering place in the entire Tang Empire.

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

A business zone, an industrial zone, has made Shanghai and even the entire Songjiang Prefecture!

To explain how serious the economic status of Shanghai County is, we can better judge it from the fiscal revenue!

In the tenth year of Xuanping, the Ministry of Finance estimated that the revenue budget of Shanghai County was 8 million taels of silver!

In the estimation of the Ministry of Finance, the fiscal revenue budget of the entire Songjiang Prefecture is only more than 9 million taels!

Zoom in to the entire Gangnam Province, the richest and the heart of the economy, and its estimated fiscal revenue budget is only 14 million taels!

Even if it is enlarged to the entire Zhili Four Dao plus the Chengtian Mansion, this number is only 35 million taels of silver!

Among them, Shanghai alone accounts for 8 million!

Or to be more precise, it should be a small piece of Shanghai Industrial Zone and Shanghai Business Zone, which add up to just over 40 square kilometers, contributing 8 million taels of silver!

Therefore, it is not surprising that some people say that the Huangpu River does not flow with water, but with gold!

Zhou Lide made a handful of money in this golden Huangpu River, and then successfully let himself be put in a state of Ling Chi, not to mention his own death, and even his relatives were punished by the three clans.

However, Zhou Lide stole the limelight from Chen Lifu, which also caused huge repercussions in China, and even used this as the source to set off a nationwide anti-corruption investigation, and it is estimated that I don't know how many officials will die in this nationwide anti-corruption action!