The cost of the Wusongjiang Bridge of 520,000 taels of silver scared Chen Lifu.

Even though Shanghai's financial revenue is very high, but there are many places to spend money, Shanghai will invest a lot of money in municipal construction every year, otherwise, how can Shanghai's urban development be so fast.

Moreover, Shanghai's municipal construction basically relies on the finances of Shanghai County Yamen itself, rather than relying on central funding like Jinling City or other big cities, such as Jinling City, how can it support such a huge urban development plan with Jinling City's own financial revenue, and the central government has given a lot of funds every year to maintain it.

For example, provincial capitals such as Guangzhou, Nanchang and Wuchang also have strong financial support from the provincial government, otherwise, they alone would not have developed so fast.

For example, this year, in order to support Qingpu County, which also belongs to Songjiang Prefecture, to dredge large and small rivers to provide flood prevention capacity, in response to the central government's call for the construction of water conservancy facilities, Shanghai County supported Qingpu County with 150,000 taels of silver.

There is a lot of fiscal revenue, but also a lot of expenses, and this is the current financial problem of Shanghai County.

Over the years, large-scale municipal construction has been carried out almost every year, for example, last year, Shanghai County has promoted the expansion of urban roads, which is expected to expand and renovate the roads within the urban area.

It is expected that the main arterial roads in the urban area will be expanded, and gravel and cinders will be paved at the same time.

And for a few, it is mainly the riverside avenues in various districts that are paved with cement.

In order to meet the increasing demand for transportation, especially freight transport, there are many horse-drawn carriages carrying heavy loads between several main roads every day, and the roads built in the past are already overwhelmed.

And building the road is a very huge expense, not to mention that they also plan to lay cement pavement in some sections, so it will easily cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

Every year, municipal construction will spend a considerable part of Shanghai's fiscal revenue, and Shanghai's fiscal budget, like other local state capitals, follows the example of the central government, and basically at the end of each year, the fiscal revenue budget and expenditure budget for the next year will be determined.

Now it's March, the financial expenditure budget has already been determined, and only a small part of it has been left as an emergency fund, and this part of the emergency fund is also the fund that Chen Lifu can use, not much, only more than 300,000 taels of silver.

It is true that these more than 300,000 taels of silver are already comparable to all the financial revenues of many prefectures in a year, but for a special place like Shanghai, it is pitiful.

And even if it is all taken out, it is not enough to repair this Wusongjiang Bridge!

Chen Lifu said that the financial difficulties, the bridge repair 500,000 taels of silver is afraid that it will not be able to come out, but Kang Weide does not care about these, he is not here to do business, there is no need to bargain with Chen Lifu, he was just invited to come, and has given a preliminary design plan, how to solve the financial problem in the future, and even how to solve the specific construction, he does not care.

After giving Chen Lifu this preliminary design plan, he patted his ass and went back to Jinling City, saying that he would leave a student here, if the follow-up really wants to determine the construction, then go to Jinling City to find it, and if there are any detailed design problems, you can directly find his students.

As an associate professor of the Department of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, one of the few professional architectural design talents in China, a lot of engineering design is waiting for him, for example, the expansion plan of Dangtu Industrial Zone, which is the big case he is now handing, which is the largest heavy industry expansion plan in China, which is much more important than a bridge.

However, Kangweide received a letter from Shanghai, saying that he was asked to design a bridge over the Wusong River, and there were many high requirements, such as requiring great load-bearing capacity, requiring that it should not affect the navigation of ships, and that the maintenance cost should be low.

At that time, he knew that with today's technical means, only the steel bridge could meet such a need.

Once such a steel bridge is completed, it will be a record-breaking steel bridge, otherwise Kangweide would not be interested in coming to Shanghai.

In terms of domestic steel technology, steel is used in bridges, that is a long time ago, many places have been using steel to build bridges, and the most used, should belong to the Beijing-Shanghai railway, now in the construction of the Zhenjiang section of the railway, in order to make the railway across the river and mountains, has begun to build a large-scale steel railway bridge, but the construction of the railway used in these steel bridges are relatively small, not very noticeable.

As for the buildings where steel and cement are used together, there are even more, and a considerable part of the buildings in the imperial palace that are being built today are reinforced concrete structures and are directly poured.

Wusongjiang Bridge, if it can really be built, then this bridge with a length of more than 110 meters and a width of 19 meters will be the longest and widest steel bridge in the Tang Empire, which will basically represent the pinnacle of technology.

From the bridge piers to the pavement, and even every rivet, it will be the most advanced scientific and technological level of the Tang Empire.

It is precisely because of the attraction of these factors that he will put down the design work of many major projects at hand, go to Shanghai for on-site investigation, and then carry out preliminary design work.

Kang Weide patted his ass and left, leaving Chen Lifu with a sad face!

He repeatedly looked at the design sketch in his hand, the more he looked at it, the more beautiful he felt, the steel bridge designed by Kangweide is an all-steel riveted structure, a large area of steel structure, which makes people feel full of high-tech atmosphere just by looking at the drawings.

What is Shanghai?

Shanghai is not only the largest city in the Tang Empire, but it is also the most important and largest industrial area in the Tang Empire.

The more Chen Lifu looked at it, the more he felt that only such a huge and mighty steel bridge, which at the same time contained a high-tech atmosphere, could represent the status of Shanghai.

Build, must build!

As for where the money for the construction of the bridge will come from, Chen Lifu will have to think about it carefully, but no matter what, it is impossible to directly use Shanghai's financial funds to build it, and it will not be repaired at all.

At the same time, the action must be fast, his term of office as a county magistrate in Shanghai has already passed a year, and according to the practice in the officialdom of the Tang Empire, usually three years is a term, but for the sake of regional stability and policy consistency, sometimes the ministry will relax this term to five years.

Therefore, Chen Lifu's tenure in Shanghai is at least two years and at most four years.

And to build a steel bridge, even if it is faster, it is estimated that it will take two years, and this is not counting the preparation time.

Chen Lifu is also a person who can do what he wants, and within a few days, he just took the design drawings and gathered a group of people under his command to start thinking about how to repair the bridge.

Or, to put it more bluntly, how to solve the problem of financing the bridge.

Someone directly proposed to take a loan from the bank, and then collect the bridge toll, with the bridge toll to repay the loan plan, this person waved his arm and said: "We set up toll stations on the left and right of the bridge, in order to let the people know, you can set up a sign at a distance of 100 meters from the bridge, on the book: 100 meters away from the toll station, please slow down!" ”

Someone objected on the spot: "Wusongjiang Bridge, once completed, is an important bridge connecting the north and south banks, and the secondary bridge is also a bridge specially built by us in order to develop the north bank. ”

"Repairing the bridge is for development, but also for the people's livelihood, is it possible that in the future, there are poor people who can't afford to cross the bridge and pay the fee, and you still stop people from passing?"

"Hmph, if there is no charge, how can the construction cost of 500,000 taels of silver be compensated? This is not 50,000 taels, this is 500,000 taels of silver, when the second industrial zone was developed, a total of more than 1 million taels of silver was spent, and from last year to now, my Shanghai Yamen repaired the main roads in the city, and the cost was only more than 600,000 taels of silver. ”

"Even if it is like this, it can't be collected, if you want to charge, it's better not to build it at all, I don't want to be pointed at us and scolded as roadblock bandits!"

"Fart, according to what you say, we simply don't engage in construction, don't do it if you're afraid of scolding, don't do things if you're afraid of making mistakes, you're a serious political mistake, last year when the Son of Heaven inspected the ministry, he said: Hundreds of officials should dare to set an example for the people of the world, and they can't do anything by doing nothing, let alone not doing things because they are afraid of doing something wrong!"

"This official wants to participate in your book, and those who are afraid of difficulties and things are officials in the court, which is a disaster for the people!"

When someone began to buckle his hat and raise the height of the topic to a political mistake, Chen Lifu knew that he should stop their quarrel, otherwise he would say something rebellious as soon as he got angry, and it would be a big trouble!

Chen Lifu immediately stretched out his hand and pressed it, and then said: "All the gentlemen are quiet, this official is the herdsman of the Son of Heaven, and all the gentlemen are also doing things for the Son of Heaven, although everyone's methods and concepts are different, but the purpose is still the same, all for the Son of Heaven, all for the people, don't get angry!" ”

When Chen Lifu said this, he looked around: "Sit down!" ”

Chen Lifu opened his mouth, even if others were angry in their hearts, they could only endure it, seeing that everyone was sitting down, Chen Lifu also thought about it, using a loan to repair the bridge, and then using the collected bridge tolls to repay the loan, it seems that it will not work.

It has caused such a big contradiction among officials, and if this is announced, I don't know how much discussion it will cause.

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