Chen Lifu couldn't understand why Feng's company suddenly entered the shipbuilding industry at this time, and it was also a cross-border entry into the shipbuilding industry, but he was not a person in the shopping mall.

Although his Chen family has many industries, the Chen family's positioning is still not a business family, but an official family, a scholarly family, except for him Chen Lifu, the children of the Chen family are basically a mind to study the imperial examination and then enter the office.

So far, in addition to him Chen Lifu, the Chen family, including the direct and collateral families, has more than a dozen people who have entered the ranks, although most of them are still mixed in low-level officials, but as long as they have strength, plus some luck, and Chen Lifu's help, they dare not say that they can go to a high position in the future, but it is not a problem to mix a middle-level official.

And these are the roots of the Chen family, as for business, it is just incidental.

Therefore, although Chen Lifu's family has a lot of assets, Chen Lifu rarely cares about the situation of these industries, and basically those Luodi people who have no talent for the imperial examination are taking care of them.

Therefore, Chen Lifu is actually not very clear about business affairs, he mainly understands some general direction affairs, and he is not professional in specific business operations.

So I was surprised, but that's it.

However, despite not understanding that the Feng family wants to enter the shipbuilding industry, Chen Lifu still feels that the Feng company's actions are really fast enough, and it is not easy to acquire this piece of land along the river adjacent to the development zone when the project of the North Shore Development Zone has just been determined.

You must know that these places are all private, and the land acquired by the government in the early years is limited to the scope of the North Shore Development Zone, and the scope of the development zone is only more than 30 square kilometers.

Its approximate range is about eight kilometers north of the Wusong River and about four kilometers west of the Huangpu River, with a total area of 33 square kilometers.

Except for these places, the rest are basically private land!

Since the news of the establishment of the North Shore Development Zone project, the land price around the North Shore Development Zone, especially along the Huangpu River near the Development Zone, has become one price per day.

I think everyone knows that if the north shore is developed, it will directly drive the development of the surrounding area, even if the development is not as good as the development zone, but it can also reap a lot of benefits.

Many enterprises in the development zone due to lack of strength, the amount of investment can not reach, can not obtain a hundred years of preferential lease period, but if they want to build a fast land as a long-term base, they want to buy land from private hands in the surrounding areas.

Naturally, the official side is very clear about this, and there is no interference, well, and it can't interfere.

Although it is said that the government can also expropriate these lands through land acquisition, but land acquisition costs money, and a large amount of surplus land around the development zone is expropriated at today's market price.

What's more, it is easy to be labeled as competing with the people.

Pay for one's whistle.

What's more, even if it is forcibly expropriated, Shanghai's finance will not have so much money for development, and if it cannot be developed after expropriation, it is better to let private capital enter.

The development of the three new urban areas of Jinling City, the capital of the Tang Empire, is this model, and the official guidance is at most the beginning, while the development of large new urban areas is still dominated by private capital.

It's not the same as Shanghai, which is mainly official.

However, many of Datang's policies do not give any clear distinction between the two methods, anyway, as long as they do not violate the law and discipline, the local government likes to do what they want, anyway, they only need to see the results.

What grades?

Livelihood!

Nowadays, officials from all over the Tang Dynasty, the focus of promotion and wealth is in the people's livelihood, because although education and stability are more important, they are too illusory, and education is to put it bluntly, it is education brainwashing, and it is often difficult to see what achievements there are, and stability, such as today's peace, rebellion and rebellion, although there are occasional things, but for most places it is still too far away.

Therefore, the only shortcut left for local officials in various places is the people's livelihood.

But the people's livelihood in the Tang Empire is the real people's livelihood, not the economic growth rate, gross domestic product, and not the amount of local fiscal revenue.

It refers to whether the people can eat enough, whether they can have clothes to wear, and whether they can have a house to live in.

If you are all miserable under your rule, a large number of people are hungry and cold, Fan can't afford to eat, have no house to live in, and no clothes to wear, no matter how high your economic growth rate, gross domestic product, and fiscal income are, it will be useless.

will even be put on a book of ginseng, saying that you don't care about the lives of the people to loot the people's fat and ointment.

The fundamental purpose of developing agriculture, industry and commerce is not to make the data look good, let alone to talk about more gold and silver, but to make the people's lives better.

People-oriented!

It's a pity that not many people can see through such a simple truth throughout the ages, or they know it, but they don't do it.

Most of the royal families and officials of other dynasties have a belief, that is, I just need to eat and drink spicy food myself, and the life or death of the people at the bottom is our business!

Li Xuan actually doesn't care too much about the lives and deaths of others, but he cares about his emperor's throne, the survival of the empire, and whether he can unify the world.

And these are all based on the same premise, that is, the people can live and work in peace and contentment!

When the people can't eat enough, there will be careerists shouting that the king will be the prime minister and Hou Ning will pull the people to rebel!

The quality of the people's lives is actually related to the survival of the Tang Empire and the stability of Li Xuan's imperial throne.

On the one hand, they have given a lot of policies to support the development of industry and commerce, and formulated a lot of laws and regulations to promote the development of industry and commerce.

However, most of the financial revenue contributed by industry and commerce has been filled into the bottomless pit of agricultural production.

And this point is even more prominent in the local yamen.

Most of the fiscal revenue of the prefecture and county is invested in agriculture-related construction, and as for industry and commerce, it is basically only given to policies and a small amount of funds, and if you want to give a large amount of financial support, you basically don't count on it.

At present, the Tang Empire is still a very typical agricultural country, although it has opened the prelude to industrialization, the financial income contributed by industry and commerce is also rising, even reaching more than 30%.

However, this does not mean that industry and commerce have become the pillars of the Tang Empire.

Chen Lifu returned to the county seat after a circle in the North Shore Development Zone, which made Sun Herong, the general manager of Feng's company, who had just received the news and was about to come to visit, very disappointed.

He also wanted to take this opportunity to meet Chen Lifu, the county lord, and then see if he could include the scope of his newly purchased land into the development plan of the development zone.

After all, the land purchased by their Feng company is immediately following the development zone, and the place is not very big, so it really needs to be included in the planning of the development zone, which is a matter of Chen Lifu's words.

If it can really be done, then this place can be directly under the management of the development zone, and then you will be able to enjoy many preferential policies in the development zone.

It's a pity that I was a step too late, and I didn't even have the opportunity to meet in person.

However, although disappointed, Sun Herong also knew that even if he saw it, the chance of facilitating this matter was not great.

The various preferential policies in the development zone are quite large, in order to attract large enterprises to settle down and invest, and these large enterprises obviously do not include their Feng enterprises.

Large enterprises, refers to Zhaoqing Machinery Company, Jiangnan Textile Company and other large enterprises, although Feng's enterprises in shipping is not small, but these large enterprises still can not be compared.

Otherwise, they would not have done anything to save the country and buy land on the edge of the development zone, but went directly to the development zone to rent land for a hundred years.

If you want to rent land directly in the North Shore Development Zone, it is not a business, it must be a large enterprise, and a huge amount of investment is promised, as for small and medium-sized enterprises, the development zone is naturally welcome, but don't expect to rent land directly, you can only rent a factory, and most of them are signed for three or five years.

Feng's company, just look at the name, this is a family business, established and controlled by the Feng family in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the first was just a few small boats, and then took advantage of the prosperity of the shipping market, expanded vigorously, tried its best to expand the size of the fleet, and finally became the leader of the inland shipping market in northern Zhejiang.

But they were not satisfied, so they soon entered the Huangpu River shipping market!

In order to raise funds to expand the size of the fleet, the Feng family sold all the properties that could be sold, and even bought the land that was regarded as the lifeblood of the family in the early years, and then borrowed money from various loans.

In such a crazy state, the size of Feng's fleet also expanded rapidly, and finally became one of the top ten inland waterway shipping companies in Shanghai, but this is still far from enough!

They want to go further, not only in Shanghai, but also in China, to become one of the largest shipping companies!

In order to further expand, the Feng family finally gave up the stubbornness of holding and began to introduce strategic investors, so that the sufficient funds obtained allowed the Feng company to begin a comprehensive expansion, not only inland shipping and offshore shipping, but also ready to set foot in the offshore shipping market.

At the same time as the expansion, in order to reduce the cost of ship procurement, they have a plan to enter the shipyard, not only self-built, but also ready to directly acquire several medium-sized shipyards.

At the same time as the expansion of the Feng family, the Feng family in Hangzhou also completely lost control of the company, and the Feng family currently only retains more than 30% of the shares, and the rest of the shares are held by major financial institutions or companies in related industries.

Otherwise, this shipping company with the word Feng would not let a person surnamed Sun be the general manager!

Sun Herong, who was previously the largest inland waterway shipping company in China, served as the general manager of the Yangtze River Transportation Company, which is jointly held by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises and more than 10 other companies.

The board of directors of Feng's company paid a high price to poach him as the general manager of Feng's company!

Whether it is the company's board of directors or Sun Herong himself, they all have great plans.

The simple shipping market in northern Zhejiang and even southern Jiangsu is no longer able to meet them, and they want to enter the Yangtze River and even the offshore shipping market, competing for the nationwide shipping market!

How can a company with only money but insufficient strength compete for the market?

The answer is simple: fight a price war!

To fight a price war, it is indispensable to burn money, but its own low cost is also necessary!

Therefore, before fighting a price war, they are ready to buy and build their own shipyards to reduce the cost of ship procurement by producing and selling their own ships.

If this operation can be completed, Sun Herong is sure that he can reduce the cost by more than 20% on the basis of the existing freight cost.

Such a low freight cost will provide the most favorable weapon for the subsequent price war set off by Feng's company in the shipping market!

Sun Herong is looking forward to the follow-up shipping market, freight prices plummeted by 30% or even half.

At that time, a shipping company will definitely die, and by that time the Feng company will be able to strengthen itself by annexing these bankrupt shipping companies.

If everything goes well, it is not an extravagant expectation for Feng's company to become the leading shipping company in China!