In these years, as a local official, the official reputation is still very important, and even an important consideration for whether an official can be promoted, after all, the eyes of the people are bright, and they can tell who is a good official and who is a corrupt official.

And the people still use the simplest, even foolish, way to discern.

If you give them benefits and can give them food and clothing, then you are a good official.

If not, needless to say, you are definitely not an official, either greedy or dereliction of duty, get out of here as soon as possible.

Well, if Chen Lifu directly uses Shanghai's finances to give one or two pieces of silver to the people of Shanghai, then he will definitely be a big good official in the eyes of the local people.

Of course, he will be arrested when he turns around, and it will not be the person from the Anti-Corruption Department of the Inspectorate who will arrest him, but the eagle dog of the Investigation and Statistics Department of the Hanlin Academy.

Spending money to buy people's hearts, what do you Chen Lifu want to do, rebel?

Chen Lifu doesn't want to build a bridge, there is a lot of discussion, once the toll, when people talk about the Wusongjiang Bridge in the future, they will not say that he Chen Lifu built the bridge, but will say that he Chen Li used the bridge to collect fees, and I don't know how many people scolded him at that time.

What a terrible thing to say!

So, charging is not a no-go, at least not in the current political environment.

But the bridge still has to be repaired, which is the premise of developing the north bank of the Wusong River, without such a bridge, the development of the north bank of the Wusong River is impossible to talk about, but where does the money for the bridge come from?

After two days, Chen Lifu found someone to design the wooden bridge plan, because the cost is low, but the plan is nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and the annual maintenance cost of the wooden bridge is very high, thousands of taels of silver every year, and the service life is only 20 years at most, and although the steel bridge has a large investment at the beginning, the follow-up maintenance is very convenient, a year at most a few hundred taels of silver can be done, and the service life can reach more than 50 years.

More importantly, the load-bearing capacity of the wooden bridge is also difficult to meet the demand, and the bridge is not only designed for pedestrians, but also for the carriage of freight between the north bank and the business area, the first industrial zone and the second industrial zone.

Nowadays, the freight carriages used by the Tang Empire are basically four-wheeled carriages, and the load capacity can easily reach more than one ton.

Therefore, after comprehensive consideration, Chen Lifu still decided to build a steel bridge, and as for the funds for the construction of this bridge, Chen Lifu also let everyone put forward several plans.

The original plan of borrowing money from the bank and repaying the loan with bridge tolls has been eliminated.

It is also not possible to directly use the financial resources to build it.

Others have just come up with a couple of other options.

It was suggested that since the bridge was built for the development of the north bank and to connect the north and south banks with traffic, it was possible to levy a certain fee on some companies on the south bank and those that were planning to build factories on the north bank, but this was not possible.

Collecting money directly, whether it is collecting bridge tolls or collecting money in other names, is inappropriate, and it is easy to fall into the truth, and Chen Lifu, who attaches great importance to fame, will naturally not agree to this kind of question.

Some people also said that the loan was in the name of the local yamen and the subsequent tax revenue from the North Shore area was used to repay the loan, but this plan was also eliminated.

Directly apply for loans from local yamen for infrastructure construction, and use local taxes to repay the loans, although this is a matter allowed by the policy, and many places also do this, but the risks are not small, not to mention, the 500,000 taels of silver is not a small amount, such a large project application needs to go through layers of approval, and in the end, it may alarm the Holy Son of Heaven.

If this thing is done, it will naturally be a good thing, but once something goes wrong, it will definitely become an indelible stain on Chen Lifu.

The political risks are too great, and Chen Lifu is also unwilling to bear them.

What's more, the development of the north bank of the Wusong River is a plan proposed and implemented by Chen Lifu, and it is a plan promoted by Shanghai County itself.

Chen Lifu doesn't want his political achievements to be robbed of in the end, and once something goes wrong, he is the person in charge.

The North Shore Development Plan is different from the previous Industrial Park Development Plan, and even different in nature.

Chen Lifu is more willing to use Shanghai to promote and solve these problems, rather than to go to Jiangnan Province or even the central government.

In the end, it was the people from the Shanghai Wharf Company who proposed a plan to Chen Lifu, saying that they could follow the wharf construction plan of the year, and their Shanghai Wharf Company could fund the construction of the bridge, but in order to recover the cost, they needed to obtain part of the land on the north and south banks of the Wusongjiang Bridge for development.

This proposal made Chen Lifu interested!

There is already a precedent for promoting infrastructure construction by granting land to it, and there will be no policy risks in doing so.

However, the Shanghai wharf company is said to be a wharf company, but it already has a lot of land, and the area along the river of more than 10 kilometers on both sides of the Huangpu River is their company's land.

Chen Lifu is also unwilling to continue to make the company bigger, not to mention that the management of the Shanghai Wharf Company has too much appetite and wants to swallow a large number of land on the north and south banks of the Wusongjiang Bridge.

However, the proposal of the Shanghai terminal company gave Chen Lifu a new idea!

The exchange of land for investment is a transaction, but it cannot be done by the Shanghai Wharf Company, and at the same time, it cannot be done by any private enterprises, after all, these lands belong to official land and belong to the imperial assets, and it is unreasonable to sell them to private enterprises.

However, it is possible to set up a new government-run enterprise, allocate land to them, and then let them use the land to apply for a loan, and use the commercial proceeds of the land to repay the loan.

After thinking of this layer, Chen Lifu carefully studied the precedent of the Shanghai Terminal Company, and then instructed the Shanghai Special County Finance Department to directly register and establish the Shanghai Bridge Company.

And the newly established company was given a large area of land on the north and south coasts.

In this way, although the company has no dime in cash, it has a large amount of land, and the undeveloped land on the north shore is not to mention how much potential it has in the future, but the land on the south bank is very valuable.

Because the land on the south bank belongs to the trade zone, the price of the land in the trade zone is very high, and this place, that is, the location of the tidal flat at the north end, was previously a warehouse belonging to the Jiangnan Textile Company, but the Jiangnan Textile Company only rented this land, because the land of the entire business zone belongs to the official, only rented and not sold.

In this area, if the Wusong River Bridge is built and the north bank is also developed, its commercial value will naturally be very large as a bridgehead connecting the north bank.

After the establishment of Shanghai Bridge Company, the design and construction plan of Wusongjiang Bridge was immediately started, but it was not only the bridge, but also the construction plan of a hotel.

It is also a bit difficult to get the bank to provide a loan, because after all, the value of the land depends on the building on it.

Therefore, the Shanghai Bridge Company plans to build a hotel on the south bank, located at the northernmost end of Yanjiang Avenue in the business district, and the name is Wusongjiang Hotel.

Just looking at the design plan, you know that this is a hotel that focuses on high-end accommodation, catering, and conferences, with the main floor reaching five floors, the podium is two stories high, and the area is very large, with a huge courtyard, and the building adopts a rare Western style.

Nowadays, the architecture of Shanghai is still dominated by traditional Chinese architecture, in addition to a lot of new buildings, these new buildings are usually reinforced concrete buildings, the external style is generally relatively simple, but also integrates some traditional elements, well, the specific style please refer to the boxy cement buildings of later generations, plus a pair of stone lions, it can be regarded as a combination of modernity and tradition, mainly practical.

However, the design of Wusongjiang Hotel is rare to adopt Western-style architecture, with obvious baroque style, and there is a large lawn garden in front, which is very suitable for open-air banquets.

Not to mention anything else, just building such a large piece of land as a lawn in the business zone is a super loser's behavior!

It can be seen that if this hotel is built, then the consumption will definitely not be low, coupled with a more unique building, maybe it will become a new generation of landmark buildings in Shanghai.

In fact, the people of Shanghai Bridge Company really think so, they just want to build a new landmark building, so as to drive the commercial value of the surrounding area of the hotel and the north shore area.

Otherwise, how will they get back to their roots!

Although these official banks need to take into account the factors of supporting the locality, they are more responsible for the safety of funds, and the money borrowed out cannot be recovered, and someone has to lose their heads for this.

I didn't see a feasible loan repayment plan, let alone Chen Lifu, even if the cabinet boss came to the door in person, it would be useless.

If you don't give money, you don't give money!

However, if there is such a large plot of land, and there is a development plan for the land with a decent rate of return, then the bank will be happy to do so.

There is no problem with a loan to repair the bridge, and by the way, it is no problem to take out a loan to repair the hotel.

As long as you use these plots as collateral, you don't want any ownership, you can't do it anyway, they just need a mortgage for a hundred years lease.

Chen Lifu took a look, although the conditions were a little harsh, but the loan was also issued by the Royal Bank and the Datang Imperial Bank under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, the former is wholly-owned by the Royal Assets Division, and the latter is wholly-owned by the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises.

So with a big wave of your hand, it's done!

As for how the Shanghai Bridge Company develops the land allocated to them on the north and south banks, Chen Lifu is too lazy to care, anyway, he only needs to see the Wusongjiang Bridge completed within two years.

After the construction funds of the Wusongjiang Bridge were in place, the final detailed design began immediately, and even entered the construction state soon.

At the same time, the development plan on the north bank of the Wusong River has officially kicked off!

This is Chen Lifu's biggest move since he took charge of Shanghai, and the achievements of his three-year term are counting on it, since the money is in place, it will be delayed there, and it will be done as quickly as possible, for fear that the bridge has not been completed before he leaves office, and the north bank has not been successfully opened.

In that case, wouldn't he want his predecessors to pick trees and later generations to enjoy the shade, and he still bears all the risks?

He Chen Lifu didn't do such stupid things.

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