In fact, with the width of the Huangpu River of 400 meters, it is really ruthless, and those geniuses at the Royal Institute of Technology can also design a bridge and then complete the construction.

However, after the construction of such a bridge, it will facilitate cross-strait exchanges, but the shipping of the Huangpu River will basically be abolished.

With the current technology, the bridge must have a large number of piers, otherwise it will not be able to support more than 400 meters, and the height of the bridge will not be too high.

Therefore, if we really want to do this, it will seriously reduce the navigable capacity of the Huangpu River.

You must know that the Huangpu River is the busiest waterway in China, and there is no one, and large ships of hundreds or even thousands of tons come and go on the Huangpu River every day.

With the current technical capabilities, if a bridge is built on the Huangpu River, half of the shipping capacity of the Huangpu River can basically be abolished.

Therefore, it is not feasible to build bridges, at least until the technology has developed to a certain extent.

But if there is no bridge, then cross-strait traffic will become a big problem, and you can't just rely on boats to ferry!

Transportation difficulties, this is an important reason for the development of the east bank of the Huangpu River, even in a short period of time is unsolvable, even if it is development, at most it is only a small-scale development, or as a separate industrial zone, commercial area to develop, but it is difficult to combine with the west bank of the business zone, the first and second industrial zones.

Traffic difficulties are the focus of the development of the east bank of the Huangpu River, and it is also a key point that is difficult to solve at present.

Therefore, there is only one place left for Chen Lifu now, that is, to the north, across the Wusong River to develop the north bank.

Geographically speaking, the north bank of the Wusong River is also close to the Huangpu River, and it is also close to the trade zone, which is more suitable for industrial and commercial development.

At the mouth of the Wusong River, which is close to the Huangpu River, its width is only about 100 meters, and it only takes about 100 meters to build the bridge.

At the same time, although the Wusong River is also an important shipping river, it is not very navigable for large ships, mainly for small and medium-sized ships, so when building a cross-river bridge, there is no need to consider the navigation too much, which is undoubtedly able to greatly reduce the design and construction difficulty of the cross-river bridge.

If the problem of the cross-river bridge can be solved, then the development of the north bank of the Wusong River will also be possible.

Because the development of the north bank of the Wusong River, like the development of the east bank of the Huangpu River, is the need to solve the traffic problem, the east bank of the Huangpu River because the Huangpu River is too wide, and considering the problem of navigation, so this bridge will not be able to be built for a while and a half.

However, in the development of the north bank of the Wusong River, the difficulty is greatly reduced!

It's just that although the difficulty has been reduced, Chen Lifu doesn't know if he can build it.

Although he is a traditional scholar and doesn't know much about mathematics, physics and chemistry, it doesn't matter if he doesn't understand it, he just knows that these are very important.

So these times he also asked some professionals, especially the heads of those large enterprises, because the purpose of developing the North Shore is also to serve those enterprises, not to develop any residential areas.

According to the feedback of the business community, they believe that if a factory is to be built on the north bank of the Wusong River, then a bridge across the river must be built, and this bridge must not be a small bridge for pedestrians, but a bridge that can pass heavy transport carriages.

Because the freight volume of the enterprise factory is very large, they need such a bridge to transport goods, connecting the business zone and the first and second industrial zones, as for the goods directly transported by ship, please, this is a little longer distance, too troublesome.

And if it is transported by boat, it is not better to go directly to the east bank of the Huangpu River.

Therefore, there must be a bridge, a bridge that can handle a large number of heavy freight wagons!

At the same time, the bridge must not affect the navigation of the Suzhou Creek and not hinder the passage of ships.

Although the Wusong River is not wide, and most of the traffic is carried by some small and medium-sized ships, it is also an important inland waterway in Shanghai, and it cannot be blocked because of a bridge, so the bridge must be large enough and high enough not to affect the passage of ships.

But with the current state of technology, will it be possible to build such a bridge?

Chen Lifu didn't know about it, so he found a professional, Kang Weide, a top student from the architecture department of the Royal Institute of Technology.

This man, like most of the teachers and students at the Royal Institute of Technology, is not very old, only twenty-three years old this year, but this person has already graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Royal Institute of Technology and has stayed on as an associate professor.

And his grade is the third grade, he lives in a mansion with official rations, and he travels with more than a dozen retinues, and they are all officially rationed, and the various political treatments enjoyed by this person are much higher than that of him Chen Lifu.

After learning that this person arrived in Shanghai, Chen Lifu did not dare to slack off, and ran to the dock to greet him in person!

"Professor Kang, I'm sorry for you to come all the way, Xia Guan really can't help it!" Although Chen Lifu is older than him, his grade is not as good as others.

Don't think that Professor Kang is a teacher who can not give face, you must know that this person participated in the design of the reconstruction of the palace, and he participated in many important projects.

Chen Lifu gives face, but Kangweide doesn't give him much face!

Just hummed softly, and then got into the carriage.

Outsiders may think that Chen Lifu is an officialdom potential stock, and he is expected to enter the cabinet in the future, but in Kangweide's opinion, it is just like that, even if Chen Lifu enters the cabinet, he still does not have to give him face.

The students of the Royal Institute of Technology generally have a high political status, and those who can stay in the school to teach and obtain the title of associate professor or full professor, which grade is not the third grade, and many people still have the title of nobility, regardless of whether it is the cabinet boss, or the army and navy bosses, when they see the professors of the Royal Institute of Technology, they have to be polite.

Especially on the navy side, in order to let the Royal Institute of Technology get the high-pressure steam engine out as soon as possible, he sent a few professors who were responsible for the research of high-pressure steam engines as grandchildren.

There's no way, people have high grades, high knighthoods are nothing, who let the family master the top technology, the navy wants a high-pressure steam engine, except for the teachers and students of the Royal Institute of Technology, no one can get it for them.

Chen Lifu also knows that the students in the Royal Institute of Technology are all above-eyed, and each one only thinks that he is a smart person, and the others are mentally retarded.

The students are like this, not to mention the professors, who dare to directly scold the cabinet on the fold of the many bigwigs are a bunch of stupid characters......

In fact, compared to these geniuses at the Royal Institute of Technology, others are really mentally retarded!

The IQ gap is there, you have to accept it if you don't accept it!

In this regard, Chen Lifu also doesn't care, it's just a group of scholars in the ivory tower, although the IQ is high, but the EQ is low, Chen Lifu is too lazy to meet them in general.

Of course, he would never say it, for fear that if he said a little heavily, people would turn around and leave.

After Kangweide came to Shanghai, Chen Lifu originally wanted to set up a banquet to entertain him for a few days, and then personally accompanied him to take a look around Shanghai, take a stroll, and appreciate the prosperity of Shanghai.

But there thought that Kang Weide said that he was very busy, so he would not engage in these miscellaneous things, and went directly to Wusongjiang for a field trip to see how to design the Wusongjiang Bridge.

When Chen Lifu heard this, he was also very happy, and immediately accompanied him to Wusongjiang for a field trip.

In the process of investigation, Chen Lifu also said his own plan, he hopes to directly build a bridge at the mouth of the river to directly connect the Yanjiang Avenue in the business area, so that when the north bank of the Wusong River is developed in the future, the Yanjiang Avenue on the north bank can also be directly connected.

Whether it is a business zone, the first industrial zone, or the second industrial zone, the most important main road is the road along the river.

Because of its proximity to the wharf, it is the most important road for transporting goods.

If the north bank of the Wusong River is to be developed, the roads along the river are naturally the most important and must be connected.

Kang Weide also wrote down Chen Lifu's request, and then took a few of his students ashore to inspect again, and then said to Chen Lifu: "We have to inspect for a few days, Chen Lifu can go and be busy!" ”

Chen Lifu looked at him, obviously thinking that he was in the way, and immediately didn't ask for his own hardship, and got out of the way.

Three days later, Kangweide found Chen Lifu, and then gave him a simple design plan, and said: "This is a preliminary design plan, if you have no problems here, I will make a detailed design plan in the future!" ”

A simple design solution?

Chen Lifu picked it up and took a look, and the first thing he saw was a sketch of a bridge with charcoal flowers, but after a closer look, he found that the bridge was not a wooden bridge, nor a stone bridge, but a steel bridge.

Build a bridge with steel, well, although Chen Lifu doesn't know if this can be done, but since he has given this plan, then he will be feasible for the time being, but then look at the cost, he is speechless!

500,000 taels of silver!

When he saw this number, he wanted to curse.

Is this the construction of the bridge?

It's a robbery!

It takes 500,000 taels of silver to build a bridge, don't bully me Chen Lifu doesn't know how to build and mess around, and even if it's a genuine cost, Shanghai's local finance can't come up with so much money!

Looking at Chen Lifu's expression, Kang Weide on the side showed disdain, only 500,000 taels of silver, this is still the cost of his own streamlining and streamlining, he Chen Lifu doesn't want to think about it, his weighing demand for the bridge is so high, and he also requires that it does not affect navigation, such a high requirement, except for the steel bridge, it is almost impossible to meet.

And steel is very expensive these days!

If 500,000 taels of silver can be built, he should snicker!