In this case, we can only develop one of the places, and the other two places can only be temporarily abandoned!

As for simultaneous development around the cross-river mouth, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is very basic... If you want to develop simultaneously across the river, you must first solve the traffic problems on both sides of the river.

It is not easy to build a bridge across hundreds of meters of river these days, not to mention that the river needs to maintain navigability and a certain clear height of the bridge. It is technically difficult and the investment is huge.

At present, let alone a broken place like Heyuan Prefecture, even a city as powerful as Songjiang Prefecture is at a loss as to how to build a bridge on the Huangpu River without affecting the shipping on the Huangpu River. There is no talk about how to develop Huangpu without a bridge.

The Jiangdong Bank area.

At the same time, Jinling City, the capital of the Chu Empire, is just a general name. Its urban area includes three parts, namely Jiangning County in the western suburbs of Jiangnan, Shangyuan County in the eastern suburbs of Jiangnan, and also includes Jiangpu County on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
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To put it simply, the county seats of three counties constitute the government of Yingtian Mansion, which is also the capital of the Chu Empire, Jinling City.

However, the core areas of Jinling City have always been in the Jiangning and Shangyuan areas on the south bank of the Yangtze River. As for the Jiangpu area in the north of the Yangtze River, the development is very limited, and there are not even many factories...

The main reason that limits its development is that cross-strait transportation is very troublesome, and we can only rely on ferries!

However, if you use a ferry, the transportation volume will be small and the cost will be high.

Therefore, for the development of urban areas, rivers actually have advantages and disadvantages. Rivers bring more convenient external transportation, but they also limit the development of external expansion of local urban areas.

In Song Alin's opinion, Heyuan Prefecture City is not suitable for the development of any industry. The transportation is not convenient, and there are few resources around it... Even the place only has a small, narrow and flat area around the river valley, with mountains on both sides...

In this kind of place, it is destined that some traditional industrial industries cannot be developed. Instead, some simple processing industries such as local specialties and economic crops can be developed.

Obviously, it was not just Song Alin who saw this. Wang Tu, as the governor of the state, knew even more clearly that the Heyuan Prefecture under his rule seemed large, but in fact it was nothing. It didn’t even have a large population, and it was difficult to engage in labor-intensive and cheap industries.

It cannot compete with those densely populated places.

However, relying on mountains to feed mountains and water to feed water, Wang Tu visited various places in Heyuan Prefecture in detail before and found that the entire Heyuan Prefecture is not without any merits.

For example, if you go west along the Xinfeng River and then north along the Zhongxin River, you will come to a large basin, the Lighthouse Basin.

This area is a very rare flat area in the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong, which can promote large-scale food planting. This has been done before, and Wang Tu will also focus on agricultural development here in the following years.

The development of the Lighthouse Basin.

Food is always the most important priority for local development. Whether you grow food yourself, develop the industrial and commercial economy, or purchase food from other places, the local food supply must be sufficient.

Otherwise, there will be no development if the people don’t have enough to eat.

As for other aspects, you still have to look for food in the mountains!

There are many mountains in Heyuan, and the environment and climate in many places are more suitable for growing tea. Wang Tu wants to start tea planting, and then set up supporting tea processing to create a one-stop tea industry chain.

At the same time, there are many local places suitable for growing some fruits, and you can rely on the fruits to make some canned fruits

Coupled with the original economic crop planting and processing industries such as the yuba processing industry previously established in Heping, a comprehensive economic crop planting and processing industry chain will eventually be created.

His goal is to develop Heyuan Prefecture, a remote and remote country that people think has nothing to offer, into a state that exports agricultural products.

Through the cultivation and processing of agricultural products, it can not only increase the income of local farmers, but also provide more jobs and allow the government to obtain valuable tax revenue to use to improve infrastructure.

For example, Wang Tu has been keeping an eye on the dredging of the Dongjiang waterway for a long time. When he was the magistrate of Heping County, many local processed agricultural products and other products shipped to the Pearl River Delta for sale depended on the shipping of the Dongjiang River and its tributaries.

However, because the navigation capacity is so poor, the export of local products is strictly restricted.

Now that this problem has expanded to the entire Heyuan Prefecture, it has become more serious and prominent.

Although the Guangzhou-Heyuan section of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway has been opened, the railway line can continue to open north to Longchuan by the end of this year.

But rail transportation is expensive!

Unless there is no choice, bulk goods that do not have high time limit requirements are generally shipped by ship, because the cost of rail transportation will be higher.

For ordinary commodities, a slight increase in cost will have a huge impact.

In addition, although the railway has been opened, it will continue to extend northward to Ganzhou, and will eventually be connected to the Jiangxi section of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Railway in Jiangxi.

But not all places have train stations!

Railway stations along the railway are often dozens of kilometers or even further apart, which means that even if you want to transport goods by rail, you still need to transport the goods from the place of origin to the railway station.

This seemingly short land transportation distance is actually very troublesome. If you want to make these roads smooth, you need to invest a lot of money in widening and maintaining the roads.

The situation of land roads in various places in Heyuan is not optimistic, even the official roads are not in good condition.

Dredge the shipping conditions of the Dongjiang River and several of its tributaries, especially the management of the shallow shoals; and at the same time improve and maintain some of the main official roads in the territory; this is the tone set by Wang Tu for infrastructure construction.

But this all requires money!

Although there will be financial support from the top...but you can't expect the top to pay for it all. There is no such precedent in the Great Chu Empire.

When local governments need to build infrastructure and need financial support from superiors, you must first provide part of it yourself, and then the superiors will consider subsidizing part of it for you.

Don't think that you won't have a dime to spend and just use the money from above to do it.

But today's Heyuan Prefecture is so poor that the state finance department cannot even pay the salaries of public officials at all levels. Wang Tu just went to Guangzhou half a month ago. Why did he go there?

Ask Cheng Yongfeng for money... and then come back with the money to pay part of the long-overdue salary!

Yes, only part of it has been paid. Up to now, the state finance department still owes more than 360,000 yuan in salary to public officials at all levels.

If you ask carefully, you will find that the issue of salary arrears started when the Chu Empire first came to this poor place to establish a government office. The usual practice is to pay out part of the salary, and issue an IOU for the remaining part... and then reissue it after asking for subsidies from the superiors.

This is still a good year.

When funds are really tight, these IOUs are often owed for many years...or some local specialty and cheap goods are used as wages...

Many people naturally have objections to these items that are obviously junk at first sight and are even discounted at extremely high prices, but if you want this thing, don’t throw it away, because the finances just don’t have the money anyway!

Over the years, the total amount of salary arrears has reached a total of 360,000 yuan.

Three hundred and sixty thousand Chu Yuan is nothing to some big cities, and even to some enterprises, it costs more than three hundred thousand yuan for a shipping company to order a steam engine sailing ship of about two thousand tons.

Chu Yuan.

But for the poor Heyuan Prefecture's finances, that is a huge sum of money.

The most terrible thing is that this is not only the only payment owed by Heyuan Prefecture's finance, but also many other debts.

The former Heyuan magistrate had done a lot of infrastructure construction. The local people thought he was a good official, and his superiors also liked him very much, so he was transferred back to the governor's Yamen and became a deputy director.

But my ex did a lot of things, but he didn’t give me much money!

It is normal to carry out infrastructure construction. For the sake of political performance or their own ideals, most local officials will try to make it more beautiful. His predecessor Wang Tu created a so-called new administrative center and built the Zhizhou Yamen.

It's very beautiful. We even built a so-called pedestrian street by the river. It's very beautiful to enrich people's daily life. We also built several official roads and flood control dams on several rivers.

We also built an irrigation and flood control system in the Lighthouse Basin.

We have done a lot of things and brought a lot of benefits to the people.

But the problem is that he basically didn’t pay the final payment for these projects.

Basically, they only give a down payment and let the contractor advance the construction funds. When the construction is completed and they ask for the balance, they find various reasons to default. Of course, in fact, they really have no money... What they are doing is nothing.

Regarding the wolf thing, I never planned to pay the balance.

This can be regarded as allowing some business leaders who are engaged in municipal projects and have high-ranking officials to see the shamelessness of local officials... In the past, they relied on some personal connections and bribes to undertake various government projects and made a lot of money.

Very profitable.

But when I got to Heyuan Prefecture, it was good... I accepted the project casually, and the price seemed to be sufficient, but I only gave a down payment, and the remaining balance was not worth living.

In the final calculation, not to mention making money, I even lost all my capital!

After asking relatives and friends to put pressure on officials, the former Zhizhou said politely after feeling the pressure: It's not that he doesn't want to give, it's because he really has no money... How about you use the Zhizhou Yamen building to pay off the debt?

In short, no matter what you say, you still have no money when you go back and forth... If you are really desperate and plan to ask them to pay off the debt at the Zhizhou Yamen Building, they will immediately turn against you and shout: If you have the ability, go and sue. The state is next door.

Court!

By the way, the cement building of the Heyuan State Court has been in use for three years, but only 20% of the money for repairing the building has been paid, and the rest has not been paid... The contractors have been dragged into bankruptcy.

When he learned about these situations, Wang Tu was furious...

Damn, you are more shameless than me!

And his ex has already done this, what should he do? He originally planned to do this!

So this is very confusing... He has also tried to advertise for repair work on a section of road before, but unfortunately, no contractor came to the door.
Chapter completed!