Nowadays, the new tax system created by the Tang Dynasty is already relatively complete in Li Xuan's opinion. To what extent is it perfect? Most people will never understand the twists and turns of taxation.
Li Xuan estimated that after this set of taxes was fully issued, the number of accounting and tax personnel in the Tang Dynasty would increase rapidly, and in this way, many new jobs would be created.
Of course, these side effects are just trivial matters, but what is really important is that according to the forecast of the Ministry of Taxation, after the full implementation of this new tax system, the existing industrial and commercial tax revenue will increase on the existing basis.
More than thirty percent.
And this number is quite scary, because currently in the Tang Dynasty, industrial and commercial taxes account for more than 30% of the total tax revenue, and this proportion is still increasing rapidly.
As a result, the direct tax revenue from industry and commerce will increase by more than four to five million taels of silver!
And these millions of taels of silver are the real reason why Li Xuan and various cabinet ministries actively promote tax reform!
As for supporting the development of certain industries, that is actually only secondary, because for the industries that really want to be supported, the Tang Dynasty usually directly adopts tax preferential policies.
For example, if you invest in the manufacturing industry, you can generally get a tax holiday of one to three years, and after the tax holiday there will be a half-tax period ranging from one to five years.
In particular, the machinery industry currently strongly supported by the Tang Dynasty has directly set up a five-year tax holiday. After the tax holiday ends, there will be a five-year half-tax period, for a total of ten years of tax benefits.
The purpose was to allow the machinery industry in the Tang Dynasty to grow rapidly. Otherwise, relying solely on the support of Zhaoqing Machinery Company would cause problems sooner or later.
And some industries that are obviously huge profits and have no obvious role in promoting people's livelihood, such as silk, are actually luxury accessories, expensive and huge profits. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty will impose heavy taxes on the raw silk industry in the future.
Although some people say that it will affect the livelihood of silkworm farmers, in fact the impact will not be too great, because in the end, this part of the tax cost will be added to the selling price of silk. Simply put, the price of live silk will increase.
And after the price increase, will it affect the sales of silk?
In fact, it won't happen, because the people who buy silk are all wealthy people. If the price increases by 10% or even 20%, you should still buy what you should buy, and you can't afford what you can't afford.
This kind of price increase, which is not a daily necessity, has little impact on ordinary people's livelihood.
But if the price of food increases or decreases, the impact will be huge.
If prices rise, ordinary citizens will be ruined; if prices fall, farmers will go bankrupt. Therefore, for things related to people's livelihood, slight price changes require great caution.
At present, the Tang Dynasty's attitude towards food prices is to maintain stability. If prices rise, they will crack down on speculation. Those who take advantage of the opportunity to drive up food prices will definitely confiscate families and exterminate clans without mercy. At the same time, they will also release official grain reserves to stabilize food prices; prices are low.
, the official made large-scale acquisitions and forcibly raised prices.
When it comes to taxation specifically, it shows that the agricultural tax rate during the Tang Dynasty did not change, but remained stable!
Li Xuan was busy for several days, personally reviewing the new tax system and proposing several clauses that needed to be modified. After the modifications were made, it was officially announced to the world.
Datang Chao Bao published a report on the new tax system in the latest issue of Chao Bao, and will continue to pay attention to it after subsequent reports, mainly to popularize it and guide correct public opinion.
The reports on the new tax system in the newspapers of the Tang Dynasty were naturally positive. They talked about the benefits of the new tax system to people. It was a great good policy. It was specially issued by the Holy Emperor Li Xuan for the sake of the people of the world.
benevolent government.
And they will amplify and publicize some positive aspects, such as lowering taxes on certain industries, which should be talked about in detail. As for increasing taxes on certain industries, they will naturally avoid the important and ignore the light. Even if it is mentioned occasionally, then
It is also discussed from multiple perspectives. Even if it is a tax increase, it is a good thing!
Of course, if it is expected that the overall industrial and commercial tax revenue next year will increase by more than 30%, it will naturally not be revealed in the slightest. When it is actually said in the future, it will also be attributed to
Regarding the overall development of industry and commerce, it is absolutely impossible to say that when people spend the same money to buy things, the amount contributed to the Datang Taxation Department has increased by more than ten percentage points.
When it comes to various new policies or new large-scale actions of the Tang Dynasty, the Datang Dynasty will always publish lengthy articles in a timely manner to guide the world's public opinion. The principle is to describe good things as great things and bad things as good things.
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Always insist that the Tang Dynasty is correct and the eternal sage Li Xuan is great!
As for the effect, it’s all a matter of opinion!
And what’s even more interesting is that the Tang Dynasty prohibited the private sector from opening any type of newspaper. Even local governments did not have this power. After the Tang Dynasty newspaper was published all over the country, many people have seen the implications in it in the past few years.
The huge potential, whether it is public opinion guidance or commercial value, is very huge.
However, the Tang Dynasty banned any type of unofficial newspapers, and even if someone did it secretly, he had no distribution channels.
The issuance of the Tang Dynasty relied on the post system and the official document delivery system, which was beyond the reach of the private sector.
After the taxation matter was settled, Li Xuan looked back at the war in Jiangbei. After Hao Bainian arrived outside Yangzhou City, he seemed to be doing nothing. He did not surround Yangzhou City, but just blocked one of the city walls, and then there was no day.
Nightlong bombardment!
According to reports submitted by the logistics department, the Third Army has disabled more than 30 artillery pieces in the past seven or eight days of shelling!
Due to the continuous bombardment, too many artillery shells were fired. Some of the artillery that had very little barrel life left gradually reached the end of its barrel life and were then scrapped, especially the five-pound field guns made of iron. The barrel of this thing was
The lifespan is too low, less than 500 rounds. Basically, it will be almost scrapped after a few large-scale artillery battles.
However, although there are many scrapped artillery pieces, the logistics department has been prepared and can transport more artillery pieces!
Some of the artillery originally stored in the reserve were directly shipped and shipped, and then the newly produced artillery in Guangdong also continued to leave the factory. Once they left the factory, they were directly shipped and transported to the Yangtze River.
Therefore, instead of firing fewer and fewer artillery pieces in the Third Army, they fired more and more artillery pieces!
Looking at the latest battle report from Yangzhou, Li Xuan estimated that Hao Bainian was about to launch a general offensive!
According to the plan formulated by the Privy Council to conquer Yangzhou, a simple fierce attack will be effective quickly, but the casualties will be very huge, so the attack plan is divided into three steps. The first is to use intensive artillery to completely suppress it.
The artillery of the Ming Army in the city, through artillery battles, killed a large number of Ming Army gunners, destroyed part of the city wall, and suppressed the strength of the Ming Army's artillery counterattack.
Then the soil work began, including filling in the moat, digging trenches, and digging tunnels to bury explosives to blast the city wall.
At the same time, a semi-concealed fort was built forward so that the howitzers with curved trajectories could fire at close range, more effectively suppressing and killing the Ming army's city walls and the protective force behind the city walls.
Yangzhou City is neither big nor small, but hundreds of thousands of troops are crowded in the city, and they must always be prepared for the Tang Army to directly attack the city. They must deploy a large number of troops at the top of the city and behind the city wall.
, otherwise, they would not be able to defend in time when the Tang Army suddenly launched a fierce attack.
You must know that in the past seven or eight days, although the Third Army did not launch a general offensive, small and medium-sized experimental attacks were carried out every day. The purpose of these experimental attacks was not to conquer Yangzhou, but to test and find out the Ming army.
Weaknesses in the defense, and at the same time, we took advantage of this opportunity to kill a large number of Ming army's defensive forces and undermine the morale of the Ming army in the city.
The battle report Li Xuan saw showed that in the past eight days, the Third Army was estimated to have killed at least 8,000 Ming troops, while its own casualties were less than 500!
Most of the results were due to this kind of probing attack, which attracted a large number of Ming troops to board the city to prepare for defense, and then killed them through rapid fire from a large number of artillery.
As for the specific number of people killed and injured, the Third Army can only have an estimate. The specific number is probably only known by the Ming army in the city.
After testing for so long, the preparations of the Third Army are almost completed. The Battle of Yangzhou should also enter the stage of general attack.
Li Xuan's prediction was not bad. On the tenth day after the Third Army arrived in Yangzhou, the Third Army mobilized its entire army early in the morning and then began to form a formation. This formation made it obvious at a glance that a general attack was coming.
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So the Ming army behind the city wall immediately ran in a hurry, and a large number of Ming army soldiers on the opposite side began to run up to the city. However, at this time, there were nearly a hundred field guns, dozens of heavy short-barreled howitzers, and naval support outside the city.
Dozens of naval guns and howitzers fired at the same time, and they fired rapidly.
At that moment, hundreds of artillery shells flew towards the city head at the same time, and dozens of grenades exploded on the spot. Although many of them were directly built into the city wall, and some flew over the city head and fell behind, but
There were still a lot of artillery shells falling on the city, causing heavy casualties to the Ming army.
After being hit hard by such a burst of shelling, the Ming army at the top of the city was a little stunned. So, a swarm of swarms came down the city wall. They were worried that the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side was bluffing, and after attracting them to the top of the city, they killed them through artillery fire.
, this happened every day in the past, and the Ming army was used to it.
However, even so, the Ming army had to go to the city to defend, because this was false and true. What if the pseudo-Tang rebel army really attacked?
Therefore, although many Ming soldiers descended on the city, there were still many Ming soldiers who took the risk to stay behind, and the artillerymen were already operating artillery to fight back.
In the city of Yangzhou, the Ming army actually had quite a lot of artillery. Among the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, even if the proportion of artillery equipment was lower, there were at least seventy or eighty field guns in total, as well as numerous bowl-mouth cannons.
Shotguns represented by Folan machine guns.
But although the Ming army had a lot of artillery, they didn't have many gunners!