In the current wave of the Tang Dynasty's vigorous support for the development of shipping, river transportation, industry and commerce, and maritime trade, cities along the coast and along the river have gained more opportunities than cities in other regions.

And if it happens to be a coastal city and a city along the river, then it is inevitable to get more development opportunities!

Just like Guangzhou, the coast, and the mouth of the Pearl River, originally had a strong commercial atmosphere, and when the Tang Dynasty officially opened to foreign trade, and Guangzhou was positioned as a treaty port, Guangzhou's development is a thousand miles away, not to mention its Guangzhou business area, now a large number of wasteland in the suburbs of Guangzhou, has become a variety of factories.

Even the Foshan area, which is close to Guangzhou City, has been affected by the great era, with the steel industry as the center of surging development!

The geographical advantages of Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture, are very similar to Guangzhou, which is also along the coast, and backed by the Yangtze River, and more importantly, the Jiangnan water network is dense, and almost the entire Jiangnan can be connected through the Jiangnan water network.

Its transportation advantages are too obvious, relying on sea and river transportation, a large number of industrial raw materials can be obtained here, and the industrial products produced can be radiated to the entire Yangtze River basin through the Yangtze River transport, and can be radiated to the coastal areas of the north and south of China through shipping, which is exported to Fuso and Southeast Asia.

Not to mention the use of the developed river transportation network in the Jiangnan area, its products can be easily transported to the whole Jiangnan for sale!

The transportation advantages brought by this geographical location are far more obvious than the advantages of resources, to say that the source of resources, that is more, for example, the current Taiping Prefecture Dangtu County, has found a super large-scale iron ore, the local Jiangnan Iron and Steel Plant has also been established, but the local area can only rely on iron ore, so as to develop steel, machinery and other related industries, but other industries and light industry, at present, when Tu there is almost zero, and the business atmosphere is also average.

However, in Shanghai, which honestly has nothing but land, is now full of factories.

When Li Xuan personally went to inspect the industrial zone on the outskirts of Shanghai, he almost couldn't believe his eyes, Nima, this is only the sixteenth century, and this Shanghai has only developed for more than a year, so many messy factories have come.

Although these factories are now very dependent on power, they are generally built directly by the river and use water power, while those who have no need for power are generally simply directly used by livestock or simply people.

To put it simply, except for a few heavy industry factories in the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises, most of the others are factories that have little demand for power, mainly labor-intensive enterprises.

In essence, there is actually no difference between these private factories and family workshops, but the management and production models are very different, which leads to the improvement of production efficiency and the reduction of costs, so as to make these produced goods more competitive.

After visiting Shanghai's industrial zone, Li Xuan said that he was very pleased that the model of industrial zone, which he proposed a few years ago, is 'resource concentration'.

Because the financial resources of the local yamen are limited, and the financial resources of the enterprises are also limited, if the local yamen is engaged in the east and the west, then it will not be able to concentrate the resources of the local yamen, and the same is true for enterprises, if the local yamen does not provide infrastructure support and give various conveniences, it will cause a heavy burden to the operation of enterprises.

In the Shanghai Industrial Zone, as long as investors have money, the factory can be rented directly, and the recruitment of managers, technicians, and ordinary employees can be directly recruited in the local talent market, which has a large number of people who want to get a stable job.

All kinds of procedures can be handled in one stop at the yamen in the industrial zone, and there are even people who specialize in handling various businesses.

In other words, as long as you have money, you can open a factory in the Shanghai Industrial Zone in a few minutes, of course, whether it will do well in the future will have to be said separately.

Even the business environment is much better than other places, next door is the business area, where a large number of merchants, some of them from all over China, some from the South Seas, and even many Europeans, they sell and purchase all kinds of goods here.

If you need raw materials, you don't have to bother to find them there, just go directly to the business area to place an order.

After the products are produced, you don't have to bother to pull down various places to buy them, you can sell them directly to those merchants in the business area.

What's even more interesting is that these industrial zones often have relatively large tax incentives!

You have to know that in the Tang Dynasty, tax is not light, and tax evasion is a big crime, the amount of money is huge, the severity is no less than rebellion, how to say, tax evasion is huge, for the Tang Dynasty, a regime that spends a lot of money and is very dependent on taxes, there is actually no difference from rebellion.

Tax evasion is not allowed, but in order to support industry, the Tang Dynasty often has preferential tax policies!

These preferential policies are still at the central level, and at the local level, in order to develop the economy, the local yamen often sacrifice short-term local fiscal revenue to attract investment, and will give up a part of the local tax as a subsidy.

For example, if the tax should be paid 100 taels, the central level will reduce a certain amount in order to support the industry, which is valid nationwide, and in a certain place, especially in the industrial zone, the local government will also reduce or exempt a certain amount of tax in the form of subsidies, because these taxes are divided between the central and local governments, and if the local finance has this determination, it can completely subsidize the local taxes, and do not make a dime, and the tax department does not care.

Anyway, only the national tax is collected, and the local tax is left to the local yamen to dispose of by themselves, and the Ministry of Taxation does not care whether you are willing to engage in infrastructure, education, culture and art.

In order to attract more capital investment to build factories, Shanghai Industrial Zone has even achieved 100% subsidy for some specific industries, and Shanghai Yamen has allocated how much land tax, then how much land tax is subsidized, and there is no discount at all.

And in this way, don't think that the Shanghai Yamen is losing!

In fact, they don't lose money, and they make a lot of money!

Although subsidies are given to factories, factories will drive the development of more industries and provide employment and tax revenue, but some ordinary industries are not exempt from taxes.

The overall process is basically like this: the local yamen subsidizes to attract capitalists to build factories, the factories make money, recruit more workers, and in this process, the factories need raw materials and various services, so that there are many upstream and downstream enterprises that make money, and the local yamen collect taxes from these related enterprises.

At the same time, the industry has developed, there are more workers, the income is high, they have to consume, for example, after work, colleagues go out to eat or something, and the restaurant has to pay taxes!

After earning money to buy two catties of meat, the butcher has to pay taxes!

I earned money to buy two pieces of cloth to make clothes for the girls in the house, and the cloth dealers had to pay taxes!

Basically, as long as they spend, then the tax department will always have a way to collect the tax revenue!

According to the current comprehensive tax rate of Datang, the tax department can collect an average of 50 taels of silver from the goods of 100 taels of silver, and the comprehensive tax rate reaches 50 percent.

What, you say taxes are too high? There's no way, the Datang Tax Department is so awesome!

Besides, if you don't charge such a high tax, you let the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi drink the northwest wind, and the military expenses of more than 20 million taels of silver a year!

After leaving Shanghai, Li Xuan also did not plan to go to other places, but returned to Jinling by warship, this time he came out, went north and south, ran most of China, and the time was calculated for half a year, and he should also go back to Jinling City.

This is not to say that Li Xuan misses the palace dance troupe in the royal courtyard, but as an emperor, it is not good to leave his capital for too long, and it is prone to all kinds of messy accidents.

For example, no one knows if there are careerists who try to commit a mutiny in Jinling City or something, if there is someone who thinks that Li Xuan is not in Jinling City, he can carry out a palace mutiny or something, although Li Xuan has absolute confidence to personally lead the army to quell the rebellion, but this kind of thing can be avoided if it can be avoided!

Those who deliberately leave, show weakness, pretend to be injured, die, etc., wait for those who are half-hearted to come out on their own, and then return to counterinsurgency strongly, are stupid!

If you let others see the opportunity, don't blame them for having two hearts!

A qualified emperor never has to make people feel that others have a chance to overthrow him!

Don't even give a chance, even if it's fake!

It's better if no one else even thinks about it!

After all, you are not gold and silver, everyone loves you, you are just an emperor, those courtiers, those careerists are also living people, people are also ambitious, and they will consider themselves, make stupid mistakes and give others a chance, don't blame others for being too ruthless!

So after Li Xuan finished his trip to Shanghai, he didn't go to other places, but returned to Jinling City with hundreds of civil and military officials and guards, well, this is for the sake of the overall situation, definitely not because he wants to go back early to appreciate the exquisite dance skills of the palace dance troupe.

But not to mention, I haven't watched a dance for a few months, so I miss it.

Especially a few days ago, Wang Wenhua, who stayed in Jinling City, came to an excerpt, saying that he personally searched for it, which took several months, and successfully excavated several good seedlings with high dancing talent, waiting for the Holy Monarch to return to the court, and presented a wonderful dance posture for the Holy Monarch.

Alas, Wang Wenhua, a courtier, is also loyal, Li Xuan, the emperor, can't chill the courtier's heart, after returning to Jinling City, let him send people in and appreciate them well!