Following Zhaoqing, Guangzhou, which can be said to be the most important city in Guangdong, has also changed its dynasty!

For the ordinary people in Guangzhou, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty, it does not matter much.

The only thing that had an impact on them was the shortage of materials caused by the siege of Guangzhou, which lasted for several months, although the blockade in Guangzhou was only a land blockade, and the soldiers and civilians in the city could get supplies from the Pearl River, but these supplies were more than enough to meet the needs of the people in the city.

Therefore, it will not starve to death, but there is a shortage of materials, and the price of rice and grain will rise for sure.

Now that the war is over, the business exchanges inside and outside the city have returned to normal, and they have resumed their daily life, at most, they are discussing the pseudo-Tang thief army, no, it should be said that it is the bits and pieces of the Tang Dynasty.

The people who are most touched by the change of dynasty in Guangzhou are the officials and big families who surrendered in the city!

Although when Wang Yue withdrew from Guangzhou City, he brought a large number of officials and family members, and also took away a large number of large families, but not everyone could take them away, let alone everyone was willing to leave with Wang Yue.

As in the previous siege wars, after the city was broken, there were not many Ming army officials who surrendered, and their grades were not high, and most of them were middle and low-level officials.

Even if the big family is gone, but there will be a part of the people left behind, and the family business in Guangzhou can't be said to be lost, and some people will be left to watch.

Therefore, when Deng Guan summoned the Ming army to demote, there was not a single high-ranking official in the Ming Dynasty who was demoted, and the highest grade was a Tongzhi of the sixth grade.

As for the Ming Dynasty officials who were captured and captured because they failed to escape, there were actually some Ming Dynasty officials, including a few fourth-grade and fifth-grade officials, but those high-ranking officials refused to surrender to Cheng alive or dead.

Waiting for these officials who refuse to surrender to life or death is nothing more than imprisonment or even direct beheading.

As for these middle- and low-level officials in front of him, Deng Guan followed the old rules of the Tang Dynasty, first intimidated, then encouraged, and finally arranged some positions for them casually, so that they could do things with their hearts and not think nonsense.

Placating the Toucheng officials is naturally the easiest thing, anyway, these Toucheng officials are of little use, and they are not needed to manage Deng Guan in Guangzhou.

Before entering Guangzhou City, Deng Guan had already organized an entire administrative team of the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture and even the subordinate counties under the arrangement of the officials.

In other words, although Guangzhou City has not been won before, Deng Guan has been the prefect of Guangzhou for two months, and now he is just moving to Guangzhou City with his administrative team.

The administrative affairs are easy to solve, but many follow-up things make Deng Guan a little headache.

When entering the city, His Majesty Li Xuan was still in the city, and summoned Deng Guan, listened to Deng Guan's plan for governing Guangzhou in the future, and also put forward a number of requirements.

What are the requirements?

Very simply, it is to let Deng Guan restore and even develop Guangzhou's agriculture and commerce as soon as possible, and provide a large amount of grain for the Tang Dynasty, while also providing rich taxes.

After all, the Pearl River Delta region in this year is actually still a traditional and quite rich grain production area, and the grain output is not less than that of Wuzhou and Guilin, or even more.

And Guangzhou is still an important business town!

At that time, Deng Guan's brain was hot, and he boasted to Li Xuan, saying that this year, Guangzhou Government will definitely provide the treasury with at least 500,000 taels of silver in treasury taxes, which will be doubled to one million taels next year!

In fact, he regretted it as soon as he said it, 500,000 taels of silver this year, and 1 million taels of silver next year? That's a big task.

Although Wuzhou under the rule of the Tang Dynasty has set a tax task of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, Guangzhou is richer, and it stands to reason that there should be more taxes.

But now that Guangzhou has just gone through a fierce war, it is not so easy to restore people's livelihood and commerce.

In addition, it is now May, and almost half a year has passed this year, and it is unlikely that a tax of 500,000 taels of silver will be collected in a little more than half a year in the next half year.

As for doubling next year, it will be even more difficult.

Although the Tang Dynasty has already been determined, after taking Guangzhou, it will vigorously develop sea trade, but the development of sea trade also takes time, in addition, the Tang Dynasty Navy strength scum, now the Pearl River Estuary is still under the control of the Ming army and sailors, how many people can dare to come to Guangzhou for trade?

But regret is regret, since all crotch. After going to Haikou, I know that it is difficult to do, but I have to do it hard!

Therefore, on the one hand, he asked his colleagues in the tax department to collect taxes efficiently and actively, and on the other hand, he was also preparing to summon the gentry in the city to discuss the matter of industry and commerce.

In Guangzhou, the agricultural tax alone cannot complete the tax of one million taels of silver a year, and it must rely on industry and commerce, especially maritime trade.

And the sea trade thing is not something that the Tang Dynasty can organize on its own, it has to rely on the maritime merchants. Deng Guan planned to organize these big players to reopen sea trade, and it was also a large-scale sea trade, and reopen the routes from Guangzhou to all parts of the South Seas.

If this maritime trade is done well, the profits of a medium-sized fleet will have to be tens of thousands of profits, and then there will be the supplement of customs taxes, which add up to more than collecting agricultural taxes.

However, when he met those gentry and big families, he was quite disappointed, because although these gentry were respectful on the surface, they also expressed their approval of the new policies of the Tang Dynasty on the spot, especially the tax policy.

However, there is a lack of interest in what Deng Guan said about developing industry and commerce, cooperation in maritime trade, etc.

Deng Guan also knows what they are afraid of, on the one hand, it is easy to say that industry and commerce are easy to say, but it is not so easy to develop, and it is even more difficult to trade by sea.

It's fake for you to be the sailor of the Ming army, and now the sailor of the Ming army has blocked the mouth of the Pearl River, and it is not so easy for you pseudo-Tang to organize a merchant fleet to get in and out.

And who knows how long the Tang Dynasty can stay in Guangzhou City, in case the imperial court officials and soldiers return to Guangzhou a few months later, wouldn't they, who took the initiative to cooperate with the puppet Tang thief army, be liquidated by the imperial court.

So their plan is very simple, since the puppet Tang thief army has occupied Guangzhou City, people have to bow their heads under the eaves, and they should pay taxes, even if the puppet Tang thieves want to donate anything.

But nothing else is involved, the big guys are all big families, they still plan to look at the limelight first, and avoid direct contact with the pseudo-Tang thief army as much as possible.

To put it bluntly, they just want to protect themselves!

You pseudo-Tang thief army can do whatever you like, anyway, we don't mix.

Deng Guan, who was originally going to do a big job in this matter, directly intervened in maritime trade as an official government, and even organized a merchant fleet, was quite disappointed!

The reason why he wants to pull these big families is naturally not simply because of their money, but because these big families are also simple people, these people can organize fleets to and from Guangzhou and open sea trade during the war, none of them are simple roles, silver bullet offensive, big people of the Ming Dynasty standing behind them, and so on.

The Tang Dynasty wanted to make a lot of money by engaging in an official fleet for maritime trade, and if they were to be pulled, it would be much easier to get in and out of Guangzhou.

Relying on the official strength of the Tang Dynasty alone, there is no way to break through the Ming army and naval division at the mouth of the Pearl River to intercept it, but these merchants have it!

However, since the official fleet can't do it, the big deal is to support the civilian fleet, as for how the civilian fleet can enter and exit Guangzhou City through the interception of the Ming army's naval division, this is not a problem that Deng Guan himself has to worry about, these businessmen have their own means and ways, and they can't worry about them.

So in the end, Deng Guan gave up the idea of high-official sea trade, and then began to introduce a series of policies to estimate industry and commerce.

And this move has been supported by the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Taxation and other departments, and a series of policies to encourage industry and commerce have been introduced.

Among them, the most important is a holy decree issued by Li Xuan himself on encouraging the development of industry and commerce, which is regarded by the outside world as a political statement of the Tang Dynasty to open up industry and commerce and open the sea ban, and the outside world even calls it 'Xuanping Open Sea Decree'

This is a very important political statement, more direct than any tax cut, because the businessmen of these days are actually very politically sensitive.

A holy decree expressing support for the development of industry and commerce, this represents the attitude of the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, and everyone knows that the Son of Heaven has no jokes, even if this Son of Heaven is the rebel Son of Heaven.

In addition to expressing political support, all kinds of supporting industrial and commercial policies will naturally not be left behind!

First of all, the Tang Dynasty officially determined two treaty ports, namely Lianzhou and Guangzhou, Guangdong, and welcomed merchants at home and abroad to come to trade!

Then, the third largest tax type after agricultural tax and commercial tax was formulated and clarified.

The tax rate of customs duty is not calculated according to the weight of the ship, but according to the value of the goods, which is divided into two categories: export tax and import tax, and the tax rate of various goods in these two categories is also different.

Among them, for all kinds of strategic materials urgently needed by the Tang Dynasty itself, import taxes are exempted or reduced, including saltpeter, sulfur, etc. However, some materials that are not of great use to the people's livelihood of the country, especially luxury goods, are subject to high tax rates.

As for the export tax, the export of special agricultural products, such as tea, silk, etc., as well as various industrial products, is encouraged, and tax reduction and exemption policies are given!

And there are those who encourage exports, and naturally there are those who are not encouraged or even banned from exporting!