Now that the Tang Dynasty has come up with this new tax system, in Li Xuan's opinion, it is already relatively perfect, to what extent is it perfect? Ordinary people will never understand the twists and turns in taxation.

Li Xuan estimated that after the comprehensive release of this set of taxes, the number of people engaged in accounting and taxation in the Tang Dynasty would increase rapidly, and as a result, many new jobs would be created.

Of course, these collateral effects are only trivial, but what really matters is that, according to the Ministry of Taxation's forecast, after the full implementation of this new tax system, the existing industrial and commercial tax revenue will increase by more than 30 percent on the existing basis.

And this figure is quite frightening, because at present, in the Tang Dynasty, the tax revenue of industry and commerce has accounted for more than 30% of the total tax revenue, and this proportion is still increasing rapidly.

In this way, the direct tax revenue of industry and commerce will increase by more than four or five million taels of silver!

And these millions of taels of silver are the real reason for Li Xuan and the cabinet ministries to actively promote tax reform!

As for supporting the development of certain industries, it is actually only secondary, because the industries that really need to be supported, the Tang Dynasty generally directly adopts preferential tax policies.

For example, if you invest in manufacturing, you can generally get a tax holiday of one to three years, and there will be a half-tax period ranging from one year to five years after the tax holiday.

In particular, the machinery industry, which is vigorously supported by the Tang Dynasty, has directly set up a tax holiday of up to five years, and there is a five-year half-tax period after the tax holiday, a total of ten years of tax incentives.

In order to allow the machinery industry in the Tang Dynasty to grow rapidly, otherwise, relying solely on the support of Zhaoqing Machinery Company, sooner or later there will be problems.

And some industries that are obviously profiteering and have no obvious role in promoting people's livelihood, such as silk, this thing is actually a luxury jewelry, expensive, and profitable, so 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 big, 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 increases, will it affect the sales of silk?

In fact, it won't, because the people who buy silk are rich people, and the price has increased by 10 or even 20 percent, and those who should buy it should still be bought, and those who can't afford it still can't afford it.

This kind of price increase, which is not a necessity of life, has little impact on the livelihood of ordinary people.

However, if the price of grain rises or falls, then the impact will be greater.

If the price rises, the ordinary citizen class will be finished, the price will fall, and the peasants will go bankrupt, so this kind of thing related to people's livelihood, a little bit of price change, needs to be very cautious.

At present, the attitude of the Tang Dynasty towards grain prices is to maintain stability, and when prices rise, it is absolutely ruthless to take advantage of the opportunity to raise grain prices, and at the same time, it will also release official grain reserves to stabilize grain prices; The price is low, and the official large-scale acquisition forcibly raises the price.

In terms of taxation, it shows that the tax rate of agricultural tax in the Tang Dynasty has not changed, but has remained stable!

Li Xuan was busy for several days, personally reviewed the new tax system, and put forward several provisions that needed to be revised.

In the latest issue of the newspaper, the Tang Dynasty Daily published a report on the new tax system, and will continue to pay attention to it after the follow-up report, mainly for the sake of popularization and at the same time to guide correct public opinion.

In the Tang Dynasty newspaper, the report on the new tax system was naturally positive, and it talked about the benefits of the new tax system to the people, which was a great good government, and it was a benevolent government specially issued by Li Xuan, the son of heaven, for the sake of the people of the world.

And will amplify some good aspects of publicity, such as the reduction of taxes on certain industries, that is to talk about it, as for the tax increase on some industries, it is naturally to avoid the important and light, even if it is occasionally said, it is also discussed from multiple angles, even if it is a tax increase, it is also a good thing!

Of course, if it is expected that next year's industrial and commercial tax revenue will increase by more than 30 percent on the whole, it will naturally not be revealed at all, and when it is really said in the future, it will also be due to the overall development of industry and commerce, and it is absolutely impossible to say that when people spend the same amount of money to buy things, the amount contributed to the Datang Tax Department has increased by more than ten percentage points.

The Tang Dynasty newspaper on various new policies, or any new large-scale moves in the Tang Dynasty, will always publish a tirade in a timely manner to guide the public opinion of the world, and the principle is to say good things as good things and bad things as good things.

It is correct to always insist that the Tang Dynasty is correct, and Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, is great!

As for the effect, it's a matter of opinion!

And what's more interesting is that the Tang Dynasty forbade the private sector to open any type of newspaper, even the local government did not have this power, after the Tang Dynasty newspapers and periodicals became the world, many people have seen the huge potential contained in it in recent years, whether it is public opinion guidance or commercial value, it is very huge.

But the Tang Dynasty banned any type of unofficial newspaper, and even if someone did it secretly, he had no distribution channels.

The issuance of the Tang Dynasty relied on the post station system and the official document transmission system, which was not accessible to the people.

After the tax matter was decided, Li Xuan looked back at the war in Jiangbei, after Hao Bonian arrived outside Yangzhou City, it seemed that he had nothing to do, and he did not surround Yangzhou City, but just blocked one of the city walls, and then there was an artillery bombardment day and night!

According to the report submitted by the logistics department, the Third Army has already scrapped more than 30 artillery pieces in the past seven or eight days of shelling!

Because of the continuous shelling, there are too many shells, and some of the artillery that had little left in the life of the body tube before have reached the service life of the body tube one after another, and then scrapped, especially the iron-cast five-pound field gun, the body tube life of this thing is too low, and it is less than 500 rounds, and basically a few large-scale artillery battles will be almost scrapped.

However, although there are many scrapped artillery, the logistics department that has been prepared for a long time has more artillery transported!

Some of the artillery originally in reserve were directly loaded onto ships and shipped, and then the newly produced artillery in Guangdong also continued to leave the factory, and as soon as they left the factory, they were directly loaded and transported to the Yangtze River.

Therefore, the artillery on the side of the Third Army, instead of fighting less and less, fought more and more!

Looking at the latest battle report from Yangzhou, Li Xuan estimated that Hao Bonian should be about to launch a general attack!

According to the plan formulated by the Privy Council to conquer Yangzhou, to conquer Yangzhou, although the simple onslaught will be effective, but the casualties will be very large, so the offensive plan formulated is divided into three steps, the first is to use dense artillery to completely suppress the artillery of the Ming army in the city, through artillery battles, a large number of Ming gunners were killed and wounded, part of the city wall was destroyed, and the artillery counterattack of the Ming army was suppressed.

Then it was time to begin earthwork, which included filling in moats, digging trenches, and digging tunnels to bury explosives to blast the walls.

At the same time, a semi-concealed artillery battery was built forward, so that howitzers with curved projectiles could shoot at close range, and more effectively suppress and kill the Ming army's protective forces at the head of the city and behind the city walls.

Yangzhou City is not small, but hundreds of thousands of troops are crowded in the city, and they must always be prepared for the direct attack of the Tang Army, they must arrange a large number of troops near the city head and behind the city wall, otherwise, they will not be able to defend in time when the Tang Army suddenly launches a fierce attack.

You must know that in the past seven or eight days, although the Third Army has not launched a general offensive, but small and medium-sized tentative attacks have been carried out every day, and the purpose of these tentative attacks is not to conquer Yangzhou, but to test and find out the weaknesses of the Ming army's defense, and at the same time use this opportunity to kill and injure a large number of Ming army's defensive forces and hit the morale of the Ming army in the city.

Li Xuan saw the reality of the battle report, in the past eight days, the Third Army is estimated to have killed and wounded at least 8,000 Ming troops, and its own casualties are less than 500!

Most of the results were in this kind of tentative attack, attracting a large number of Ming troops to climb the city to prepare for defense, and then kill and wound through a large number of artillery rapid fire.

As for the specific number of kills and wounds, the Third Army can only have a prediction, and the specific number is estimated to be known only to the Ming army in the city.

After being tested for so long, the preparations for the Third Army are almost completed, and the first battle of Yangzhou should also enter the stage of general offensive.

Li Xuan's prediction was not bad, on the tenth day of the Third Army's arrival in Yangzhou, the Third Army mobilized the whole army early in the morning, and then began to line up.

Therefore, the Ming army behind the city wall immediately ran in a hurry, and a large number of Ming soldiers on the opposite side began to run up to the city, but at this time, nearly 100 field guns, dozens of heavy short-barreled howitzers, and dozens of naval guns and howitzers supported by the navy were fired at the same time, and they were fired rapidly.

At that moment, hundreds of shells flew to the city head at the same time, and dozens of grenades exploded on the spot, although many of them were directly built on the city wall, and some of them flew over the city head and fell behind, but there were still a lot of shells that fell on the city head, and caused great casualties to the Ming army.

After being hit by such a burst of artillery bombardment, the Ming army at the head of the city was also a little stunned, so they were worried that the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side was bluffing, and after attracting them to the city, they were killed and injured by artillery bombardment, this kind of every day in the past would happen, 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 real, what if the pseudo-Tang thief army really attacked?

Therefore, although many Ming soldiers went down to the city, there were still many Ming soldiers who risked staying behind on the city, and the artillerymen were already operating artillery to fight back.

In the city of Yangzhou, in fact, there are quite a lot of artillery pieces of the Ming army, and among the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, even if the proportion of artillery equipment is lower, there are at least seventy or eighty field guns in total, and there are also many shotguns represented by bowl guns and Franc machine guns.

But although there are a lot of artillery pieces in the Ming army, there are not many of their gunners!