In the Jiangdu City of Yangzhou Prefecture, the main forces of the two sides gathered, and the cannon roared all day long, and the battle situation attracted the attention of many people in the surrounding area.

Li Xuan and many ministers in Jinling City paid attention, and the gentry in many areas of Jiangnan and Jiangbei, and even ordinary people were concerned about the victory or defeat of the Yangzhou Campaign.

Even Emperor Zhengde, who was far away in the Forbidden City, was sent by the 500 li rush sent by Yangzhou City earlier at this time, and learned that the puppet Tang thief army had crossed the river in a big way, and successively captured Tongzhou and Taizhou, and was trying to invade Yangzhou Jiangdu.

It's just that due to the long distance, Emperor Zhengde still can't know the specific battle situation in Yangzhou, and he doesn't know that the puppet Tang thief army is currently only using a large number of artillery to bombard Yangzhou, and the infantry attack has not yet been launched.

But no matter what, Emperor Zhengde knows that the situation is not optimistic!

The puppet Tang thief army can fight, this has become the consensus of the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty, so even if there are more than 100,000 troops in Yangzhou, they are still not at ease with Emperor Zhengde.

But it's useless to be anxious now, and the only thing that Emperor Zhengde can hope for now is that the defenders of Yangzhou can hold on and give the puppet Tang thief army heavy casualties under the city of Yangzhou.

Only in this way can we change the current crisis!

Although others didn't dare to say it, or pretended not to know, Emperor Zhengde knew very well that the current Ming Dynasty had reached the most dangerous moment, and this danger was more serious than the southward invasion of the Mongolian barbarians in the past.

Even the last Tumu Fort change was far less dangerous than it is today!

Because of the change of the civil fort of that year, at most it was the loss of hundreds of thousands of troops, and it was great to catch an emperor again, but the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty was intact, and there were still some soldiers in the capital division and the border towns around the country, which was enough to block the Wara army, and in the later period, there were also the Qinwang armies from all over the country arriving one after another, although the battle was a fiasco, but the foundation of the Ming Dynasty would not be cut off.

But now, it's different!

The puppet Tang thief army is not Warat, nor is it Tatar, they don't just want any mutual market, money and the like, and they don't dare to go deep into the hinterland and don't leave, after they come to loot a vote, they will always leave.

But the puppet Tang thief army is different, they don't just want money, they want the entire Ming Dynasty!

Moreover, after the puppet Tang thief army occupies the southern provinces, it will soon digest and then use the population and wealth of these provinces to arm more troops, and the whole process is like a snowball, making the puppet Tang thief army more and more and stronger.

And now the puppet Tang thief army has occupied Jiangnan, which not only greatly increased the strength of the puppet Tang thief army, but also directly cut off the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and cut off Caoyun.

Since last year's causal transportation was cut off, the price of grain in Beijing has risen several times, Rao is the Ming Dynasty from Shandong, Henan and other northern provinces to loot grain, but to alleviate the shortage of food, it is absolutely impossible.

If it is said that the problem of water transportation is cut off and the shortage of food can still be endured, then the thief army's current Northern Expedition is clearly coming to the northern provinces and the Beijing Division.

Emperor Zhengde knew very well that once Yangzhou fell, thousands of miles to the north, it would be difficult for the Ming army to gather a main force to resist the northward movement of the puppet Tang thief army.

The army, the Ming Dynasty naturally has, and there are many of them, and there are many guards in the northern provinces now, but now everyone knows that the way of war has already changed.

In the past, sword fighting has long since turned into gun fighting.

And the Ming Dynasty spent the last copper plate, and if the more than 100,000 troops that were finally armed were defeated, then in addition to the Governor Biao and Huguang Lian Army under Zhang Yue, the entire Ming Dynasty almost had no new army.

And Zhang Yue's supervision and Huguang training army, although there are a lot of them, and their combat effectiveness is also first-class in the Ming army, but they have to guard against the first army of the Tang Army in Huguang, and at the same time, they also have to take into account the defense of Yunnan and Sichuan.

If he could draw troops to the east to help, needless to say, Zhang Yue would have transferred troops himself.

However, even if it was more difficult, in fact, Zhang Yue also relieved part of the pressure on the Ming army in the Jiangbei region, at the junction of Huguang and Nanzhili on the opposite side of the Jiujiang River, the superintendent sent by Zhang Yue had already taken over the defense of the Ming army here, stationed here, and maintained a confrontation with the Tang Army in the direction of Jiujiang, so that Yu Dayou could concentrate his forces to defend the front line of Anqing and Luzhou.

At this time, Zhang Yue said that he would also send troops to the east or north to rescue, and his own Huguang defense line would be broken through first, and the First Army in Hunan would not watch the Ming army on the other side withdraw.

And even if Zhang Yue's superintendent wants to go north to rescue Jingshi, such a long distance, it will be too late.

What kind of situation will happen at that time, you don't have to think about Zhengde to know that I, the son of tomorrow, am afraid that I will become the king of the country.

Zhengde was worried about the war in Yangzhou, but Li Xuan in Jinling City was in a good mood.

Although there has been no breakthrough in the Northern Expedition to cross the river, and Yangzhou has still not been won, everything is going according to the plan made before, and it is only a matter of time before Yangzhou is taken.

He is very clear about Hao Bonian's ability, Hao Bonian is not a general like Li Chunjing who is good at surprise attacks and likes to take risks, but a general who likes to fight steadily and steadily, such a person is most suitable for gnawing on a strong city like Yangzhou.

As long as it takes a certain amount of time, no matter how hard the tortoise shell of Yangzhou City is, it can be knocked out, and it is said that even if it cannot be attacked, but there are so many Ming troops in Yangzhou City, and there are already many people, the food that these hundreds of thousands of people eat every day is not a small number.

Even if the Ming army reserves food in advance, how long can it hold out?

Trimester?

Half?

Li Xuan can afford to wait!

So he didn't urge Hao Bonian, but focused his attention on other aspects!

The Jiangbei War, which will be a battle that lasts for several months or even more than a year, will not be in a hurry for a while, Li Xuan paid more attention to it in the early stage, and then he didn't stare at it every day, just listened to the daily briefings, and most of the time was still on government affairs.

With the Tang Dynasty taking control of Jiangnan, Li Xuan gradually became busier.

It is not only the change of the ruling area that has led to the change of things, but also because the Tang Dynasty has now entered the formalization, and all the rules and regulations need to be improved one by one.

Many of the previous temporary transitional policies need to be improved one by one, and then the specific policies will be determined.

The Tang Dynasty, which was created in the ravines and ravines, was itself a bit congenitally deficient, and Li Xuan did not formulate various systems according to the traditional dynasty, but almost created a new ruling system.

There will always be many problems with new things, and these problems will become more and more obvious as time passes and the control area increases.

For example, in the tax system, Li Xuan created a new tax system and adopted a unified agricultural tax and commercial tax policy. Although this can quickly cut through the mess, there will be various problems when it is implemented.

In particular, the one-size-fits-all commercial tax is currently seriously unsuitable for the development needs of the Tang Dynasty.

The Ministry of Taxation has repeatedly reflected that the problem of unified commercial tax is too big, and specifically, except for a very small number of industries, the proportion of taxes levied on most industries is the same, but in fact it is very unfair.

Because some industries have low profits, excessive taxes will make it difficult for businesses to operate, which will lead to difficulties in the development of the industry.

Some industries belong to high-profit industries, but the unified tax collection is too low, so that the country loses more tax revenue.

In addition, there are some industries that need to be supported, and there are some industries that need to be suppressed, but now, the adoption of one-size-fits-all taxation has had a relatively large impact on the development of industry and commerce and taxation.

To this end, at the beginning of the year, Li Xuan had already asked the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Commerce and other cabinet departments to negotiate, and at the same time solicited extensive opinions to formulate a new standard for the collection of commercial tax.

Now, after more than half a year of demonstration, the Ministry of Taxation has also submitted a new commercial tax collection plan.

This scheme is much more complex than the one-size-fits-all tax plan of the year, with separate regulations for each industry and a redesign of the details of taxation.

The new commercial tax will generally consist of three major taxes: business tax, value-added tax, income tax, and more than 10 additional small taxes.

At the same time, there are different tax details for different business behaviors of small vendors, ordinary merchants, enterprises, and factories.

The core objective of the new tax system is to obtain as much tax revenue as possible without affecting the development of industry and commerce.

At the same time, in terms of taxation, tariffs are still not included in the ranks of ordinary industrial and commercial taxes, and different tax rates are implemented separately.

The new tax system, Li Xuan naturally can't look at them one by one, there are thousands of them, Li Xuan doesn't have time to look at them one by one, he looks at the general outline.

According to the general outline, the tax system this time is generally more in line with the tax system in his mind, and the tax system in Li Xuan's mind is naturally a direct copy of the modern tax system of later generations.

When it comes to collecting taxes, no feudal dynasty can compare to the modern state of later generations!

In many modern countries, the proportion of taxation is more than half, that is to say, the price of a commodity, the tax contained in it is at least half or even more, and this levy is not directly levied, but in the production, transportation, sales of the link, for example, you buy a cotton garment, the garment factory has to pay taxes for the garments, and then the transportation enterprises also have to pay taxes, and the sales enterprises also have to pay taxes.

That's not all, there must be raw materials and equipment to make clothes, and raw materials and equipment are also taxed in the production, transportation, and sales links.

In the modern tax system, taxation is pervasive in almost all aspects, and it is invisible, because consumers generally do not pay taxes directly, and the resistance of the people is naturally not so great.

The tax system that Li Xuan wanted to implement in the Tang Dynasty was the same semi-invisible tax system, except for agricultural taxes, to avoid direct taxation of ordinary people as much as possible, but to tax in the circulation of commodities.

This way you will collect more money, and it will not stir up any resentment!