Who knows the history of Wan Zhi Town in Wuhu County?

Wan Zhi Town has a long history. As early as the second year of Yuanfeng in the Western Han Dynasty (BC 109), this was the place where "salt boats gathered and merchants gathered" (see Hanshu). Qingyi River flows from the west and turns sharply to the north to form an inlet. Because of quicksand deposition and numerous shoals, it is named "Bay Branch". There is a crab basket crossing above it, and a "Wangguandu" below it, and the literati gave the bay a nickname: "Jin Ling".

According to the Records of Ningguo Mansion revised in the 20th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 18 16), "Ningguo Mansion governs Xuancheng County, with 21 towns far and near, Wan Zhi Town is 80 miles northwest of the county, and Qingyi River passes through the territory (adopting the Great Extinction Annals, compiling Jiangnan Annals). This record refers to the Kangxi period (AD 1662), where there is a town (Wanmiandu, commonly known as Lijiadu, Volume 15 of Fu Zhi, which belongs to Guanjin), which is an important salt port in southern Anhui. " Every year, as much as 3,200 yuan of salt tax is turned over to the state treasury together with the neighboring salt customs. "

"Official Records" contains: "In the eighth year of Jiaqing (A.D. 1796), the governor of Anhui Province was also the military officer in charge of the government, and the garrison jurisdiction was: Xuancheng County 148, Tang Bo 14, Xuancheng County, 90, Dun/KLOC-0.

"The inspection department is located in the county road, and Huangchi Town is the important town of North Tonggu in Xuancheng County. Huangchi Inspection Department is set up, which is a member of the inspection department, with officials 1 person and 30 archers. Yuan Xujian, the magistrate of the Ming Dynasty, was stationed at the estuary. " It can be seen that during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Bay Town was already an important place for officials to station.

According to Wuhu County Records (revised in the eighth year of the Republic of China), during the reign of Jia Qingdao (1796- 182 1), Wuhu's rice, money and commercial markets were not like a bay. At that time, "rice bran (that is, grain industry) was still in general use", and Hu Yun was used as the standard measuring tool.

He also said: "During the Xianfeng period (185 1), the Taiping Army launched a righteous war." The Qing government stationed heavy troops in Wuhu, Qingshuihe, Huangchi and Bay Branch. The Taiping Army and the Qing Army fought a tug-of-war for four years. 1858, 1858 On February 25th, 2008, the army commanded by Li Shixian, the magistrate of Zhejiang Province in the Qing Dynasty, hit the Qing army hard in Wan Zhi, and Deng Shaoliang, the magistrate of Zhejiang Province in the Qing Dynasty, was killed.

In the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), the gentry and merchants in this province invited to start the Wuhu-Guangde railway and measure the route from Taogou to Wanyuan in Wuhu to complete the subgrade bridge. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), Jiangnan Railway was opened to traffic, and Wuhu to Xuancheng Sunjiabu passed through the Bay Branch.

19 19, when the may 4th movement broke out, more than 0/00 teachers and students of Wan Zhi primary school responded positively, held demonstrations on the spot, took to the stage and carried out anti-imperialist and patriotic propaganda.

By 1930s (before War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression), Wan Zhi Town had made great progress and was called "little shanghai". At this time, the whole town has "Three Streets, Nine Streets, Nine Houses and Thirteen Alleys", which is under the jurisdiction of Wuhuali, Fiona Fang, with more than 30,000 residents. There are more than 500 commercial storefronts and thousands of individual hand-woven loom workshops, one for silver shop, one for pawn shop, one for oil mill, one for smelting (pot mill), one for leather mill and one for music workshop. Electric lights, telephones, postal services, railway stations and bus stations have all been established. There are more than a dozen grain merchant workshops. The processing of grain in Li Qinghuai workshops has developed from manual rice milling to machine (diesel engine) processing, and people began to eat "machine rice" (that is, machine-processed rice). The goods from the Red Pot Kiln in the Bay, the shortcakes and square cakes from Yongji grocery store, the tofu crispy rice and qianzi from Laozhenghui sauce mill and other local products are well-known both inside and outside the province and sell well all over the country.

1937 After the July 7th Incident, the Japanese army invaded the estuary, first bombing indiscriminately, then burning, killing and plundering, and implemented the "Three Lights" policy, which made the estuary a ruin. The market crashed. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in the thirty-seventh year of the Republic of China (1948), there were only 8 insurance companies and 80 insurance companies in the town, with 928 households and 6724 people.

At dawn on April 2 1 and 1949, the 7th and 9th Corps of China People's Liberation Army troops crossing the river in the middle of the road broke through the defense lines of Anqing and Wuhu to pursue the enemies fleeing south. Under the command of Zhang Huaizhong, the 74th Division of the 25th Army defeated the 20th Army of the Kuomintang in the Bay Area with the strength of one division, killed the commander Yang Gancai and captured the enemy alive.

1April 24, 949, the Gulf was liberated. Since then, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the people's government, the people have become masters of their own affairs, and the Bay Town has been reborn. 197 1 year 65438+1October 3, Wuhu county moved to Wanke, becoming the political, economic and cultural center of the county. 1980 65438+1October19. With the approval of the State Council, it was changed to the jurisdiction of Wuhu City. Wanzhi, an ancient town and a new city, is full of youth and has a new look. Both material civilization construction and spiritual civilization construction are striding forward.