In the third year of Hongwu (A.D. 1370), a Japanese pirate group active in the coastal areas of North Korea and China suddenly landed in Lijiang, Xiangzhi, Fujian, and began to harass the southeast coastal areas. Due to the constant invasion of Japanese pirates, the safety of coastal residents has been seriously threatened. In order to protect people's lives and property from infringement, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, ordered the monarch to patrol the sea in the seventeenth year of Hongwu (1384) and build cities along the east and west coasts of Shandong, Jiangnan and Zhejiang (Volume 91 of Ming History). Tang and the son of the cult, who is familiar with maritime affairs. Fang thought, "If you come to Japan from the sea, you will be the ear of the sea. Please measure the distance, set up guard stations, assemble infantry on land, and equip warships with water, then the Japanese will not be allowed to enter and they will not be allowed to land. Offshore people think that the army is on the defensive, but they don't bother the guest soldiers "(Ming History, Volume 126). After Tanghe arrived in Zhejiang, "35,000 people were selected from Dingzhuang to build it, and all the money in each county was given to criminals" (Ming History, Volume 126). Twenty years of Hongwu (1387), Tanghe Huan, Building Fifty Ninetowns of Ninghai and Linshan (Volume 3 of Ming History). Taozhucheng is one of the fifty-nine cities built at this time, which belongs to the coastal guard department. Volume 44 of the History of the Ming Dynasty says: "... thousands of pottery casting households are scheduled for September of the twentieth year of Hongwu". "Shi Minglu" also said: "In the twentieth year of Hongwu ... in September, Taizhou Jiantiao and Tao Zhu Tucheng were built, each with thousands of households to prevent the Japanese pirates". However, Tao Zhu at that time was not Tao Zhu today. At that time, the pottery casting city was located in the old town hill of Xincheng Village, Shangpan Town, which is 10.56 km southeast of Tao Zhu, only 1 km away from the coast. The city is "seaside on three sides, adjacent to Shengtangmen in the east, connected with Guangqing Mountain, seaside in the south and pottery casting port in the north" (Linhai County Records of the Republic of China), which is called "Xialaocheng" by the people. In the seventh year of Yongle (1409), in September, "Wei Shuo, Zhejiang Province, was hit by a hurricane on the 5th, and the rotten city drifted into a house" (Volume 29 of Ming History). Topographically, Tao Zhu is one of the five cities in Wei Shuo, Zhejiang. Because it is too far from the shore, it is not conducive to defense, and it is on the verge of typhoon and tidal attacks. Tao Zhu then moved to Zhongcheng Village, Tao Zhu Town, the so-called "Middle Old Town". The specific time of the relocation of Tao Zhucheng is unknown, which is estimated to be in the 22nd year of Yongle (1424). In the 22nd year of Yongle (1424), the imperial court "wrote to the capital of the world to build the city" (Volume 8 of Ming History), which should be the best time for Tao Zhu to move inward. After moving in, Tao Zhu is far from the coast, but its safety is still not guaranteed because it is still surrounded by seawater at high tide. In May of the fourth year of the Orthodox Church (1439), a large number of Japanese invaders invaded Tao Zhu, which was initially defeated by Zhejiang Taocheng. Taocheng is densely covered with nails and boards in the sea sand. As soon as the Japanese arrived, the boat jumped on and nailed the hole at the back. If you are afraid of it, go away "(Ming History, Volume 165). However, after all, being outnumbered, Taozhucheng was finally captured. As a result, "the homes of officials and civilians were burned and robbed" (appendix of Lu Tong in Pingwo, southeast of Jiajing, Dian Hui in Ming Dynasty) and "the city was depressed, and those who passed it shed tears" (appendix of Lu Tong in Pingwo, southeast of Jiajing, Dian Hui in Ming Dynasty). In the seventh year of orthodoxy (1442), the imperial court sent assistant minister Jiao Hong and supervisor Gao Jun to prepare for the war against Japan in Zhejiang. They think that Tao Zhucheng "is at the top of the cliff in Linyi, which is very lonely and dangerous, so it should be used as a bait booth, and the tide is impulsive, so it is better to live in Kening" (Volume 9 of Collection of Relieving the Ancestors in Huanghuai of Ming Dynasty, The Story of Tao Zhucheng Moving to Thousands of Houses). So I advocate moving to the city again. "It is princes, intends to inland miles. The land is called hibiscus, and the plan is established. This is a building and a structure. " ("Ming Huang Huai Jie An Ji" Volume 9 "Tao Zhu Ten Thousand Households Moved to the City"). By the end of the second year, this relocation was also the last time that Tao Zhucheng moved in, and it became the prototype of Tao Zhucheng, which had begun to take shape at this time. In the 26th year of Jiajing (1547), in December, the Japanese invaders invaded "Ning and Tai counties, killing and plundering them wantonly", which led to "the two counties were convicted and ended up" (Volume 322 of Ming History), and Tao Zhucheng stood the test. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), Tan Lun became the magistrate of Taizhou. In July of the same year, Qi Jiguang was transferred to Zhejiang as the company commander and secretary, and was in charge of reclamation. In the second year, with enough wisdom, he was promoted to general of the capital, guarding Ningbo, Shaoxing and Taizhou. And under the restraint of Tan Lun, he led troops to rescue Taizhou for many times. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing (1559), the Japanese invaded again, and Tao Zhu was besieged for seven days and nights, and the city was in danger. At that time, thousands of households pretended to be city guards, and Yu Shu was in a hurry "("He Mingchong's inscription on the new enemy of Tao Zhu "). Since Ningbo, Qi Jiguang has "rushed all the way to break the old nest, the city depends on it, and tens of thousands of people live" (inscription by He Mingchong in the new enemy station). After annihilating the invading enemy, Tao Zhu and Qi Jiguang "made up the disadvantages while reserving the disadvantages, promoted the advantages and eliminated the disadvantages, unified in three dimensions, and worked diligently. It is not widely known that he wants to reprimand the soldiers, repair the fallen people, lift up those who abandoned them, and make Zengcheng a prosperous city "(He Mingchong's" Tao Zhu New Enemy Taiwan Monument "). Later, Tao Zhucheng was regarded as "the east-west corner was blocked" (inscription of Tao Zhu's new enemy platform by He Mingchong), so a second enemy platform was built at the expense of the government's empty base. Make the pottery casting city "have a platform on the city, a building on the platform, and the competition is deep and wide. The ground should be full of songs, hanging outside the city, but not hidden" ("He Mingchong's" Monument to the New Enemy of Pottery Casting "). In the autumn of the 43rd year of Jiajing (1564), Liu, the governor of Wei Dynasty, carried out a large-scale renovation of the city as a military supervisor, "inheriting thousands of households with merits" (Preface to Mr. Liu's Genealogy). Since then, after many repairs and additions, until the Great Leap Forward in the 1950s, all the soft walls and cribs of Taozhu City were demolished, forming the present shape and scale.