Before Hexi Affairs, the two towns were close to the canal, benefiting from more than 700 years of waterway transportation. By the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, water transportation was exhausted and highways rose, and Hexi affairs lost its former traffic advantage. In the early 1970s, with the development of society and the rapid increase of population, the original market towns were no longer suitable for the needs of the situation at that time in terms of location and space. In this case, it is imperative to move to the town again. Since then, first of all, grain depots, supply and marketing cooperatives, post offices and other units have moved to both sides of the Beijing-Tianjin Highway. 1976, the town government (called commune) officially decided to move. Construction began in 200 1 year and was completed the following year. The whole organization officially moved to its present position. 1985, the last one in the market moved out of the old site, and the relocation ended. The old rule of Hexi affairs has since withdrawn from the historical stage. There is an old artist who makes black pottery in Wuqi Village, Hexi Town. He made countless black pottery, and all the pieces were exquisite works of art, which attracted countless fans to collect. Recently, on a sunny morning, the author visited him. An old artist named Lv Xuecheng, who is in his sixties, has been engaged in making black pottery for nearly 20 years. When asked how to start the experience of making black pottery, Lv Xuecheng spoke with relish. In 1960s, Wuqing carried out large-scale land leveling. At that time, a large number of pottery fragments of unknown age were found in Wuqi village, and a pottery kiln site was dug up. But no one realized its historical value at that time, and the site was not well protected. In 1970s, when chatting with friends, Lu Xuecheng inadvertently mentioned this matter. Some friends who knew something about ceramics told him that choosing a kiln site was basically choosing the raw material (clay) for making ceramics. Because Wuqi village has a kiln site, it can be preliminarily concluded that the local soil is clay suitable for pottery making. Lu Xuecheng later took the local soil and excavated pottery fragments to the Tianjin geological department for identification, which confirmed his friend's inference.
1987 in the first half of the year, an artist with clay figurine Zhang saw the market prospect of black pottery products and wanted to open his own handicraft factory and look around for venues. After Lu Xuecheng knew this situation, he found this person and told him that Wuqi Village had clay suitable for making black pottery. After the visit, this person expressed his hope to cooperate with each other to build a handicraft factory. In June of that year, a black pottery handicraft processing factory was established in the name of the village Committee, and Lv Xuecheng became the main person in charge of the factory, and soon successfully made the first batch of black pottery products. With products, how to open the market becomes a problem. 1In March, 988, Lu Xuecheng took some products to Guangzhou to attend the Canton Fair, which immediately aroused repercussions there and sold the first batch of products. Later, Lu Xuecheng took his products to sell all over the country. By the early 1990s, the product market was further opened and the factory was developed. 1992, a Chinese-American came here. After investigation, he expressed his willingness to set up a joint venture with them to be responsible for sales in several countries such as the United States. 1996 Factory restructuring, contracted by Lu Xuecheng himself. When the imitation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang began to sell well at home and abroad, Lv Xuecheng obtained the imitation right of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses through active efforts. Because the terracotta warriors and horses are very similar to the real thing, they are very popular once they are launched, and all their products are sold abroad. In addition, the company also won the title of designated production enterprise of tourism products in Tianjin, and its products were allowed to be sold in various tourist attractions in China. The antique rap figurines they made were also put into the live broadcast room by CCTV's Qu Yuan Miscellaneous Talk. Business words of Hexi affairs should be talked about. From about the Song Dynasty, all the tax checkpoints were called property management. Many places handed down in the name of Wu, such as Hexi Wu, Prince Wu, Jia and Wu, were once the locations of ancient tax customs.
There is no textual research on when Hexi began to collect taxes. According to the new edition of Wuqing County Records, Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu was unified for four years (1263), and there were records of several racecourses in Hexi Affairs, which was the earliest title of Hexi Affairs. Since then, the names of Hexi affairs can be seen everywhere, such as stationing in the field, stationed in the state, crossing the river to the west, setting up a post station and setting up a water transport department. Therefore, it is speculated that the tax clearance of Hexi affairs should be established at the turn of Song and Yuan Dynasties. Therefore, Hexi Affairs Tax became a common saying in the early Yuan Dynasty. By the middle of13rd century, the Yuan Dynasty had unified China and made Beijing its capital. Through dredging, cutting and straightening, a section of the North Canal was formally incorporated into the mainstream of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. As a result, Hexi affairs has become a flood and drought terminal in and out of Beijing, and the position of Hexi affairs tax clearance has become increasingly important, and it has gradually become a tax authority directly under the Ministry of Housing, known as property management. Because it was very common to pay taxes in currency at that time, it was also called money customs.
The Yuan Dynasty lasted only 89 years, and it was replaced by the Ming Dynasty. However, the tax clearance of Hexi affairs has not disappeared. In the fourth year of Xuanzong Xuande in Ming Dynasty (1429), the Ministry of Finance moved Tianjin Treasury to Hexi Affairs and upgraded it to the Ministry of Finance. According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, all merchant ships entering Beijing must receive red bills from Hexi Treasury, and pay taxes with vouchers after arriving at Chongwenmen, Beijing. Among them, the commodity tax rate is one thirtieth, depending on the size of the ship. According to historical records, during the Ming Dynasty (1436- 1449), there were more than 1 1700 heavy ships on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Together with official navy ships, relay ships and private merchant ships, there were no fewer than 20,000 ships engaged in shipping all the year round. At that time, the imperial court allowed official ships to sell smuggled goods along the way, and each ship was limited to 60 stone grains. In fact, the smuggling scale of each ship far exceeds this standard. These official ships also transported a lot of goods to the south along the way when they were empty in the south. In addition, there are tens of thousands of private merchant ships, which have formed a huge circulation market along the 3500-mile Grand Canal and created more than 50 commercial ports and cities along the river.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, this canal economic belt continued to develop and reached its peak during the Kanggan period. Not only imperial merchants, official merchants, civil and commercial businesses are simultaneously developed, but also the rise and participation of maritime transportation have made the southern goods in Jiangnan, the Guangzhou goods in Lingnan, the Sichuan goods in Sichuan and Guizhou, and the foreign goods imported from the sea continuously flow northward along the river, greatly promoting the development of industry and commerce on both sides of the strait and the expansion of commercial cities. At this time, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has become an economic artery connecting the north and the south, which has opened up huge financial resources for the imperial courts in previous dynasties. At the peak, the commercial tax on the Grand Canal once accounted for half of the national agricultural tax revenue.
Wu Chao in Hexi moved to Tianjin in the 6th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (1667). Because it is located outside the north gate of Tianjin, it is called Beidaguan. During its hundreds of years of existence, Hexi Kuguan was directly under the central government, governing the north and south, and played an important role in safeguarding the national economy and people's livelihood during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Hexi Affairs has become a well-known town in JD.COM because of the existence of this money gate. In this regard, many historical books and poems have been described in detail. Fu Ruojin, Yuan Man, called Hexi Affairs: Yi Lu Tong Ji Dian, Aocang overlooking the Caohe River. Yanji Boat and Car Club has many tributes from Jianghuai. In the sixth year of Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty (1572), Li Ben, the magistrate of Wuqing County, described Hexi affairs in this way: Tieweng New Town is 100,000, and the old customs are flourishing. There is a standard messenger on the shore at the Gong Xun store of Di Lian Di Zhai. 5. Fill in the national plan for taxation, and integrate business with the world. Fame and fortune, together with the summer throat, dazzle the sunset glow. Hakka in Chang 'an, Jiang Yikui of Amin Dynasty, left hotel clusters and residential department stores on both sides of the river for Hexi affairs, and was known as the first town in JD.COM.