Since the establishment of Wuxi in the early Han Dynasty, wuxi has always been named Wuxi, except for the county that was once called "Youxi" during the late Western Han Dynasty. In the second year of Qing Yongzheng (1724), Wuxi County was dissolved into Jinkui County, referred to as Jin. At this point, a county began to be divided into two counties, but not all wuxi at that time was called "Jinkui". The two counties are bounded by a canal, about the northwest is Wuxi County, the east belongs to Jinkui County, and in 1912 after the Xinhai Revolution, it was compounded into Wuxi County, which lasted for 188 years.
Each of the two counties has a county office. The Wuxi County Bureau was attached to the County Cheng Bureau, the DianShi Bureau, and the Gaoqiao Inspection And Inspection Department, and the Jinkui County Bureau was attached to the Main Book Office, the DianShi Bureau, and the Wangting Inspection And Inspection Department (later changed to the Dangkou Inspection Department). The two counties of Xuegong are shared, wuxi county has set up a teaching and teaching office, and Jinkui county has set up a training and guidance office.
The Wuxi County Office is located in front of the old county in Ximennei, and the Jinkui County Office is stationed in front of the new county in the North Gate. The imperial court ordered officials to be sent to the county level, Wuxi County was 5 members of Zhi County, County Cheng, DianShi, Inspection, and Teaching, and Jinkui County was Zhi County, Main Book, Dian History, Inspection, and Training. ZhiXian (七品), dispatched by the Governor and The Fu Bureau, does not need to be from the province, does not stipulate the term of office, but needs to be in office for 5 years to be promoted, and 3 years to be transferred. The county clerk (eight pins) and the main book (nine pins) are the assistants of Zhi County, and are in charge of grain, taxation, household registration and other matters. The history of the canon is not in the mainstream, in charge of public security, arrest, prison prisoners. The inspector is in charge of public order and military affairs in the key cities and towns in the territory. Teachings and teachings are responsible for education. ZhiXian employed several people to be a close friend, including criminal names, Qian Gu, and Shu Qi, and the three masters of the division of justice, taxation, and documents. The two counties set up 6 rooms (sections) for officials, households, ceremonies, soldiers, criminals, and workers, which respectively undertook administrative affairs such as personnel, household affairs, sacrifices, military affairs, criminal and civil cases, and urban construction and construction. The two county bureaus each have a large number of servants and fast catchers, called Ma, Bu and Zhuang 3 classes, Wuxi County has 248 people, Jinkui County has 147 people. Justice and money and grain (mainly land taxes) are the main affairs of the two county offices. Both county offices have prisons and permanently closed warehouses. There are more than 400 water warehouses outside the West Gate, which store taxes in kind in the two counties.
On April 10, 1860, the Taiping Army occupied Wuxi. Subsequently, a local government was established, still divided into Wuxi and Jinkui counties, and a supervision and military bureau was set up, which belonged to Changzhou County, Sufu Province, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Adopting the policy of integrating military and government and integrating soldiers into agriculture, we have set up a military system imitating the Taiping Army, with 5 units as the army and set up a commander; 5 units are two, with two simas; 4 two are pawns, with a pawn commander, 5 pawns are set up as brigades, and a brigade commander is set up, and 1 brigade is equivalent to the original 1 map; 5 brigades are divisions, with division commanders; and 5 divisions are military commanders. There are 12,500 in the 1st Army. Officials at all levels are collectively referred to as township officials. Military commanders and above are supervising the army, and the supervision army has jurisdiction over 6 military commanders. The supervision army is equivalent to Zhi County. The Wuxi supervisors were Hua Er and Li Shuangfu (also known as Li Yuezhai ). The Supervision and Military Bureau was first stationed in the long lane of the inner city, and then in the town of Tangtou, Yanqiao. The Jin Dynasty supervised the army as Huang Shunyuan (later rebelled), and the Supervision Bureau was first stationed in Dongmen Youduli and then in Dongting. The overseers of the two counties were under the control of the Sikkim guards. The Sikkim Shogunate is in front of the Medicine Hall on the shore of the city.
The Government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom adopted a policy of protection for commerce, requiring that firms trade fairly, not hoarding, not raising prices, and reducing taxes for the development of commerce. The Military Supervision Bureau once held an examination to select talents.
On November 2, the second year of Tongzhi (1863), the Taiping Army in Wuxi was defeated under the siege of the Qing army, and Wuxi was lost, and the Xi and Jin Counties Supervision Bureau disappeared with it.
During the Taiping Rebellion, the official offices of both counties were burned down. After the end of the war, the Wuxi County Office was moved to Shangshou'an, the Jinkui County Bureau was moved to Qingning Nunnery, and the other official offices were moved to residential buildings. In the seventh year of Qing Tongzhi (1868), more than 270 rooms in the western warehouse of shuizi were restored. In the first year of the Qing Dynasty (1875), the two county prisons and the canonical history bureau were rebuilt. A few years later, the two county offices were restored in situ.
In the 1880s, Wuxi Zhixian supported the struggle of the villagers of Kaihua Township against the foreign merchant cocoon line using a large scale to reduce the price of the cocoon. In the early 1990s, a "teaching case" occurred in Wuxi, and the two counties were stripped of their tops for "offending" foreigners. Since the middle of the 1990s, Wuxi's modern industry has begun to rise, opening factories or "playing offices", or approved by the Inspector of Jiangsu, the Provincial Bureau of Commerce, the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce of the Qing Dynasty, etc. The two county bureaus are dissatisfied with this and hold a conservative attitude. In the 26th year of Guangxu, the two county bureaus, together with some local gentry, prevented the construction of the Baoxing flour mill. In the 30th year of Guangxu, the two county bureaus connived at the rice merchants to launch the "school destruction incident", and because it was related to the defiance of the "New Deal", the Inspector of Jiangsu Province, Duan Fang, strictly investigated and handled the two county bureaus.
On September 16, 1911 (November 6, 1911), Qin Yujun, a member of the League, and others launched a restoration uprising, overthrowing the local government of Wuxi in the Qing Dynasty, organizing the Sikkim Military and Government Sub-Government, taking over the wuxi and Jinkui county offices and the official offices under their jurisdiction, and unifying the administrative affairs of the two counties. The military and political sub-government office was stationed in Xinxian County ( the later Wuxi County Government office was located here for a long time ) .
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