Historical events in Liu He town
Liu He Town is located 50 miles west of Huaiyuan County, on the south bank of the Wohe River, and Bengbu Highway passes through it. 1in the spring of 938, Bengbu and Huaiyuan fell one after another. Under the leadership of the county magistrate Gao, the government of Huaiyuan County of the Kuomintang moved to Chuhan Lake in the south of Longgang. /kloc-in the summer of 0/940, four columns of the New Fourth Army led by Peng Xuefeng entered Niujiawan, Longgang, and opened up an anti-Japanese base area in Longgang. After the Japanese invaders occupied Huaiyuan, they strengthened the economic blockade of the anti-Japanese base areas, and prohibited munitions, salt, cloth, department stores, western medicine, paper and other materials from entering the base areas. At that time, Liu He Town was at the junction of anti-Japanese base areas and occupied areas, and it was also the main road between Jiangsu, Anhui and the Central Plains. Many businessmen smuggle materials from Pujin to Liu He. A large number of businessmen from Longkang, Fuyang, Henan and other places came here to purchase materials. Therefore, from 1940 to 1944, Liu Liu has gradually formed a commercial center in northern Anhui. At that time, traveling from south to north, merchants gathered, all kinds of commercial warehouses lined up, restaurants, theaters, brothels, colorful, noisy, deformed and prosperous scene, so it was called "little shanghai". Until liberation, the old customers in Shanxi and Shaanxi who used to do business here only knew Longkang and Liu Liu in Anhui, but did not know the location of Huaiyuan County. At that time, the scope of Liu He Town was much larger than it is now, starting from Maojiayuan in the west and ending at Liuxiaoyingzi in the east. Within a few miles of Fiona Fang, there are many streets and businesses. In addition to Wenchang Street, an east-west old street, there are Mingfeng Street, Xinglong Street and Yi 'an Street. Due to the wide variety of goods, the general distribution of trade names is as follows: from Wenchang Street to Dongtou Dongyue Temple, Beijing-Guangzhou department stores, cigarettes and western medicines are the main ones; West of Huoxing Temple in Xitou, commonly known as the next section of "Big Willow", the business is the most prosperous, mainly engaged in salt, cloth and mountain products. There are more than 65,438,000 large and small firms, the most famous of which is the Far East firm, which was founded by Liao Haoran, a countryman of Kuomintang commander Liao and a member of the Blue Clothes Society. Hongda Commercial Bank is jointly run by Liu He Town Mayor Shen Hongxi and his brother Shen Hongyan. Yuanda Commercial Bank was opened by a large family in Song Huaiyuan. He Ye, the stationmaster of the Kuomintang station, opened a grain store in Simen Pavilion, as well as Dahua Salt Store, which specializes in transferring salt. In addition, there are several acres of livestock lines near Shenjiadafen in the southwest of the market town, and more than 1000 livestock are listed every day.