The Zhuluo County government established the Tanshui Office in Chuchien (present-day Hsinchu) in the 1720s, and then in the 1780s stationed a deputy magistrate still further north in Hsinchuang. Hsinchuang was a river port on the opposite bank from what is now Taipei, so this latter move showed that the development of the greater Taipei region had finally begun.
官方行政據點跟著擴散，在竹塹（新竹）設淡水廳、在新莊設縣丞，大台北開發史終於在各角落分頭開展。