Where did people immigrate from Cao Xian County, Heze City?

Cao County, Heze, Shandong Province, and Hongdong County, Shanxi Province.

The war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the flood in the Huang-Huai River basin caused ten deaths and 78 people in the areas of Huai, Lu, Ji and Yu, and many places in the neighboring provinces of the Central Plains were deserted. At that time, Shanxi, especially the south of Shanxi, became a densely populated area. In order to develop the economy and consolidate the political power, during the fifteen years from Hongwu to Yongle in the early Ming Dynasty, the Ming government organized and implemented eight large-scale immigration activities for more than fifty years. Because Hongdong is located in the densely populated center, the terrain is open and extending in all directions, which is convenient for centralized immigration. The Ming government set up a bureau in Guangji Temple to specialize in immigration affairs, and the pagoda tree became a gathering place for immigrants. Immigrants are mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and other places.

It is only an example in the history of China that such a long time, large-scale, organized and large-scale people have been scattered all over the country. At that time, it was here that the immigrants began their journey after accepting the "Zhao Zhao Chuan Zi". When they left, the immigrants turned their memories into memories and looked back frequently. In the end, they only saw the big locust tree and the old man's nest, which became a symbol for the immigrants to bid farewell to their homeland. As time goes by, people can't remember whether they moved here from He Cun, but that big pagoda tree is deeply rooted in the hearts of generations.