Xingyang is distinguished and evolved from the historical Dongyu, Jing, Xingyang, Chenggao, Xingze, Bishui, Wutai, Heyin, Guangwu and other places, so it is also called Xingzhou. The area under its jurisdiction has fertile land, abundant products, beautiful mountains and rivers, and there are dangerous passes such as Xingyang Pass and Tiger Prison Pass, as well as famous mountains and rivers such as Guangwu Mountain and Gap. If its history goes back to about 700 years, it is also an important political center and military center since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

In 581 AD, Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian established the Sui Dynasty and renamed Xingzhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty as Zhengzhou, and set up the administrative office in Chenggao.

After entering the Tang Dynasty, Zhengzhou's jurisdiction was expanded compared with the Sui Dynasty, and it had five counties under its jurisdiction: Mixian, Bishui, Xingyang, Xingze and Chenggao. In the seventh year of Zhenguan, that is, in 633 AD, the state capital of Zhengzhou was moved from Chenggao to Guancheng.

No matter where Zhengzhou Prefecture is transferred, Xingyang County occupies a very important position in this era.

In this era of 'those who win the Central Plains win the world', Xingyang has a population of more than 100,000 people up and down as Chigi. In the whole of Zhengzhou, the state capital is in Guancheng, but its center is in Xingyang. After all, in the second year of the Holy Calendar, the population of Guancheng was only nearly 40,000, not even half of the population of Xingyang. Its prosperity is far from being comparable to Xingyang.

However, Xingyang's prosperity and splendor are not only due to its economic, political and demographic advantages.

The real strength of Xingyang lies in its long history and its cultural backing.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Xingyang has undergone more than 1,000 years of evolution and has given birth to two huge clans that are famous.

Xingyang Zheng's family, there is no need to repeat it. One of the seven families with five surnames. The top giants of the Central Plains. Talent.

However, with the exception of the Zheng family. There is still a wealthy nobleman in Xingyang who is older than the Zheng family when it comes to history, that is, the Xingyang Pan family. The history of the Pan family can even be traced back to the fourth year of the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, in 1040 BC. At that time, the Zhou Dynasty was prosperous, Zhou Gongdan reorganized the vassal states, changed the then Panyi to the Pan State, and Ji Sun Gong was named the Marquis of Xingyang for his merits. And the temple was established in Xingyang, and then the Xingyang Hall was founded, which became the only wealthy family in Xingyang.

However, the stars have changed, and the vicissitudes of life have changed.

The Xingyang Pan clan gradually declined, while the Zheng clan gradually rose, and the two giants confronted each other and fought with each other.

During the Western Jin Dynasty, Pan Yue, a member of the Pan clan, was born and worshiped the Huangmen squire.

Later, he established the name of the church with his official position. It was named Huangmentang. In addition, the famous Pan An in history. Also from Xingyang Pan. However, he was not from the Xingyang sect, but a branch of the house who migrated to Gong County.

In contrast, the celebrities of the Zheng family in Xingyang have far surpassed the Pan family.

Their history is not as long as the Pan family, but the children of the clan have produced many talents, and their momentum gradually suppressed the Pan family and became the first wang clan in Xingyang. However, after the Xuanwumen Change, the Zheng family began to enter a period of weakness. Starting from Zhenguan, the Zheng family has not emerged any talents who can occupy a pivotal position in the court. The reason for this, in addition to the imperial court's strong suppression of famous nobles, the most important thing is that in the Xuanwumen Change, the Zheng family stood on the wrong team.

Because the Zheng family had a daughter who married Li Jiancheng as the crown princess, he and Li Jiancheng formed a common front.

They joined forces to suppress the Qin Wangfu lineage, but who would have thought that in the end, Li Shimin fought to the death and won the victory.

This also makes Zheng's position extremely embarrassing.

After Li Shimin ascended the throne, the suppression of the Zheng family was almost blatant.

All the children of the Zheng family in the center have been sent as foreign officials, and most of the places they go are in the border wasteland.

Of course, you don't have to! Then you can honestly be a commoner.

It is precisely for this reason that among the five surnames and seven families, the Zheng family suffered the most serious losses, so it entered a dormant period.

But this hibernation was gradually caught up by Pan from behind.

Pan's followed, followed Wu Zetian, and was taken seriously. In the past eight years, there have been as many as a dozen people in the Pan family, but there are only a few people in the Zheng family. If it weren't for the support of Zheng Lingzhi, the Henan lieutenant from the third grade, Zheng's situation would have been even more miserable. Even so, in the face of the Pan family's aggressive posture, the Zheng family could only endure silently.

On February 18 of the second year of the holy calendar, spring returned to the earth.

The sun is warm and shining on the world.

The breeze on the shore of Donglin Lake is gentle, and the willows on the shore are swaying in the wind.

Sparkling, but also set off a bit of femininity. There are several painting boats on the lake, and the sound of silk and bamboo singing and dancing can be faintly heard.

On the case, red men and green women dressed in fine costumes strolled along the shore, either talking loudly or whispering with their heads down.

Is this a beautiful spring? Light map. Located in the Water Pavilion on the shore of Donglin Lake, Zheng Jingsi looked at the beautiful spring outside the window? light, but the mood is extraordinarily excited. If it weren't for the fact that he had his beloved son by his side, he would even want to start with the other party.

The reason is very simple.

Today, Zheng Changyu, the second brother of Beizu, went to Xuzhou to serve as the assassin of Xuzhou, and the children of the Zheng family came to congratulate him.

Zheng Jingsi is the younger brother of Zheng Changyu, and he was a secretary during the Tang Gaozong period. However, due to his opposition to Wu Zetian's ascension to the throne, he was deposed as an official and went home to think about it behind closed doors. Zheng Jingsi is the sixth brother of the northern ancestor of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and his grandfather Zheng Daoyuan was an official of the Sui Dynasty. And his father Zheng Huaijie was also named a assassin after his death because of the problem of standing in line.

Therefore, the Zheng family is really a little ...... when it comes to standing in line

Zheng Changyu served as the assassin of Xuzhou in the year he was established, and it can be said that the Zheng family has been the fastest promoted person in addition to Zheng Lingzhi since the change of Xuanwumen. After all, Xuzhou is not a place in the wilderness, it is located on the bank of Zhengzhou, that is, Xuchang in later generations.

I believe that it will not be long before Zheng Changyu will be able to enter the center.

Therefore, the Zheng family attaches great importance to this matter and specially sees Zheng Changyu off, and as long as the brothers of the seven houses of Beizu are in Xingyang, they are all ordered to come to see him off.

Zheng Jingsi has not been in much interest recently, but his beloved son Zheng Qian seems to be quite interested in it.

Eight-year-old Zheng Qian, the only son of Zheng Jingsi, has shown extraordinary intelligence and intelligence since he was a child.

But no one expected that this was originally an extremely joyful farewell party, but it was provoked by the children of the Pan family.

The Pan family has a son, Pan Hua Chengding, and today he is also placing wine in this water viewing pavilion.

The two families have a long-standing grudge, and as long as they meet, there will be disputes.

Today is no exception, the children of the Pan family saw the children of the Zheng family party, so they took Pan Hua as the leader and stepped forward to provoke.

Of course, most of the disputes seen by the children of famous families and nobles will not be resolved with their fists. In their opinion, that's what Tian Shehan would do. So Pan Hua proposed the weeping willow on the shore of Donglin Lake as the theme, and wrote three poems to decide the superiority.

At that time, this was a very popular way of fighting, called fighting poems.

The children of the Zheng family are also scholars, how can they show their timidity.

Zheng Jingsi was also very interested in this, so he participated in it. It's just that Pan Hua obviously came prepared, and when the children of the Zheng family were still thinking, they had already put pen to paper on the wall to write a poem.

The jasper is made into a tree high, and ten thousand green silk ribbons hang down. I don't know who cut out the thin leaves, and the spring breeze in February is like scissors

Pan Hua wrote poems, showing his quick thinking. And this poem is extremely suitable for the occasion, just drinking the scenery in front of them, even Zheng Changyu, Zheng Jingsi and others, after seeing this poem, they couldn't help but praise themselves secretly in their hearts.

What's more, Pan Hua suddenly disrupted the thoughts of the Zheng family's children and made everyone at a loss.

At this moment, there was a soft 'huh' in his ears, which made Zheng Jingsi involuntarily turn his head to look. (To be continued......)