It is said that after Ma Xifeng and Yang Zaisi returned to Chengzhou from Tanzhou, they witnessed that the land under their father's jurisdiction was strong and strong, and the transmission of information and intelligence was also very fast.

The reason why Pan Jinsheng, the chief of Feishan, was captured alive was that Yang Zaisi's troops could not rescue him in time, and the information was fatally injured if he did not pass it out in time. Yang Zaisi had already seen this, but he couldn't think of any good way. Therefore, it has been difficult to fly over the mountain for more than ten years, and it is still used to deliver military information by manpower. The first thing he did when he returned to Chengzhou was that Yang Zaisi set out to build his own intelligence system.

Ma gave advice to Yang Zaisi, and Yang Zaisi became more and more in love with this princess from Southern Chu, and soon under Ma's repeated insistence, he added Yang Zaisi's eighth son Yang Zhengsong.

One morning, Yang Zaisi was idle, feeding the pigeons in the courtyard of the Ma family, and flocks of pigeons cooed around him.

Yang Zaisi took the food, changed places, called out, and the pigeons flew over, and then sprinkled something to give a reward, and the pigeons looked at Yang Zaisi after eating and begged him. After a few times, the pigeon had nothing to eat, and followed him around.

Ma came out with the child in his arms, and when he saw Zaisi playing games with the pigeons, he smiled and said, "Old boy, you are really idle, and you don't come to help me take the child?" ”

"I still have to meddle in the affairs of the woman's family." Yang Zaisi responded.

"Yo, don't you ask me about the march and the war? What is the name of the pigeon that has been fed all morning? Madame huffed.

"Really, just say a word, and get angry?"

"I'm not angry, pigeons are not only delicious, but also useful, old boy, do you know?"

"I'm not you, I come from a famous family, I don't know. I know that the pigeon meat is roasted and eaten, fragrant and tender! ”

"You know how to eat. When I was a child, I used to see my father and feed hundreds of pigeons in his free time. Occasionally, I saw a pigeon with a small thing on its feet, and I wanted to catch one to see what was going on, but my father didn't allow it. ”

"Then why don't you see it?"

"My father told me this secret, and I didn't seem to understand it at the time, so I didn't catch pigeons. Then his father said to himself, 'The pigeon is indispensable for those who march, fight, and write to their families.'" ”

"Hehe, why didn't I think of it? Good. The pigeon is well versed in human nature, and it flies thousands of miles every day and returns, and it does not get lost. Yang Zaisi suddenly opened.

"Old boy, you should have thought of it a long time ago, but you didn't want me to meddle in your secret affairs, so I haven't told you about it." Ma said, "Seeing that the soldiers are still on foot or on horseback to convey orders and documents, I am also wondering if it is time to change the ancestral system?" ”

"No. But I don't know much about training......"

"What's so hard? Leave it to me. The total pigeon room should be clean, dry, breathable and light, one of them; The guards of the pigeon room should be loyal and credible, and should not release pigeons at will, and this is the second; Those who are not leaders must not have pigeon book exchanges, otherwise this move will be regarded as rebellion, and this is the third. ”

"Yo yo yo, Madame is usually rapping, and today she is talking endlessly, and she can't hide it."

"It's not that you won't let me participate in military secrets, how dare I talk nonsense."

"Nurse, take the child to play. Go into the house and say, Madame, please. Yang Zaisi said with a smile.

"That's pretty much it, old boy." Ma also smiled brightly, and his face bloomed with happiness.

A few days later, the husband and wife began to prepare for the carrier pigeon, and the "carrier pigeon official letter" came into being. This is the most scientific way to transmit information in ancient times, and it is also the Yang family generals who later told their families and villagers the good news of their achievements as quickly as possible. If a person who has no merit behaves in this way, he will be convicted of deceiving the king and will be destroyed.

Ten years have passed. Nanchu Ma Xisheng, Ma Xifan, Ma Xiguang, Ma Xicao, and Ma Xichong brothers, fought to the death for the throne, and met each other in arms, and Ma Chu's strength was not as good as day by day.

And Ma Xifan's brother-in-law Yang Zaisi, with the assistance of his wife Ma, Chengzhou is becoming stronger and stronger. In order to protect the territories of ethnic minorities under his jurisdiction, Yang Zaisi organized the Miao and Dong people to defend their homes and the country, and established a secessionist minority regime. There are small mountains below the big mountains, and the villages below the small mountains are taken as units, and the military system of all the people is soldiers. Each village builds a strict self-defense system, guards day and night, echoes each other from afar, and solves one out of ten, and each village has something to do, and each village supports.

Yang Zaisi sent several sons to divide the towns and fortresses, organized young and middle-aged formations to practice martial arts, trained regularly, implemented all "barbarian" soldiers, strictly guarded the border, and went into battle without war.

More and more people from the "Feishan Barbarians" came to defect, and Yang Zaisi's army was replenished with personnel, coupled with well-trained personnel in peacetime, Yang Zaisi already had a powerful army that the "Southwest Barbarians" and Southern Chu did not dare to underestimate in the early years of the Later Tang Dynasty.

In order to better manage and govern the area under his jurisdiction, he also created the dog cub fish map and the dog cub stone mark that can centralize and unify thoughts. The dog cub fish picture is also called the yin and yang fish picture, "Taiji fish picture", the painting, stone carving, and woodcarving on the Miao architecture are all reflected, such as "carp jumping over the dragon gate", which means that the Yang family will serve the country for a long time, be loyal to the court, take the court as the center, and obey the call of the court.

Ma Xifan succeeded to the throne and took charge of the Southern Chu regime, and during his reign of more than 10 years, he restrained the ethnic minorities in Xizhou and developed the Ma Chu culture, with outstanding achievements. However, Ma Xifan's extravagance, killing heroes, obsessing with Buddhism and other mistakes caused Ma Chu's regime to decline from prosperity to decline, and Ma Chu gradually became strong and middle-class.

The "Feishanman" led by Yang Zaisi did not attach himself to Ma Xifan with the barbarians, and because of Yang Zaisi's identity as an uncle, Ma Xifan did not have a military conflict with Feishanman.

At this time, the military strength of the "Feishan Barbarian" was already completely able to compete with Southern Chu, and Yang Zaisi would not forget that the tragic situation of Southern Chu to exterminate the "Feishan Barbarian" had not been attached to Southern Chu before, and now it was even more impossible to attach to a Southern Chu that was going downhill.

During the Later Jin Dynasty (936-946), Duyun, Luodian Manban Chief Yin Huaichang, and Qiqi Manbarian Chief Zhang Wanjun, seeing that Chengzhou was rich, successively raised troops to invade Chengzhou, but they were all defeated and fled by Zaisi father and son. The southwestern Zhufan was afraid that the father and son would be the heavenly soldiers and generals, and they no longer dared to covet Chengzhou, and they repaired one after another, and did not dare to confront Yang Zaisi again.

In the fourth year of the Later Jin Dynasty (939), Wu Quan established the Wu Dynasty, and Vietnam began to separate from the Chinese territory. The area controlled by the Jiaozhi Wu dynasty was bordered by Southern Chu to the north and Southern Han to the east.

The Yang power of "Chenghuizhou" was located between Southern Chu and Southern Han, so the southwest of the Chenghui regime had a long border line with the Wu Dynasty.

Yang Zaisi's campaigns to conquer the west and Pingnan not only defended the homes and production of the people of Chengzhou, enhanced the cohesion of the people of Quanzhou, but also expanded the scope of Chengzhou.

In particular, in the Battle of Pingnan, the Yang group repelled the southwestern barbarian tribal army gathered by the separatist forces of the Wu Dynasty in Vietnam, drove the Wu Dynasty army out of the Guangxi border, and deterred the rebels. Yang Zaisi's Yang family will smash the Wu Dynasty's conspiracy to use the tribes in China to create chaos and reap the benefits of fishermen to expand northward, and to a certain extent, maintain the integrity of the political map of ancient China since the Western Han Dynasty, and Yang Zaisi is a national hero!

In 944 AD, since returning from the victory of the Pingnan Campaign, Yang Zaisi, the "Dragon and Tiger General", was already eighty-four years old, and felt that his strength was not enough, so he handed over the power to the ten sons. The second son Yang Zhengtao is in charge of military power, and the seventh son Yang Zhengyan is in charge of power, and he can live for a long time, of course, he still can't be idle, and still assists his children and grandchildren in governing their respective territories and patrolling around.

Yang Zaisi successively married Han, Meng, Ma, Pan, and Zheng, and had ten sons, each of whom was a chief, known as the "Ten Barbarian Chiefs". His twelfth son (including his second son) was divided into Yunnan and Guizhou. The eldest son, Zhenglong, was granted Zhizhou, and his son Tongyun was stationed in Wugang. The second son, Zhengtao, was stationed in Luomeng (now Passage County). The third son is cultivating, giving the history of assassination, and staying in Zhenliang (now Suining). The four sons were about to give Zhizhou and garrison Chenzhou Mansion (now Yuanling). The fifth son Zhengyan, no official, was stationed in Luoyan (now the northeast of Dao County, formerly known as Luoyan Cave).

The sixth son, Zhengjuan, was granted Zhizhou and stationed in Dongshan (now the northwest of Sui County). The seventh son, Zhengyan, was awarded the title of Duke of the Kingdom, stationed in Hu'er (now belonging to Liping County) and Zhenqujiang (now Jingzhou County). The eighth son, Zhengsong, was awarded the capital division and stationed in Huangjiang (southwest of present-day Liping County). The ninth son was righteous, awarded the title of lieutenant, and was stationed in Tanxi (now the eastern part of Liping County). The tenth son, Zhengqin, was granted the capital and stationed in the Paradise (now southwest of Liping County). The eleventh son, Zhengrong, was given pacification and stationed in Lizhou (now Lixian County, Hunan). The twelve sons are Heng, and they are envoys to the capital, and they are stationed in Xifan.

The Yang Group also established a strict territorial system based on the seven characters of the character school "Zai, Zheng (Zheng), Tong, Guang, Chang, Sheng (Sheng), and Xiu (Jin)". The surnames Pan, Deng, Lan, Luo, Xiao and other surnames in the territory also adopt the reincarnation of the Yang family's seven-character generation, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

In the rebellion of the five generations, the world was mostly devastated, the society of Ducheng Prefecture was calm, and the balance of forces of all parties did not create momentum, thanks to the contribution of the territorial system created by Yang Zaisi.

In the later period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, from the fourth year of Ma Chu's Kaiyun to the ninth year of the Southern Tang Dynasty (947-951), Ma Chu had continuous civil strife, and several sons of Ma Yin, the king of Chu, fought for the throne and broke out in war, resulting in Ma Chu finally being destroyed by the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Yang Zaithought sent troops to help Ma Chu restore the country, but was stopped by Ma Xifeng: "Old boy, with our strength, it is not enough to occupy Jingchu, it is better to report ourselves." ”

"Feng'er, my father gave me a jade pendant and a seal letter before his death, and told me to rescue me when the Chu State was in danger." Yang Zaisi said with a serious face.

"The general trend of Southern Chu has gone, and there is no hope of recovering the country." Ma Xifeng sighed softly.

"Feng'er, I'm the aunt of the Ma family, I can't sit idly by, and I can't get by. Even if I fight my old bones, I will not hesitate to do it. Yang Zaisi smashed the teacup on the table with a punch.

Ma Xifeng resolutely refused to let Yang Zaisi send troops: "Even if the old boy sends troops, we will go all the way to defeat the entire Jingchu and drive away the southern ** team, what can we do?" Those brothers of mine are fighting in the nest, and the country is gone...... We might as well take the opportunity to expand our team and grab as much land as we can. ”

"It makes sense."

Yang Zaisi finally agreed to Ma Xifeng's plan and no longer sent troops to Tanzhou to rescue the Ma family's brothers......