After the demise of Ma Chu, Tanzhou (Changsha) changed the banner of the king, and Ma Chu's former generals and warlords fought in the land of the original Southern Chu, and the chaotic situation continued.

Yang Zaisi and his descendants seized this opportunity to expand their territory in all directions, and obtained a large territory of Southern Chu and the southwestern barbarian territories. In addition to most of the original Xuzhou territory, Chengzhou also includes the area of Chenxi, Zhongfang and Xinning in Hunan in the east, Yining in Guangxi (now Lingui, Longsheng and Sanjiang) in the south and Congjiang and Rongjiang in Guizhou, Shiqian and Huangping in Guizhou in the west, and Xiushan and Youyang in Chongqing in the north. Yang Zaisi's descendants were stationed in these territories in different towns to speed up the process of developing the strength of the Yang family.

On October 26, the fourth year of Zhou Xiande (957), when Yang Zaisi took his family to visit Zhu Miao in Chengzhou, he suddenly felt unwell, so he went home and sat on a soft chair to rest under the escort of Ma Xifeng and his entourage: "Xifeng, you all go out, old man, I want to sleep quietly for a while." ”

"Yes, old boy." Ma Xifeng exited the room and gently closed the door.

An hour later, when Ma Xifeng entered the room to look again, Yang Zaisi had already slept peacefully, smiling, and died at the age of ninety-eight. This so-called "a generation of heroes for 80 years to defend the territory and protect the land, the wind and clouds shook the east and the west, and the north and the south regretted", the hero ended, and the world was sad.

When Yang Zaisi was still alive, his wives Ma and Pan were busy looking for a cemetery for him. Ma did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to hire many Feng Shui gentlemen, and they were divided into several groups and went to the territory of Guizhou, Guangxi, and Hunan provinces to find Feng Shui treasures to ensure that the descendants of the Yang family would prosper and prosper, and the generals would continue to be in power for generations.

After searching for several years, the feng shui gentlemen found more than a dozen caves, and after careful screening and comparison, they unanimously agreed that only two caves in Changgangling, Liping, Guizhou Province and Dongshan Boundary of Shangguan Village, Chishui Mountain, were the most ideal places. However, Guizhou Liping is too far away from Chengzhou, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, and it is inconvenient for future generations to sacrifice and difficult to protect. After some weighing, Yang Ling's mother-in-law, Ma, decided to choose the land of Shangguan Village as the first choice.

Shangguan Village (now Shaoyang Chengbu Yangjiajiang Village) Dongshan boundary "dragon opening" rock ** is not high, only more than 100 miles away from Chengzhou, and it is convenient for descendants to sacrifice. The terrain in front of the cemetery is flat, the "Qinglong" of the Yunwuling Mountain Range on the left is undulating and orderly, the "White Tiger" on the right is round, and the water mouth is closed.

Eighteen Arhat Mountains behind the tomb are in a variety of postures, magnificent, the shape is heavy, the momentum is strong, it is the most expensive auspicious point of the Yang family to produce the military generals of the Wenchen in the future.

After Yang Zaisi died, in order to prevent accidents, when the coffin was out of the village, Yang Ling's mother-in-law ordered thousands of soldiers of the Yang family, beating gongs and drums, and carrying more than a dozen coffins out of the gate of the village at the same time.

Yang Ling's mother-in-law (Ma Xifeng) also set up nine suspicious graves in Liping, Guizhou, Chengzhou Feishan and other places, and secretly buried her husband's body at the mouth of the "Dragon Opening" cave in the Dongshan boundary of Shangguan Village, Chishuitong, and set up a tomb in the direction of Qianshan Xun.

The real burial address is secretly recorded in the "Yang family tree" so that future generations can sacrifice. Since later generations had a great controversy over Yang Zaisi's cemetery, the theories of "Liping" and "Jingzhou" came from this.

There are several golden bamboos behind the cave, and the tail of the bamboo hangs down to the altar in front of the tomb. Under the breeze, the bamboo tail sways from side to side, and the sacrificial platform is swept spotless all year round, so the folk call this cemetery "Golden Bamboo Sweeping Grave Platform".

In 960 A.D., Hunan Jiedu made Zhou Xingfeng die, and his son Zhou Baoquan succeeded to the throne. Many of the generals were not convinced, and Hunan was once again involved in the war. Zhong Zhicun, the assassin of Xuzhou, went to Yang Zhengyan, the chief of Wuyang and Huizhou, and his strength was further strengthened. Yang Zhengyan then claimed the king of the ten mountains, but left Hui and Cheng two states, and all counties were abolished.

The seventh son, Yang Zhengyan, took advantage of his father's residual power, ruled martial arts, and fought with his second brother Yang Zaitao in the south and the north, and continued to expand the ruling scope of "Feishan Barbarian". The territory under the jurisdiction of the Yang brothers is the vast area of southwest Hunan, southeast Guizhou and northwest Guangxi (including Hunan Jingzhou Huitong, Tongdao, Qianyang, Huaihua, Lipu, Mayang, Zhijiang, Xinhuang, Xinhua, Xinning, Wugang, Chengbu, Suining, Jinping, Liping, Tianzhu, Congjiang, Rongjiang, Yuping and Guangxi Sanjiang, Longsheng and other counties in Guizhou), covering an area of more than 30 million square kilometers.

The descendants of the second son Zhengtao are mainly distributed in many villages surnamed Yang in the Wushui Basin, Zishui Basin, and Quhe River Basin. Shiju Chengbu and the surrounding counties and cities have developed vigorously and cultivated a large number of Yang generals.

Yang Zhengtao was the governor of Luomeng (now Tongdao County, Hunan), and gave birth to four sons, the eldest son Tongsheng, and the marshal of Huguangquhe and other places. Tongsheng gave birth to three sons, the eldest son Guangbin, awarded the general of Longhuwei, and served as the military and civilian propaganda envoy of Guzhou, and the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu.

Guangbin gave birth to five sons, four sons Changjin, awarded Jin Wuwei general, Jiezhen Liuzhou, Guangxi. Chang Jin gave birth to four sons, the eldest son Shenghe (buried in Qinjian Village, Rulin Town, Po Zichong), the general of Zhenguo, and guarded Liuzhou, Guangxi.

Shenghe gave birth to four sons, the eldest son Jinbao, Feng Weiwu general, living in Dazhuping, Hunan City. Jin Bao gave birth to two sons, and the eldest son was awarded General Wu Xian.

The first son was born, and the second son was a thousand. Zheng Qiansheng has seven sons, the eldest son Tongrong, Ren Zhenyuan Mansion (now Zhenyuan County, Guizhou), Tongrong has four sons, and the second son Guangfu. Guangfu gave birth to two sons, the eldest son Changwan, and served as the general of Huangping in Guizhou (buried in Zhuzhipo, Yangjiajiang Village).

Chang Wansheng has five sons, the eldest son Shengrong, the second son Shenggui, the third son Shenghua, the fourth son Shengkui, and the fifth son Shengzhong.

Sheng Rong gave birth to five sons, the third son Gu Xian, Gu Xian gave birth to three sons, the second son Zaidan moved to Shandong Province, and the third son Zaizhi went to Beijing to help the country. Changwan's second son, Shenggui, is the prefect of Huangping Prefecture in Guizhou.

Sheng Guisheng has three sons, Gu Fu, Gu Jun, and Gu Yi. The same moved to Sichuan Province. Changwan's fifth son, Sheng Zhong, gave birth to two sons, and the second son, Gu Ying, was stationed in Beijing to help the country.

Changwan's third son, Shenghua, took his father's post and served as a staff general in Huangping Prefecture, Guizhou. Sheng Hua gave birth to seven sons, Hase-Ma, Jitani Cong, Mitani Ming, Yotsuya Chi, Gotani Xiang, Rokutani Yao, and Nanatani Kei.

In the tenth year of Ming Taizu (1377), Yang Sheng (that is, Yang Jing) asked for an order, and seven people, including his uncle Gu Zhen and his father Gu Qing, were the battalion cavalry captains. Zhu Yuanzhang played accurately, so the seven brothers of the Yang family became the famous "old seven households" of the Yang family in Chengbu Village, Hunan.

Yang Guqing (Ming Taizu recorded as Yang Zheng) participated in the Red Turban Army uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and produced the "One Jie and Five Tigers" to help Ming Taizu sweep the Mengyuan Dynasty and settle down to win the surname, and Yang Jing Yang Liulang (family ranking) is the ancestor of the foundation of the Yang family in Tianjin.

The third son, Yang Zhengxiu, one of the ten lords of Chenghuizhou, lived in Chishui Pass (now Jiangfang District, Chengbu County), and its jurisdiction was relatively large, including Suining, Chengbu, Xinning, Wugang and other areas in Shaoyang City today, which belonged to Chishui Mountain, Huizhou Prefecture, Xuzhou, so it was called "Chishui Mountain".

Yang Zheng cultivated the army to fight a war, and worked Wen Tao, memorized the Five Classics of "Spring and Autumn", "Rites", "Yi", "Poems" and "Books", and also studied Sun Tzu's Art of War and Guiguzi's Art of War, and actively gave advice to his father to expand his territory.

After Liang Zhenming five years (919), Yang Zhengxiu returned to the Central Plains Imperial Court, participated in the scientific examination, won the "Jingkui" in one fell swoop, and broke Zhuge Liang's prophecy that "the city is only out of military generals, not civil officials" since the Three Kingdoms.

After entering the Song Dynasty, Gengchen was poor, Shaozhou was the capital of Zheng Lu, and there were 12 new brothers, and the official edict was one each, and the silver Qingguanglu doctor was awarded. Zi Tongzhao, the prince of the school and the commander of the imperial history, knows the affairs of Chenzhou. Yang Tongzhao grew his son Guangyu, awarded the Zijin Guanglu doctor, and lived in Huizhou (now Suining Dayuan); The second son, Guangbin, was awarded the title of Yinqing Ronglu Doctor (Yipin) in the fourth year of Song Renzong's Qingli calendar.

Yang Guangbin gave birth to five sons, namely Changxiu, Changtou, Changfu, Changyao, and Changwen, and Changxiu grew to Sheng Xuan. The second son, Shengqin, lived in Chishui Huzhou as the capital eunuch, and Dagu Mountain was enlightened, and the Northern Song Dynasty court named him the king of Jishi Xingyuhou.

Today's Zhulin Village, Jiangfang Township, has a Yang Clan Temple to commemorate the ancestral merits of Yang Zaisi and Yang Shengqin. Most of the descendants of the Yang family in Jiangfang Township, Maoping Town, and Rulin Town within a radius of hundreds of miles, about 80,000 people worship incense here all year round. On October 26 every year, the descendants of the Yang family carry out a three-day solemn sacrifice ceremony, carrying the statue of Feishan Linggong Zaisi around the three villages for nearly ten kilometers, and carry out a parade to commemorate the ancestors of Kaiji.

After Yang Zhengxiu lived in Chishuitong, he still ranked in seven characters, and his descendants lived in the vast areas of the Zishui Basin and Wushui Basin in Chengbu, and occupied almost all the towns and villages in Chengbu, including Shanfang Village, Liulin and Zhulin Village in Jiangfang Township, Tuqiao Village, Jingliang Village, Baizhushan Village, Tonglong Village in Maoping Town, Shuidong Village, Yangjiashan Village, Yangjiaqiao in Xiyan Town, Taiping Village in Jinzi Township, Xiatuan and Pingzizhai in Dankou Town......

That's all for later.

After Yang Zhengyan proclaimed himself the queen of Miao, the territory continued to expand, the military and civilians continued to increase, and they recuperated, and Chenghui Prefecture presented a rare peaceful situation in the troubled times of the five dynasties.

At the same time, the imperial power of the Northern Zhou Dynasty fell, and the general Zhao Kuangyin launched the "Chenqiao Mutiny", and the yellow robe was added for Song Taizu.

At the invitation of the Hunan warlord Zhou Baoquan, the Northern Song Dynasty raised troops to enter Yuezhou, and seized the territory of Southern Chu in one fell swoop when Hunan was in civil strife.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizu set up the Guanjia Hall and the Silkworm Palace in the palace in order to show his diligence and thrift, love the people and attach importance to agricultural affairs. In the Guanjia Hall in the back garden, the emperor planted rice in front of the palace every year and harvested it after autumn.

As the mother of a country, the queen holds a silkworm ceremony in the silkworm palace every spring and completes the entire silkworm raising process. Zhao Song's move won the hearts of the people.

The north and south of the river, including Wuxi Dong Village, Miao Man, are also rumored that "the son of the Zhao family, the Yang family, will not change the general, and the son of the Zhao family will last for thousands of years", and the Yang family group is once again wandering at the crossroads of history.

One day, Yang Zhengyan, the king of Miao, gathered several brothers to drink together to discuss the matter of attaching themselves to the Northern Song court.

"Big brother, Zhao Song has been rising for more than ten years, and his power is getting bigger and bigger, but he doesn't see me using troops in the land of Wuxi, why not?" Miao Wang Yang Zhengyan tore a leg of mutton.

"The Tang Dynasty has also ended its sixty or seventy years old, and then taking the Tang Dynasty as the right one, it may not be appropriate to keep up with the situation. The emperor of the Song Dynasty did not attack the territory of my Yang family for a long time, which is benevolent and virtuous, and he remembered the reason why his father sincerely adhered to it. Yang Zhenglong said.