The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is one of the most solemn festivals of the Han people, and it is also the last relaxation. After this festival, in principle, the whole year will pass, no matter who you are, no matter what reason you have, you must make the day normal, after all, life has to go on and not.

So normally, this is people's last. Almost all the people in Hangzhou poured into the streets, bustling one after another, and small traders and vendors even shuttled through the crowd, shouting and selling their new gadgets, adding to the hustle and bustle of this bustling scene.

The whole city of Hangzhou, whether it is rich or not, should try to tie a few lanterns as much as possible to make the final celebration.

For a time, the entire city of Hangzhou, like all the cities and towns of the entire Ming Dynasty, became a sea of lanterns. The neighboring rich families have to fight and make a lantern mountain to make all kinds of lanterns, which are colorful and colorful. There are also riddles hanging under the lanterns, and some bonuses are put on to attract countless literati and scholars, smart and clever young ladies and maids, lingering in front of their lantern mountains to guess the riddles and break the secrets, guess right, they will be exchanged for loud applause, and then proudly pick up the bonus rewards to show their wisdom to people.

The bonus wasn't worth a lot of money, it was just for fun, and no one really took him seriously, just for fun.

And in this laughter like the sea, the entire Ming Dynasty and the entire Hangzhou are immersed in a hypocritical prosperity, which makes people really forget to return.

As often said, a few families were happy and a few were sad, and there was still no shadow of the military salary, money and food that the soldiers of the guard hoped to receive, and the last reward of the emperor was not issued, but was still swallowed up by the above for various reasons. In the face of the noisy bustle, there was a dead silence in the barracks. Everything is in this dullness, giving birth to boundless anger, just waiting for a fire, it will burst out.

On the long street, a mountain of lights in front of the Zhusheng Gate was suddenly blown down by an inexplicable whirlwind, and the candles inside lit the lantern paper soaked in oil, and in an instant, it burned into a huge flame. Everyone ran in amazement, but not one of them thought to extinguish the flames.

The pile of flames swirled and twisted with the strange wind, and in the blink of an eye, it ignited the lantern shelf next to it. In the blink of an eye, the fire spread, and immediately formed a prairie fire, connecting the doors and windows of the shops on the street, and the fire became even more violent, and in a short time, dozens of houses and shops were burned.

Countless people panicked and hugged their heads and scurried, crying one after another: "Go water, go water." However, at this time, no one stepped forward to save the rescue, and people rushed to run for their lives, for fear of harming the fish pond. The government's water hook car has already rotted into a wooden frame in the warehouse, and the volunteers in charge of firefighting have not worked at all, and the fire is burning wantonly in this dry and cold winter.

And just outside of this raging fire, the ninth battalion of the garrison in Hangzhou suddenly broke out with an earth-shattering cry - mutiny, which inevitably began.

Three or four thousand soldiers of the guards rushed out of their respective camp gates and rushed to the bustling Hangzhou, and a tragic military disaster broke out.

In the garrison mansion, there was silence at this time, and the sharp voice of Feng Ru of Dongchang echoed in the lobby: "You are too bold, our family will take advantage of the Chinese New Year to go back to Beijing to pay a New Year's greeting to Grandpa God, and as a result, you dare to do such a dirty and bold thing." ”

The garrison and a group of guerrilla generals, etc., lay on the ground one by one in shock, and knocked their heads on the ground: "Father-in-law, the little ones don't dare, the little ones don't dare." ”

Feng Ru smiled angrily: "Don't dare, if you dare again, you will kick the sky, usually you are greedy for ink, I don't care about the money and food that you should give to the soldiers of the guard, it is not mine." But you dare to take advantage of me and my godfather to go to Beijing to pay New Year's greetings to my godfather, and dare to greed our emperor's reward for soldiers, is this worth it? You dare to be greedy for our royal money, and you still don't dare? If you dare, what are you going to do? ”

The eunuchs are the servants of the royal family, and when their roots are gone, everything they have is royal, and the royal family is their only support, so in the eyes of the eunuchs, the court is none of their business, but the royal things are their own family, and they must not be moved plainly.

The guard climbed a few steps with his head full of blood, and pleaded pitifully: "Father-in-law, I really didn't see the emperor's two favors." ”

Feng Ru was simply mad: "You don't cry when you don't see the coffin." Then he shouted outside, "Drag that little cub in." ”

A few sturdy brocade guards dragged a little eunuch over like a dead dog: "Say, did the emperor's reward you distribute hand over to the soldiers?" ”

The little eunuch had already lost his soul in fright, and stammered back: "The emperor's reward, I handed it over to the garrison, godfather, spare your life." ”

Feng Ru gritted his teeth and said to the little eunuch: "Okay, you waste, you can't even look at the silver of our emperor, what do I want you to do?" As he spoke, he directly pulled the embroidered spring knife in the waist of Feng Ji, the brocade guard next to him, and slapped the scabbard on the head of the little eunuch, and slapped the little eunuch to death on the spot at that time.

Such a very spicy method, at that time, a group of women and ladies who were kneeling on the ground outside in fright screamed, and a few fainted directly to the ground at that time, but no one dared to come forward to help.

"Father-in-law, the small one received the emperor's reward, but the first emperor's annual reward was taken by the Imperial Shi, and the fifteenth reward was taken by the political envoy.

threw the bloody embroidered spring knife to Feng Ji of his own family, and said coldly to the already frightened guard: "Okay, really good, the self-proclaimed gentleman of Donglin and the imperial history of supervising the greed of officials everywhere have also begun to be greedy for ink, how ironic is this." Then he looked at Feng Ji, a hundred households of Jinyi Wei: "It seems that no one in this world can count on it, and you have to count on you, the royal army, and count on us royal dogs." Then look at the slumped guard: "People from our family, I have the right to deal with it, but you are an official of the imperial court, I have no power, so let the Jinyi guard summon you to prison first, and then slowly interrogate you." ”

Feng Ji was overjoyed at the time, this was a good deal. From now on, at least a large number of high-ranking officials can be implicated, and he said with confidence at that time: "Don't say anything so troublesome about fabricating charges, just look at the world, are there still good officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there are still clean officials?" The outside world said that our Jinyi Wei Daxing summoned prisons, tortured into tricks, and fabricated charges to frame loyal ministers, you see, this Ming Dynasty is even greedy for imperial history, do you still need to fabricate charges? Do you still need to be beaten into a trick? ”

Feng Ru smiled bitterly: "The officials in this world all regard this country as the emperor alone, what does the rise and fall of the country have to do with them." Then he bowed his hand to Feng Ji: "This matter will be handed over to you, this is your responsibility, but my Dongchang is supervising you, if you don't dig out the money they have embezzled our family, be careful that I will be the first to kill you." ”

When the guard heard this, there seemed to be hope, so he hurriedly climbed over and hugged Feng Ru's thigh: "Father-in-law, father-in-law, I will take out the silver I embezzled from the emperor tomorrow." I beg my father-in-law to spare my life. ”

Feng Ru kicked him in disgust: "It's late, what are you doing early." ”

When he said this, he suddenly saw a fire on the street, and then one fire after another was ignited, and in the light of the fire and screams, there was a faint voice: "Mutiny, mutiny." ”

Everyone present at that time changed their expressions and stomped their feet again and again: "It's late, it's really late." ”