The midyear festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, is called Obon in Buddhism in the seventh and a half months.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, the Han nationality called the Shangyuan Festival, which is to celebrate the Lantern Festival, which has been in ancient times; On July 15, the Han nationality called the Zhongyuan Festival, sacrificing to the ancestors; On October 15, the Han nationality called the Xia Yuan Festival, which is to eat cold food and commemorate the sages.

The upper, middle and lower Sanyuan Festival is the most important festival in ancient China, and its status is higher than that of Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and other festivals.

The festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and partly on the 14th day of the seventh month. It was originally a small autumn, and some crops were ripe, and the people routinely worshiped their ancestors, made offerings such as new rice, and reported the harvest to their ancestors. Therefore, every midyear festival, every family worships their ancestors and makes offerings.

On July 15, the grave was swept to worship the ancestors, and later there were also sacrifices to the martyrs, and in some places it gradually evolved into a festival centered on worshipping ghosts, which is one of the largest sacrificial festivals among Chinese people.

King Lu wanted to gather the officials of Zhejiang, and he needed a name, and it was reasonable for the government to hold a large-scale sacrificial activity during the Midyear Festival.

To be able to call the main officials of Hangzhou, the status of the people who worship cannot be low, just located at the southern foot of the Qixia Mountains in West Lake, there is such a person.

Xiao Qihui immediately sent a message to the officials in Zhejiang according to King Lu's wishes, asking them to participate in the sacrifice held at the Yuewang Temple during the Midyear Festival to pay tribute to the Chinese hero Yue Wangye.

Yuewang Temple is on the shore of West Lake, was built in the 14th year of Jiading in the Southern Song Dynasty, was originally called "Baozhong Yanfu Temple", and changed the amount of "Zhonglie Temple" in the year of Tomorrow Shun; Because Yue Fei chased the king of Hubei and called Yuewang Temple, the pattern is divided into three parts: cemetery, martyr's shrine and Qizhong temple.

The cemetery sits west to east, the martyr's shrine and the Qizhong temple sit in the north and face south, the gate of the Yue Wang Temple, is facing the Yue Lake, one of the five major water surfaces of the West Lake, between the tomb temple and the Yue Lake, there is a towering stone workshop of "Blue Blood Pill Heart", which entrusts the descendants of Yan and Huang with the admiration of the prince of Yue.

These days, the undercurrent in Zhejiang is surging, and the people of King Lu are running around in series, and the officials in Zhejiang are more or less aware that the sky may be changing.

For some of the old people who followed King Lu, they were naturally dissatisfied with the imperial court, but for some people who did not have a deep imprint on the Lu faction, or who had already taken refuge in the imperial court, people at both ends of the snake and mouse, they were actually quite satisfied with the current political structure of the imperial court.

After all, the Ming Dynasty was in turmoil for too long, and the people of the world were determined, especially when the Qing army went south, killing people like hemp, and Jiangnan suffered heavy losses, which made people afraid of war, did not want to fight again, and hoped to live a stable life, and the Nanjing court had already done this, and they were doing a good job now, and there was no need to mess up the world again, so many people in Xiao Qihui sent people to contact, although they supported it verbally, but it was not so in their hearts.

However, although they don't support it very much, they won't stand up against it, because anyway, it's a verbal promise, and if King Lu loses, they flatly deny that they will still be officials, and if King Lu wins, then they will be able to stick a little credit from the dragon.

These people thought very well, but who knew that King Lu did not allow them to ski and forced them to express their position.

Xiao Qi would invite them to come to Yuewang Temple to participate in the sacrificial activities, and many people had realized that things were not very simple, but they did not dare not come, and if they did not come, it would be equivalent to declaring that they were standing on the opposite side of King Lu.

King Lu has a huge power in Zhejiang, and he can't fight against the king of Chu and the king of Tang, which is another thing, but there is no problem at all to govern them.

Therefore, although the officials in Zhejiang realized that there was a problem and what Xiao Qihui might have to do, they all rushed to the meeting one by one.

On July 15, Xizi Lake was blocked by a large army early in the morning, and Zhejiang soldiers with spears and swords on their waists stood on both sides of the road, and there were warships on the lake.

Many officials came out of Hangzhou City in horse-drawn carriages or sedan chairs, and their hearts suddenly tightened when they saw the soldiers on both sides of the road and the flags flying.

Xie Kuang, the envoy of Zhejiang, was also invited, he came in a carriage, lifted the curtain and saw the scene outside, and his brows immediately furrowed.

King Lu originally had an army of more than 100,000 people, and the affiliated Xiangyong and militia groups also had tens of thousands of horses, but in the past four years, Wang Yan used various means to continuously divide and disintegrate, and part of King Lu's men and horses were left in Jiangbei, and part of them were sent to North Korea, so that King Lu's troops were gradually dispersed and gradually infiltrated by the imperial court.

In addition, the imperial court continued to reduce local finances, reduce the withholding of taxes by local governments, and strictly control the number of soldiers in each town, making it impossible for Zhejiang to raise troops and limiting the scale of Zhejiang soldiers.

Although King Lu wrote secret letters to Zhang Mingzhen and Xie Qian, asking the two to act at the opportunity, there were a large number of central troops in Jiangbei and North Korea was far away, so neither of them could help.

Of the original more than 100,000 Zhejiang troops, there are only 60,000 that King Lu can mobilize at any time, of which 20,000 are sailors and 40,000 infantry troops have been mobilized by him.

From the dispersion and reduction of the military strength of Zhejiang, it proves that Wang Yan's policies over the years still have some results, as long as there is enough time, the central government can slowly dissolve the separatist forces step by step, but unfortunately King Lu also saw this, so he chose to be subdued by the central government, before the chaos.

On Qixia Ridge, His Royal Highness King Lu, who was wearing mighty gold armor and a scarlet cloak on his shoulders, stood on a high place, overlooking the tens of thousands of troops gathered in the temple of King Yue, and his heart suddenly stirred.

At this time, the red sun rises in the east, the sun shines on the earth, the flags all over the mountains and fields are displayed, the guns of the forest are staggered, and the sharp gun heads reflect the bursts of sunlight, so that people can't open their eyes.

After four years of sleepiness, he was like a dragon trapped in a pond, depressed, and today he finally soared into the sky.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the heroism of the year, he fought in eastern Zhejiang, and fought with Emperor Longwu for orthodoxy; planned the Jiangnan Uprising, commanded hundreds of thousands of rebels, and ignited the beacon fire of Jiangnan's resistance to the Qing Dynasty; He personally led the naval warships into the Yangtze River three times, approached Jinling, and sounded the strongest sound of the Ming Dynasty's counterattack!

These things, each of them are vigorous, pneumatic mountains and rivers!

How heroic and majestic he was back then.

Standing on Qixia Ridge, King Lu looked down at the Yuewang Temple, looked at the tens of thousands of troops in the strict queue, and suddenly gave birth to a pride in his chest to annex heaven and earth, and he couldn't help but recite the poem of Emperor Taizu again, "I don't send when a hundred flowers are hairy, and I am scared to kill when I send them." If you want to fight the west wind, you will wear golden armor all over your body. ”

When the generals gathered around them heard this, they also had pride in their hearts, and they wanted to compete with the court and the Tang King, Ruan Jun immediately echoed loudly: "Your Highness will definitely be able to wear gold armor!" ”

"Three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu, Your Highness has tens of thousands of people today, and great things will be done!" The generals chimed in.

King Lu saw that the soldiers were gearing up and their morale was available, and he was also very happy in his heart, and Xiao Qihui on the side also smiled: "Your Royal Highness is really wise, you chose to worship Yue Wang Temple in the Midyear Festival, and gathered the army here. ”

King Lu smiled slightly when he heard this, this is exactly the effect he wanted, and when he unified Zhejiang's thoughts, he set up troops to go north, and the idiot of Tang Wang was still waiting for him to join forces with the outside, but he didn't know that he even wanted to get rid of him.

(End of chapter)