Zhu Yuanzhang was from the lowest level of the poor family, step by step to the emperor's throne, so he will know better than anyone the suffering of the people, he will be able to put himself in the shoes of the people than any emperor in history. It should be known that the Yuan Dynasty divided the people in the country into four levels, and the Han people were the last level, and because of this, it would make the Nobles of the Yuan Dynasty exploit and torture the Han people in all kinds. It was at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang, who represented the peasant class, stood up, and he led his army to beat the Yuan Dynasty without leaving a piece of armor, and obediently ran from the Central Plains to the desert in the north. After he established the Ming Dynasty, he actively managed the government and actively reduced the pressure of the people, so that at that time, the people's praise for the Zhu Emperor was like a tidal wave.
In his later years, in order to consolidate the position and power of his grandson, he extended the butcher knife to one courtier after another, first With Li Shanchang, then with Lan Yu and Hu Weiyong. In addition to these people, Emperor Zhu also poisoned a family with a surname because it betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty that year.
The Pu family
Speaking of this Pu family, we should talk about their ancestor who caused such a disaster, he was a traitor and traitor in the Southern Song Dynasty———— "Pu Shou Geng".
He was a relatively famous figure in the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty and the early years of the Yuan Dynasty. In terms of ability and knowledge, he was indeed very powerful, not only proficient in his native language, but also proficient in Arabic and Vietnamese, and it was precisely because of his abilities and advantages that he had a smooth business trip in the future. Because he made outstanding contributions to the country's economy and other aspects in his early years, he served as the commander of Quanzhou City during the Southern Song Dynasty. Later, with the care of the imperial court and his own good management of business, he became a wealthy merchant in Quanzhou at that time, and it was not too much to describe him with family wealth and nijin doujin.
Later, when the situation of the Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty was critical, Zhang Shijie, a famous general of the Anti-Yuan Dynasty, fled to Quanzhou with the emperor who was still young at the time, and he wanted to plead with Pu Shougeng at that time to open the door to welcome the young lord and make it the temporary capital of the Song Dynasty. However, after the rich merchant learned of this, he refused General Zhang's request on the grounds that he only recognized Empress Xie and Emperor Gong. Faced with such an embarrassing situation, in order to get rid of the Pursuit and Killing of the Yuan Army in time, General Zhang hurriedly wanted to go south and led his army to withdraw to Guangdong. However, when preparing to retreat, because there were not enough ships, General Zhang ordered people to forcibly requisition Pu Shougeng's ships, and then violently confiscated his family property, which is recorded in the historical records as follows: "Two thousand ships of the Pu clan were plundered, and there was no cargo." ”
After General Zhang did such a thing, he was angry in Quanzhou City, so he sprinkled this breath on the Song people living in Quanzhou, and this killing killed more than 3,000 people, which was simply terrible.
After doing such a thing, he completely broke with the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was simply no hope of easing, but the Song army continued to flee in order to avoid the pursuit of the Yuan army. When the iron horse of the Yuan army drove the soldiers and horses to Quanzhou, the rich man opened the gate that had been closed to the Song Room and eagerly went to meet the new master from the grassland.
It was also the act of killing the Song Room and the Yingyuan Army that made many Han people very angry about this "traitor", and everyone simply wanted to kill him, but because he had the protection of the Yuan Room, so after so many years, most of the people dared to be angry and dare not speak out.
Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in order to be able to conform to the wishes of the people and to win the hearts and minds of the people, he decided to issue a very strict rule on the "Pu family" ———— the sinner family that betrayed the Song Dynasty, which was that "the male generation of the family is a slave, and the female is a prostitute."