In the historical record, Zhu Yuanzhang did a very amazing thing, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang once issued an order that sounded very cruel: "As long as it is a person with the surname Pu, the male is a slave in the world, and the female is a prostitute." Not only that, but he also ordered that the ancestral graves of the Pu family be dug up and whipped for three hundred corpses. So why did Zhu Yuanzhang give such a cruel order? And why is it so targeted at people with the surname Pu? What exactly did the Pu family anger Zhu Yuanzhang?
Although this matter seemed very cruel on the surface, after this order was issued, it actually made the people clap their hands and applaud. It seems that it is not only Zhu Yuanzhang who hates the Pu family, but even the common people hate the surname Pu to the extreme. The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang hated people with the surname Pu so much was that he still had to start with Pu Shou Geng, when Zhu Yuanzhang issued this order, in fact, Pu Shou Geng had already died, and there was Pu Shou Geng among the three hundred corpses, which is why Zhu Yuanzhang did not even let go of the dead Pu family, the main purpose was to dig out Pu Shou Geng.
Pu ShouGeng was a large family in the Song Dynasty before his death, because he made a lot of money in business, he was still a very rich man with a head and a face in the Song Dynasty at that time, but because of his ambition, he made a big mistake. For his own interests, Pu Shougeng took his belongings to the Yuan Dynasty, and as a native Han Chinese, defecting to the Mongols was undoubtedly a betrayal of his country. If Pu ShouGeng had simply taken his belongings to the Yuan Dynasty to seek better development, the Attitude of the Han people towards him was nothing more than scorn and contempt.
But the reason why he made Zhu Yuanzhang and the people hate him so much was because he not only betrayed the old lord, but also helped the Yuan Dynasty people to mutilate the Han people and their own compatriots. Not only did he kill many ordinary Han Chinese people, but he also killed many members of the royal family of the Song Dynasty. For this period of history, Zheng Sixiao's "History of the Heart" is recorded as follows: Pu Shou Geng killed tens of thousands of Nanwai Zongzi. After Pu Shougeng defected to the Yuan Dynasty, he was highly valued by the rulers in the Yuan Dynasty and became a general of the Zhenguo Dynasty.
When Zhu Yuanzhang became the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, he hated those who betrayed the country even more, such as when Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng wanted to defect, even if it was his own relatives, Zhu Yuanzhang almost executed him. When Zhu Yuanzhang was investigating the Pu case, he unexpectedly found that Before Pu Shougeng defected to the Yuan Dynasty, he constantly revealed the state secrets of the Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty through his own means in exchange for his family's huge financial resources, which made Zhu Yuanzhang even more annoyed and ashamed, so in the end the Pu family would end up in such a fate.
Because of Zhu Yuanzhang's order, later these people with the surname Pu quietly changed their names and surnames on the way to migration, so now we rarely see people with the surname Pu.