In history, Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as one of the most controversial emperors, and the folk have legends and stories about Zhu Yuanzhang's brutal killing, but the "Records of Ming Taizu" revised during the Jianwen Emperor period truthfully recorded a past event, Zhu Yuanzhang hated a surname the most, and also ordered this surname, male generation as slaves, female generations as prostitutes, never to turn over, this seemingly novel plot, why does it appear in the Ming Dynasty, and what is the matter? This surname is Pu surname, and all the reasons must start from Pu Shou Geng.
Perhaps many people have not heard of Pu ShouGeng, in fact, he is the most important figure in the late Song and early Yuan dynasties, influencing the history of police cars. In the early 13th century, Pu Shou Geng was a wealthy merchant in Quanzhou, and there was a lot of trade with the Arabs, Vietnam and other places, in 1274, the pirates attacked Quanzhou, the officers and soldiers were powerless, Pu Shou Geng with the volunteers scattered bravely to repel the thieves, for this reason was rewarded by the imperial court Fujian to appease the coastal capital envoys, pacify the military and civil affairs along the way, command coastal defense, and blamed heavily.
After this, Pu Shou Geng was even more powerful while doing business with overseas and developing his own cargo ships.
In 1276, the Yuan army went south and surrounded Lin'an, because it was good at land warfare rather than naval warfare, and learned that Pu Shou Geng was powerful, so the Commander of the Yuan Army, Boyan, sent people to recruit, although Pu Shou Geng did not agree, but the attitude was very ambiguous. In the same year, the Yuan army attacked the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty survived in name only, and the chancellor Zhang Shijie and others led a boat division of 100,000 troops, taking the little emperor Zhao Fu of Song Duanzong and the Wei king Zhao Fu and Yang Taifei to flee to the south. After Zhang Shijie withdrew, Pu Shou Geng saw that the Song Dynasty had gone, so he made up his mind and completely fell to the side of the Yuan Dynasty.
In order to pay the petition, he took the lead in massacring the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor who settled in Quanzhou: "He angrily killed the clansmen and the scholars and soldiers in Quanzhou." Loyal to the Song Dynasty's clan and scholar-doctor class, more than 3,000 people were brutally killed.
Then in 1277, Zhang Shijie led the Song army to fight the rebels, but under the desperate resistance of Pu Shougeng and the baojia of the Yuan army, the Song army suffered heavy losses, and the strength to resist the Yuan Dynasty was further weakened, for the Yuan rulers, with the help of Pu Shougeng, their rule over Fujian was further strengthened, at the same time, Pu Shougeng also obtained the high-ranking official Houlu, serving as the governor of Fujian Province, "Zhenfu Coastal Counties".
With the cooperation of Pu Shougeng, the main force of the Yuan army attacked Guangdong, which eventually led to Zhang Shijie's death at the foot of Pingzhang Mountain, the Xiangxing Emperor went to the sea to die, and the Song Dynasty completely withdrew from history, and Pu Shougeng got the high-ranking official Houlu for this, and his descendants were also very proud in the Yuan Dynasty.
However, after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, the Pu family, who had two sides and three knives, was deeply disgusted, and in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, Pu Shougeng relied on the Song court and the Han people to make a fortune, but at the time of danger of survival, he turned to the Yuan Dynasty, and even more aided and abetted the abuse, and persecuted the Song court.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that after this, the Pu surname Dengshi was not allowed, and at the same time, the male generation of the Pu clan was enslaved, and the female generation was a prostitute. "Exiled by the army, slave to prostitution", in the hands of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di's generous son Emperor Mingrenzong Zhu Gaozi, this overly harsh order was also abolished, but its impact was also profound, and it also led many Pu clan people to change their surnames in order to avoid disasters: "The Pu clan is afraid of being connected by zhu lian, so the xiang rate is changed to the Bu clan", and the number of Pu surnames has also been greatly reduced.