Five thousand years in China, the change of dynasties, it is inevitable to produce a few famous and surnamed traitors, Qin Juniper during the Song Dynasty can be described as a well-known traitorous minister, not only instigated Song Gaozong to claim a vassal to the Jin Kingdom, but also pit yue Fei, a famous general who resisted the Jin, and even confirmed the name of his great traitorous minister, and there is still a kneeling statue of him in front of the temple of Yue Wang. However, in the early Ming Dynasty, people hated another traitor even more, this person's name was Pu Shou Geng.
▲Pu Shou Geng
Speaking of this Pu Shou Geng, he cannot be called a traitor, because he is not a Han Chinese, Pu Shou Geng's ancestors are Middle Easterners, and in the early years of the Song Dynasty, he came to the Guangzhou area to do business, mainly doing East-West trade, and earning a lot of wealth through the sea business channels. However, in the middle and late Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in the generation of Pu Shougeng's father, the business of the Pu family became more and more difficult to do, and his father Pu Kaizong went to Quanzhou with his family to continue to engage in maritime trade.
Because Pu Kaizong's maritime trade work was relatively good, and the Southern Song Government encouraged foreign trade, the Pu family rose again, and Pu Kaizong was also given the official title of "ChengjieLang" by the government. After Pu Kaizong's death, Pu Shou Geng officially took over the business of the Pu family, and Pu Shou Geng was born with the ability to do business, coupled with the foundation laid by Pu Kaizong. Soon, the Pu family monopolized the foreign export trade business along the coast of Guangzhou, Fujian Province, and established a huge business empire.
In the tenth year of the Southern Song Dynasty, Pu ShouGeng was awarded the official position of envoy of Quanzhou City, although the term of office was only three years, but in Quanzhou's export trade and maritime ship management, in fact, Pu ShouGeng was still covering the sky with his hands. The history books say that he was "a man of great profiteership for thirty years", which shows how powerful Pu Shougeng was at sea.
The most frightening thing is that Pu Shou Geng not only has money, but also has an army in his hands, although Pu Shou Geng is only a businessman in name, but the power in his hands is not inferior to that of the feudal officials.
Because ships transport goods at sea, they often encounter pirates, so Pu Shougeng formed a team of his own, mainly for the protection of cargo ships at sea. In the last years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Pu Shou Geng also helped the Southern Song Army to quell the bandit plague around Quanzhou, which made the Southern Song Government give Pu Shou Geng a very preferential treatment, not only did not stop him from raising troops privately, but also encouraged him to increase the work of maritime export trade, and also awarded him the Fujian Pacification Envoy and the coastal capital to set up a history of coastal defense, responsible for coastal defense work in the Guangzhou area of Fujian Province.
You know, in ancient customs is a fat difference in the fat difference, non-emperor's close confidants can not serve, Pu Shou Geng was granted the right to rule coastal defense, which shows how much the Southern Song Government trusted Pu Shou Geng, but what was not expected was that Pu Shou Geng actually took revenge on the Southern Song Government.
In February of the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan army marched south and surrounded Lin'an, in March of the same year, Emperor Gong surrendered the Yuan Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty was nominally destroyed, and the Mongol army that captured Lin'an took advantage of the victory to pursue, invaded the south, and soon invaded the coastal areas of Zhejiang and Fujian, but most of the Yuan army was northern Mongolian Hanzi and was not good at naval warfare, so the Mongols decided to surrender Pu Shou Geng, who had a huge maritime power, and was rejected.
In November of the same year, zhang Shijie, a minor protector of the Southern Song Dynasty, led a boat division of 100,000 people to escort Emperor Duanzong Zhao Yan, who was proclaimed emperor in Fuzhou, to Take refuge in Quanzhou, hoping to get help from Pu Shougeng.
▲Zhang Shijie
At that time, Zhang Shijie thought of relying on the strong city of Quanzhou and the smooth sea route, which could be attacked and defended, and could continue to resist the Yuan as a new capital, but Pu Shou Geng actually closed the city gate, did not allow Zhang Shijie to enter the city, and did not collect the warships that Zhang Shijie docked on the coast, so that it was tantamount to worsening and causing a serious blow to the Song Dynasty, and Pu Shou Geng also broke with the Zhao and Song Dynasties and formally surrendered to the Mongols.
If it is said that the Mongols surrendered to the Mongols in order to protect the people of Quanzhou, Pu Shougeng's behavior can be understood, but after the surrender, Pu Shougeng slaughtered in the city, creating one tragedy after another, Pu Shougeng not only slaughtered the Sons of the Song Dynasty in Quanzhou City one by one, but also imitated the Mongols and wantonly slaughtered the Han people in Quanzhou City, accumulating bones into mountains and rivers of blood for a time.
Although the Mongols were brutal and carried out large-scale slaughter of the city several times in history, but at this time the Mongols had established a dynasty, and the slaughter of the city had not happened again for decades, And Pu Shougeng's move created the beginning of the slaughter of the imperial family after the surrender of the local officials of the country, and the ungrateful and vengeful face of the enmity was clearly visible.
Pu Shougeng's wanton massacre of the Zhao and Song imperial families in exchange for the trust of the Mongols, the maritime trade and coastal defense around Guangzhou, Fujian Province, were still ruled by the Pu family, which continued to do a great job along the Fujian coast and continued the "glory" of its family.
Interestingly, the Pu family did not surrender to the Mongols, it seems that there is a backbone behind the head, in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the Pu clan colluded with the then Mention Quanzhou City to make na Wu Na rebel, but was forcibly suppressed by the Yuan army, and the Pu family was also exterminated. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that Pu Shougeng's body be dug up from the grave and whipped 300 corpses to dispel the hatred in the hearts of the vast number of Han people.
The descendants of the Pu clan were also designated as "remnants" and were never allowed to be officials, which made the people with the Pu surname at that time change their surnames one after another, and for a time the Pu surname decreased sharply, and the number of people is still small.