As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had a poor birth. Ancestors were gold diggers of the Yuan Dynasty, because the Yuan Dynasty squeezed the people, the taxes were heavy, the Zhu family was ruined and could not pay the amount of gold, they could only flee with their families, Zhu Yuanzhang was born after his parents fled, ranking eighth, once named Zhu Zhongba.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who came from an extremely poor family, could only herd cattle for a living since he was a child, and even his parents died and could not afford to be buried. The poor life at the bottom of the society can be imagined, after experiencing all kinds of hot and cold worlds, Zhu Yuanzhang deeply felt that he had to resist in order to have a way to live, so he took the risk and participated in the anti-Yuan uprising, fate caused him to step by step to the position of ruler, and finally established the Ming Dynasty regime.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who has experienced ups and downs since childhood, after becoming a ruler, the defects in his personality are also particularly prominent, such as narrow-mindedness, irritability, misbehaving, and so on, and the harsh punishment of harsh officials and the indiscriminate killing of heroes made him inferior in the comparison of the emperors of the previous dynasties in later generations, but a seemingly narrow-minded order issued by Zhu Yuanzhang at the beginning of the founding of the country was cheered by the people of the world at that time, that is: Quanzhou "Pu" family man Ding Shishi was a slave, and female relatives were prostitutes on behalf of prostitutes. At the same time, the tomb of Pu Shougeng, the ancestor of the Pu family, who had been buried for a hundred years, was destroyed and the corpse was whipped.
When, where and why did Pu Shougeng, who had been dead for a hundred years, offend Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so that the descendants of the Pu clan would suffer humiliation for generations? This has to say something about Pu Shou Geng's sin.
Ungrateful villains, mercenary businessmen
The ancestors of Pu Shou Geng are today's Vietnamese, who settled in Quanzhou, engaged in ship shipping trade for generations, accumulated a large amount of wealth through legal and illegal means, and was the leading wealthy merchant in Quanzhou at that time.
In addition to doing business in the Song Dynasty, Pu Shougeng was also an official, and the official position was promoted by the Quanzhou Municipal Shipping Department, similar to the current customs department duties. It can be said that the foreign Pu Shou Geng was a well-known figure in the Song Dynasty, and the Zhao Dynasty could be described as benevolent to the Pu clan. In the last few years of the Song Dynasty, Pu Shi was not to say that he was rich enough to rival the country, but he was also a leading figure in the country.
Slaughtered the Song Emperor's chamber and counterattacked the remnants of the Great Song Dynasty
It is reasonable to say that the subjects or people of feudal society are influenced by Confucian thought and culture, and should follow the principle of "benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, and faith". Unfortunately, Pu Shougeng not only did not take Confucianism into account, but even ignored the authority of the Song Dynasty.
When the Yuan Dynasty invaded the imperial capital and the Southern Song Dynasty orphans fled to Quanzhou, Pu Shougeng, who had already thrown himself into the Yuan Dynasty, fell into the well, not only could not provide assistance to the young emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, but even exterminated the Southern Song Dynasty sect, and used his sea superiority to pursue the southern Song dynasty officers and soldiers, slaughtering more than 3,000 sons and daughters of the Southern Song Dynasty, more than 2,000 soldiers, and countless Southern Song officials.
Pu Shougeng exchanged the trust of the Yuan Dynasty for the massacre of the Southern Song Dynasty, and even won the admiration of Kublai Khan, the founding emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. In the hundreds of years that followed, Pu ShouGeng and his family did live a stable and prosperous life for more than a hundred years.
However, the so-called "three feet above the head has a god, and people are doing the heavens to see", after 98 years, the Yuan Dynasty has rapidly declined due to internal struggles, poor military and military forces at the ruling level, and ethnic contradictions. His successor was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who had clear grievances and hatred.
Good and evil will eventually be rewarded, and we only hope to arrive early and come late
Throughout his life, Zhu Yuanzhang hated ungrateful villains and mercenary businessmen, while Pu Shougeng had both. In addition, in the feudal society for thousands of years, it has always been the emperor of Han origin who is the master of the family, the Yuan Dynasty is the first generation of ethnic minorities to control the power, the Mongols settled in the Central Plains to implement a strict policy of hierarchical discrimination against the Han people, the Han people in the Yuan Dynasty are even inferior to livestock.
All this made the Han people intolerable, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was at the bottom of society, experienced the evils of the Yuan Dynasty's rule and suffered greatly from it. Therefore, he naturally hated Pu Shougeng, an accomplice of the Yuan Dynasty, to the extreme, and even though Pu Shougeng had been an ancient man for a hundred years, Zhu Yuanzhang still did not let go. The descendants of the Pu surname in Quanzhou, the male generation is a slave, and the female generation is a prostitute "revenge." Since then, the descendants of the "Pu" surname in Quanzhou would rather change their surname than recognize their ancestors.
A rich eunuch who grew up in the Song Dynasty did not have the slightest reverence and identification with the dynasty in which he belonged, and he ignored the national righteousness for his own selfish interests, hastening the demise of a dynasty.
A poor boy who grew up in a troubled world, with great righteousness and clear grievances, he started a new dynasty with his own efforts. In the end, he told the people of the world in the most honorable and upright way that "the unkind and the unrighteous will eventually be punished as they deserve." It is just that this punishment is too cruel for the descendants of the "Pu" surname in Quanzhou, and the mistakes of the ancestors a hundred years ago have to be punished by the generations a hundred years later, which is not an injustice for the descendants of these Pu surnames.