Regarding the Islamic people in Quanzhou, Boss Wei also told me a historical background story. At that time, as the trade routes outside Quanzhou became farther and farther away, there were more and more Islamic people (also known as Semu people) from Arabia, and some Arabs were highly valued by the imperial court. Since the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty has been friendly to him, not only supporting him to do official positions, but also getting bigger and bigger, but this person not only did not know gratitude when the Southern Song Dynasty was in danger, but also took advantage of the national chaos to sneak up on the main anti-Yuan forces that retreated from the front line, slaughtering the Song Dynasty Zong clan that avoided chaos here, so that later when the cliff mountain was over, only two small emperors who did not grow up were left. This colored person is Pu Shou Geng.
Pu Shougeng, a descendant of the Arabs, moved with his father from Guangzhou to Quanzhou, Fujian Province, when he was young. Pu Shou Geng was not rich enough to rival the country at the beginning, and by the time his father Pu Kaizong was born, he had already fallen into the middle of the family road. The person who made Pu Shou Geng's trace was named Wang Maoyue, a close confidant of Jia Xiangdao, and was included in the Quanzhou traitorous courtiers. Wang Maoyue ran rampant in Quanzhou for 14 years, collecting taxes and accepting bribes, and was unscrupulous. Later, he colluded with Pu Shougeng and evaded taxes to the clan merchants.
Because of attachment, if you turn to Pu Shou Geng, you can evade taxes, evade taxes, even tax exemptions, and act recklessly, so the merchants of Quanzhou have always been only Pu Shou Geng's horse leader, and regard the official government as nothing. Pu Shougeng also controlled the merchant group through marriage, collected huge protection fees, and then bribed local officials to form a huge smuggling group. In the end, even the largest merchant, Fo Lian, became his son-in-law.
Later, Wang Maoyue not only connived with Pu Shou Geng to help the clan merchants evade taxes and evade taxes, but also promoted Pu Shou Geng to enter quanzhou city and recommended Pu Shou Geng's brother Pu Shou Sheng as The Governor of Meizhou. Pu ShouGeng also used his status as an official and businessman to vigorously suppress and eliminate dissidents, and finally monopolized the city of Quanzhou. Subsequently, Pu Shougeng was also appointed by the Southern Song Dynasty as the city of Quanzhou under the recommendation of Wang Maoyue, responsible for managing maritime trade. At this time, Pu ShouGeng was not only rich enough to rival the country, but also controlled the left wing army, and the whole of Quanzhou was his independent kingdom. At that time, Quanzhou's economy was withered and the people were not happy, but the Pu Shou Geng family was rich enough to rival the country.
In 1276, the Mongol Yuan army captured the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin'an, and captured the 5-year-old Young Emperor Gongzong of the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty ministers Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie, and others had to flee south with their other young lords and prepare to build a capital in Quanzhou to fight against Meng yuan. However, Pu Shougeng, who was a powerful figure in Quanzhou, had already defected to the Mongols at this time, and he ordered that Quanzhou should not be opened, and refused to allow Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang, Zhang Shijie and others to enter the city.
In anger, Zhang Shijie forcibly requisitioned more than 400 Pujia haigang moored in the Fashi area. But this angered Pu Shougeng, and in retaliation, he had his eldest son Pu Shiwen kill more than 3,000 Southern Song Dynasty clansmen who had settled in Quanzhou by torture. Pu Shiwen first chopped off the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty clan members, and then tortured them to death; when he saw the young and beautiful clan women, he first arrested them and insulted them wantonly, and then sold them to the People of Color, and the clan merchants became slaves, and if they resisted, they were killed immediately. For those who harbored the children of the clan, Pu Shou Geng was also exterminated, and the Xu clan in Quanzhou was exterminated because of the protection of the clan's escape.
After Pu Shougeng killed more than 3,000 people in the Southern Song Dynasty, he occupied the real estate fleet of the southern Song Dynasty and also stole the ancestral graves of the Southern Song Dynasty. Moreover, after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Quanzhou, which originally belonged to the Han people, under the rule of Pu Shougeng, became the world of the Semu people, the paradise of muslims, and the hell of the Han people. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Quanzhou's population peaked at 1.32 million. After Pu Shou Geng came to power at the end of the Song Dynasty, the population began to decline rapidly, and a large number of Quanzhou Han people fled, and finally only half remained. However, there are more and more merchants living in Quanzhou, and their number has reached 200,000, occupying most of Quanzhou, and also continuously expanding the enclosure, typical of the dove occupying the magpie's nest.
"Marco Polo's Travels" records that Quanzhou trade is free, prosperous, and prosperous. However, this account is very one-sided. In fact, it records that it belonged to the high-end trading areas of the clan merchants, while the Han people at that time could only engage in low-end commodity trading, and the two trading areas were separated. Looking at the entire Yuan Dynasty, quanzhou city was controlled by the Semu clan merchants led by Pu Shougeng. Moreover, the Pu family also banned culture and religion on the Han people in Quanzhou to prevent civil unrest, so the Han people in Quanzhou at that time had to go to Fuzhou to study. Because when Pu Shou Geng killed all 3,000 Southern Song Dynasty sect rooms, he also demolished all the libraries and academies in Quanzhou, and then built one mosque after another on the ruins of the academy.
In 1353, a great famine broke out in Quanzhou, and the Muslim merchant group in Quanzhou not only did not open a warehouse to relieve the disaster, but took the opportunity to raise the price of grain and collect taxes and debts, taking pleasure in watching the Han people starve to death. As a result, countless people starved to death outside Quanzhou City, and people competed for food, and Hui'an, Xianyou, and Nan'an were the most tragic. In the end, only Yongchun Han County ordered Lu Qi to forcibly open a warehouse for disaster relief and distribute relief to the victims through buddhist temples, but it could only save the people of one county. The angry starving people besieged quanzhou city, and on the one hand, the Muslim merchants drove the Han people in the city to continue to build city defenses day and night, on the other hand, they did not dare to use the Han people to capture the monks of the Buddhist temple as monks, and finally slaughtered the starving people who failed to attack the city.
This is the tragic end of Quanzhou as a city of immigrants. But today, this tragic historical fact is rarely mentioned.
A list of the main commodities that Arab and Persian merchants shipped and sold to China.
This is an Arab woman in Quanzhou.
The people of The village are descendants of the Arabs, and the biggest feature of the women here is that each person wears a Persian flower crown. The content of The Village will be introduced later.