We can easily hear the word "house raiding" in costume movies and TV dramas, and those whose homes are raided often end up lonely, and their families have been slaves for generations and cannot stand up. However, there is a legendary family in Chinese history. They lived through the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and their homes were confiscated by the emperors of the three dynasties. This is the Quanzhou Pu Shougeng family
So what kind of family is this? Why were the emperors of three dynasties confiscating their homes? And what was the reason that allowed them to remain standing in Quanzhou after experiencing house raids until and carried out the last house raid in the Ming Dynasty?
Pu Shougeng
The ancestors of the Pu Shougeng family are not Chinese, but authentic Arabs, who often engage in business and trade in Arabia, Vietnam and China. When it was passed to Pu Shougeng, his family completed the original capital accumulation, became a wealthy foreign expatriate living in China in the Southern Song Dynasty, and settled in Quanzhou (today's Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province). l5 At that time, pirates were rampant along the coast of the Southern Song Dynasty, so Pu Shougeng teamed up with his brother to form a private armed force to help the court quell the pirates. Therefore, Pu Shougeng, who had made meritorious service, was named Quanzhou City Ship Division by the court of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is equivalent to the current head of the customs. Pu Shougeng stayed in the position of Quanzhou City Shipping Company for 30 years. He not only monopolized the spice, silk and tea trade, but also took charge of the land in Quanzhou; Because Quanzhou and Quanzhou City Shipping Company were responsible for the foreign trade of the entire Southern Song Dynasty, Pu Shougeng controlled the lifeblood of the country's trade. The Confrontation between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom
Bosi Site in Quanzhou
In 11276, the Mongolian and Yuan armies captured Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Southern Song Dynasty court came to Quanzhou in a roundabout way, hoping to use it as a base to resist the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Quanzhou was full of money and grain, and there were many Song Dynasty clan nobles and people here who supported the imperial court's northern expedition to regain the mountains and rivers. However, when the Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty and the important ministers of the court arrived in Quanzhou, Pu Shougeng, who controlled Quanzhou, was under his brother's control. Under the instigation of his brother, he surrendered to Meng Yuan
Unknowing Song ministers Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie asked Pu Shougeng to borrow a warship, but Pu Shougeng sternly refused in person. Seeing the Mongolian and Yuan armies approaching, Zhang Shijie and others had no choice but to lead their troops to capture Pu Shougeng's family warships. Pu Shougeng used this as an excuse to accuse the Southern Song Dynasty of oppressing the people. He took the opportunity to control Quanzhou City, massacred more than 3,000 Southern Song clan members in the city, took the clan's property to himself, and buried After the Song Dynasty clan mausoleum in Quanzhou was looted
After the incident, the angry Southern Song Dynasty court issued an edict to confiscate the Pu Shougeng family's homes, and strictly ordered the Pu Shougeng family to be executed. It is a pity that the control of the imperial court at that time was very weak, and no one implemented the imperial edict of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor. The Southern Song Dynasty imperial court, which could not stay in Quanzhou, also moved to Yamen Town (today's Xinhui District, Jiangmen City, Guangdong) under the leadership of Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie and others, and the famous outbreak broke out here The Battle of Yashan
Imagination of the Battle of Yashan
Lu Xiufu carrying the little emperor Zhao Bing on his back
Zhang Shijie, a Han national hero and famous anti-Yuan leader
The warships used by the Mongolian Yuan in the Yashan naval battle were all donated by Pu Shougeng. He also sent the private army to help the Southern Song Dynasty to eradicate pirates, and helped The Yuan Dynasty trained the navy and cooperated with the Yuan army to attack the Southern Song Dynasty court and the Song army. In the end, the Yuan Dynasty won a great victory and the Yashan naval battle ended the 48-year rivalry between the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty
Because of their contribution to the destruction of the Song Dynasty, Pu Shougeng and his family gained the trust of the Yuan court and continued to control Quanzhou City.In 1290, the 85-year-old Pu Shougeng died of illness. Ten years later, in 1300, the Pu family, which controlled the Yuan Dynasty's foreign trade, became extremely powerful. The Pu family, who thought they could compete with Bo'er Jinjin , and the central government of the Yuan Dynasty, a fierce conflict broke out. The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty ordered the Pu family's property to be confiscated in anger. , and the whole family of Pu Shougeng was executed.
After the Han people in Quanzhou learned the news, they used Pu Shougeng's method to treat the Song Dynasty clan, searched the Pu family throughout the city, and dug up the graves of Pu Shougeng and his ancestors in revenge for his massacre of the Song Dynasty clan and the Han people in 1276.
Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang
After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry about the actions of the Pu family. He believed that as foreign Arabs, the Pu family borrowed the land of the Han family and obtained official positions and salaries from the Southern Song Dynasty court. However, in the face of the Meng Yuan army, the Pu family betrayed their faith, so Zhu Yuanzhang issued an imperial edict again, to confiscate the Pu family in Quanzhou. The men of the family were not allowed to study and become officials, and the women of the Pu family had to be prostitutes for life.
Therefore, everyone must be responsible for their actions, and justice will come even if it is late. If he had known that his descendants would end up like this, Pu Shougeng would not have dared to be so cruel to the Southern Song Dynasty court and the Southern Song Dynasty clan, right?
