How did the Pu family, who moved from Arabia to Quanzhou, gain a firm foothold in Quanzhou and still stand today?

The Pu family who moved from Arabia to Quanzhou is the Pu Shougeng family.

Speaking of Park Shougeng, many people feel very strange and seem to have never heard of it. He lived in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, but he was not from China, but of Arabic descent.

Pu Shougeng's ancestors were businessmen who came to the East to do business. He first lived in Viet Nam and later settled in China.

It was the Southern Song Dynasty. As we know, although the foreign war was not good in the Southern Song Dynasty, the trade was very developed. At that time, there were no closed doors. During the Southern Song Dynasty, overseas trade was frequent, and there were many Arabs and other foreigners in China.

Pu Shougeng's father, Pu Kaizong, also served as the master book of Anxi County, and was awarded the title of "Cheng Jielang" by the Southern Song Dynasty court for his meritorious trade.

At that time, there were pirates not only in the north, but also in the southeast coast of the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, pirates attacked Quanzhou from time to time, and the officers and men could do nothing. Pu Shougeng and his younger brother Pu Shougeng helped Guan Xian repel. Because of their contribution, they were awarded Fujian appeasement ambassador and coastal garrison ambassador (collectively referred to as Fujian appeasement coastal garrison ambassador), who appeased the military and political affairs along the way and took charge of Fujian military and political affairs. Command coastal defense has great power. ?

The Pu family gradually monopolized the overseas trade of Quanzhou spices and became a large family with rich local wealth. More importantly, the Song Dynasty appointed Pu Shougeng, an Arab, as Quanzhou Shipping Department. This position is a government agency, which mainly manages foreign trade. I don't know why, the government of Song Dynasty, with a little kindness, gave such an important position to an Arab.

Because of this, the influence of Pujia in Quanzhou is growing. However, instead of being grateful, Pu Shougeng used power for personal gain and amassed countless wealth for himself.

Speaking of it now, it is nothing more than the deeds of a corrupt official who uses power for personal gain, except that this corrupt official is a foreigner.

After the destruction of the State of Jin, Mongolia set its sights on the Southern Song Dynasty. After decades of resistance in the Southern Song Dynasty, Lin 'an, the capital, which is now Hangzhou, fell. The Southern Song Dynasty imperial court could only retreat to the south step by step.

However, after Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and others came to Quanzhou with Song Duanzong, Zhang Shijie and Zhao Fu turned against Pu Shougeng before gaining a foothold. Zhang Shijie confiscated Pu Shougeng's property, and Pu Shougeng was not a fuel-efficient lamp. He surrendered directly, defected to the Southern Song Dynasty, and began to kill Zhao Songzong's official positions and officials in Quanzhou. ?

Later, Pu Shougeng cooperated with the troops of the Yuan Dynasty to attack south until the decisive battle between Yashan and the Song Dynasty. Zhang Shijie also wanted to counterattack Quanzhou, but the Mongols chased him too hard, and he couldn't help it.

Pu Shougeng's move was a disaster for the Southern Song Dynasty, but it was icing on the cake for the Mongols. Therefore, the Pu family was valued for a long time in the Yuan Dynasty, no less than the Southern Song Dynasty.

Strangely, the Pu family rose in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, but declined here in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the peasant uprising broke out, and the Arabs and Persians in Quanzhou also began to resist. However, under the suppression of the yuan army, especially the Pu family, it was brutally attacked by the yuan army. ?

This is not the biggest disaster. After the establishment of the Ming dynasty, the good days of the Pu family did not come, but it was even worse. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry at what the foreigner Pu Shougeng had done. Even though he has been buried for hundreds of years, he is still very angry. In addition to flogging the corpse, he also began to suppress Pu's descendants, making them slaves forever, unable to study, and even less likely to be an official.