My Daming New Empire

But since last year, all this has changed.

First of all, since the beginning of summer, the internal supervisor has sent many procurement envoys to purchase supplies near Quanzhou. The shipyard that was originally closed has now reopened.

Although the imperial court did not pass down the decree of canceling the sea ban, there are indications that the sea ban has existed in name only.

Although those private maritime merchants cannot directly go to sea, they can sell their goods to the inner prison at a fair price and earn a certain profit. This place has gradually become the commercial center of the south.

After Zhu Zhanji returned from the Eastern Expedition, he relocated nearly [-] people to Dongfan Island in the name of conscription. This move greatly eased the conflicts among the local people.

From the perspective of the people of Quanzhou, everything is developing in a good direction.

When the people learned that the grandson would go to sea in person and stay in Quanzhou temporarily, they spontaneously came to both sides of the Jinjiang River to welcome the grandson.

Although Quanzhou has been rich for hundreds of years, because it is far away from the Central Plains, the royal families of all dynasties have never visited Quanzhou.

In history, only the clan of the Southern Song Dynasty fled here, but Pu Shougeng, a foreign guest, killed more than [-] people at once.

This is the dark history of Quanzhou.

Because of this, when the emperor Taizu came to the throne, Pu Shougeng, who had been dead for decades, was dug up and flogged the corpse, and punished his descendants to be slaves and prostitutes forever.

But for this cruel thing, the Quanzhou people did not scold Zhu Yuanzhang, but praised him for doing the right thing, doing it well, and making people happy.

Because this Pu Shougeng, including the Pu family, is really hateful.

The ancestors of the Pu family were Western Region (Arab) maritime merchants who settled in Champa (Vietnam) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, that is, in the tenth century AD.After they relied on trade to make money, they moved to Guangzhou after the founding of the Song Dynasty, where they operated merchant ships and became the most wealthy people.

At the beginning of the thirteenth century, in the [-]th year of Jiading during the Ningzong period of the Song Dynasty, the entire family of the Pu family moved from Guangzhou to Quanzhou, the largest port at that time, to settle down.Pu Kaizong, Pu Shougeng's father, also served as the chief bookkeeper of Anxi County, and was awarded the official title of "Chengjielang" by the Southern Song Dynasty court for his meritorious service in trade.

In the tenth year of Xianchun, pirates attacked Quanzhou, and the officers and soldiers were helpless.In order to protect the huge interests of the family, Pu Shougeng and his elder brother Pu Shoucheng, with their powerful sea power, assisted Guan Xian to repel them. Appease all the way to military affairs and civil affairs, and hold important positions in Fujian military affairs and civil affairs.Command the coastal defense and have great power.

Pu Shougeng is also an official and a businessman, and the government and business are integrated. He can use his power to carry out the spice trade on a larger scale, and can use various "legal" means to grab benefits and increase wealth.

The Pu family's fleet is getting bigger and bigger, at most more than a thousand seagoing ships.At the end of the Song Dynasty, it monopolized the overseas trade of spices in Quanzhou for nearly 30 years.

The combination of prominent power and strong maritime power made Pu a pivotal figure in the period of the Song and Yuan Dynasties.Therefore, in the first year of Jingyan, Pu Shougeng was appointed as the envoy of Fujian and Guangzhao, and the chief ship.And the main city ship.

However, when the Mongolian Yuan invaded the south, the Pu family, who was deeply favored by the Song court, began to vigorously accept the Song court's clan, but later gave the Song court a heavy blow.

In the third year of Emperor Gaozong's Jianyan period, more than 300 descendants of the Zhao and Song clans moved to Quanzhou with the Zhengsi of the Southern Foreign Language School, where they thrived.By the end of the Song Dynasty, there were more than 3000 clan members.

In February of the second year of Deyou, the Yuan army went south and surrounded Lin'an.

In March of the same year, Prime Minister Boyan of the Yuan Dynasty fell into Lin'an, Emperor Gong surrendered, and the Southern Song Dynasty actually perished.Zhao Shi, the brother of Emperor Fenggong, a survivor of the Southern Song Dynasty, entered Fujian to try to recover.In May of the same year, Zhao Shi established another imperial court in Fuzhou, which was called Duanzong, and was named the first year of Jingyan.

In November of the same year, Yuan soldiers entered Fujian from Zhejiang.In order to avoid the Yuan army, Chen Yizhong and Shaobao Zhang Shijie of the Southern Song Dynasty led a boat of [-] troops, entrusting Song Duanzong Zhao Shi, King Wei, Concubine Yang, etc., from Fuzhou to Fashixianian Village in the southern suburb of Quanzhou City, "wanting to make Quanzhou the capital".

The Song Dynasty hoped for the help of Pu Shougeng to continue to resist the Yuan Dynasty in the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangxi. At that time, the lonely ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie, arrived in Quanzhou with two baby emperors, Duanzong and the young master. Zhao Cheng led the remnants to retreat. To Fashizhai outside the city of Quanzhou, the sons of Zhao Song's clan here planned to meet them, but Pu Shougeng refused to support the Song army, but refused to accept them behind closed doors, and refused orders to prohibit the Song army from entering Quanzhou.

In fact, at this time, Prime Minister Boyan of the Yuan Dynasty led his troops to the south and secretly sent people to recruit for security. In December, Pu Shougeng formally formed an alliance with the forces of the Yuan Dynasty.

But Song Jun didn't know that, seeing Pu Shougeng's refusal to accept him, he used the reason that the ships and military funds were insufficient, and Shaobao Zhang Shijie forcibly confiscated Pu Shougeng's merchant ships when he fled. There are more than 400 Pushi ships in the stone area.

Pu Shougeng was furious, and spread his anger on the Southern Song clan who settled in Quanzhou, and killed all the three thousand Zhao and Song clan children in Quanzhou.

Later, Pu Shougeng cooperated with the Yuan Dynasty army to attack Guangzhou and fought the famous Yashan naval battle in Yamen, Jiangmen, Guangdong.In this naval battle, the remnant army of the Southern Song Dynasty was wiped out. Lu Xiufu threw himself into the sea with his young master on his back. Many loyal ministers and people loyal to the Song Dynasty also jumped into the sea to die for their country, a total of about 10 people!

The Mengyuan navy was mainly composed of sea-going ships provided by Pu Shougeng, so they could be regarded as the chief culprit for the demise of the Song court.

After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty appointed Pu Shougeng as the General Zhaoyong, the Governor of Fujian and Guangxi, and the recruiting envoy of soldiers and horses, and also promoted the ship of Fujian and Guangdong.

In the 14th year of the Zhiyuan Dynasty, General Zhaoyong of Jinzhao, Fujian and Guangxi were promoted to ship affairs in Guangdong, Fujian, and changed to General of the Town and State, and participated in political affairs.In parallel, Jiangxi saves trouble.In March of the 15th year of the Yuan Dynasty, Pu Shougeng was promoted to serve as a secretary in Fuzhou, and he was in charge of the counties near the sea.

As a Semu people, the development of the Pu family in the land of the East is unprecedented, and there will be no one in the future, even the later British and Jews can't compare.

But they will definitely not end well if they do such an outrageous thing.After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he uprooted the family, dug out his dead body and whipped him who had been dead for decades.

Until now, there are still a large number of descendants of Semu people living in Quanzhou.

Zhu Zhanji also knows that now that Quanzhou's business is booming, they are the happiest people, because they are an important part of Quanzhou's business.

He hasn't figured out how to deal with these people, saying that they are from the Western Regions, and they have lived in Daming for hundreds of years.It is said that they are Ming people, but they still follow the green culture and do not regard themselves as a real Ming people.

Because of the Mongolian Yuan occupation for nearly a hundred years, there are still many such people in Daming today, all over the Ming Dynasty.

Including the one standing beside him now is one of them.

After years of contact, Zhu Zhanji knows that Zheng He is a philanthropist.He is peaceful and respects Han culture, but in his heart, he is still close to his fellow clansmen.

His loyalty to Daming is because he was eunuched at the age of ten and came to Zhu Di's side at the age of 12. Zhu Di raised him like a father.

He is not actually loyal to Daming, he is just loyal to Zhu Di.

Seeing the welcoming crowd on both sides of the river, Zheng He sighed and said: "The most exciting thing about your Highness's trip is these ordinary people. Seeing that they all spontaneously kneel down to welcome you, you can tell that they worship the emperor. My first four I’ve never come across anything like this before.”

Of course Zhu Zhanji knew that he was honored by his royal status, so he nodded with a smile. "The hearts of the people are available..."

Seeing that Zhu Zhanji was in a good mood, Zheng He bowed his head and said, "He has two things I would like to ask His Highness to agree to."

"tell me the story."

"First, before leaving, the minister asked His Majesty for an imperial edict to let Pu Rihe, a descendant of the Pu family, act as a coordinator. Because of the reconciliation, he was afraid that His Highness would not allow it, so I only speak to His Highness now."

Zhu Zhanji was furious. Zheng He knew that he was a tough hawk, so he cut first and played later. This really touched his bottom line.

He looked down at the bowed Zheng He, and asked calmly, "Why does it have to be him?"

"Your Highness, the servants are definitely not the poor Pu family, but decades have passed, and the current descendants of the Pu family are innocent. This time, they concentrated the power of the Semuren and borrowed a million taels of silver from the inner prison for tea, celadon , is also an act of redemption.”

"No! What's the second thing?"

"Your Highness..." Zheng He raised his head and looked at Zhu Zhanji earnestly. Seeing Zhu Zhanji's cold eyes, his heart was more than half cold.However, he still said: "This Pu family also has a branch in Tianfang, which is actually the arm of my Ming forces spreading to the west..."

(This chapter has two ancient texts and some introductions, so there are hundreds of words more.)

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Chapter 5 Gap

The so-called Tianfang Kingdom is actually just a region name, referring to Mecca in later generations.In fact, it is also called by this name now, but because the Kaaba Temple in Mecca is square and used for worshiping gods, so Da Ming called it Tianfang.

The children's book "Arabian Nights" in later generations is derived from this name.

However, Zheng He's words are somewhat misleading. Tianfang can be said to be a nation, or a city, but it is not a country.

Just like the Arab nation, this ethnic discrimination is based on Semites as the main nation, including the Jewish nation, which is also the same nation as them.

Almost everyone in later generations knows this nation, but they are not one country, but many small countries.