Zhou Peigong was one of the important ministers during the Kangxi Dynasty, he lost his father at an early age, lost his mother at the age of ten, and has been lonely ever since, and later had to work as a state pawn to support himself. However, Zhou Peigong had good luck, and soon succeeded in attaching himself to a powerful man and entering the cabinet of the capital.
When the times created heroes, Zhou Peigong happened to encounter Wu Sangui's rebellion against San Francisco, and this incident was just enough to exert his military command skills.
The Kangxi Emperor clearly understood Wu Sangui's strategic intentions and sent Huang Xigun and Zhou Peigong to dispatch a large army together with Zhou Peigong to suppress the rebellion from Wang Fuchen and Wu Sangui and control the political situation. Zhou Peigong made a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the military situation at that time, and proposed that it was better to send emissaries to persuade Wang Fuchen to make peace, so that this difficult problem could be solved without spending a single soldier. However, at that time, there was no suitable candidate, so Zhou Peigong volunteered to take the initiative to ask for help and went to persuade him to surrender.
After hearing Zhou Peigong's ideas and plans, the Kangxi Emperor was very favorable, and immediately decided to give Zhou Peigong a rich reward, and crowned him as a senator and a yellow coat. Under the persuasion of Zhou Peigong, Wang Fuchen finally agreed to surrender, Wu Sangui's forces in the northwest were also suppressed and eradicated, and the pacification of the war made Zhou Peigong make great contributions, and Zhou Peigong only had one request, that is, he hoped to be able to reward and reward his parents. The Kangxi Emperor also fulfilled Zhou Peigong's request, and crowned his mother Sun Shi as a Zhenlie Gongren and gave him the title of Lady, and his father was also given the title of Emperor Of the Dynasty, and the title of Zhongfeng Dafu was also given. Throughout his life, Zhou Peigong paid attention to the situation in the imperial court and was ready to dedicate his own strength to the stability of the country. But it is a pity that he eventually died of overwork in public office.
So why did the Kangxi Emperor, who was the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, keep vigil for Zhou Peigong? In the TV series "Kangxi Dynasty", Zhou Peigong is portrayed as resourceful, witty and brave, he not only participated in the establishment of the prince, but also spent more than ten years of painstaking efforts to draw a detailed map of the Qing Dynasty.
The Kangxi Emperor was deeply moved, and because he was very sorry for the death of Zhou Peigong, he proposed to keep a vigil for Zhou Peigong.
But many of them were the Kangxi Emperor's consideration and measurement of the overall political situation. In the Central Plains, Confucian culture prevailed, and the Kangxi Emperor needed to rely on these Confucians if he wanted to control the Central Plains.
The Confucians who valued loyalty and filial piety were very concerned about their own faces, and the Kangxi Emperor's vigil for Zhou Peigong gave them enough face, let the Han people understand the importance that the Qing Dynasty attached to them, and made them more dead to the Qing court. This was precisely the political purpose and intention of the Kangxi Emperor.
On the other hand, it was because of the Kangxi Emperor's guilt for Zhou Peigong. Zhou Peigong's talent was outstanding, and he should have been reused and ranked above the court. However, the Kangxi Emperor was defensive, and military power was always in the hands of the Manchus, and Han Chinese like Zhou Peigong, although talented, had no place to show it. Zhou Peigong was also sent to the desolate land of Shengjing to manage military affairs. While Shengjing was dominated by Manchus, Zhou Peigong was unable to exert his talents in Shengjing at all. But Zhou Peigong not only did not complain, but also drew a detailed map of the country for the Kangxi Emperor. The Kangxi Emperor should reward Zhou Peigong for this incident alone. However, when Zhou Peigong died, the Kangxi Emperor agreed to keep vigil for him. This move contained more of the kangxi emperor's political aims.
The emperor's every move involved the entire imperial court, and even the emperor had to think twice about the affairs of the harem, not to mention the ministers of the imperial court. The Kangxi Emperor's vigil for Zhou Peigong was a compensation for him, giving Zhou Peigong glory, and even more a consideration of the political situation. Since then, many Han Chinese people have been taken care of and considerate, and have been treated kindly by the Kangxi Emperor.