Why did Wu Sangui, the only emperor of the Wu family, choose the word "Zhou" as the title?
Wu Sangui was born in a military commander's family in Liaodong in the early Ming Dynasty. At the age of 20, he became a guerrilla general. In a few years, he was promoted to the company commander in Liaodong and was named Ping Xibo. 1644, after the conqueror Li Zicheng breached the capital, Chongzhen committed suicide and the Ming Dynasty perished. At that time, Wu Sangui sent someone to contact the rebels and surrendered to them, only to learn that his home had been copied and his concubine Chen Yuanyuan had been captured. In a rage, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, defeated the Li Zicheng army with one stone and led the Qing army into the customs.
San Francisco rebellion broke out.
After the Qing Dynasty ruled the world, Wu Sangui was named King of the Day, guarding Yunnan, and married Princess Channing, the daughter of Huang Taiji, to Wu Xiongying. However, in 1673, Kangxi captured Ao Bai, and decided to cut the vassal four years later. Wu Sangui restored the Han system, stored clothes, and contacted Shangkexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng, the king of Jingnan, to resist the Qing Dynasty. San Francisco rebellion broke out.
Wu Sangui took "Zhou" as the number and annihilated San Francisco in chaos.
Before the outbreak of the San Francisco Rebellion, Wu Sangui occupied a great advantage, accounting for Guangdong and Fujian in the south and Gansu and Shaanxi in the north. In just one year, it laid the foundation of Guizhou, Sichuan and Hunan, and Chen Bing invaded Hubei and the south bank of the Yangtze River. After fighting with the Qing army for three years, Hunan proclaimed itself emperor in Hengzhou, Hunan Province, with the year number "Zhou", and died within a few months. After that, Wu Sangui's grandson Wu Shifan led the troops for three years, and in 168 1 year, the Qing army wiped out the San Francisco rebellion.
At that time, people called General Wu Sangui Yanling, and his family was descended from the Wu family in Yanling, Zhou Dynasty. The Wu family in Yanling was originally named Ji and Wu, and the ancestor was Taibo, the eldest son of his grandfather Zhou. Wu Sangui must take this title to prove that he is a Han population!