Zhu Youjian's claim that Wei Zhongxian was buried before committing suicide is not credible

Recently, there have been rumors on the Internet about how Wei Zhongxian was loyal to the country and how he resisted the Later Jin army when he was in power, and some people said that Zhu Youjian also sent someone to bury Wei Zhongxian before committing suicide, and it seems that Wei Zhongxian was a loyal servant who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty. However, zhu Youjianhou buried Wei Zhongxian, which was not credible.

In the Benji section of the Ming History about the Chongzhen Emperor, there is no record of Wei Zhongxian being buried at all. Wei Zhongxian's biography certainly does not have any relevant records, that is to say, the History of Ming does not record this matter at all. There is also no record of this in the Guoyu records of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen (1644) from January to March. In addition, there is still no record of this in the Book of Sin.

However, from these historical materials, we can find that even in the last moments of the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor was still worrying about the battle plan until his own death, and he was already in a mess, and he had no time to bury Wei Zhongxian. Second, the record in the "History of Ming" is that "zhao qi qi corpse, hanging head between the river", that is, Wei Zhongxian has one head left, how to bury it thickly? Could it be that the Ming court could be busy making wei Zhongxian at this time? Third, when Wei Zhongxian was first removed, it was completely Qian Gang's arbitrariness and meticulous planning, and with the character of the Chongzhen Emperor who constantly shirked his responsibilities in peacetime, he would never punch himself in the face for this matter.

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So where does this claim come from? This statement comes from Feng Menglong's "Chronicle of Jiashen" and Zou Yi's "Ming Ji Testament", Feng Menglong, although famous but famous for literature, is not a historical talent, the literary works he wrote are of course very good, and it is inappropriate to read the books he wrote as official historical materials. There is also the "Ming Season Relics", which has more meaning of hearing. Therefore, if this book is used as a historical material, it may not have great credibility.

In summary, the so-called theory that Zhu Youjian buried Wei Zhongxian was not found in some books with high historical value, but was only scattered in some books that did not have extremely high historical value, and its credibility was naturally greatly reduced. And in terms of Zhu Youjian's character, he still shifted the responsibility to the chancellor in his will, so how could he bury Wei Zhongxian, whom he had killed, to discredit himself?