One opinion is that the real reason for Han Xin's murder was that he deliberately plotted rebellion (the records of Han Xin's cause of death in the "Book of Han" are all records of conspiracy against Emperor Gao in the seventh year (200 BC) when Chen Xi, the Marquis of Yang, served as zhao xiangzhen to guard the Zhao dynasty region. When he left the capital for his post, he conspired with Han Xin to rebel against Chen Zai on the border, and Han Xin responded and cooperated. After Chen Zhidai, he did recruit troops, gather strength, and prepare for rebellion. In July of the tenth year of Gao zu, Liu Bang's father, Emperor Taishang, died, summoning Chen Renchao, Chen Tuo fell ill in September, and Chen publicly declared his opposition to han and established himself as the acting king. After liu bang heard the news of the attack on Zhao and Dai, he asked Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, and Peng Yue, the King of Liang, to rebel against Chen, but both of them said that they were ill and refused to send troops, so Han Gaozu had to personally unify the army and wait until Liu Bang left the capital, and Han Xin immediately prepared to respond to Chen according to the original plan. In the spring of the following year, Han Xin's arrangement had been decided, and the protégé who had conspired to falsely transmit the Holy Will Han Xin reported the matter to Lü Hou. Lü Hou plotted with Xiao He, falsely claiming that Chen's rebellion had been quelled, and ordered the courtiers to celebrate. Worried that Han Xin would not go, he sent Xiao He to persuade him. Han Xin alone in changle palace was captured by the ambushed samurai and beheaded in the bell chamber.
Many scholars believe that Han Xin's murder was deserved, including Sima Qian, Ban Gu, Sima Guang, and even the thinker Wang Fuzhi of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the Qing dynasty historian Wang Mingsheng. In "Reading through the Commentary on Emperor Han Gao", Wang Fuzhi argues from the three points of Han Xin's advocacy of meritorious sealing, greed, and the possession of strong soldiers after breaking Xiang Yu to argue that "the capture of Yunmeng and the beheading of Weiyang" are the evil consequences caused by Han Xin himself. Wang Mingsheng, in the Seventeen Histories of Shang Yu Xin Establishing Himself as a False King, also believes that after Han Xin was renamed the Marquis of Huaiyin, he "often said that he was sick and did not follow the court" and "complained about the day and was often pitiful". In 200 BC, he colluded with the heavily armed general Chen to plot a rebellion again. In 197 BC, Chen zaidi rebelled, and Liu Bang led his troops to personally march: Han Trust was ill, and took the opportunity to send someone to agree with Chen that he should cooperate with the outside world in Chang'an. It was at this time that his plot was once again denounced. Therefore, Xiao He and Lü Hou designed to capture and kill Han Xin, eliminating the danger of splitting
Some people also proceed from the perspective that all classes in society are in urgent need of recuperation, believing that after the Qin Bing Revolution, Han Xin created new turmoil from the perspective of personal grievances, which went against the trend of historical development and the wishes and interests of the broad masses of the people. Therefore, Lü Hou's killing of Han Xin directly saved the turmoil of the Second Chu-Han War, with the color of historical progress, which not only eliminated a major disaster for the newly built Western Han Dynasty, but also met the requirements of social development and the wishes of the people in terms of multiple views
However, the above views have been subjected to a lot of war, some scholars believe that Han Xin's name for rebellion is actually out of criticism, and the subsequent killing is a major unjust prison, and the representative figures who hold this view include the Ming Dynasty essayist Gui Youguang, the early Qing poet Feng Ban, and so on. The Qing Dynasty scholar Liang Yusheng said in the "Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Marquis of Huaiyin": "The death of Xin is unjust! The former sages have argued that there is no objection, and they have made false accusations against the changers. and Changhou and Xiangguo (Xiao He) Wenzhi's ear. Shi Gong is narrated in the Han Ting Prison Case. And its wrongs are self-evident," The Qing dynasty Guo Songcha also believes. Letter "Noble and lowly life and death - take money from others." It is the definite point of the people and the subjects, and the non-reactionary" means that Han Xin is not the kind of person who will rebel at all. So to speak. Han Xin's murder was entirely a conspiracy by Lü Nanchai's general to kill my hero, and Han Xin had no intention of betraying the Liu Han Dynasty
Han Xin died at the hands of Changgo, who was trying to take advantage of the original power. Nor is this accidental. Xiao He, who was the Prime Minister at that time, was also deeply jealous of Liu Bang and could not protect himself. He was originally Han Xin's sponsor, and at this time had to bend to Lü Hou's will and booby-trap Han Xin; If he hesitated, there was a danger and consequence of suffering from Zhu Lian, and Xiao He was promoted from Xiang Guo to Xiang Guo because of his criticism of Han Xingong, and he was given the title of Yi Wu (五于戶).
What exactly Han Xin died for should be examined in connection with the background of the times at that time. During the Chu-Han War from 206 BC to 202 BC. A total of 7 people around Liu Bang took Wang De and established a semi-independent kingdom. The existence of these powerful kings with different surnames was a serious threat to the unified regime of the Han Dynasty. Liu Bang originally made them kings. It was a last resort. In his sixth month as emperor, he began to clean them up one by one under the pretext of rebellion by the kings. As for Han Xin, Liu Bang admired his military talent of "an army of millions, victory in battle, and victory in politics", and called himself "inferior", but at the same time he was extremely uneasy about his talent. Shang "fears evil and its ability", and naturally will not let go. From the point of view of the unity of the country, if the kings of different surnames were not cut off in the early Han Dynasty, the scourge of war would not be eliminated, and the people would not be able to recuperate. This historical back-and-forth creator is a powerful foundation for Han Xinying's death. However, in connection with the historical fact that Han Xin once asked himself to be crowned king; After pacifying the Three Qis, Han Xin was at a critical juncture in Rongyang, when Liu Bang was besieged by chu troops. He actually wrote to Hubang and asked himself to act as the king of Qi. afterward. Han Qian was deeply dissatisfied with the fact that he was the king when he did not have a master of the state, and refused to send troops for this reason, if he said that he was killed for rebellion, it was deserved, and it was not out of thin air
In short, as to whether Han Xin had the intention of plotting rebellion or not, whether he participated in the Chen rebellion, the historians have not yet determined, and the truth of Han Xin's murder still needs to be further investigated.