魏安釐王 / King Anxi of Wei
魏安釐王 / King Anxi of Wei enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·周纪》82丨大秦的核武器：白起来了！ as the 魏国 ruler who succeeds 魏昭王 in 277 BCE, just as 秦国 is reorganizing conquered Chu territory and preparing renewed central-plains pressure.
The episode gives him an immediately hostile accession environment. In 276 BCE, 白起 attacks Wei and takes two cities; in 275 BCE, 魏冉 attacks twice, defeats a Han relief force, forces Wei to cede eight cities, then defeats 芒卯 and extracts another concession around Wen. The host reads this as a deliberate Qin “first lesson” for a new ruler: Wei Anxi Wang wants to fight, loses, and then has to concede.
The same source also introduces his younger brother Wei Wuji as 信陵君, placing Wei Anxi Wang beside the 战国四公子 branch before later episodes develop the brothers’ tension. For this page, the key point is that his reign opens under humiliation, territorial loss, and the unresolved question of whether Wei can avoid becoming a subordinate in Qin’s order.
《资治通鉴·周纪》83丨诸侯摆烂竟成了经典计中计？ answers that unresolved question in a negative but more complicated way. Wei Anxi Wang first tries a weak 齐国 alignment, then joins 赵国 to attack 韩国 at 华阳之战, only to trigger Qin’s rescue of Han and suffer another disastrous defeat. When 苏代 warns him that 段干子’s land-for-peace proposal is 抱薪救火式割地求和, the king understands the logic but still cedes land, making his weakness procedural as well as military.
《资治通鉴·周纪》89丨秦王竟被他怼“妈宝男”？ gives the next Wei-side complaint. In 268 BCE 武大夫绾 / 王绾 takes Huai from Wei, and in 266 BCE Qin takes nearby Xingqiu. The host summarizes Wei Anxi Wang’s dilemma as one in which refusing Qin invites attack, but submitting does not stop attack either.
《资治通鉴·周纪》95丨长平之战后秦国为什么没有灭了赵国（2） returns him to the Qin-Zhao crisis from the sidelines. At the opening of 长平之战, Wei ministers tell Wei Anxi Wang that Qin’s attack on 赵国 may benefit Wei, either by letting Wei follow the stronger Qin or by creating a chance to strike if Qin bogs down. 孔斌 is the dissenting minister: he warns that Qin’s appetite and 白起’s command make Zhao’s suffering a preview of Wei’s danger, not a gift.
《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（2） shows Wei Anxi Wang acting on both fear and caution during the 邯郸 siege. He sends 晋鄙 with 100,000 troops to rescue Zhao, but after 秦昭襄王 warns that Qin will attack Wei next, he orders Jin Bi to stop at 邺城. His policy therefore becomes partial aid without decisive commitment.
The same episode makes 新垣衍 a Wei channel into Zhao. Because the stopped Jin Bi army and Wei transit problem leave Chu’s promised aid uncertain, Xin Yuan Yan enters Handan and proposes that Wei and Zhao honor Qin Zhaoxiang Wang as western emperor. Wei Anxi Wang’s crisis posture now links coalition self-preservation to status-submission appeasement.
《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（3） adds the critique of that posture. 鲁仲连 argues to Xin Yuan Yan that honoring Qin as emperor would not protect Wei’s court; it would put Wei’s ruler, ministers, and favored people under Qin’s superior authority. Wei Anxi Wang’s halted rescue therefore looks less like safety and more like a path toward managed dependence.
《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（5） returns to Wei Anxi Wang’s fear as the immediate reason the narrative turns to 信陵君. The episode does not add a new policy decision by the king; it uses his continued unwillingness to move against Qin to make Xinlingjun’s private prestige and retainer network the next possible route for breaking the 邯郸 crisis.
《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（6） shows the consequence of that royal paralysis. Because Wei Anxi Wang will not truly order 晋鄙 forward, 侯嬴 tells 信陵君 to bypass the king by using 如姬 to steal the king’s half of the tiger tally. Wei Anxi Wang’s bedroom therefore becomes the hidden institutional bottleneck in 窃符救赵.
《资治通鉴·周纪》97-2丨揭秘信陵君凭什么是四公子之首 records the post-rescue compromise from Wei’s side. Xinlingjun does not return to Wei because he has become a 负臣 who corrected the king by taking unauthorized power. Yet Wei Anxi Wang also does not formally destroy him: the episode says he preserves Xinlingjun’s title and leaves the relationship open enough for a possible future repair.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》100-1｜皇帝中的超长待机王过世了 adds a darker downward-power case. In the same late-Warring-States environment where Wei has to lower itself before 秦国, Wei Anxi Wang kills 卫怀君 when the 卫国 ruler comes to see him, then installs 卫元君. The episode reads this as 弱者向更弱者转嫁压迫: a ruler humiliated by a stronger power can still be violently dominant toward a weaker neighbor.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》101-1｜这位倒霉君王登基三天即猝死 gives him a different, reflective role. After 鲁仲连 refuses reward for the 辽城 episode, Wei Anxi Wang asks 子顺 whether the world has true high-minded士 and complains that Lu Zhonglian seems too performative. Zi Shun’s reply turns the question into 修养内化: repeated gentlemanly performance can become character.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》101-2｜如何看待性本善与性本恶？ returns to Wei Anxi Wang as a negative strategic case. The episode argues that if he had kept a durable national strategy and used 信陵君 consistently, 魏国 could have grown stronger; instead, his fear and private suspicion made him oscillate between anti-Qin alignment and cooperation with 秦国, then call on Xinlingjun only in emergency.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》103-1｜司马迁看中的信陵君算是小人吗？ records that emergency recall. After 蒙敖 attacks Wei and takes Gaodu and Ji city, Wei Anxi Wang sends to 赵国 for Xinlingjun, whom he had not been able to absorb safely after 窃符救赵. The source makes the later reunion emotionally charged: the king embraces Xinlingjun and weeps before appointing him supreme commander.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》103-2｜司马迁的“idol” 为何死于酒色 shows that repair failing again. Qin uses 反间流言 after losing on the battlefield, having 晋鄙’s former retainers warn that the lords know Xinlingjun rather than Wei Anxi Wang and sending congratulatory messages that imply Xinlingjun may already be acting like king. Wei Anxi Wang believes the suspicion, replaces Xinlingjun, and takes back command, completing the pattern already visible in his fear-driven use of his brother.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》106｜惊人发现信陵君的非正常死亡 turns that fear into a possible succession motive. The episode says 《史记》 records Wei Anxi Wang and 信陵君 dying in the same year, with Xinlingjun dying first, and infers that the king may have eliminated his brother before his own death so 魏景湣王 / 魏增 could inherit without facing a far more famous uncle. The wiki keeps this as 信陵君非正常死亡疑云, not as established fact.
Connections
- 魏国 and 魏昭王 - polity and predecessor.
- 秦国, 白起, and 魏冉 - pressure actors against his new reign.
- 芒卯 - Wei commander defeated in Wei Ran’s second attack.
- 信陵君 and 战国四公子 - brother and patronage grouping introduced in the same episode.
- 秦国东进压力 and 战略纵深防御 - larger strategic context for Qin’s turn from Chu toward Wei.
- 华阳之战, 段干子, 苏代, 投敌威胁式求援, and 抱薪救火式割地求和 - Zhouji 83 failed attack on Han and post-defeat cession debate.
- 王绾, 秦昭襄王, and 远交近攻 - Zhouji 89 continued Qin near-attack pressure against Wei.
- 孔斌, 长平之战, 白起, and 联盟自保失灵 - Zhouji 95 part 2 warning against treating Zhao’s defeat as Wei’s gain.
- 晋鄙, 邺城, 新垣衍, 联盟救援借道依赖, and 尊号式投降方案 - Zhouji 96 part 2 stalled rescue and western-emperor proposal.
- 鲁仲连, 文明-野蛮框架, and 利益重构式说服 - Zhouji 96 part 3 warning that status submission endangers Wei’s own court.
- 信陵君, 侯嬴, and 礼贤下士式人才吸附 - Zhouji 96 part 5 shift from royal paralysis to private-patronage possibility.
- 如姬, 虎符调兵制度, 晋鄙, and 窃符救赵 - Zhouji 96 part 6 bypassing the king’s frozen command decision.
- 负臣, 信陵君, and 成事的道德代价 - Zhouji 97 part 2 post-rescue non-punishment and uneasy distance.
- 卫国, 卫怀君, 卫元君, and 弱者向更弱者转嫁压迫 - Qinji 100-1 killing and replacement of Wey’s ruler.
- 子顺, 鲁仲连, 辽城, and 修养内化 - Qinji 101-1 high士 and performative-cultivation discussion.
- 信陵君, 魏国, 秦国, and 联盟自保失灵 - Qinji 101-2 strategic inconsistency and fear-driven mistrust.
- 蒙敖, 毛公, 薛公, 合纵, and 管城 - Qinji 103-1 emergency recall and Xinlingjun’s renewed command.
- 反间流言楔入, 谣言侵蚀信任, 晋鄙, and 权力退场困境 - Qinji 103-2 slander-driven removal of Xinlingjun.
- 魏景湣王 / 魏增 and 信陵君非正常死亡疑云 - Qinji 106 possible succession-security motive around Xinlingjun’s earlier death.