魏景湣王 / 魏增 / King Jingmin of Wei
魏景湣王 / 魏增 / King Jingmin of Wei enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·秦纪》106｜惊人发现信陵君的非正常死亡 as the son and successor of 魏安釐王. The episode places his succession in the same 243 BCE cluster as 蒙敖’s attack on 魏国 and the deaths of both Wei Anxi Wang and 信陵君.
The source makes Wei Zeng important less for his own action than for the succession environment around him. Because 信陵君 had enormous reputation, recent command prestige, and an independent retainer network, the host argues that Wei Anxi Wang may have seen him as a threat to Wei Zeng’s ability to sit securely on the throne. This becomes the political motive inside 信陵君非正常死亡疑云.
His accession therefore marks the moment when Wei’s internal security logic and Qin’s external pressure converge. The episode says 秦国 soon keeps pressing Wei, and by the time 东郡 is created from captured Wei territory, the state has already lost the figure most able to organize a broad anti-Qin response.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》107｜最后一次合纵伐秦 伐了个寂寞 places Wei Jingmin Wang’s early reign inside the failed final 合纵 field. Wei is one of the states in both the Chunshenjun and Pang Nuan traditions, but neither version produces a Qin-facing gain. The source therefore makes his reign part of the transition from coalition hope to terminal hezong failure.
The follow-up notices keep Wei under pressure. In 240 BCE Qin attacks Wei and takes Ji; in 239 BCE Wei gives Ye to 赵国. Those entries extend the Qinji 106 pattern: after Xinlingjun’s death and Qin’s commandery creation, Wei remains active enough to appear in coalition lists but not strong enough to stop Qin’s eastward pressure.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》114-2｜燕国刺杀秦始皇为何会选荆轲 closes his reign with a brief death notice. 魏王假 succeeds him, but the episode immediately says Wei is already beyond recovery, making the succession a marker of late Wei exhaustion rather than a new strategic turn.
Connections
- 魏安釐王 - father and predecessor.
- 魏王假 - successor named in Qinji 114-2.
- 信陵君 - uncle and possible succession-security rival in the source’s hypothesis.
- 魏国, 秦国, and 秦国东进压力 - pressured state and external setting.
- 信陵君非正常死亡疑云 - source-scoped interpretive frame for his succession environment.
- 东郡 - later Qin administrative result that shows Wei’s deteriorating position.
- 合纵, 末次合纵失败, 赵国, and Qinji 107 - failed final coalition and continued losses during his early reign.