Is “Killing Ji Li and lineage succession” true?
based on fact
The Bamboo Annals and the Book of the Later Han, Treatise on the Western Qiang, record that Tai Ding (Wen Ding) killed Ji Li, father of King Wen of Zhou, to curb the Zhou state; Romance of the Three Kingdoms downplays this political conflict, presenting him only as a transitional Shang king.
Tai Ding
In official histories, he is King Wen Ding of Shang, who killed Ji Li of Zhou; in the novel, he serves merely as a transitional king in the lineage.