Is “Secretly colluded with Jiang Ziya to plot rebellion” true?
The Records of the Grand Historian records that Weizi consulted with the Grand Tutor and the Junior Tutor about whether to stay or leave, which was for the preservation of the Shang ancestral sacrifices, and there was no act of colluding with immortals from within and without to rebel as in the novel. The original text: 「微子度纣终不可谏，欲死之，及去，未能自决，乃问于太师、少师曰」（The Hereditary House of Song Weizi, Records of the Grand Historian, data/raw/shiji/宋微子世家.txt）
In official history, he is a virtuous member of the Shang royal house and the founding ruler of the state of Song, while in the novel he is portrayed as a representative of internal opposition to King Zhou.
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