Wei Jue lived in an era of extraordinary social turmoil, the alternation of new and old forces, which led to constant chaos in the Central Plains, and the struggle for power and profit of the vassal kings had exhausted the qi of the Western Jin Dynasty. Although Wei Jue has never chased fame and fortune in officialdom, he has a sober judgment of the current situation.
In the fourth year of Yongjia, the eight kings killed each other, Wei Jue smelled the danger in advance, in order to prevent the Wei family from being destroyed again in the troubled times, Wei Jue decided to take the family to take refuge. It is recorded in the Book of Jin Zhongxing: At that time, Wei Jue's brother was a loose horseman, serving Emperor Huai of Jin, and his mother Wang was unwilling to leave her son to escape alone.
Wei Zhen didn't understand that this was life and death, and his brother had only a dead end if he stayed, and he was willing to take on the obligation to support his mother and support his brother to sacrifice his life for righteousness. The country is ruined, the northerners cross to the south, and there are thousands of problems, and they come one after another. Wei Jue came to Nanchang under such circumstances, but he saw that Wang Dun, the general who was guarding Nanchang at that time, had wolf ambitions, so he went to Nanjing again.
According to legend, when Wei Jue was twenty-seven years old, he arrived in Nanjing, and because there were too many people who came to see him from all directions, he was so unbearable that he lost his life. When the people in Beijing heard his appearance, the audience was blocked. Yongjia died in the sixth year of his life, at the age of twenty-seven, and people said that he was killed. This is the origin of "watching and killing Wei Jue" in the Book of Jin. It is rumored that Wei Jue was seen to die, in fact, it is likely that he was already frail, coupled with the fact that he became ill from hard work in the upheaval and displacement, and was sad because of the murder of his brother, so he died young. When Wei Kun was stationed in Nanchang, he had a long talk with Changshi Xie Kun all night, and when he heard the news of Wei Zhen's death, Xie Kun was in great pain.
After his death, Wei Jue was first buried in Nanchang, and later reburied in Jiangning. Prime Minister Wang Dao said: Wei Jue should indeed be reburied, such a romantic and celebrity, looking up to him at home, can prepare a thin sacrifice to encourage his old friends. Song man Yang Bei sighed and said:
Young people are not washing horses, and the pearl is broken and the jade light is buried.
The first merry man in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no compound sheep cart to cross the old street.