Traditional literature died very unjustly.

According to the truth, Liu Wenjing's death is not wrong, because his political stance is not good enough, and his guess of the king's mind is not good enough. In fact, many kings in history have awarded heroes gold medals for avoiding death. After all, the king who just shot down the country needs these heroes to help him stabilize the world. However, there are very few people in history who really traded gold medals for their lives. When the king tried to kill these heroes, whatever they had could not save their lives.

The first reason is that Liu Wenjing has a black history of betraying his master, which many kings cannot tolerate. At that time, Liu Wenjing was working under Liu Wuzhou, which coincided with the killing of Liu Wuzhou's family by Tang Gaozu. Liu Wenjing encouraged Liu Wuzhou to attack Tang Gaozu. As a result, when Liu Wuzhou attacked Tang Gaozu, Liu Wenjing betrayed Liu Wuzhou and had relations with Tang Gaozu. In the end, Tang Gaozu defeated Liu Wuzhou and Liu Wenjing surrendered to Tang Gaozu. Although Liu Wenjing helped himself, in Tang Gaozu's view, Liu Wenjing is a person who pursues sales glory.

The second reason is that Liu Wenjing later sacrificed Liu Wuzhou's ranking at home for fear of Liu Wuzhou's death, which is absolutely against Tang Gaozu's view. Because Liu Wenjing was already a member of Tang Gaozu, it was reasonable to follow Tang Gaozu wholeheartedly. But fearing that Liu Wuzhou would kill him, he gave him the ranking of Liu Wuzhou's family. In Tang Gaozu's view, this is definitely a sign that he never forgets his old master and wants to betray himself. There is nothing wrong with Liu Wenjing killing people.

The third reason is that Liu Wenjing has always supported the King of Qin, but has a bad relationship with the Prince. According to the ancient inheritance system, Li is undoubtedly the heir, but certainly hopeless. But Liu Wenjing thinks that Li Shimin is very capable and an ideal loyal minister, and has been helping Li Shimin to compete for the position of the Prince. In Tang Gaozu's view, Liu Wenjing is disturbing his own political situation, so it is natural to kill him.