After his succession, he replaced Yue Yi with Qi Jie (騎劫) as the top commander of the army.
Yue Yi escaped to the Zhao state, where he was enfeoffed as Lord of Wangzhu.
[2][3] King Hui sent a letter to Yue Yi, accusing him of betraying the country.
Yue Yi replied: "I have heard that the worthy and sage-like among the lords would never lay waste to the achievements they had established and thus were written about in the annals of their country, and that prescient scholars would never ruin the reputation they had perfected and thus were extolled by later generations.
[5] In 272 BC, King Hui was murdered by his chancellor Gongsun Cao (公孫操).