潘美 / Pan Mei
Pan Mei / 潘美 is a Song general discussed in 170.宋太祖之死：烛影斧声，阴谋论中的人性谜团（下）. The episode uses him partly to complicate the simplified villain image attached to him in later popular Yang-family-general stories.
In this source, Pan Mei appears in the southern campaign context beside 曹彬, and in the story of how 赵匡胤 / 宋太祖 treated Later Zhou descendants. The point is a source-critical one: familiar popular memory can flatten a historical actor, while specific episodes may show a more mixed role.
Connections
- 曹彬 and 先南后北 - southern campaign context.
- 赵匡胤 / 宋太祖 and Historical Memory Contest - ruler and memory frame.
- Evidence-Bound Historical Revision - method for distinguishing popular image from source-grounded reassessment.