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 [[CaoBin|曹彬]], and in the story of how [[ZhaoKuangyin|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

• [[CaoBin|曹彬]] and [[SongUnificationStrategy|先南后北]] - southern campaign context.
• [[ZhaoKuangyin|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.