Friends who like to comment on the book "Yang Jia General" know that in the early years of the Song Dynasty, there was a great traitor in the middle of the Song Dynasty, named Pan Renmei, who was against the Yang family everywhere, and secretly colluded with the Liao state to plot rebellion, and used the Chen Family Valley war to harm the old gong Yang Jiye to kill Li Lingbei, Yang Qilang rushed back to him to ask for help, but Pan Renmei drunk him, was tied up and shot with arrows, Liu Lang moved the troops again, and almost suffered from his poisonous hands, Liu Lang could not bear it, and sued Pan Renmei to the imperial court, and finally, the old thief was stripped of his military power. He was scolded by posterity for thousands of years as a generation of traitors.
So, is the real "Pan Renmei" in history a traitor? What exactly is his vendetta against General Yang? I'll talk about that today.
In fact, Pan Renmei is only a pseudonym for book commentary and opera processing, and his real character is named Pan Mei, the character Zhongqing, a native of Daming County, Hebei Province, a famous founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty, who was deeply used by Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, and led or fought in the army many times, making great military achievements for the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty.
Pan Mei was known for her great ambitions, read poetry from an early age, liked to make good teachers and friends, and at the age of twenty-six, she held the position of a canon (responsible for receiving guests) in the Later Han Dynasty, and later switched to Hou Zhou because of her adulterous courtiers.
During the decisive battle between Sejong Chai Rong and the Northern Han Dynasty Gaoping, Pan Mei came to prominence, made military achievements, and became the deputy envoy of the Cabinet of Officials, and became acquainted with Zhao Kuangyin, and soon abandoned Wen Congwu.
Later, Sejong died of illness, and Pan Mei vigorously supported Zhao Kuangyin in the "Chen Qiao Mutiny", and after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, he became the founding father of the country.
At that time, the lord of Shaanzhou, Yuan Yan, disobeyed Taizu's control and secretly sent Pan Mei to monitor his actions, and after Pan Mei gave the order, he actually rode alone to see Yuan Yan and confronted him with great righteousness, which finally made Yuan Yan wake up and follow Pan Mei's sincere heart to submit to Song Taizu.
From then on, Zhao Kuangyin valued Pan Mei even more, and when he sent troops to attack Jinghu, he appointed him as Shi Shouxin's deputy, and after conquering Yangzhou, he left him as a local inspector, calmed the army and people, and was promoted to The Taizhou Regiment training envoy for his merits.
In 963, the Song army quelled the civil unrest in Jinghu, and Pan Meijia was a defensive envoy of Tanzhou, and the following year he accompanied the capital Ding Deyu to conquer Chenzhou.
In 970, Pan Mei led an army to attack the Southern Han Dynasty, achieving a great victory, forcing the Southern Han lord Liu Xun to surrender, Taizu heard the great news, and crowned Pan Mei as the emissary of Shannan's Eastern Province, becoming an important prince of the Song Dynasty.
In 974, Taizu planned to conquer the Southern Tang, with Pan Mei as the deputy commander and Cao Bin, Pan Mei defeated the Southern Tang soldiers and horses with surprise attacks, and finally parted ways with the general Cao Bin to attack, pacifying the Southern Tang, so Pan Mei was made an envoy to xuanhui's northern court.
In 976, the fifty-five-year-old Pan Mei assisted the party in attacking the Northern Han capital Taiyuan as a capital supervisor, and the two sides fought at the Fenhe River, and the Song army broke the Northern Han army, and Song Taizong was greatly pleased and changed Pan Mei to the position of envoy to the Southern Yuan.
In summary, it is not difficult to see that Pan Mei went from a small civilian official, through the tempering of war, and finally became a famous general of the early Song Dynasty, so how did he get criticized by posterity and become a sinner who mutilated Zhongliang for thousands of years?
This also begins with an encounter with the famous Northern Han general Yang Ye when attacking Taiyuan.
Yang Ye was originally a defender of Taiyuan City in the Northern Han Dynasty, when the Song army came to attack, he and Pan Mei fought several battles in front of the two armies, Pan Mei was far from Yang Ye's opponent, he was picked down, and as a result, he was shot several times and escaped, and then fought, Yang Ye's wife She Shi shot Pan Mei with an arrow and wounded.
Soon, Yang Ye and his wife surrendered to the Song Dynasty with the Northern Han Lord, but Pan Mei remembered the hatred in her heart and vowed to get rid of Yang Ye to solve the hatred in her heart.
In 986 (the third year of Yongxi), Pan Mei led his troops to capture Yanyun Huanzhou, but when the general Cao Bin was unfavorable, he ordered all the retreats, Pan Mei and Yang Ye were ordered to lead troops to escort the military and civilians of Yun, Shuo, Huan, and Ying to move south, and the Liao general Yelü Hanning led his troops to chase after them, Yang Ye proposed to enter Ying Prefecture, adopted roundabout tactics, let the people of Shuo Prefecture go out of the city, enter the Shijie Valley, and send people to ambush at the mouth of the valley to meet the pursuing troops, so as to ensure that the people of the three prefectures would be foolproof.
However, the overseer Wang Yi ridiculed Yang Ye for being timid and fearful of the enemy, and had ill intentions, and another overseer, Liu Wenyu, had been scolded by Yang Ye, so he blindly catered to Wang Yi, and both of them forced Yang Ye to go to meet the enemy and send him to death.
Yang Ye wanted to listen to Pan Mei's decision, and Pan Mei remembered the original taiyuan vendetta at this time, so he responded to the opinions of the two overseers, and because of this, Yang Ye had no choice but to lead his troops to attack and fight a bloody battle with the Liao army in Chen Jiagu, and finally he was besieged, defeated and captured, and killed under the Li Ling Monument on the side of the road.
Pan Mei later returned to the Beijing Division, after all, as the main general of the Song Army, he only bore the crime of command disadvantage to Yang Ye's death, and was demoted to the third level by Emperor Taizong and appointed as the Inspector Taibao.
As a result, a year later, the imperial court remembered Pan Mei's former merits, restored his post as a procurator and colonel, and changed his position to the capital of The Prefecture, after arriving in office, Pan Mei died a few months later at the age of sixty-seven, and the imperial court posthumously awarded him the zhongshu ling and gave him the title of "Wu Hui".
Throughout Pan Mei's life, for the Song Dynasty to build outstanding and great achievements, only Chen Jiagu is a little faulty, according to ordinary people think or can understand, who expected that posterity because of admiration for the Yang family will be full of loyal martyrs, through the evaluation of books, drama artistic exaggeration, from then on to him is degraded again and again, completely diluted his past merits, become a notorious traitor in history, this is actually enough to wrongfully accuse him. (More exciting, pay attention to the public number: Li Guangyuan)
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