Whether it is in various dramas or modern TV dramas, the Yang family will be loyal to the ancients, and the praise of various dynasties and generations is many, and the Yang family can be said to be loyal to the ancients in order to defend the country and defend the country. However, in the same era as the invincible general Yang Ye, Pan Mei, who clearly had higher official positions and merits than Yang Ye, became a traitorous minister and was scolded by people for thousands of years.
The historical Pan Mei (that is, Pan Renmei in the drama) is also a famous general loyalist, and Yang Ye's personal relationship is also good, but for some reasons, he has been scolded by the storytellers for thousands of years, making the loyal subjects feel wronged.
Pan Mei of the world
Born in 925 AD, Pan Mei was a young man with a good-natured family, and his father Pan Xuan was an officer of the Later Han Dynasty. When she was young, Pan Mei once said to a friend:
"The Han Dynasty will come to an end, the fierce ministers will be raging, and there will be signs of change in the four seas." The eldest husband does not make a meritorious name and take the riches at this time, but he is ashamed to share all things with him. -The Biography of Song Shi Pan Meilie
It means that "the Later Han Dynasty is coming to an end, the traitors in the imperial court are raging, the signs of changing the dynasty have appeared, and if the manly husband does not take advantage of this time to establish a meritorious name and obtain wealth, but does nothing, it is really worthy of shame!" ”。 From this sentence, it can be seen that Pan Mei already had great ambitions when he was young, trying to establish a meritorious name.
In 954, by this time the Later Han Dynasty had perished and later Zhou was established. At that time, Zhou Shizong Chai Rong was fighting against the Liao state, and Pan Mei participated in the war as a general under Chai Rong, leading thousands of soldiers to resist the enemy army several times larger than himself, and gained a large number of battle achievements. Later, Chai Rong even let Pan Mei lead the entire western war.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is also very kind to Pan Mei. In 959, after the Chen Qiao Mutiny, Zhao Kuangyin ordered Pan Mei to go to various places to declare his will, indicating that he had ascended the throne. At that time, the shaanzhou general Yuan Yan was fierce and greedy for money, and Zhao Kuangyin was worried about his rebellion. However, Pan Mei arrived in Shaanzhou, and through the declaration of his will, he actually made Yuan Yan obediently submit, which made Zhao Kuangyin very happy.
"First, Taizu met Mei Suhou and was zen, and ordered Mei Mei to first meet the ruler and give instructions to China and foreign countries. The Shaanxi marshal Yuan Yan was fierce, trusted the group small, loved to kill goods, and armored soldiers, Taizu worried about his change, and sent the United States to supervise his army in an attempt. Mei Shan rode to the edict, with the Destiny of Heaven, it was advisable to repair the duties of the courtiers, and Yan entered the dynasty. Shang Xi yue: "Pan Mei does not kill Yuan Yan, she can make lai yao and become my ambition." -The Biography of Song Shi Pan Meilie
Zhao Kuangyin was able to let Pan Mei go to various places as a special envoy to declare his will, and he was already able to see Pan Mei's position in his heart. To know that this kind of thing must be done by the emperor's confidants, not to mention that at that time, Zhao Kuangyin had just succeeded to the throne, and the people who announced the will said that they must not quell the rebellion, which fully demonstrated Zhao Kuangyin's trust in Pan Mei's ability.
In the 3rd year of Kaibao (970 AD), Pan Mei was ordered to attack the Southern Tang and capture the Southern Tang Li Hou lord who wrote the "Flowers of the Backyard of the Yushu Tree". With the merit of destroying the country, Pan Mei was directly promoted to Guangzhou Zhizhou.
Later, during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song, Pan Mei was ordered to destroy the last divided regime, the Northern Han Dynasty. However, in this battle, Pan Mei was somewhat disgraceful, although the war was finally won, but the troops under his command suffered heavy casualties before they captured the City of Jinyang in the Northern Han Dynasty.
After capturing Jinyang, Emperor Taizong of Song, Zhao Guangyi, believing that there had been too many emperors in Jinyang and that there were dragon veins underneath, sent a message to Zhao Guangyi to destroy Jinyang City. According to Zhao Guangyi's will, Pan Mei should move the people of Jinyang City to Hezhou City and then burn the city.
However, Pan Mei's soldiers suffered too many losses when attacking Jinyang City, so they did not fully carry out Pan Mei's orders when they moved the people, set fire to the city before the people had finished relocating, and then dug up the river embankment to irrigate the city, and under Pan Mei's hands, Jinyang, a famous city with a history of 1,500 years, completely disappeared.
Was it really Pan Meikeng who killed the invincible general Yang Ye?
In the third year of Yongxi (986 AD), the Song Dynasty soldiers divided into three northern expeditions, and Pan Mei led the troops to the Western Route Army. The Western Route Army won consecutive battles and pulled up several cities, but due to the defeat and retreat of the Eastern Route Army led by Cao Bin, Pan Mei's Western Route Army could only retreat helplessly. Just on the way back, there was a plot that forced Yang Ye to die in various dramas and novels.
"In the three years of Yongxi, Zhaomei and Cao Bin, Cui Yanjin and other Northern Expeditions, the United States alone up the prefectures of Huan, Shuo, Yun, and Ying. The edict migrates its people. The Liao soldiers were dying, fighting at the mouth of the Chen Family Valley, unfavorable, and Xiao killed Yang Ye. The United States sits on the third rank and is responsible for inspecting the School Taibao. -The Biography of Song Shi Pan Meilie
In the novel, Pan Mei is jealous of Yang Ye's merits, so she forces Yang Ye to break off so that she can leave safely and kill Yang Ye by the way. But in fact, Pan Mei and Yang Ye did not have any conflict. Many people don't know that Yang Ye is actually a general.
He had once been loyal to the Northern Han Dynasty, and after Pan Mei destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty, he also deliberately asked the captured Northern Han lord to write a letter to persuade Yang Ye to surrender, and Yang Ye surrendered to the Song army. Although Yang Ye later achieved some military achievements in the Song Dynasty, it is an indisputable fact that he was persuaded by Pan Mei to surrender and was once loyal to the Northern Han Dynasty.
And Pan Meike is a close minister who followed Song Taizu and Taizong all the way to fight the Jiangshan, the identities of the two are different from the foundation, you are a founding hero, running to be jealous of a general? Isn't it too much to lose? Moreover, when the army was withdrawn, Pan Mei's Western Route Army was protecting the civilians of the four states to the south, if his troops went to support Yang Ye, who would protect these civilians from being killed by the Liao cavalry that suddenly came out?
Who in history pitted Yang Ye?
Since it wasn't Pan Meikeng who killed Yang Ye, who in history forced Yang Ye to go to the battle of death? In fact, it was Pan Mei's overseer Wang Nong. Because Song Taizong was not in the right position, he had always been worried about the rebellion of the generals who led the troops abroad, and specially set up a position of supervising the army, which had great power.
Although Pan Mei was the chief general of the First Army, he did not dare to offend, but his overseer Wang Nong was still a civilian official and did not understand military affairs at all. At that time, Yang Ye was guarding a pass after the break, and if he fought normally, he would not have been defeated and captured. However, Wang Nong was timid and spared his life, afraid of being caught up by the enemy army, and forced Yang Ye to go out to fight.
"Karma is beautiful and so on: 'Now the Liao army is prosperous, and it is not allowed to fight with it.' ...... The advance men secretly informed the defenders of Yun and Shuozhou, and the army left Daizhou on the day, so that the people of Yunzhou would come out first. My division is in response to the state,...... Straight into the Shijie Valley. Send a thousand crossbowmen to the mouth of the valley, and use knights to help the middle road, then the people of the three states will be completely protected. He said, "Lead tens of thousands of elite soldiers and be afraid of it." But in the middle of the north river of the Yanmen Gate, the drums went forward. Wen Yu also agreed. Karma: 'No, this will be defeated.' "The Emperor Hou su is invincible, and the enemy is not fighting when he sees it, so why should he have his ambitions?" -The Biography of Song Shi Yang Yelie
We can see that in the history books, Yang Ye debated with Wang Nong, the overseer, the whole time. Moreover, when Wang Nong saw that Yang Ye wanted to guard the pass, he even said, "Do you have his ambitions?" That kind of thing. The phrase means "Do you have other ambitions?" It is implied that Yang Ye wants to rebel, the power of the supervision army is huge, Wang Nong said such words, Yang Ye can only go out to fight.
That is to say, the person who forced Yang Ye to break off was only Wang Nong, and Pan Mei did not insert the dialogue the whole time. Even when Yang Ye led the troops out of the customs, he also said goodbye to Pan Mei, indicating that the relationship between the two generals was actually good:
"Will do, weeping and saying, 'This trip will be unfavorable.' Karma, Taiyuan descended, deserved to die. Do not kill, spoil the company commander, and grant the handle of the army. If the enemy is not allowed to attack, he will serve his convenience and repay the favor of the country...'" —— "The Biography of Song Shi Yang Yelie"
Yang Ye then led his troops to block the enemy troops outside the valley. According to the original plan, at that time, Pan Mei and Wang Nong wanted to lead the army to meet Yang Ye's retreat at the mouth of the valley, but Wang Nong saw from a distance that Yang Ye's troops were fighting well, so he wanted to fight for merit and led the troops out of the valley, and Pan Mei was completely unable to control his own supervision army.
Halfway through, Wang Nong heard that Yang Ye had been defeated, and actually ran away with his soldiers, completely abandoning receiving Yang Ye, which caused Yang Ye to be captured, and finally went on hunger strike and died.
"Miki and the nongovernmental army are in the valley mouth. From Yin to The End, the servants made people look at it, thinking that the Khitan had been defeated and wanted to fight for their merits, that is, to lead the troops away from the valley mouth. Beauty cannot be controlled, but twenty miles southwest of the river. Russia was defeated, that is, the soldiers left. ——" The Biography of Song Shi Yang Yelie
brief summary
Wang Nong pit yang ye to death, but Pan Mei has borne thousands of years of infamy, and the descendants even have to change their surnames to avoid being scolded, which can only be said to be too wronged.
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