Pan Kang (潘炕), courtesy name Ningmeng (凝夢), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Former Shu, serving as a director of palace communications (Shumishi).
[1] As of 910, Pan was serving as one of the directors of palace affairs (宣徽使, Xuanhuishi) under Former Shu's founding emperor Wang Jian.
Tang, in shock, informed Wang Jian that Zheng was intolerant and violent in disposition, unsuitable for the position.
Wang Jian believed him, and so sent Zheng out of the capital to serve as a prefectural prefect, while making Pan the director of palace communications.
This matter flared up on the eve of the Qixi Festival, when Wang Yuanying held a feast for the high-level officials.
After he did so, Pan, citing the fact that there was nothing else that he considered urgent for him to remain in imperial service, sought to retire.
[4] Pan Kang did not return to the imperial government, and there was no reference suggesting that he continued to have input on imperial governance, although his son Pan Zaiying (潘在迎) became one of the well-known Xiake (狎客) — someone who would attend feasts that Wang Yan held to write poems and talk with him at those feasts — for Wang Yan.