 Li Jing also entrusted Pan with advising on the matters of what former Min officials could be incorporated into his own administration, as well as how to adjust the administrative divisions of the former Min territory.Among the former Min officials that he recommended who would later serve Southern Tang well included Chen Hui (), Lin Renzhao (林仁肇, Lin Renhan's younger brother), Xu Wenzhen (), Chen Decheng (), and Zheng Yanhua ().After he grew older and ill, he requested to retire, and was allowed to retire to a mountain west of Hong Prefecture (洪州, in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi), where he would die.