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Li Tao was an official.
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 52Volume 52 Miscellaneous Biographies 32: Du Zhongwei, Li Zhouzhen, Zhang Yanze · 4 passages
周奏彥澤所為不法者二十六條，並述涇人殘敝之狀，式父鐸詣闕訴冤，諫議大夫鄭受益、曹國珍，尚書刑部郎中李濤、張麟，員外郎麻麟、王禧伏閣上疏，論彥澤殺式之冤，皆不省。
Zhou memorialized twenty-six illegal acts by Yanze and described how the people of Jing had been ruined. Shi's father Duo came to court to plead his grievance. Remonstrance officials Zheng Shouyi and Cao Guozhen, Directors of the Ministry of Justice Li Tao and Zhang Lin, and Assistant Directors Ma Lin and Wang Xi submitted memorials at the palace gate denouncing the injustice of Yanze's killing of Shi. None received attention.
濤見高祖切諫，高祖曰：「彥澤功臣，吾嘗許其不死。」
Tao saw Gaozu and remonstrated forcefully. Gaozu said, "Yanze is a meritorious minister. I once promised he would not die."
濤厲聲曰：「彥澤罪若可容，延光鐵券何在！」
Tao said loudly, "If Yanze's crime can be forgiven, where is Yanguang's iron certificate!"
高祖怒，起去，濤隨之諫不已，高祖不得已，召式父鐸、弟守貞、子希範等，皆拜以官，為蠲涇州民稅，免其雜役一年，下詔罪己，然彥澤止削階、降爵而已。
Gaozu was angry, rose, and left. Tao followed and kept remonstrating. Gaozu had no choice. He summoned Shi's father Duo, brother Shouzhen, son Xifan, and the others and invested them all with offices. He remitted the taxes of the people of Jing Prefecture and exempted them from corvée for one year, and issued an edict blaming himself. Yet Yanze was merely reduced in rank and demoted in title.