Five Dynasties · Official

Liu Tao 劉濤

Attested AD 935

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Tao was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 935 三月
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passages 49, 54

Career and standing

Left Supplementation Aide 左補闕
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 54
remonstrance official 谏官
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 49

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Tang 後唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 49

Works and attributed material

AD 935 三月
Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passages 49, 54

Events and relationships

Asked publication and judgment of memorial
AD 935 三月 · Political · Remonstrator · With Shi Zaide (史在德)
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passages 49, 54, 67-68

Assessments and attributes

Assessment asked to demote Shi Zaide, unlike Wei Zheng who asked to reward Huangfu Decan · With Shi Zaide (史在德) · Mode quoted-document Speaker The Emperor (帝)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 47, passage 68

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 47Volume 47 Book of Later Tang 23: Later Emperors Annals 2 · 5 passages

盧文紀等見其奏不悅，班行亦多憤悱，故諫官劉濤、楊昭儉等上疏，請出在德疏，辨可否宣行，中書覆奏亦駁其錯誤。 Lu Wenji and others were displeased by the memorial; many at court were indignant as well. Remonstrance officials Liu Tao and Yang Zhaojian therefore submitted memorials asking that Shi Zaide's text be published so its merits could be judged; the Secretariat-Chancellery in reply also refuted its errors.

左補闕劉濤等奏，太常丞史在德所上章疏，中書門下駁奏，未奉宣諭，乞特施行，分明黜陟。 Left Supplementation Aide Liu Tao and others reported that Shi Zaide's memorial had been answered with a refutation by the Secretariat-Chancellery but had not yet received imperial promulgation; they asked that it be specially implemented with clear rewards and punishments.

劉濤等官列諫垣，宜陳讜議，請定短長之理，以行黜陟之文。 Liu Tao and others hold remonstrance posts and ought to offer forthright counsel; instead they ask to determine rights and wrongs so as to carry out promotions and demotions in writing.

昔魏征則請賞德參，今濤等請黜在德，事同言異，何相遠哉！ Formerly Wei Zheng asked to reward Decan; now Tao and others ask to demote Zaide—the matter is the same but the words differ; how far apart they are!

但緣情在傾輸，理難黜責，濤等敷奏，朕亦優容，宜體含宏，勉思竭進，凡百在下，悉聽朕言。 Yet because feeling inclines toward partiality, it is hard in reason to demote and punish; Tao and others presented their memorials and we also showed forbearance. All should embody magnanimity, strive to give their utmost, and everyone below—hear our words.