刘陶 / 刘桃 (late Han)
刘陶 / 刘桃 enters through Hanji 935 as the late-Han remonstrant who warns 汉灵帝 that the state has moved from 张角’s disorder into western rebellion under 边章 and 韩遂. The episode treats his memorial as military warning and political accusation at the same time: frontier danger is used to expose the court corruption surrounding the eunuchs.
The eunuch side converts Liu Tao’s warning into suspicion. By asking how he knows unreported affairs and implying contact with rebels, they make the warning itself incriminating. Emperor Ling then orders Liu Tao jailed in the eunuch-controlled north prison, where Liu Tao denounces the court’s killing of loyal ministers and dies by self-suffocation in the episode’s account.
His page is source-scoped because this wiki has only ingested this one branch of his career. In this source, Liu Tao matters less as a full official biography than as a case where 君臣反馈失灵 and 宫廷接触垄断 turn direct remonstrance into a lethal accusation channel.