Lǚ Táo 呂陶 (1031–1107), zì Yuánjūn 元鈞, hào Jìngdé 淨德, of Chéngdū 成都. Huángyòu (1049–1054) jìnshì; in Xīníng (1068–1077) re-took the zhìkē (special examination), in which his answer-paper attacking lǐcái (state-finance) and tuòjiāng (frontier expansion) so unsettled Wáng Ānshí 王安石 王安石 reading it that Shénzōng had Féng Jīng read it through aloud — the emperor approved but Wáng’s blocking ensured Lǚ went out only as tōngpàn Shǔzhōu. Held zhī Péngzhōu (where he opposed the Sìchuān quèchá tea monopoly), and was impeached by Pú Zōngmǐn 蒲宗閔; recalled in Yuányòu he attacked Cài Què 蔡確, Hán Zhěn 韓縝, and Zhāng Dūn 章惇 by name. Ended as Jǐshìzhōng 給事中, Jíxiányuàn xuéshì, zhī Chénzhōu. At the close of Shàoshèng he was placed on the proscription list (dǎngjí); in early Huīzōng recalled as Jíxiándiàn xiūzhuàn and zhī Zǐzhōu; retired and died. Sòngshǐ has his biography. Famed for gāngzhí (uprightness); Jiǎng Táng compared him to Jiǎ Yì 賈誼. His extant collection is the Jìngdé jí 淨德集 KR4d0052 (the original 60-juǎn having been lost; the present 38-juǎn version reconstituted from the Yǒnglè dàdiǎn).