《新唐书·列传·卷一百三十五》
朱滔得知后骂道 ：好个逆贼，以前求我救援，答应把贝州给我，我没取；尊我为天子，我谦让与你同列称王；现在叫我远道而来，你却自己不出兵。
滔怒骂曰： 逆虏前日求救，许我贝州，我不取；尊我为天子，我与同为王；教我远来而不出。
When Zhu Tao heard about it, he cursed: “Good you traitor, before I rescued you, you promised to give me Beizhou, and I didn’t; I worshipped you as emperor, and I generously treated you as my equal; now you ask me to come here, yet you don’t send out your own troops?”