《韩非子·外储说右上》
曼子回答说： 田成子很得齐国的民心。他对待民众，向上请求爵位俸禄赐给大臣，向下私自增大量器出贷粮食，缩小量器来回收。
晏子对曰： 夫田氏甚得齐民，其于民也，上之请爵禄行诸大臣，下之私大斗斛区釜以出贷，小斗斛区釜以收之。
Yan Zi replied: Tian Chengzi is very popular with the people of Qi. When he deals with the people, he makes formal requests to the monarch for official positions and salaries to grant to ministers, and unofficially increases the size of the measuring vessels to lend out grain and reduces the size of the measuring vessels to receive payment for grain.