《资治通鉴·梁纪·梁纪二》
现在蠕蠕衰落了，比不上从前了，而我们大魏国的仁德，正和周朝、汉朝一样方兴未艾，只是因为江南尚未平定，所以对北方稍微有所宽容，和好的事情，是不会答应的。
今蠕蠕衰微，不及畴昔，大魏之德，方隆周、汉，正以江南未平，少宽北略，通和之事，未容相许。
Now Rouran has declined, and is not comparable to what it was before, and the benevolence of our great Wei Kingdom is flourishing just like the Zhou Dynasty and Han Dynasty, simply because the south of the Yangtze has not yet pacified, so it is slightly tolerant of the north, and the matter of reconciliation will not be agreed.