《明史·列传·卷七十八》
廷和等人不接受命令，并且极力说江南百姓贫困，财富枯竭，请不要派遣宦官前去。
廷和等不奉命，因极言民困财竭，请毋遣。
Ting He and others did not accept the order, and made every effort to explain that common people in the south of the Yangtze River were poor, their wealth had been exhausted, so please do not dispatch the eunuch there.