《旧五代史·其它·僭伪列传一》
这时李德明等人见后周军队急攻寿州，估计不能保住，于是上奏说： 请放宽五天时间诛杀臣下，容许臣下亲自前往江南，取来本国的表章，将江北各州全部奉献给大周朝廷。 
时李德明等见周师争攻寿春，虑不能保，乃奏云： 宽臣等五日之诛，容臣等自往江南，取本国表章，举江北诸州，尽献于大朝。 
At this time, Li Deming and others saw that the Later Zhou army was attacking Shuzhou, and they estimated that it could not be defended, so they memorialized: Please be lenient for five days and allow us to personally go to Jiangnan to retrieve our country's letter and dedicate all our states in the north of the Yangtze River to the Later Zhou Dynasty.