《新唐书·列传·卷三十五》
太宗诏令右武卫将军蔺谟调集江、淮的士兵准备前去征讨，魏征劝谏说 ：天下刚刚平定，战乱给黎民带来的疾苦尚未平复，大规模战争之后，流行疫病正盛；况且王者的军队不应为了蛮荒异族轻易举动，战胜了它称不上威武，战胜不了它却是耻辱。
太宗诏右武卫将军蔺暮发江淮甲卒将讨之，魏征谏曰： 天下初定，创夷未复，大兵之余，疫疠方作，且王者兵不宜为蛮夷动，胜之不武，不胜为辱。
Emperor Taizong ordered Right Martial Guards General Lin Mo to assemble troops from Jiangzhou and Huaihe to prepare to conquer him. Wei Zheng advised him, saying: The world has only just been pacified, and the people have not yet healed from the suffering of the war, and plague is rampant after the great war; moreover, the king's army should not act lightly for the sake of an untamed, foreign people. To beat it is not heroic, but to be beaten by it would be shameful.