《三国志·魏书·刘司马梁张温贾传》
贾逵对外修整军队，对内整治百姓事务，阻遏鄢水和汝水，造出新的池塘，又阶段山间的溜河等长长的溪水，修造了小弋阳陂，又开通了两百多里长的运河，就是后来的贾侯渠。
外修军旅，内治民事，遏鄢、汝，造新陂，又断山溜长谿水，造小弋阳陂，又通运渠二百馀里，所谓贾侯渠者也。
Jia Kui reorganized the military against external attack and tidied up the civil affairs internally, blocking the Yan and Ru rivers to create new ponds, and also damming the long streams in the gorges between the mountains to create the small Yiyuan marsh, then creating a canal more than 200 li long, which later became the Jia Marquis canal.