《后汉书·列传·刘玄刘盆子列传》
但还有三个好处： 攻破城邑遍于天下，没有抛弃原来的妻妾，这是一个好处；立君主能用刘氏宗室，这是第二个好处；别的盗贼立了君，走投无路时往往拿着他的首级投降，自己以为立了功，你们却让盆子活着来降我，这是第三个好处。 于是令他们各与妻子住到洛阳，每人赐住宅一区，赐田二顷。
然犹有三善：攻破城邑，周遍天下，本故妻妇无所改易，是一善也；立君能用宗室，是二善也；余贼立君，迫急皆持其首降，自以为功，诸卿独完全以付朕，是三善也。 乃令各与妻子居洛阳，赐宅人一区，田二顷。
But there are three blessings in this: you have taken cities far and wide without abandoning your old wives and concubines; this is one blessing. You have established a ruler who belongs to the Liu clan; this is the second blessing. Other bandits, when they have installed a ruler, have often cut off his head and surrendered it, thinking that they were thus performing a meritorious deed; you, however, have let Basin come to me alive and surrender; this is the third blessing. The emperor then ordered them to take their wives to live in Luoyang, where each was given a house and two hundred mu of land.