《资治通鉴·梁纪·梁纪一》
起初，邓元起在途中，担心事情不能成功，没有什么可以奖赏，因此凡是来投附的士人都许诺成功之后给封官，于是接受被征召为别驾、治中的简书的人将近有两千人。
初，元起在道，惧事不集，无以为赏，士之至者皆许以辟命，于是受别驾、治中檄者将二千人。
At first, Deng Yuanqi was worried that things would not be successful on the way, and there was nothing to reward, so he promised to give official titles to all the scholars who came to join him after the success, so there were nearly two thousand who accepted the simple books of being appointed as Biejia and Zhizhong.