《南史·列传·卷五十三》
起初在镇守京口时，大肆制造兵器盔甲，后来遭到人们的非议，他便将这些器物都投入长江中，当他后来出征时，感到军备物资匮乏时，便感叹说： 我当日修造兵器，本来是准备非常时期使用的，想不到无故而招来怀疑，致使这些物品散失。
初镇京口，大造器甲，既涉声论，投之于江。及后出征，戎备颇阙，乃叹曰： 吾昔造仗，本备非常，无事涉疑，遂使零散。
When he was first stationed at Jingkou, he had many weapons and military equipment made, but after being criticized by others, he threw the items into the Yangtze River, and when he later went on an expedition and felt that he did not have enough weapons and equipment, he sighed and said: “I originally built those items for use in times of emergency, but I did not expect that they would be met with groundless suspicion and thus lost.”