In the courtyard of the People's Congress in Wuji County, Hebei Province, there is a stone tablet called "Guan Zhen" by local people. The full text of the stele is: "Officials do not fear my strictness but fear my integrity; the people do not obey my ability but obey my public. If I am honest, the officials will not dare to be arrogant; if I am public, the people will not dare to bully me. Publicity breeds wisdom, and honesty breeds prestige." This is It was written by Guo Yunli, the magistrate of Wuji County during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and was carved into a stone tablet and mounted on the wall of the county government hall as a motto to warn himself as an official. With the passage of time, the original county government no longer existed, but the "official motto" monument remained. His cautionary saying "Gong begets enlightenment, integrity begets prestige" has been passed down to this day.

Guo Yunli was born in Qufu, Shandong Province. He was appointed magistrate of Wuji County in the 16th year of Zhengde (1521). He has great ambitions, pays attention to etiquette, manages politics well, and is especially honest. In the middle and late Ming Dynasty where Guo Yunli lived, the government was dark, privileged, lax laws and administrative corruption. According to historical records, the annual salary of each minister was "no more than 152 taels". It was difficult to maintain the luxurious life of officials with only the statutory salary, so they engaged in massive corruption and solicited bribes and accepted gifts from lower-level officials. "The governors and governors of each province can give 10 times their annual salary as a gift at a time." There are first-level gifts at the first level, and looting at the first level. When the seventh-level Sesame Officer reaches the seventh rank, he will directly raid the common people. As a county magistrate in the Ming Dynasty, Guo Yunli felt this and wrote the "official motto" that was famous and famous throughout the ages. This seventh-grade Sesame Officer at that time said that the foundation of being an official lies in two things: one is fairness, and the other is integrity. A scholar-bureaucrat in a feudal society had such a sentiment more than 400 years ago, and was able to adhere to his moral integrity so much. In fact, it was extremely rare that he paid attention to being an official. Reading history can make you wise. After reading Guo Yunli's "Official Proverbs" and thinking about contemporary anti-corruption and integrity work, the author got two insights. One of the inspirations: Maintain integrity with virtue and strengthen ideological education. Guo Yunli was born in the hometown of Confucius and was deeply influenced by Confucian moral thought. He believes that the significance of "Integrity begets prestige" is that as long as you maintain integrity with virtue, you can establish high prestige; by setting an example for a person who is spotless and has clean hands, he can promote the construction of an honest government for the entire official class and achieve what Mencius said: "My goodness nourishes my awe-inspiring righteousness." ". Guo Yunli was able to remain clean and upright in the Ming Dynasty, where corruption was rampant. Communists and cadres who aim to build the party for the public good and govern for the people should maintain their selfless, fearless, fair and honest spirit, continue to learn, and strengthen the transformation of their own worldview. Enlightenment 2: Institutional anti-corruption must be carried out. Reading history shows that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, used his royal power to severely crack down on corruption. He stipulated: "If you violate the law and steal eighty taels of stolen goods, you will be judged by hanging." "Those who steal more than sixty taels of stolen goods will have their heads exposed to the public, and they will still peel the skins and pull away the grass." Because he and his descendants failed to take action and carry out anti-corruption to the end, the Ming Dynasty eventually fell due to corruption. Our party is now engaged in institutional anti-corruption, which can overcome the shortcomings of power-based anti-corruption that tend to cause volatility and imbalance.