Although Lin Zexu occupies a high position, he is honest, diligent and law-abiding, and is praised as "Lin Qingtian" by the people. When he was appointed as the low-cost defense ambassador of Jiangsu Province, he wrote a couplet in the lobby: "Seeking the hearts of the people; I am willing to listen to my own situation. " Everything is people-oriented, paying attention to major issues related to people's livelihood, such as grain transportation, salt law, water conservancy, agriculture, coinage, official management and disaster relief.

Smoking is not a business.

During his stay in Guangdong, Lin Zexu banned smoking on a large scale, and destroyed more than 2 million Jin of opium collected by British and American businessmen in Humen on June 3, 839. At the same time, he adopted the strategy of paying equal attention to kindness and prestige, dividing and disintegrating foreign businessmen, and put forward the principle of "those who serve the public, those who resist the law" to protect and encourage legitimate trade.

Open your eyes and see the world.

Lin Zexu was praised as "the first person to see the world with his eyes open" in modern China. He broke China's conceit and closed-door conservative thought, and was willing to learn about foreign countries and absorb new things. On the one hand, he actively prepared for war and supplemented the western artillery, on the other hand, he actively understood the political, military and economic situation of western capitalist countries, set up a translation library, translated foreign books, newspapers, decrees, military technology and other works, and successively compiled The Chronicles of the Four Continents, China Affairs and Foreign Law, which became the earliest document to introduce foreign countries in modern China. He was also the first China to understand international law and use it against Britain.