There are several stories about integrity as follows:

Yan Shu tells the truth:

Yan Shu, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, is known for his honesty. When he was fourteen years old, someone recommended him to Song Zhenzong as a child prodigy. Zhenzong summoned him and asked him to take the exam at the same time as more than a thousand Jinshi. As a result, Yan Shu found that the test questions were the ones he had just practiced ten days ago, so he reported the truth to Zhenzong and asked for other questions to be changed. Zhenzong was impressed by Yan Shu's honesty and gave him "the same background as a Jinshi". When Yan Shu was an official in the capital, officials of all sizes often went to the countryside to play, or held various banquets in wine and teahouses.

Yan Shu's family was in poverty and he had no money to go out to eat, drink and have fun, so he had to read and write articles at home with his brothers. Zhenzong was so impressed that he promoted Yan Shu to the position of East Palace official who assisted the prince in his studies. The ministers were surprised. Zhenzong said: "Recently, the ministers often go out to play and have banquets. Only Yan Shu studies behind closed doors. He is so self-respecting and cautious. He is a suitable candidate for the East Palace official." After thanking Yan Shu, he said: "I am actually a person who likes to play and have banquets." He is just a poor man. If I had no money, I would have participated in the banquet long ago."

These two things established Yan Shu's credibility in front of the officials, and Zhenzong also Trust him more

Shang Limu Weixin

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shang Yang presided over the reform with the support of Su Xiaogong. At that time, there were frequent wars and panic. In order to promote reforms, Shang Yang ordered a three-foot-long log to be erected outside the south gate of the capital, and made a promise in public: Anyone who could move this log to the north gate would be rewarded 10 two. The onlookers didn't believe that such an easy thing could get such a high reward, so no one was willing to give it a try. So Shang Yang increased the reward to 50 taels.

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man, and finally someone hit the wood to the north gate. The merchant immediately rewarded him with 50 taels of gold. Shang Yang's move established prestige in the hearts of the people, and Shang Yang's subsequent reforms were quickly promoted in the Qin State

Zeng Zi slaughtered pigs

Once, Zeng Zi's The wife has to go to the market, and the crying child has to go too. The wife coaxed the child and said, "Don't go. I'll come back and kill pigs for you to eat." After his wife left, Zeng Zi sharpened his knife to boil water, picked up the pigs at home, and prepared to kill them. When his wife came back from the market, she saw that Zeng Zi was really about to kill the pig. She quickly stepped forward to stop her and said, "I am just coaxing the child." Zeng Zi said, "Once you deceive the child, the child will not trust you." The pig was killed.

Zengzi did not deceive his children and cultivated their children's character of trustworthiness.

Ji Bu's promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold

At the end there was a man named Ji Bu who always kept his word and had a very high reputation. Many people trusted and admired him and wanted to make friends with him. .

There was a proverb circulating in Jizhi at that time: "It is better to get a hundred catties of gold than to get a promise in the quarter." This is the origin of the idiom "A promise is worth gold". Later, he offended Liu Na, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and was suspended.

As a result, his old friend not only escaped being killed by Zhongquan5, but also saved him from the danger of destroying the nine tribes to protect him from disaster

Extended reading: Maxims about integrity

1. Integrity is the most beautiful coat of a person and the most holy flower of the soul.

2. Integrity is your expensive shoe. Traveling through thousands of mountains and rivers, the quality should also remain unchanged.

3. Integrity is like a mirror. Once it is broken, cracks will appear in your personality.

4. Integrity is the road, extending with the footsteps of pioneers. Integrity is wisdom. With the accumulation of knowledge by scholars, integrity is success.

With the hard work of forge ahead Fortune is approaching, integrity is the seed of wealth, as long as you plant it sincerely, you can find the key to open the treasury

5. Integrity is the foundation of imitating people and the foundation of establishing a career.