Beat an education official in public?
Most wouldn't dare, but Commander Kui did. Although he was a lecher who kept his military office inside a Yangzhou brothel, he was also a man of unyielding integrity and absolute incorruptibility—a rare official as clean as a whistle. Across the entire Fujian officialdom, there wasn't another man as honest as Commander Kui.
Sometimes, lust and greed are not two sides of the same coin. The former is merely a personal vice, while the latter is a crime against the state. As an incorruptible official, there were two types of people Commander Kui hated most: corrupt bureaucrats and sycophants.
Chapter 180