According to the K'ang-hsi Emperor, senior officials who worked at the capital and served as governors-general and governors, played an important role in the anti-corruption campaign. The K'ang-hsi Emperor valued honesty and integrity. He treated those incorruptible officials with great kindness, as in the case of Chang Pao-hsing, when Chang was impeached and condemned to death in 1712. The Emperor refused to punish him. This study is seperated into four sections. The first section analyzes how integrity and corruption were defined. and what was the significance of the ideas of integrity and corruption in the mind of the K'ang-hsi Emperor. The second section argues the defects of upright officials and their influences. The third and fourth sections deal with the pubishment of corrupt officials and the reward for upright officials.