贪官污吏,是阶级社会的必然产物。但是贪污情形,各国王朝或同一王朝的各个时期也有程度上的不同。中国历史上的十几个封建王朝、明清两代的贪风就出隋唐等朝为严重。就明代二百七十年而论,前中後三期又有程度上的差别。明朝前期,法纪比较严明,作官的虽然也想尽方法贪污,终久有些顾忌。 Corrupt officials are the inevitable product of a class society. However, in the case of corruption, the dynasties or the dynasties in different countries also differed in degree to some extent. More than a dozen feudal dynasties in Chinese history and the greed of the Ming and Qing dynasties turned out to be serious in the Sui and Tang dynasties. As far as the two hundred and seventy years of the Ming Dynasty was concerned, there were degrees of difference between the three previous periods. Early Ming Dynasty, law and discipline more stringent, although the officials tried to find ways to corruption, finally some scruples.