在中国历史上,酷吏政治只是一时的历史现象。发展到一定阶段的中国封建专制制度尤其是高度的封建中央集权,是酷吏产生和酷吏政治实施的直接根源。西汉酷吏的产生,开了后世酷吏政治的先河,对中国社会的历史产生了深远的影响。西汉前期酷吏政治的产生,有其复杂的社会原因和历史渊源。首先,西汉前期统治思想的转变是酷吏政治产生的思想根源。“清静无为”的黄老之道被与严刑 In Chinese history, the politics of cruelty is just a temporary historical phenomenon. The development of feudal autocracy in China at a certain stage, especially the highly centralized feudalism, is the direct root cause of the cruel officials and the political implementation of cruel officials. The emergence of cruel officials in the Western Han Dynasty opened the precedent for the politics of later generations of cruel officials and had a profound impact on the history of Chinese society. The early post-Western Han Dynasty officials politics, has its complex social causes and historical origins. First of all, the transformation of the ruling ideology in the early Western Han Dynasty is the ideological root of the politics of cruelty officials. “Quiet Inaction ” Huang Lao Road was tortured