西汉时期，官吏贪赃枉法，一律处死，并陈尸示众。到了北魏，法律有了具体的洽贪条款，规定“枉法十匹，罪z以死”。仅大和八年，身首异处的贪官就有40多人。唐朝定律，科罚趋严。《唐律·职制》篇规定，官吏贪赃枉法的，一尺权一怕“，一匹加一等，十五匹处绞刑；只受脏不枉法 During the Western Han Dynasty, the officials were corrupting the law and executed them all. By the Northern Wei Dynasty, the law had a specific clause for negotiating a graft, stipulating that “ten laws should be taken in vain, and z should die.” Only large and eight years, the body of different places corrupt officials have more than 40 people. Tang Dynasty law, discipline and more stringent. “Tang law office system” article provides that the officials corrupt, a scale of fear ", one plus one, fifteen at Hanging; only by the dirty law