原先我一直认为,“酷吏”是个贬义词,凡被称为“酷吏”的都是反面人物。读了司马迁的《史记·酷吏列传》后,发现这个认识是片面的。《酷吏列传》这样写道:“法令者治之具,而非创治清浊之源也。昔天下之网尝密矣,然奸伪萌起,其极也,上下相遁,至于不振。当是之时,吏治若救火扬沸, Originally, I always thought that “cruel officials” is a derogatory term, and those who are called “cruel officials” are all negative people. After reading Sima Qian’s “Shi Ji · Cruelly Official Biography”, I found this understanding is one-sided. “Cruelly Officials Biography” wrote: "The decree rule by law, rather than the source of the creation of turbid and turbid. The world under the tast of taste, but adorable adulterated, its extremely, up and down the phase of escape, as sluggish. It is time, officials governance if the fire boil,