The transfer of Li Guowei, the official of the Governor's Office of the Chinese Army, to the post of director of the Ministry of Officials, this is a small opening for Qin Mu to enter the civilian sequence of generals in the military system.

Although Li Guowei is already a member of the military system, because he is a man of honor, it is easy to be recognized by civilian officials, and this transfer did not cause too much turmoil.

After the court meeting was dispersed, Qin Mu summoned Sima An, Lu Zhenfei, Li Yuan, Liu Boquan, Yang Tinglin, and He Liang to the Huagai Palace.

Liu Boquan and Yang Tinglin were the last time Qin Muxi went to Lanzhou, and they were given the rank of scholar of Dongge University, so that they could join the cabinet and assist the government together.

He Liang is Qin Mu considered that the military system should not be excluded from the cabinet, and over time, this will inevitably lead to the phenomenon of emphasizing literature over military force. After returning to Beijing from the Western Expedition, he also added the rank of scholar of He Liang Dongge University and ordered him to enter the cabinet together.

Now there are actually six auxiliary ministers in the cabinet of Great Qin, but because Yang Tinglin, Liu Boquan, and He Liang also serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of War respectively, they usually sit in the Ministry of Household Affairs and run errands, and only when the emperor convenes such a small-scale cabinet meeting, he participates in the deliberations.

Lu Zhenfei is a very pragmatic person, whether he is with the emperor or with his colleagues, he rarely talks politely. After he took the tea brought by the palace maid, he thanked Qin Mu, then put the tea on the side of the small table, and immediately asked: "Your Majesty summoned the ministers and others to come today, I think there must be something important, and I ask Your Majesty to show it." ”

Qin Mu took a sip of tea, and then said happily, "Elder Pavilion. I must have seen the statistics from the Criminal Department. From this data, it can be clearly found that the previous judicial training for local Tongzhi and county officials, and the case scene investigation and training for forensic doctors have been very effective. There is now a significant reduction in the backlog of cases at the local level. Many old cases have been tried and adjudicated quickly, and the rate of solving cases has also been greatly improved. ”

This is true, as the local officials in the past were generally unfamiliar with the judiciary, especially those who were jinshi and later served directly as prefectural magistrates. They were admitted to the Jinshi by memorizing the Four Books and Five Classics, and they were extremely unfamiliar with the new "Great Qin Law". Plus they double as an administrative function. It is impossible to devote all energy to the trial of cases, and the efficiency of trial can be imagined.

Now it's different, Tongzhi and Xiancheng, who have undergone judicial training, are in charge of judicial trials. It is inevitable that there will be no other affairs, and that there will be a relatively professional on-site investigation, the rate of solving cases will increase, and the speed of trial of cases will be accelerated.

In this regard, the six cabinet ministers present were also very gratified, and the life and death of the prisoners were really a serious matter.

The occurrence of every unjust case has an extremely bad impact on society. It will make many ordinary people lose trust in the court and officials because of this.

And once the imperial court loses this credibility, the foundation of its rule will be shaken. This would be an extremely dangerous thing.

Now that the judiciary is showing a good situation, Qin Mujunchen is naturally sincerely happy.

Li Yuan sighed: "At the beginning, His Majesty wanted to use a large amount of national money to train local officials and forensic doctors, and the old minister hesitated, but now it seems that Your Majesty is really from a high position, and the minister is ashamed!" ”

Who was suspicious at the beginning, Li Yuan alone? If it weren't for Qin Mu's strong push. It simply would not have had the same effect as it does today. Sima An and others also rose up to plead guilty.

Qin Mu said with a smile: "Elders, I summoned you today. The topic to be discussed is precisely related to this. It is undeniable that the Four, Five, and Five Classics are broad and profound, and we have benefited immensely. However, the so-called half-book of the Analects rules the world, and other arguments are exaggerated.

You should know best that many government affairs rely on the words of the sages alone, and the subset of scriptures and histories alone is not enough to deal with.

For example, the household department in charge of Liu Qing is in charge of household registration, land registers, finance, finance and taxation, industry and commerce, warehousing, revenue and expenditure, budget, market regulation and control, etc., all of which are not competent just by reading through the Four Books and the Five Classics.

The good results produced by the judicial and case scene investigation and training made me realize that the management of the imperial court needs to be further refined, or further professionalized, and that officials in many departments need professional training in order to improve efficiency.

At the same time, it is necessary to establish a complete set of training mechanisms so that in the future, we can continuously provide these departments with a steady stream of management personnel with considerable professional ability. Some special positions can only be filled after passing a professional assessment.

For example, no matter how good a person's poetry and writing is, if he doesn't understand mathematics, geometry, and doesn't know how to account for accounts, he will be the head of the household department rashly, it will definitely not work. ”

Liu Boquan nodded first and said: "What Your Majesty said can be described as hitting the nail on the head, a good housewife knows how to make careful calculations, then this family can be maintained well." By extension, a county, a government, and a country are all the same;

Guan Zhong is good at financial management, assisting Qi Huan Gong to achieve hegemony, and Fang Xuanling is good at financial management, so that Tang Taizong has no shortage of military personnel. After careful study, both Guan Zhong and Fang Xuanling are people with considerable professional ability, which also shows the importance of professionalism.

The minister agreed with His Majesty's remarks and trained some officials in departments that needed professional management skills to make them more professional, so as to avoid a situation in which laymen command insiders and create a miasma. ”

Qin Mu proposed vocational training for current officials, and professional courses must meet the standards before they can continue to stay in office or be promoted with advantages. The reason seems high-sounding.

The cabinet assistants sitting here also knew very well that some special departments did need professional talents, such as Yang Tinglin in charge of personnel, and he did a good job, but if he was asked to act in charge of accounts, I am afraid it would not work.

In fact, the previous dynasties also had some training for the new branch jinshi, and the officials would also assess these people, and then assign them the corresponding official positions.

But relatively speaking, this kind of training and assessment before the release of officials in previous dynasties is very simple, mainly just to see who is more suitable for the work of which department. It is far from the level of professional training assessment.

It was fine when the officials ruled Qingming, but most of the time, even such training and assessment were useless and could not play a substantive role.

At this time, Qin Mu proposed to conduct professional training and assessment for officials in some departments, based on the good results that have been achieved in the training and assessment of judicial and forensic doctors, and the cabinet auxiliary ministers have clearly seen the results brought by such training and assessment.

Therefore, there was no immediate objection, although there were some doubts.

Lu Zhenfei said: "According to His Majesty's wishes, there are not a few department officials who need professional training and assessment, and if they are done too quickly, it will inevitably cause most officials to be panicked and difficult to be satisfied with their own work." In severe cases, it may paralyze the operation of the imperial court.

Therefore, the minister believes that even if the current officials are to be trained and evaluated, the action should not be too large, and it should start with some corner departments, step by step, and slowly move to the core departments, so that it is appropriate. ”

Lu Zhenfei's words were old and serious, and were unanimously approved by other cabinet ministers.

Qin Mu also bowed his head and said: "What Lu Ge Lao said is very true, then this matter will not be silent for the time being, and we will implement it department by department." Moreover, if you want to train and assess, you always need to find some professional teachers first. In my second thought, these teachers don't have to be limited to court officials, but can find some top talents in related fields to serve as training instructors.

For example, if you train an official in charge of the household department, you can hire some top talents in mathematics, geometry, etc., to participate in the compilation of relevant training materials and serve as training instructors. I believe that with their participation, the quality of relevant training will be improved. Well, this is also one of the forms of combining theory and practice.

You can also hire some shrewd bookkeepers to teach them how to look for logic in the accounts, and then deduce whether there is fraud in the accounts based on these logical reasoning.

As far as I know, even if your accounts are perfectly fake, some shrewd financial officers can use logical reasoning to deduce that your accounts are fraudulent.

For example, a spinning mill that uses a steam engine can not find a problem just by checking its income and expenditure accounts, but it can also be traced by tracing the amount of coal ash consumed by the spinning mill.

When Qin Mu said this, the cabinet ministers present were dumbfounded, and everyone couldn't help but sigh in their hearts, and Qin Mu was still talking at this time

(To be continued)