Zhang Chao took more than 60 people to the Ministry of Industry of Shangshu Province with the holy decree of "acting cheaply", and then prepared to urge them to implement the examination method. And when the Ministry of Industry saw them coming, they also sent a foreigner to receive them. And this made Zhang Chao feel that he, the people who came to urge them to carry out reforms, did not seem to be very popular in the Ministry of Industry. Judging from the fact that they only sent an outsider, then they must not be very keen on reform. If you really attach importance to Zhang Chao and them, then send a squire as a greeting, then it should be. And Zhang Chao naturally knows that there is resistance to reform, not only those who have vested interests, but also those old ideas and old habits, who subconsciously oppose reform.

"Zhou Yuanwailang, what do the people of the Ministry of Industry think about the examination method implemented by the emperor this time?" Zhang Chao asked.

And this Zhou member Wailang also said with a little smirk: "Director Zhang, this time many officials of our Ministry of Industry have also said that whoever proposes to pass the test is really looking for trouble." We're doing a good job now, and we don't have any baskets, so how can we need to use another set of methods? So we can't wait until later, and we're thinking about another way, can't we? ”

When Zhang Chao heard this, he didn't know that the Ministry of Industry must be very disgusted with his own test method. And this Zhou Yuanwailang scolded the person who "proposed the test method", isn't he pointing at the monk and scolding the bald man, that is, scolding Zhang Chao in front of Zhang Chao? However, Zhang Chao must also be against these guys, otherwise he will not be able to implement this set at all.

"Director Zhang, no! We went to get the officials of the Ministry of Industry to implement the performance of the evaluation method, and then they all struggled, obviously unwilling to do so. And they still say one by one that it is good to be an official as long as they are virtuous, and there is no need to assess this kind of work ability. This kind of ability to do things should be done by those subordinate scribes, and we officials should direct those scribes to do it. ”

"Yes! Director Zhang, those guys are really slippery, let's go and let them implement this test method, they actually played haha and didn't say a word. Don't say support, don't say opposition, anyway, it's procrastinating, don't cooperate with us. ”

"Also, there is a Lang Zhong, he actually bit back, saying that we pay attention to ability and not morality."

Next, the strange theories of various officials in the Ministry of Industry came out. However, Zhang Chao heard the most theory, that is, this test method can only assess the ability of those officials, but cannot assess the morality of officials. But Zhang Chao wanted to spray them to death very much, because where can the morality be easily assessed? When Zhou Gong was afraid of rumors, when Wang Mang was humble to the corporal, if he died at that time, who would have known if he had been loyal through the ages? This Bai Juyi's poem is a classic, but it is conceivable that morality cannot be easily assessed.

Since ancient times, examinations have only been able to assess grades and abilities, but not morality. At that time, Newton also said that he could calculate the orbit of the moon, but he couldn't count people's hearts! These officials of the Ministry of Industry criticized Zhang Chao's examination method for failing to assess morality, which is also a false proposition. If moral character can be tested, it can only be tested by time, not just by some standards.

"Okay, since they are going to test their morality, then let's see how their character is!" Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao would never believe that the moral character of these officials in the Ministry of Industry would be good.

"Zhou Yuanwailang, I want to check the accounts of your Ministry of Industry, what do you think?" Zhang Chao asked.

And that Zhou Yuanwailang immediately asked: "Does this have anything to do with the implementation of the examination method?" ”

And Zhang Chao replied: "There is a relationship, there is definitely a relationship." Moreover, I have the emperor's edict to act cheaply, not to mention access to some accounts, this is also within my authority! ”

And Zhou Yuanwailang also said: "Since this is the case, then I will also bring you some accounts!" ”

Zhang Chao saw this scene and began to sneer in his heart. These officials of the Ministry of Labor, Zhang Chao absolutely did not believe that they were all a group of incorruptible guys. Since ancient times, the official positions in engineering have been all fat and fat, not to mention that the Ministry of Industry has not only jurisdiction over engineering construction, but also over water conservancy, land resources, and even many places that are super fat in later generations. Therefore, Zhang Chao absolutely does not believe that there will be honest people in the Ministry of Industry, I am afraid that there are a group of rats here. In later generations, the construction system and the transportation system are all high-incidence areas, and there are even cases where three consecutive department chiefs have to be imprisoned. So you can imagine how many cats are tired of this project construction.

As a civil servant in his previous life, Zhang Chao naturally knew this very well, and he chose to open up from the Ministry of Industry. Then the officials of the Ministry of Industry are also the easiest places to catch the sore feet, and they are also good candidates for their own reform and sacrifice flags.

"Director Zhang, our accounts are here!" Zhou Yuanwailang said.

And Zhou Yuanwailang immediately thought to himself: "We have made the accounts all stable, and these accounts have been processed by the old account office, so I don't believe you can find out what the problem is." Don't say you're a layman, even if you've been in the account office for many years, you can't find out what's wrong, you wait for me! ”

And Zhang Chao opened the account book and looked at it, and he immediately saw that these accounts were some very messy accounts. Their writing methods are all described as "writing". For example, if you spend 400 yuan in an account in later generations, you can write it as -400 in later life, but here it is written as "unbridled expenditure". In addition, there is no corresponding tabular comparison of these accounts, and there are no various means of auditing. And Zhang Chao saw this and immediately sneered.

"Make fake accounts, you ancients are really playing big knives in front of Guan Gong, and Lu Ban got a big axe in front of the door, are you embarrassed to show off in front of me, a later official? I really don't know how many heads will fall to the ground today! Zhang Chao sighed in his heart.

"Liu Chun, you go and tell everyone, help me deal with these accounts for me. Then I taught you some methods called special numbers, that is, the writing of 0123567**, and then recomposed an account according to my simple method. Next, write these accounts into a statement of accounts, and finally be able to reveal them all and become a tabular state of accounts. Also, once again, I will teach you a new way of keeping accounts, and then you can easily find out if there is a problem with this account. If you find an imbalance in your spending income, you can check it out. If there is anything wrong with the inspection, then it will be easy to find out the virtues of those officials! Zhang Chao said.

Zhang Chao soon began to check the accounts, and then told the new scholars about Arabic numerals. And told them how to record this double-entry bookkeeping method, and then the accounts were quickly cleared. I have to say that the mathematics level of the Tang Dynasty is really too poor, it is countless times worse than itself, and it is not above the same level at all. And soon Zhang Chao of this Ministry of Industry also found out a lot of rats, which were all bad deeds. And Zhang Chao, an official of later generations, knows very well that if an official has no supervision, then I am afraid he is not far away. So now these officials of the Ministry of Labor, because they have no supervision, and they are officials, it is naturally very easy to have the opportunity to embezzle. This kind of engineering officials are all fat and oily, so they will know when Zhang Chao checks them.

And Zhang Chao's double-entry bookkeeping method, those ancient people could not escape the investigation of this bookkeeping method. And as long as you compare the billing and accounting together, as long as there is a problem with the number, it is definitely a problem. If there is more money in the account than it is in, it means that someone is clearly embezzling. And if there is more money in the account than out of the account, it is not a big problem. However, all of these accounts are more out of account than in the account, but in the end, according to the appropriation from the Ministry of Household to the Ministry of Industry, it is obviously not the number, so there is obviously a problem.

"Director Zhang, we have checked all these accounts, and these officials are all rats! It's really infuriating, taking the court's money, actually embezzling the court's public funds here, it's really hateful! Someone immediately shouted angrily.

Many of these new scholars are young people, and of course they are very unaccustomed to these ugly and dark phenomena of officialdom. After all, those people have not been smoothed out by the cruel officialdom, and they have seen all this, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry have actually taken the opportunity to embezzle, which is very unacceptable to them. Therefore, they soon became angry, and took the initiative to find evidence of these corrupt officials, and then handed it over to Zhang Chao.

"Let's go and tell the emperor about these bastards, and then let the emperor cut off their heads!" Liu Chun said.

Zhang Chao took this account comparison table, and then took it step by step to the Liangyi Hall in the palace, and he sneered. Because he knew that this account comparison table would inevitably make many officials of the Ministry of Industry fall to the ground, but he still chose to report to Li Yuan. Because he has no choice, since he wants to reform, this is an inevitable result.

"Reform is all about bloodshed, either the enemy is your own, and I want to bleed the enemy now." Zhang Chao said.