It is not rough to say this, Feng Xi's words seem simple, but they made Song Yichun wake up instantly and understand where their Qingquan is at this moment.

Green Forest is determined to win them, whether he agrees with the county magistrate or not.

So he actually only had two choices, either to compromise with the Green Forest Army, or to rebel with the people under his rule.

But compromise is impossible to compromise, now that Li Cifu is sitting in front of him, the court has already moved, if he compromises now, wouldn't it push the people into the fire pit?

Once the rebellion was quelled by the imperial court, what would the imperial court do with these people?

What's more, even without Li Cifu in front of him, he never thought that the Green Forest Army would win......

Then there is only a second way left, and that is to resist.

But the word resistance is simple to say, in fact, every step of the struggle is bloody, human life, and the weight that he Song Yichun does not want to bear.

And instead of passively beating people to death, it is better for them to deploy well from the beginning and exchange the greatest victory for the minimum cost.

As long as they can hold out until the soldiers and horses of the imperial court come, Qingquan is a real place of merit, and all perseverance will become actual rewards.

Are you afraid that the people of Qingquan will not be able to pay this year's taxes? Are you still afraid that Princess Zhaoming will continue to abuse them?

No, it won't.

Thinking of this, Song Yichun only felt excited.

That's right, instead of being beaten passively, it is better to calculate the other party at the beginning and fight a beautiful turnaround!

Seeing that Song Yichun's face changed from sad to happy, and his eyes gradually became firm, Li Cifu and Qi Xiao knew that this matter was stable.

Li Cifu nodded with satisfaction, and secretly said that their princess was really wise and foolish.

Only Feng Xi didn't realize it, and was still stretching out a bowl to Qi Xiao, saying that he could eat another bowl of meat.

As for how to fight back or something, what's the matter with a madman like her who eats and waits for death?

Sure enough, Feng Xi only took care of the cooking and no longer participated in the conversation between Qi Xiao and the three of them.

However, Li Cifu and Song Yichun sympathized with each other, and the discussion between the two on how to govern the state and county never stopped.

The former lectured the latter on the laws of the DPRK and China, and the latter communicated with the former about the difficulties of the people.

After all, Song Yichun is a county magistrate, and his vision is not comparable to Liu Rong.

Therefore, Feng Xi and the three of them soon discovered that Mingzhou's predicament was not only the harsh government of the local officials, but also the reason why the people of Mingzhou only did agriculture and did not know business.

Feng Xi had learned before that Mingzhou was actually the Jiangnan region of Dazhao.

The soil here is fertile and suitable for farming, so Mingzhou has attached great importance to agriculture and light commerce since the previous dynasties.

As a result, most of the tax revenue in Minnesota comes from farming, which looks quite a lot, but in fact, the state is not prosperous, and the people have no employment channels.

Well, probably farming and being hired to farm is employment.

Of course, there are still small businesses that make tofu and sauce early, but these people can basically complete their own business, where do they need to hire people?

In the past two years, business has improved a little, which has led to the rise of the Liu family, but in the final analysis, it is only the past few years that Song Yichun has been here.

However, in recent years, the tax burden and forced labor have become heavier and heavier, not to mention letting merchants hire more people, and even farmers dare not hire people.

This is also the reason why Li Wu and the others obviously have hands and feet, but their families are so poor that they can't even afford medicine.

It can be said that even if Mingzhou can be exempted from taxes this year, it will be difficult for Mingzhou next year and the year after......

In Feng Xi's words, this is a problem with the industrial structure, and it will only get worse and worse.

However, Song Yichun didn't say much about this, because this was not their top priority.

In contrast, he had a reluctant request......

"There are no outsiders here, Lord Song, you can just say anything directly."

"This ......"

Seeing that Li Cifu saw his desire to speak and stopped, Song Yichun said cheekily:

"Old Xiao, that Lin Xiong and others are scheming, and they actually came up with a plan to send charcoal in the snow to confuse the people. However, there are many people who are miserable under the rule, and there are many people who can't afford to see the disease and can't get medicine, I don't know if your little great-grandson can ......"

looked at Xiao Qizhuo who was eating with some apologetic eyes, Song Yichun also felt that he was a little shameless, and he actually wanted to enslave a child.

But I have to say that when he stepped into his grandson's room early this morning and found that his grandson and students had improved greatly, he was really impressed by Qi Zhuo's medical skills.

He felt that it would not be an exaggeration to say that this child was a child prodigy.

"What's not to be afraid of?"

Li Cifu smiled.

He had discussed with their princess and colt yesterday, if they want to quickly integrate into Mingzhou, they must do something to help the people of Mingzhou.

At present, the arrest of the Green Forest Army will attract criticism, and it is not suitable to go out publicly.

But this free clinic is different!

In life, who hasn't had a disease or pain?

Even Qi Zhuo puffed out his cheeks and nodded, indicating that he would do his best.

However, seeing that they agreed so happily, Song Yichun did not see joy on his face, but said even more crampedly:

"Elder Xiao, if this is just to look at the disease, it is naturally simple, but this medicinal material ...... To tell the truth, those people who need free medical treatment may not be able to pay that money. ”

In fact, most of the patients in the county were minor illnesses at the beginning, but because they had no money to get medicine, they became more and more serious, so that they became a serious illness that ordinary doctors could not cure.

In other words, if they only see a doctor and do not administer medicine, it may not mean anything to those sick people.

But this medicinal herb can't be conjured out of thin air, so if you want to, you have to spend money to buy it, right?

But is the county government rich today?

In the past five years, in order to make the people under his rule suffer less, he has already hollowed out the little family funds in the county government.

Therefore, the county government has no money to buy medicine, and he, a poor county magistrate, has no such ability......

And he said all this, Feng Xi and the others still don't understand something.

"What Lord Song means is that the money to buy the medicine has to be paid by the old man and his party, right?"

Li Cifu just wanted to ask clearly, but Song Yichun couldn't help but blush and said:

"It's the incompetence of the official, I'm really ashamed......"

Not only Song Yichun was ashamed, but Uncle Liu, who didn't know much about the inside story, couldn't help but lower his head.

This is really too much to ask people to contribute and people to pay.

Who knew that before the two of them could recover from it, Li Cifu took out twenty taels of silver from his sleeve and pushed it in front of Song Yichun and the others with a smile.

"Lord Song doesn't have to be ashamed, the old man knows that you are an honest official, you can take this silver, if it is not enough to buy medicinal materials, you can tell the old man."

Seeing that the silver was taken out by Li Cifu, Song Yichun wanted to refuse.

After all, he knew that Li Cifu was also a Qing official, and he didn't have much money left at home, so he couldn't let him give this money......

Who knew that Li Cifu smiled in the next second:

"Lord Song, don't worry, this silver is not given by the old man, but by our princess."