The playboy county magistrate

Li Xuanzhi was the first to jump off the car, turned around and stretched out his hand to the old doctor.

"You flatter me, sir. I... I am utterly unworthy of such treatment."

Li Xuanzhi quickly shook his head, his tone and expression both serious and earnest.

"Look at what you're saying! Your presence in Fuyu County to treat the people is already a great act of kindness to the people. How can you talk about whether you're worthy or not? According to your logic, I, the magistrate, have been here for several months and haven't yet achieved a good life of poverty alleviation. Does that mean I'm not worthy to be the magistrate of Fuyu County?"

The old doctor quickly waved his hand, and finally, with a mixture of helplessness and relief, placed his withered, twig-like old hand on Li Xuanzhi's outstretched palm, using the support to slowly get out of the car.

"Your Excellency, you have become a truly good official, having achieved so much. The people of Fuyu County now have the courage to live well and strive for a better life, all thanks to you."

Was Magistrate Zhao a bad person?

For decades, they have accompanied the people through their hardships, without any way to help them.

How long has this new Magistrate Li been here? At this rate, he's probably only just figured out the overall situation in Fuyu County before he's already started taking action.

Over the years, the old doctor has traveled to quite a few places. He has also dealt directly or indirectly with many officials.

There are young officials like Li Xuanzhi, but none have his brains.

There are officials with Li Xuanzhi's brains, but none of them are as young as Li Xuanzhi.

The young and intelligent officials were all scions carefully nurtured by aristocratic families, lacking the courage and determination of someone like Li Xuanzhi to directly develop the most difficult-to-govern county.

If there were more officials like Li Xuanzhi in the imperial court, how could the country not prosper?

Over the years, the senior doctor has studied more medical knowledge and treatment methods to improve his medical skills. He has compiled all the difficult and complicated diseases he has encountered and the methods for faster treatment of patients that he has traveled all over the country into a book, which has become a family heirloom.

Now that I'm older, I don't want to keep traveling anymore.

Just when she was wondering where to settle down, Tang Zheng came to her door.

It's quite a coincidence.

Before Tang Zheng sold himself to Li Xuanzhi, he had unintentionally saved the life of the old doctor's drowning grandson.

It was because of this that a good relationship was formed, and that the old doctor and his family ended up here.

The fact that another group of doctors were also willing to settle here was also related to the senior doctor.

"They are my apprentices and grand-apprentices, and my apprentices' wives and granddaughters-in-law are also my old woman's apprentices and grand-apprentices."

Li Xuanzhi understood and was even happier.

In this way, there is no need to worry about the two families fighting endlessly over the so-called "empty reputation".

After all, there can only be one person who can shoulder the main responsibility and hold the most prestigious title.

It's just like how schools in later generations officially appear on students' graduation certificates, and only one principal's name can appear on the certificate with a red stamp.

Similarly, there can only be one person in charge of this medical clinic.

Now there's no need to worry about it anymore; we can directly identify the person in charge of the clinic.

The person in charge of the clinic naturally has the most responsibilities, and when the government needs the clinic's cooperation, they won't just find any doctor to handle it; they will always talk to the main person in charge of the clinic.

The clinic that Li Xuanzhi spearheaded was not just for making money from consultation fees and medicine costs.

Nowadays, clinics are all private clinics, similar to modern private hospitals.

The medical clinic established by Li Xuanzhi was equivalent to a top-tier public hospital in later generations that accepted medical insurance and reimbursed expenses.

Therefore, Li Xuanzhi did not intend to mistreat the doctors in the clinic.

The doctors' monthly stipends will be temporarily paid from within the government. Once the clinic is on track, funds will be allocated from within the clinic itself to cover their monthly stipends.

Nowadays, ordinary people don't have much money, so Li Xuanzhi plans to have the government cover part of the medical expenses.

The prerequisite is that the people are all native residents of Fuyu County and that they have been working hard and have a good attitude recently.

As for establishing a private school to enlighten children, that can be put on hold for now.

After all, one must walk one step at a time, and eat one bite at a time.

Solve the survival problem first, then consider growth in other areas.

Here, an illiterate person may not necessarily die, but without a medical clinic, their chances of survival would be greatly reduced.

"Recently, the people of the whole county have been working hard to rebuild their homes. Many of them have long-standing health problems. I would like to trouble you all to think of a way to help the people of the whole county to improve their health."

"We in Fuyu County cannot afford overly expensive medicinal herbs. But for other common medicinal herbs, please submit a list, and I will find a way to obtain them and have them delivered."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Li Xuanzhi received a huge surprise—

"Leave the dealings with the herbal medicine merchants to us. We've been working with them for a long time and are more familiar with them. We'll have someone specifically in charge of the accounts so that you can send someone to check them at any time."

Li Xuanzhi was very happy.

This saved me a lot of trouble.

To be honest, Li Xuanzhi really didn't have any connections in this area, and he was already planning to spend some money as "tuition fees".

This actually saved a lot of money.

That's great, after all, Fuyu County is just starting out and there are many places where money is needed.

However, there's a saying that goes, "If you doubt someone, don't use them; if you use someone, don't doubt them."

At the very least, when everything is just starting out, people are willing to come to this place where they can't even find any profit, so they should be given enough trust.

"Just tell us the numbers. Record the exact amount of herbs you need so we can stock up on more herbs for future needs."

Uncle Wang listened with a smile.

Our second young master has really grown up; look at his linguistic artistry!

They spoke only of trust, and even found such a flawless excuse to check the accounts. Yet they managed to come up with such a perfect pretext: "I trust you, I don't care about anything, I'll just pay. But for the good of all the people in the county, I need your shopping list; I just want to know what kind of medicinal herbs are suitable to stock up on."

Look at these people, their faces are flushed and their hands and feet are trembling with excitement. This is a really good way to win people's hearts!

Even the most pampered young master probably doesn't have such methods.

Wang Bo rubbed his hands excitedly, deciding to go back to the capital later to write a letter to his wife, hoping to put her mind at ease and whisper in his husband's ear, lest someone actually cause trouble for the second young master.

Little did they know that those in the capital who had the ability and the motivation to cause trouble for the second young master were too busy to care about their own affairs.

And so, the eldest son of the Marquis of Chengen returned to his residence in a disheveled state.