"Liu Zheng's Feng Shui Planning Workshop is recruiting people. We require people to be literate and have basic knowledge of landscape painting or Yuzhou's sketching. Candidates with strong physiques will be given priority. You can tell from the looks of it that some of you are well-educated people. Would you like to get to know more?"

As soon as Li Jingye walked in, a young man in blue clothes, cotton hat and white scarf handed him a recruitment brief. He looked at the various recruiting calls in the distance and suddenly felt a toothache.

A hand reached out from behind and patted the boy's cotton hat, scolding him with a smile: "Go away, you have no sense at all. Are these people here to apply for the job?"

The young man smiled foolishly and ran away, leaving Liu Zheng free.

Liu Zheng bowed to them and said, "This is a disciple that I just accepted in Guanzhong. He is a kid from a small farming family and has not seen much of the world. I hope I have offended you. Please forgive me."

Xia Yu first looked at Liu Zheng and frowned, "Liu Zheng, I heard that you have been studying abroad for many years. Even when the chief steward summoned 100,000 students to Qinghai, you did not come back. I have not seen you for five or six years. What is your Feng Shui planning workshop doing now?"

"It's a long story."

After his subordinates brought the porridge, Xia Yu first stirred it with chopsticks and asked Liu Zheng, "Tell me, where have you been after leaving Yuzhou these years?"

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Liu Zheng's eyes were filled with vicissitudes of life, and he recalled: "When the teacher taught us, he did not stipulate our hobbies. Apart from arithmetic and basic literacy, we could learn whatever we wanted to learn. If we had any questions, the teacher would explain them to us.

Xia Yu raised her eyebrows first, then nodded in agreement, and Li Jingye had no objection.

Liu Zheng raised his head and smiled, "Yes, under the guidance of the master, I painted the mountains and rivers on both sides of the Yu River, among which the areas around the large reservoir and the houses were the top priority. Over the years, I have traveled all over the world to famous mountains and rivers, major cities, and private mansions of wealthy families, just to refine the way of planning.

Xia Yuxian frowned and asked, "I remember the only time the chief steward took several hundred disciples to visit the farms, wasn't it to entertain the people in the farms, with singing and dancing performances?"

After three years, my painting skills were on par with Mr. Yu’s. With nothing to learn, I was confused about my future. What should I do if I could only paint? Should I just teach my junior students to paint in Yuzhou? After I asked Mr. Yu this question, he was silent for two days, and then organized a short study tour for us, which was to visit farms on both sides of the Yu River.

"Then I'll make it short."

"Feng Shui Planning Workshop?" Li Jingye muttered, frowned and asked Liu Zheng: "Did Yuzhou's planning class start with you?"

There are ten rows of stoves surrounded by red bricks in the corner of the yard. There are ten large iron pots on each row of stoves, with fire burning from both sides. Chimneys are built in the middle. Seafood porridge is bubbling in each large iron pot, and the air is filled with a sweet aroma.

Li Jingye looked around and said with a smile: "Here, only those of you who are famous among the students in Yuzhou have face. Many children of noble families or officials of the imperial court have to stand there and drink porridge."

Building a large reservoir is my way of accumulating funds, and planning your large reservoir and the surrounding fertile fields is my job. As long as you are satisfied and Your Majesty approves, it will be the time for my Planning Department to enter the court."

Liu Zheng led the way and said with a smile, "Third Senior Brother and Fourth Junior Brother each brought back a boatload of seafood for the master. The master needed so much, and after distributing some to the Fifth Courtyard, there was still a lot left. Today's Laba porridge is made with seafood, and it's all top-quality seafood rarely seen on the market."

Xia Yuxian suddenly realized, "Yes, in the second year, the students in Yuzhou had a so-called internship period, but you guys didn't have an internship period. You went out to travel around the world in the second year. It turns out that you not only had an internship period, but the chief steward personally took you to the internship."

The teacher taught: A tree cannot be straight without pruning, a person cannot be upright without cultivation, a house cannot last long without maintenance, a city will become dilapidated without maintenance, and the earth also needs to be repaired and planned. Only with proper planning can everything be done with less time and effort.

There were hundreds of tables and thousands of chairs, but there were not enough seats. Many people just stood by with big bowls in their hands and started eating.

"Haha." Liu Zheng looked at the big hourglass on the gate and laughed, "It's lunch time now. Let's go over and have a bowl of Laba porridge and chat slowly. I said I would visit you in two days. It's a good opportunity to meet you today so let's talk about it."

"Hehe, that's just an appearance. In fact, it was a very important study tour and preaching."

Because the second brother had great respect for the teacher, and because the teacher emphasized arithmetic, he focused all his attention on arithmetic. When he achieved great success in mental arithmetic, even the teacher was amazed.

Naturally, there was a seat for Liu Zheng when he came over. A table of Yuzhou students who were almost finished eating gave up their seats to Liu Zheng and his friends.

The third senior brother likes astrology, and the others have their own preferences, but they all take into account government affairs and arithmetic. With several subjects mixed together, in fact, after a short period of time, some people tend to neglect some of them while others do not.

As for me, after seeing the sketches that the teacher drew for us, I fell in love with painting. Naturally, the teacher taught me everything he knew, but he would not study all the knowledge to a very profound level. After all, a person's energy is limited.

Because of the incident that happened that year which caused some casualties among the people on the farm, the eldest brother vowed to let the people on the farm live a good life, so he devoted all his energy to studying government affairs, and all the major and minor problems that occurred in the farms were the data he specialized in studying.

Li Jingye immediately asked: "Then I will give my thousand-ton reservoir to Brother Liu. Brother Liu, please give me a lower price."

Liu Zheng smiled and said, "No problem. I can hand over the blueprints to Li Biejia before the New Year. As for money and food, Li Biejia can give it as he sees fit."

Li Jingye said happily: "Oh, that's great, wait a minute, I'll call all the managers over to introduce them to you, and then you can just ask them to lead the way."

Xia Yuxian looked at Li Jingye who turned away with a smile on his face and smiled contemptuously, then he bowed to Liu Zheng and said, "I am sorry to trouble you, Brother Liu, for the wasteland of my Yuzhou family in Weishui. As for the money and grain, it's easy to talk about it, Brother Liu, just ask.

In recent years, many of the children of our Yuzhou noble families have left for the border areas. Their parents and family members at home miss them very much. After all, the border areas are too far away. If they come back, I wonder if Brother Liu can gather them to work in the Planning Department?"