Yang Huairen has never been an impatient, but when these two weird babies suddenly appeared, he was still very rare in his heart.

Without much nonsense, he immediately ordered people to prepare a carriage, and several people soon went around to the back of the mountain, and the wasteland that could not be seen was displayed in front of everyone.

The wasteland behind the mountain, to put it bluntly, is actually a valley, a small river flows through the valley, and there are many relatively flat lands on both sides of the small river, which continue for a distance of one or two miles, and only then begin to be a gentle slope.

The reason why the valley has become a wasteland is precisely because that large area of land has been washed away by hundreds of thousands of rainstorms over hundreds of thousands of years, taking away the original nutrient-rich soil layer, resulting in little yield even if crops are planted.

In addition, the road traffic is not very convenient, so no one has chosen to settle here for thousands of years.

On the east side of the valley is the Yangjia Zhuangzi, while on the other side there are several scattered villages, adjacent to the abundant Jialu River, where the farmers grow crops on the land on the riverbank to solve the problem of food rations, and can also obtain a lot of extra harvests by fishing and other means.

A hundred years ago, the ordnance supervisor of the imperial court did not know how to discover this place, so he repaired a secret flat land here, and dug a hole at the foot of the mountain to serve as a base for making and testing gunpowder and various explosive mines.

This munitions base was in operation for several decades, and later a certain minister wrote to the emperor and described gunpowder as "a great weapon of evil, which is more fierce than a tiger, and if it is raised now, it will be harmed", so it was closed and gradually abandoned.

Later, the internal guard somehow learned the location of this secret, probably found that it was a good place to hide soldiers, horses and ordnance, so they reused it again and became the entrance of the Golden Jutang.

This secret location is only a drop in the bucket compared to the entire valley, and Mr. Yuishi just looked at it from a distance and roughly calculated the approximate area of the entire valley, which should be equivalent to half of Tokyo City.

It's just that there are some protruding boulders scattered on the gentle slope, which cannot be used for normal construction land, and the place that can really be used for construction accounts for about four or five percent of the wasteland in the entire valley.

Even so, Yang Huairen was very satisfied, this hidden valley is a relatively closed place, even if thousands of soldiers and horses are raised to train here, it is not easy for outsiders to detect.

The land used to build a Culinary Academy probably only needs the entrance and exit of the valley, and a thousand acres of flat land on the west bank of the small river are enough.

The construction of the Culinary Academy at the mouth of the valley is indeed as Yang Huairen wished. Since the road from the mouth of the valley has been built for another five or six miles, it can be connected to the main road, and the traffic difficulties can be easily solved.

The opening of a gate at the mouth of the valley prevents outsiders from exploring the inside of the valley.

In the future, a large area of the hinterland of the valley, including the location of the secret cave of the Golden Jutang, can be used to build a military camp and secretly train sergeants.

After reading the land that needed to be used to build the academy, Roushi and Mr. Lishui began to ponder the planning of the academy.

The two of them have been discussing for a long time, and it seems that they have not discussed a unified result.

Yang Huairen really didn't understand the infrastructure matter, and he was confused about what the two of them discussed. However, in the end, I still roughly understood what kind of pattern the future Culinary Academy was in the hearts of the two of them.

Yang Huairen imagined in his mind that the planning of the two gentlemen was generally more professional and feasible, but he seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the scale of the college.

In their planning, Yang Huairen divided the thousand acres of flat land, they seemed to think that they didn't need so much, three or four hundred acres, it should be enough.

According to their ideas, although a kitchen academy is a school that teaches cooking skills and trains cooks, after all, this school is run by the Tongyuan County Office, so it can't be built too small and lose the face of the county government.

But a thousand acres of land is really useless. The size of three or four hundred acres is already very large, and looking at the whole Great Song Dynasty, there will be no more than three academies with an area of more than three hundred acres.

Those academies named after what mountains and lakes sound like they occupy the size of an entire mountain, but in fact, the actual land used, or the actual area, is only about one or two hundred acres.

The future Culinary College covers an area of three or four hundred acres, and it is already one of the best in the college of teaching and educating people. Mr. Roushi and Mr. Lishui think so, but also for Yang Huairen's sake.

Although Yang Huairen is a county prince at the moment, if he really builds a school that teaches cooks, and compares the scale of more than ninety percent of the academies that teach the Book of Sages in the Song Dynasty, he will have a reputation, but it is not easy to say whether this reputation is good or bad.

Although the two gentlemen have been living in seclusion with their master for a long time, and their nature is a little weird, they are not people who do not eat fireworks in the world.

At present, the literary style is flourishing, and each state and county has its own academy of a small scale. These academies have promoted the development of local culture to a certain extent, but when the academies were built, the funds that could be obtained from the imperial court were relatively limited.

Officials from all over the country wanted to make some political achievements from the construction of the academy, so they collected some donations from the local wealthy squires for the maintenance and operation of the local academy for the construction and operation of the day.

But after all, the situation is different in different places, such as the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, the land of wealth, the academy is naturally built larger, and the higher grade, and the place where there are few rich people is relatively poorly built.

Even so, the scale of the world-famous academies in Jiangnan does not exceed 300 acres, and there are only more than 1,000 gentlemen and students in the colleges.

Therefore, in the ideas of Roushi and Lishui, this kitchen academy should not only allow the county government to handle it without losing face, but also not exceed the scale of those famous academies in the south of the Yangtze River, so that some civil officials in the court talked about this.

But Yang Huairen doesn't think so, a thousand people? What is this enough for? Even if he trained a cook and studied at the academy for three years, then the number of students he could recruit each year would only be three or four hundred, not to mention that he planned to train thousands of soldiers here in the future.

Yang Huairen also knew that Roushi and Lishui were also well-intentioned, but this plan was far from his expectations.

He joked, "The two senior brothers are saving money for the junior brothers, right?" The problem of construction funds, the two senior brothers do not have to worry, you only care about the planning, only the construction, the problem of money, for the junior brother, I have never been a problem.

You can build hard, build on a tall scale, build taller than the palace, that is called magnificent! ”