As a lord, I was forced to farm

Chapter 848 The Palace of the Eight Heroes
Even after the palace was completed, some craftsmen had not yet left. Gazing at the magnificent palace they had built with their sweat and toil, they lingered, unable to look away, seemingly unable to believe that such a huge palace had been created by mortals like themselves.

"Is it pretty? Is it pretty?!" Da Hua shrank her body and skipped and hopped in front of Jiang Ran, turning back every now and then to ask.

Jiang Ran nodded patiently each time, her eyes crinkling with a smile.

The palace of the Big Flower family is named after their race, and is called the Eight-King Palace.

The Ba Kui Palace occupies one-third of Xiabo Island, vividly illustrating the meaning of primal power and chaotic aesthetics.

The palace was enormous, with a dark blue-green color throughout. The hard blue stone buildings were covered with deep moss and vines, as if they had grown directly from the depths of a wild jungle—of course, this was not something that grew naturally, but rather an atmosphere that had been deliberately created.

Standing before the Ba Kui Palace, I felt the insignificance of humankind.

The Ba Kui Palace has a door frame but no door. The door frame is made up of several ancient trees hanging upside down, their roots sticking out of the walls.

The Da Hua family stood at the door, their clothes sparkling, to welcome Jiang Ran.

Big Flower grinned, "You're the first friend we've ever invited to our home!"

"It's my pleasure," Jiang Ran replied, several buckets of bamboo-flavored monkey wine appearing in her hand. "I've also brought some good things for you to celebrate."

Da Hua laughed even more happily.

Upon entering the main hall, one is greeted by twelve statues of black apes supporting the roof. Each ape has a different posture, with expressions of anger or joy, and actions ranging from pounding its chest and roaring to crouching and gathering strength. Blood marrow gems are also inlaid in its eye sockets. The style is rugged yet elegant and magnificent.

The giant ape doesn't need too many fancy rooms.

So the entire palace only has spaces for sleeping, relieving oneself, and eating, and for monsters, the most important thing is nothing more than eating and sleeping.

Jiang Ran glanced at the "bedroom" of the Da Hua family. Countless dark red blood vein flame crystals hung from the top of the nest. These crystals contained a large amount of fire elemental essence and were beautifully shaped, hanging upside down at the top, like a sea of ​​flames.

The place where Big Flower sleeps is not a human bed, but a giant woven grass mat. The grass mat is clean and soft, and exudes a faint fragrance.

Inside the bedroom, Da Hua had already put her things away: some monster crystal remains, prey teeth, and smooth stones she'd picked up from who-knows-where...

After strolling around the Ba Kui Palace, Jiang Ran was then pulled by Da Hua to the place where they were eating.

Da Hua and the others didn't like eating at a table, but they still specially built one.

Big Grass pulled out a stool, and Big Flower carried Jiang Ran to the chair. The three cubs of the Eight Giant Apes, carrying various spiritual fruits collected from the Lingze Islands, poured them all out in front of Jiang Ran.

Fruit scattered all over the ground, "Hooray!!" Eat, eat, eat!!!
The eight giant apes howled excitedly and pulled Jiang Ran to hold a unique celebration banquet featuring the characteristics of the eight giant apes.

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With the completion of the Ba Kui Palace, Da Su prepared to begin constructing the Da Su Royal Palace on the Ling Ze Islands.

Based on the thousands of palace blueprints submitted by the craftsmen, Jiang Ran revised them hundreds of times according to her own preferences, and finally chose a palace that satisfied her.

It's more of a palace complex than a single palace, which Jiang Ran calls Cangwu Palace.

The Cangwu Palace is divided into the front court, the inner court, and auxiliary buildings.

The outer court was divided into the Meridian Gate (the main south gate), the Heavenly Pivot Gate (where the emperor held court), the Heavenly Pivot Hall (the highest-ranking palace, the place for grand ceremonies such as enthronement and weddings), the Chenji Hall (where the Great King (Emperor) rested before ceremonies and reviewed the congratulatory tablets), and the Zhaoming Hall (where banquets were held for foreign vassals). The inner court temporarily housed the Nine-Liu Palace, the Palace of Ten Thousand Beasts, the Palace of the Great King's contracted beasts, the Yuanxiao Palace, the Palace of the Great King's consort, the Zeyun Palace, the Palace of Zeyun, where other royal family members lived, and the Xuantao Palace, a training ground.

The auxiliary buildings included the royal reading room (Wenhua Hall), the book storage and compilation room (Shuzang Hall), the ancestral worship room (Zhaomu Hall), and the resting place for the attendants (Qingwoyuan).

The design of Cangwu Palace took into account all aspects, even the future, making it many times more complex than the Ba Kui Palace of the Da Hua family. After all, the Da Hua family's palace was just large.

Therefore, it is unknown how many years it will take to complete the construction of Cangwu Palace.

However, we can first complete the construction of the outer court and the Nine-Tassel Palace so that Jiang Ran can move in. As for the rest, we can build them slowly later.

Besides Cangwu Palace, Jiang Ran also wants to build Wenhua Palace on Wenhua Island, where she can soak in the hot springs of Wenhua Pool when she is tired.

I also want to build a Qianlong Palace on Lingquan Island for Bai Mei to play in the water, a Huoyuan Palace on Xiaya Island for Mo Sheng to enjoy, and a Jinxiu Palace on Guichuan Island that can accommodate all the world's most beautiful flowers...

And the palace of Jiang Nancheng and Jiang Xiaowen.

In conclusion, the development of the Lingze Islands will be a key focus for Osaka in the coming years, decades, or even centuries.

On October 1st of the 27th year of the Great Su reign, construction officially began on Cangwu Island.

On that day, many officials, including Jiang Ran herself, boarded Cangwu Island.

"I really look forward to the day when Cangwu Palace is unveiled!"

"It will definitely be more magnificent than the Ba Kui Palace."

"Cangwu Island is so big. His Highness the Prince wants to build a royal city on Cangwu Island. We who are currently in office can also move into this royal city in the future."

The Cangwu Palace is being built in the center of the plains of Cangwu Island, and is expected to cover an area of ​​two million square meters.

Cangwu Island, however, covers 190,000 square kilometers, which is only half the land area of ​​the entire Dasu County, leaving plenty of vacant land.

If we only build one Cangwu Palace, wouldn't it be desolate?
Moreover, the heads of the six departments have been granted a piece of land on the west side of Cangwu Island by His Highness the Prince, and have begun to build their own villas, which has made many people extremely envious.

“We also have the opportunity to be rewarded by His Highness the Prince. And even if we are not rewarded, it is said that after the Cangwu Palace is completed, we can buy land from the Prince and move to Cangwu Island.”

The group was quite excited, as they had originally thought that the Lingze Islands were exclusively for His Highness the Prince and that no one else was allowed to stay there.

But later I heard that even the most ordinary civilians, as long as they have a household registration as citizens of Dasu, can freely come to Cangwu Island to live, play, and even do business!

"I'm so looking forward to the day Cangwu Island opens!!"

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The Lingze Islands are seen as wondrous, and there is a strong anticipation for the opening of Cangwu Island.

But Jiang Ran still faces a very serious problem.

Those were the Lingze Islands, floating a few hundred meters above the ground. The cultivators were fine; they could ride the Cloud-Swallowing Flying Sword to the Lingze Islands.

But what about ordinary people without cultivation? What about impoverished cultivators who cannot afford to buy the Flying Swallowing Sword?