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With the ancestral hall established on the Sky Blue Peak, it naturally stood to reason that other buildings also had to be constructed on the peak as accompanying pieces.
Zhu Lian had already mapped out a plan. Starting from the archway at the foot of the Sky Blue Peak, going all the way up to the summit, there were going to be over thirty buildings of different sizes constructed along that straight line. Some were going to be constructed like palaces and temples, while others would have a greater emphasis on natural beauty and greenery.
There were even detailed plans for what was to be written on the individual plaques and couplets. Zheng Dafeng and Wei Bo had also helped in the planning process, raising different concepts and ideas, but ultimately, it would of course be up to Chen Ping’an to make the final decisions.
The copy of “Treatise on Architectural Methods or State Building Standards” that Chen Ping’an had brought back from the Lotus Flower Blessed Land had come from the Southern Garden Nation’s Ministry of Works, and it was a book that he thought very highly of. He gave the book to Zhu Lian along with a bunch of blueprints made in accordance with the buildings in that immortal abode in the Northern Pavilion Nation.
When it came to all of the buildings to be constructed to complement the ancestral hall, Chen Ping’an only had one small requirement, which was that there had to be a mountain and water pavilion that served as a replica of the one in Song Yushao’s villa. It could be named the spring pavilion or the dragon pavilion. Aside from that, Chen Ping’an had no other requests.
An amused smile had appeared on Zhu Lian’s face after receiving the copy of “Treatise on Architectural Methods or State Building Standards,” and only then did Chen Ping’an recall that this was an official book promulgated by the imperial court of a certain nation in the history of the Lotus Flower Blessed Land.
Zhu Lian burst into laughter and admitted that he had indeed once contributed to the writing of the book, and that he was responsible for around 20% to 30% of its contents.
Chen Ping’an jokingly asked him why the residences on Downtrodden Mountain were so crude and completely failed to reflect the building standards outlined in the Treatise on Architectural...
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