Lê Tương Dực had the builder Vũ Như Tô raise a hundred-roofed palace and the Cửu Trùng tower, and a long wall across the Tô Lịch river; years of forced labour exhausted the people and helped bring him down.
Construction
Building of the Nine-Storey Tower
- 1516
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