Shen requested permission to build a city in Laochiao. Today's Hengchun is laid out largely according to those plans. Materials about how the original town was built are described in detail in the National Palace Museum documents. Shen also came up with the policy of developing the mountains with separate northern, central and southern cross-island roads.
「牡丹社事件」之後，沈葆楨奏請在琅橋築城，如今恆春城的形制，大致是沈葆楨時期留下來的，原城的築城史料在故宮檔案裡有詳細記載。