According to what Su Ziheng promised Zhong Qinghan and Zhao Wan'er, after returning from the Western Continent this time, he will hold a wedding with them.

Therefore, whether it is the Su Mansion, the Princess Mansion, or the Zhao Mansion, they all entered into intense preparations, and even notified the whole city of the news of the wedding, and when the time came, everyone would have a day off and the whole city would have fun.

Many people who received the news of Su Ziheng's marriage also rushed over from all over the country, whether it was Song Yingjun, the sword king who had a cooperative relationship between the Eastern Wei Dynasty and the Donghai Mansion, or the Kang Wang Ji Gou, or some businessmen in the Southern Zhou Dynasty, even if they could not come in person, they also sent representatives to attend the wedding.

Su Ziheng knew in his heart that they had come to congratulate him on his wedding this time, not entirely for this kind of thing, but also for his smooth return from the Western Continent.

They heard that the Donghai Province was forming an ocean-going trading fleet, and they also wanted to get a piece of the pie.

For Su Ziheng, he is also happy to see this situation, and only by letting everyone join in can trade be more prosperous.

What's more, Su Ziheng can also get a lot of benefits in it, first of all, these caravans have to organize fleets to set off, at present, only the shipyards of Donghai Mansion can make treasure ships up to 100 meters in size, and if they only sell ships, Donghai Mansion can make a lot of money.

Secondly, only Su Ziheng had the safe passage through the East Continent to the endless sea of the West Continent, and if they wanted the fleet of the East China Sea Mansion to lead the way, they would at least have to teach a lot of tolls.

Third, in order to develop Zhenbao Island, Su Ziheng decided to build a large port on Zhenbao Island, which became the starting point from the East Continent to the West Continent. In this way, it can invisibly drive the rapid development of Zhenbao Island.

At Zhao Wan'er's suggestion, all the treasure ships produced by the Donghai Fu Shipyard in the first five years will not be sold, and all will be left to Donghai Fu to develop its own fleet.

Merchants who want to trade in the Western Continent can only rent a place from the fleet of the East China Sea Province first, or lease the entire sea ship, but they can't buy a ship, and even the captain and crew of the sea ship are all from the East China Sea Province. In this way, you can use the money of those merchants to train your own crew.

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After a month of preparation, the wedding of Zhong Qinghan, the princess of Donghai County, and Su Ziheng, the head of the government, was finally held on the auspicious day of December 12.

It is reported that there are a total of three brides in this wedding, which has aroused the curiosity of countless people. Many of the guests and residents who have recently moved to Tokai Province are speculating about who the other two brides are. You can actually marry the same husband with the owner of Donghai Mansion.

At the same time, as the biggest winner of this wedding, Su Ziheng attracted the envy and jealousy of countless people.

Marrying three talented and beautiful brides at one time, any bride taken out alone, will make people feel that they are lucky to be able to marry three lives, let alone three at the same time.

Originally, some old people in the Princess Mansion and the Zhong Mansion in Donghai County felt that they were very unworthy of their young lady, and thought that they should not let their uncle marry three at the same time on this day. Of course, they didn't want to object to their uncle Su Ziheng marrying the other two brides, they just felt that it was normal for this to be held behind their eldest lady, but in desperation, Zhong Qinghan ruled out objections and insisted that the wedding of the three be held together.

The main purpose of her doing this is to tell everyone that she does not mean to dominate Su Ziheng, let alone let herself be pressed on their heads, but everyone is on an equal footing.

Zhong Qinghan didn't want to make Su Ziheng's house restless because of this trivial matter, not to mention that they had already had a division of labor, everyone would not live together, and they all had their own homes.

And the other most important reason that prompted Zhong Qinghan to make this decision is that after more than a year, the witch cult, which has been silent underground, has finally officially appeared and began to make waves in the four major countries.

Especially in Great Xia, after a year, under the leadership of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yao Fusu, the rebellious Chu King Yao Chengzhi was defeated and retreated, and when they were about to be completely suppressed, the people of the Witch Cult began to rebel in the territory of Great Xia, and colluded with the King of Chu.

It is precisely because of this that Zhong Qinghan and Su Ziheng have a sense of foreboding, and the wedding is held together this time in order to be able to end a major event between them, and then they must go all out to deal with the upcoming chaos.

Originally, Su Ziheng planned to use the opportunity of this big wedding to see if he could uproot the people who came to make trouble from the witch sect, but to his surprise, the wedding was held very smoothly, and there was no one who took the opportunity to make trouble and sabotage as he imagined.

As a result, he arranged for the Black Crow Army to make all kinds of preparations in vain, forming a situation of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside, but it did not come in handy.

Compared with Su Ziheng's slightly disappointed mood, Zhong Qinghan, Zhao Wan'er and Bo Yalun's mood were much better. Although they also want to take the opportunity to pull out some nails of the witch cult, they prefer that their wedding can be held peacefully, no matter what, if the big wedding of a lifetime is ruined, it will still be very regrettable.

After the wedding, the Tokai Prefecture began to prepare for foreign investment, forming the first large fleet to go to the Western Continent.

During Su Ziheng's absence, the Donghaifu Shipyard built four more giant treasure ships, and at the same time purchased many smaller fortune ships from the Southern Zhou Dynasty, which was enough to form a large fleet of more than 30 large fortune ships, led by five giant treasure ships.

It just so happens that the sea is quite calm in winter, which is suitable for them to set off, and when they arrive at the Western Continent, it is the beginning of summer, and they can stay in the Western Continent for three or four months, and after the violent summer, they will return to the East China Sea Mansion in the autumn, and they are expected to return to the East China Sea Mansion in winter.

The entire ocean voyage is expected to take a year, which will be much slower than Su Ziheng's last exploration voyage, the main reason is that it is impossible to install steam engines on those ships, which will cause the speed of the ship to slow down.

However, Su Ziheng didn't care about this time, as long as he could arrive smoothly, he thought that it would be more cost-effective to supply it to construction sites and various workshops than to install the steam engine on the sea ship and not expand the production capacity at present.

So far, Su Ziheng has completed some layouts of Donghai Mansion, Zhenbao Island and Wa Island, and the next step is stable development, and at the same time, the possibility of outward expansion must be considered.

Because now Daxia is also like the Eastern Wei Dynasty, all parts of the country are in chaos, the territory that the imperial court can directly control is getting smaller and smaller, the west is occupied by the Mengyuan Empire, and the central Chu land has fallen into the hands of the King of Chu and the Wu Sect, and the current turmoil has spread to the south of the Yangtze River, and even the prefect of Jiangning Mansion has sent a signal to the Donghai Mansion for help, hoping that the Donghai Mansion can send a large army to help solve the rebellion of the Wu cultists in the jurisdiction.

In this regard, Su Ziheng, Zhong Qinghan and others made a prudent decision after some discussion and sent troops to aid Jiangning Mansion.