By the time Su Ziheng rushed back to Donghai Mansion, it was already the third day of the Lunar New Year. Although the time is a little late, he can still accompany his family to spend a good old age. For people in this era, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the Lantern Festival, it is considered the New Year, as long as it is not rushed back after the Lantern Festival, it is not considered to have missed the New Year.

After returning to Donghai Mansion, someone in the fleet will naturally arrange it, and all the things collected this time will be put into the warehouse of Donghai Mansion, and they will be sorted and processed when the time comes.

Precious metals such as gold, silver, and copper are sent to banks in Tokai Prefecture to be remade into gold, silver, and copper coins, or melted down into gold and silver ingots and stored.

As for other antiques and cherished playthings, calligraphy and paintings, etc., when the time comes, they will wait for the merchant ships of the Southern Zhou Dynasty to come over and see if they need them, and then dispose of them to them, or sell them for money, or exchange them for various raw materials.

Now in the whole continent, only the Southern Zhou Dynasty has not yet broken out into war, and the society is relatively stable, and their merchants will continue to buy these antiques and playthings. Others, like the Mengyuan Empire, are at war with Great Xia on the one hand, and on the other hand, the Great Khan Meng Ke and the Right Xian King in China are also fighting, and they will not buy this kind of thing that can be seen or eaten.

What's more, Donghai Mansion did not trade with the Mengyuan Empire at all, it was too far apart, and the Mengyuan Empire's shipping was not good, so it was impossible to build such a large sea ship to travel far to trade with Donghai Empire.

As for Donghai Prefecture's own shipping capacity, it is not bad, otherwise it would be impossible for Su Ziheng to lead the navy to sweep pirates in the North Sea. The point is that Su Ziheng didn't bother to send a fleet to trade with Meng Yuan's people at all.

That's a bunch of bitter herdsmen, and how much money can they make from them? If you have the time and energy, it is better to send a fleet to the sea several times to carry out ocean-going trade, such as going to the Japanese country or the South Seas, and pull a shipload of goods over at will, and you can bring back a shipload of gold and silver treasures.

Su Ziheng had already inquired through Dong Yuan Yu that there was a mountain of silver rich in minerals in the Japanese country, but their technology was not good enough to mine too much silver. In this way, the ratio of silver prices and copper coins in the Wa Kingdom is also much lower than that of the Donghai Prefecture, and many merchants only need to go to the Wa Kingdom to exchange copper coins for silver, and they can make a lot of money.

It's a pity that for a profiteer like Su Ziheng, he is naturally unwilling to exchange copper coins for silver, and copper coins are also a good thing for him, so why should he exchange them for Japanese people? He wanted to trade porcelain, tea, silk and other goods, so that he could not only sell the goods produced in his Tokai Province, but also earn a lot of foreign exchange.

As for the counteroffensive and development of the Japanese Kingdom, he will not be able to spare his hands for the time being, and he will not do it until the East China Sea Mansion is completely stabilized. Regarding Su Ziheng's decision, Dong Yuanyu said that she could understand.

Originally, Great Xia was only at war with Meng Yuan in the west, because the war was thousands of miles away from Donghai Province, and it did not affect the trade between Donghai Province and Great Xia.

However, Yao Chengzhi, the king of Chu, suddenly rebelled with cavalry, and immediately cut off the land connection between Donghai Mansion and the capital Chang'an.

On the one hand, he sent troops to the west to block the army of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yao Fusu, and on the other hand, he began to send troops to attack Jiangnan and other places, wanting to lay more territory and loot grain and money at the same time.

The rebellion of Yao Chengzhi, the king of Chu, was also a temporary decision, and he did not follow his original plan, so many places were not very well prepared. If he didn't have a lot of money to stimulate his soldiers to rebel with him, his army would not be able to resist the conquest of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yao Fusu.

The king of Chu launched an attack on Jiangnan and other places, which was an unwarranted disaster for the people in the state capitals of Jiangnan. As a result, many large families fled with their families, trying to stay away from the place where the battlefield was located.

At this time, many merchants who had trade with Donghai Mansion in the past thought of Donghai Mansion, and they knew that Donghai Mansion was still 800 miles away from Jiangnan, and even if the army of Yao Chengzhi, the king of Chu, was strong, it would be impossible to fight Donghai Mansion for a while.

The other Donghai Mansion is still nominally under the jurisdiction of Great Xia, and their family moved to Donghai Mansion, which is not considered treason, and no matter who wins or loses this war, at least they can repay the lives of the whole family.

Zhong Qinghan received applications from many merchants in Jiangnan who wanted to move their families, and she naturally did not refuse to come, saying that no matter who wanted to come, as long as they abided by the laws and regulations of Donghai Prefecture, Donghai Mansion would welcome it.

For Zhong Qinghan, this is a very good thing. First of all, the arrival of these merchants wants to buy a house to live in, and the other wants to eat, which can bring a lot of income to Donghai Province.

Secondly, there is an invisible benefit, that is, these merchants and some large families have good tutors on weekdays, and the children of the family have gone to school, and their knowledge is extraordinary, which is a small talent.

At present, what Donghai Prefecture lacks most is all kinds of talents, whether it is the talents in the management of the government or the trade talents in business.

In the past, the main business talents in Donghai Mansion were the people of the Zhao Firm, but with the gradual prosperity of the commercial trade of the Donghai Mansion, the Zhao Firm's people were not enough at all, and it was also a great good thing to suddenly add so many people to come in this time.

In addition, the arrival of those large families usually dragged their families with them, and at the same time, they also brought a lot of population to Donghai Prefecture, which suddenly caused the permanent population of Donghai Mansion to surge, breaking through the upper limit of 130,000 and beginning to approach in the direction of 150,000.

What does 150,000 people mean? At this time, there were only so many people in some large state capitals.

In addition to the fact that many people in Great Xia migrated to Donghai Mansion, many people also migrated from Eastern Wei.

In previous years, in winter, due to food shortages and cold weather, many anti-kings would have a truce and rectification. However, this year, the sword king Song Yingjun and Kang Wang Ji Gou purchased a lot of food and weapons from Donghai Mansion, and they planned to take advantage of this rare opportunity to launch an attack on other anti-kings around them, but they were also caught off guard for a while and captured a lot of territory.

Then they used the money and people they had looted to continue trading with the Tokai Province, constantly buying food and weapons.

This time, they not only bought cold weapons, knives, guns, bows and arrows eliminated by the Donghai Prefecture Navy Army and the Black Crow Army, but even offered to buy muskets.

Because Su Ziheng hadn't come back yet, Zhong Qinghan didn't agree to the proposal to purchase muskets for the time being, because she couldn't figure out whether selling muskets would be a good thing or a bad thing for her.

The most important thing is that the army of Donghai Province has not yet fully popularized muskets, and there are still some naval forces that still use cold weapons such as knives and guns.