The turmoil that affected the four countries lasted for five years, and the four major powers of the entire Eastern Continent and even many small countries in the Western Regions did not escape this impact.

It can be said that it is full of devastation, as far as the eye can see, there is no one for hundreds of miles, the village does not hear the sound of chickens and dogs, even if there are occasional figures, most of them are women, children, old and young, and there are hardly a few strong men to be seen, because as long as they are caught, they are all sent to the army, waiting for battle.

In the course of successive wars, almost all the forces have been fighting for years, except for the army that has become stronger and stronger, and the number of people has increased, and all other economic construction, trade exchanges, and agricultural harvests have almost all stagnated, and even plummeted compared with before the war.

There is only one force that excepts, and that is Tokai Province. In the past five years of the war, Donghai Prefecture not only trained a strong army of nearly 100,000 people, but also occupied many surrounding territories.

The Jiangnan Territory and the Chu Land, which originally belonged to Great Xia, were also captured by the army of Donghai Prefecture, and Yao Chengzhi, the king of Chu, was also captured by the Black Crow Army and handed over to Yao Fusu, the prince of Great Xia.

Although more than ten state capitals in Jiangnan and Chu are actually controlled by Donghai Mansion, the nominal ruler is not Zhong Qinghan, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Yao Fusu.

Perhaps at this moment, he can no longer be called His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but should be Emperor Xia. A year ago, under the fierce attack of Temujin, the god of war of the Mengyuan Empire, Yao Chengde, the martial emperor of Great Xia, stubbornly defended the capital Chang'an and did not retreat, and sent His Royal Highness the crown prince and many officials of the imperial court to Jiangnan, but he himself died in Chang'an.

In the same year, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in Jiangning Mansion, changed Jiangning Mansion to Lin'an, and vowed not to forget the national shame and to lead the army back to Chang'an.

On the one hand, the Black Crow Army helped to defend the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time, it also helped Emperor Yao of Xia to train his troops. Relying on the strong support of Donghai Prefecture, the remnants of the Great Xia Army quickly gathered and formed a new army, and the Xia Emperor Yao Fusu personally served as the commander of the new army, and began to subdue the surrounding counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and resumed agricultural production in Lin'an, the rear.

After the various state capitals in the south of the Yangtze River, which were supposed to belong to Donghai Prefecture, were taken over by Yao Fusu, Su Ziheng shifted his target to Eastern Wei.

At this moment, many territories near the Great River have been occupied by the Witch Cult, and the Sword King Song Yingjun and King Kang Ji Gou barely hold on to their territory with the support of the Donghai Mansion, but they are no longer able to expand outward.

Speaking of which, they are only the forces of the two kings, where can they stop the witchcraft army of the Five Kings Alliance?

After five years of war, the Eastern Wei Dynasty has now formed four forces, the most powerful of which is the Witch Sect, or the Holy Religion. Now the leader of the witch cult has established the country and proclaimed himself the holy emperor.

The second is the coalition army of the sword king Song Yingjun and the king of Kang, who have collected several anti-king armies, and barely want to compete with the army of the Holy Kingdom.

The third force is Donghai Mansion, the crow army landed from Haizhou in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, borrowed from the territory of King Kang Jigou, and included all the major state capitals along the road near the river into their sphere of influence. At this time, the Great River was no longer the natural dividing line between Great Xia and the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but became the inland river of Great Xia.

The last force is the various anti-kings who have been scattered by the witch cult, some of them have not surrendered to the holy kingdom, and at the same time they have not united, each occupying the mountain as the king, dividing one side, and barely surviving in the cracks.

If it weren't for the Holy Country's plan to take down the Donghai Mansion and the Sword King and their alliance army first, these scattered small forces in the cracks would have been wiped out long ago, where could they survive until now?

At this moment, Nanzhou has lost its former calm, and now it is also falling apart. Because the Southern Zhou Dynasty was far away from Donghai Mansion, it was inconvenient for Su Ziheng to send the army over directly, but he did not give up on Southern Zhou, but chose to support one of the forces, which was also the closest alliance of several large chambers of commerce between Southern Zhou and Donghai Mansion in the past.

With the support of Donghai Prefecture, they controlled all parts of Nanping Prefecture near the South China Sea, forming a situation in which they could attack and retreat. For a while, the people of the Holy Kingdom of the Witch Cult were helpless against them, and they had to form a stalemate.

For Su Ziheng, these measures are just some chess pieces to play at will, to prevent himself from having no control on the mainland, and one of the main purposes is to provide a steady stream of population sources to Donghai Mansion through these firmly controlled forces.

Nowadays, people in almost every part of the Eastern Continent know that as long as they can reach these areas smoothly, they will be able to contact the people of Tokai Province and move to Tokai Province for refuge.

After five or six years of development, Zhenbao Island has now been developed for the most part, and the previously empty places can now be populated everywhere. It truly turns Treasure Island into a paradise in the East China Sea.

With the gradual increase in population, Tokai Province has made great progress in various aspects such as industry and agriculture, as well as commerce and education.

Because there is a trip to the Western Continent every year, the goods produced in the workshops of the East China Sea Mansion do not have to worry about not being able to sell at all, as long as the fleet comes back from the West Continent, it can bring back a large amount of gold and silver treasures and various raw materials, which is enough for the East China Sea Mansion to consume for ten years.

Because of the continuous melee between the four countries, the Tokai Prefecture can only gradually encroach on the territory occupied on the mainland, never blindly expanding, let alone starting a war lightly.

After Jiangnan Mansion helped Daxia train the new army, many crow troops were idle, and Su Ziheng ordered these crow troops to start an expedition to Wadao and Nanyang.

He counted incorporating these territories into his backyard, not to rule directly, but also to support local forces and let them provide them with all kinds of raw materials.

There are many mines on the island, especially gold and silver mines, which is the most direct reason for attracting Su Ziheng. What's more, now that Donghai Mansion has to go to the western continent to go through Wajima for repair, it is indeed inconvenient if you don't have a piece of your own territory.

So Su Ziheng bought a piece of land with an area of about 100 square kilometers from the territory controlled by the Ashikaga family by supporting the people of the Ashikaga family, and built a city as a supply station for ocean trade.

In addition, the Donghai Prefecture has not stopped its strategy for the South Seas, aiming at the fertile land in the South Seas that can be harvested three times a year.

Su Ziheng controlled those local earth kings and provided them with all kinds of rare playthings, many of which were produced by the Donghai Mansion workshop, and some treasures bought from the Western Continent, so that those natives in Nanyang could grow grain, or high-yield hybrid rice, so that in a year, the harvested grain Donghai Mansion could not be eaten for three years.

At the same time, similar to the practice in the Wa Kingdom, Su Ziheng also bought a piece of his own land and established his own city in the major island countries of Nanyang, the purpose of which was to facilitate the promotion of various goods, and also to facilitate the trading of the natives of Nanyang.

When those natives are accustomed to using all kinds of things produced by Donghai Mansion, they will obediently help Donghai Mansion grow food. In this way, it is far better to use trade control than to send troops to suppress and force them to plant.