The completion of the Martyrs' Shrine is equivalent to a needle in the hearts of the Ming soldiers.

No one wants to go down in history, and no one wants to be nailed to the pillar of shame.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are fighting more and more loyally.

Moreover, throughout the country, more and more people are joining the army.

In the past, it was extremely difficult to recruit soldiers everywhere, unless life could not be carried out. Otherwise, there would not be an old saying that a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail.

However, this situation has now been completely reversed.

Being a soldier not only has good benefits, but also can take military merits, and has the opportunity to leap into the dragon gate. Even if he dies in battle, his family can live without worry, and he can go down in history.

Even, many scholars have begun to join the army.

In the past, such a situation would have been absolutely impossible. The poor family studied hard, all in order to leave a name on the list and see all the Chang'an flowers. Once you get fame, you will be out of the bottom and high up. Be proud to be an official.

Now, it has become a soldier for one person, and the whole family is glorious.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the entire Ming army has also been greatly improved. After all, literate and literate are faster at learning tactics and executing tactics.

A great man once said that an army without culture is an army of fools.

And Chongzhen, when he saw this sentence in the system, naturally remembered it in his heart. It also began, in the army, to arrange people to teach culture and teach soldiers to read. Those who study in the army become the best teachers. And these people also have a title: instructors!

The war to exterminate the rebels in the west is in full swing, and good news is frequent.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others have been defeated and retreated, and they have retreated into the mountains, and they are struggling, but they are also grasshoppers after the autumn, and they can't jump for a few days.

The combat effectiveness of the peasant army was always limited.

In the past, the reason why Li Zicheng and others were able to defeat and fight again and again was because there were too many displaced people in the world, and they could easily replenish their troops.

However, this is no longer the case. Chongzhen inventoried the land, and everyone had land.

Everyone saw hope, and naturally no one wanted to rebel.

Even, many rebels secretly left the rebels, re-emerged as refugees, moved to other places, and ascended the throne and were allocated fields.

Slowly, Li Zicheng and other anti-thief leaders found that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around them, and even, sometimes the scouts sent out fled and went home to farm.

At this time, they reacted, but unfortunately it was over, and they were at the end of the road.

In addition, the nationwide land inventory is also progressing very smoothly.

The north has long been beaten to pieces, and has been robbed many times by Li Zicheng and other anti-thieves, and those squires and landlords have been killed, and their land is naturally ownerless and has become state-owned land.

In Jiangnan, Li Yan used a little trickery to get eighty or ninety percent of the land from the hands of the officials and gentry, and these lands were more than the land owned by the ordinary people before, which shows how greedy these officials and squires were when they annexed land. No wonder the people rebelled if they couldn't survive.

Of course, the whole process of land inventory was not without resistance. However, as soon as the Shenji camp came out, the red lady rode out, and there were people rolling behind her. In addition, now that the soldiers are treated well, the military is in aspiration, even if many generals themselves are big landlords, they dare not rebel, because the soldiers under them will not follow them to rebel at all. If they rebelled, they might have their heads cut off by the guards that night when they slept that night.

Li Yan led his army from Jiangnan to the south, Jiangxi, Hunan and Fujian, and finally ran into trouble.

Some people are dissatisfied with the inventory of land, and it is the opposite!

If it was in the past, the Red Lady rode out on an iron horse, and the Shenji Battalion was invincible and unbeatable.

However, this time, they were helpless.

Because, the other party is not in love with war at all, and directly fled overseas.

This person is Zheng Zhilong, the governor of Fujian.

Zheng Zhilong does not have many records in history, but his son is famous and famous in history. That is Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Zhilong believed in Catholicism, and when he was young, he followed the Dutch and went to Japan, where he married and had children.

Later, Zheng Zhilong's family was in a dilemma, so he colluded with the Japanese Japanese pirates, returned to the Central Plains, and plundered the people on the southeast coast.

Zheng Zhilong is originally from Fuzhou, and he is very familiar with the situation on the southeast coast.

Gradually, Zheng Zhilong himself recruited a team of men and became the biggest pirate on the southeast coast. He was ruthless, and when he plundered, he did not leave a living mouth, and he was more vicious than the Japanese robbers.

However, this person is extremely cunning, and Da Ming has no choice but to Zhao'an against him.

Zheng Zhilong, who accepted Zhao'an, relied on the wealth accumulated as a pirate to bribe officials, and at the same time secretly robbed civilians, disguised as a Japanese invader to wantonly collect wealth, plus, he himself knew the Japanese very well, and he really caught some Japanese and won several battles.

Such a means actually allowed him to climb to the position of the governor and the governor, which is equivalent to the head of a military region.

It can be said that Fujian is what Zheng Zhilong said, and if he refuses to accept it, he will be killed by the "Japanese robbers" that night.

And the Zheng family, in Fujian, also became the landlord of the land, wantonly annexed land, collected wealth, and made people angry.

This time, Li Yan came to Fujian to clear the land of the Zheng family, and asked the Zheng family to learn from the officials in Jiangnan and donate half of the family property, which is undoubtedly to cut Zheng Zhilong's meat!

Zheng Zhilong has been powerful in Fujian for many years, where can he endure it?

That night, Li Yan encountered an assassination, if it weren't for the protection of the Shenji Battalion, maybe he would have really been captured by the other party.

In this way, Zheng Zhilong directly reversed.

However, Zheng Zhilong didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the Shenji Battalion was too powerful, and the Zheng family was not an opponent at all. At first, he was beaten and retreated.

However, Li Yan also ignored one point, Zheng Zhilong is different from others, Zheng Zhilong was born as a pirate, and if he couldn't win, he ran away and retreated directly to the sea.

In the face of the vast sea, the Shenji Battalion is also helpless, and it has empty combat effectiveness but cannot give full play.

On the contrary, Zheng Zhilong also led pirates, rushing up from time to time to plunder, and the coastline was too long to be guarded against. Li Yan was physically and mentally exhausted from being harassed, so he could only ask Chongzhen for help.

In Li Yan's opinion, Chongzhen will definitely have a way to solve it. Chongzhen has long been in their hearts and has become an omnipotent existence.

It's just that they don't know that it's not Chongzhen who is omnipotent, but the system.

Chongzhen saw the secret letter sent by Li Yan, and he was also big for a while. The Ming Navy can be described as the river is declining, and it can't even be described as the river coming down, it is simply the river running out of water.

In the past, the warship of the Ming Dynasty was a great weapon, Zheng He went to the South Seas to promote the national prestige of the Ming Dynasty and shock the world.

However, later the Ming Dynasty imposed a ban on the sea, not to mention the navy, and even the ships were dismantled as firewood. Otherwise, where did the mere widows have the courage to rob the Ming Dynasty?

Therefore, Chongzhen can only turn to the system for help.