Gou was a member of the imperial family in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 190 Confidence
"Tana and the child are up to you, but I have only one request."

"you say!"

Zhu Shenzhui said to Asitimur with a serious expression: "You can arrange these things in your own way, whether it is the arrangements within the tribe, or pulling me on board your ship to get support for the tribe from the Ming Dynasty, etc. I can understand all these practices. But there is only one thing you need to guarantee me, and that is the absolute safety of Tana and the child!"

"That won't be a problem..." Ashe Temur replied.

But before he could finish his words, Zhu Shenzhui interrupted him and said, "Abu, what I need is an absolute guarantee, not this kind of ambiguous answer. You know that I am a very easy person to talk to, but you don't know that I can be very difficult to talk to sometimes."

"We Ming people have a saying, 'A dragon has a reverse scale, whoever touches it will die; a phoenix has a hollow neck, whoever violates it will die! To me, Tana and the child are my reverse scale and hollow neck. Once my bottom line is touched, I can do anything."

"Although the grassland is vast, it has boundaries. Although the world is vast, there is no place to stand! Back then, our ancestor sent General Lan Yulan to lead troops deep into the northern desert and capture the emperor and empress of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. No one in the entire Mongolian tribe could stop them. Although I am not General Lan, and I don't have his reputation, your tribe is not the Northern Yuan Dynasty back then, right?"

When Zhu Shenzui said this, Ashi Temur felt a chill all over his body. This was the first time that Zhu Shenzui showed such domineering and sharpness in front of him without any concealment.

Ashe Temur was a little dazed for a moment. He even saw great determination and cruelty in Zhu Shenzui's eyes. If anything really happened to Tana and Tenger in the tribe, Zhu Shenzui would probably do anything.

Ashil Timur has lived a lifetime and has seen many people. He has a better grasp of people's hearts than ordinary people. He judged that Zhu Shencui was definitely not bragging. If it really came to that, even if he was Tana's father and Zhu Shencui's father-in-law, Zhu Shencui would not give him any chance.

"God of Heaven, I, Ashil Timur, promise you today! Tana and Tenger will never be harmed in any way. Even if I die, my son and the children's uncle, Hadan Bater, will do this!" Ashil Timur straightened his face, raised his left hand and solemnly swore in a low voice. After he said this, Zhu Shenzui, who had been cold as ice just now, showed a bright smile on his face, as if those threatening words just now did not come from his mouth at all.

"This old fox!" With Ashi Temur's assurance, Zhu Shenzhui was completely relieved. When Ashi Temur said today that he wanted to make Tenger a centurion and that Tana would be in actual control, Zhu Shenzhui knew what the old guy was planning.

The scenes that happened next further confirmed Zhu Shenzhui's guess that the old fox Ashil Timur did this to kill three birds with one stone, and his calculations were louder than anyone else.

Firstly, he wanted to win over Zhu Shenzhui through this matter and show Zhu Shenzhui enough sincerity. Once he accepted Tengger's offer to be a centurion, his connection with the tribe would not be as simple as just that between him and Tana and his wife.

His eldest son has become a real noble of the tribe, and a noble centurion with real power. So as a father, he must take care of the tribe no matter what? Just as Zhu Shenzhu said, pulling himself into the tribe and becoming a real "family" is definitely not a bad thing for Ashe Timur and the tribe.

Secondly, the tribe’s actual hundred households were not common, and the tribe where Ashitemur belonged was not a big tribe like Khorchin.

A portion of the power was given away, nominally in Tenger's hands, but actually controlled by Tana. Tana had always had a good relationship with Hadan Bater, and coupled with the deep friendship between Burigude and others and Zhu Shencui, it was equivalent to getting a future helper for the heir of the tribe.

If something unexpected happened to him that day and Ashi Temur did not have time to arrange the inheritance of the tribe according to his wishes, then this advance arrangement would come into play. With Tana and even Zhu Shenzui's full support for Hadan Bater, there would not be too many problems in the transfer of power in the tribe.

As for the third, it was to warn and admonish the other two sons, namely, Xurigan and Galiba. In Ashe Temur's mind, he knew very well what kind of people his two sons were. Xurigan was simple-minded and irritable, and Galiba was smart but petty. These two were not good heirs at all, but they were a little arrogant. They were respectful to their eldest brother Hadanbaatar on the surface, but they were very dissatisfied in their hearts, and they had been secretly calculating.

The second brother, Xurigan, is better. He has a straightforward personality and it is not difficult to suppress him.

What Ashe Temur was most worried about was his youngest son, Galiba. This guy looked honest, but he was always narrow-minded since he was a child. He was like a poisonous snake hiding in the corner. He would hide quietly when you were not paying attention, but once you were careless, he would suddenly jump out and bite you hard.

The person who confronted Ashitemur today was Xurigan, but in fact, Galiba was behind him, but he was very covert and careful. After he started to instigate, he never said a word. Everyone's attention was attracted to the second brother Xurigan. But Ashitemur could not hide the third brother's tricks. He saw it all and knew it clearly in his heart.

Ashitemur made this arrangement after careful consideration. He also communicated with the tribal elders privately before announcing it and obtained their support.

In this way, he could weaken the influence of his two sons in the tribe and reduce future risks to a minimum. More importantly, he could make them shift their attention from Hadan Bater to Zhu Shenzhui, which was also one of Asitemur's intentions.

Zhu Shenzhui saw all of this. The reason why he didn't say anything or refuse, and even watched the development of the game without saying a word, was because he saw everything clearly.

In Zhu Shenzhu's mind, the so-called utilization is actually nothing. As long as a person can be utilized, doesn't it mean that he is valuable?

Zhu Shenzui didn't care that the other party was taking advantage of him, Tana, and even a breastfeeding baby. The most fundamental thing was what benefits such taking advantage could bring to himself.

The cooperation between himself and the tribe was actually a win-win situation. For a long time afterwards, the tribe was also very important to Zhu Shencui. If he wanted to obtain long-term and stable benefits from the grassland, cooperating with the tribe was the best choice, and the current development situation also proved that his choice was right.

In this case, when the tribe used him, he was also using the tribe. Moreover, his wife and children had obtained the real power of a hundred households from Ashi Temur. Adding the tribal population that Tana already had, these were enough for Tana and himself to take the influence of the tribe to a higher level.

In addition, with the support of Ashi Temur, Hadan Bater, Burigude and others, Zhu Shenzhui's voice in the tribe will increase greatly in the future. Apart from other things, this benefit alone is enough to repay his own efforts.

Ashe Temur also said that if Zhu Shenzhu needed the tribe one day, the tribe would do something for him. This was also the key point that really moved Zhu Shenzhu. Although Ashe Temur's tribe was not big, it was not small either.

The entire tribe has about three to four thousand Mongolian cavalrymen who can fight. Don't underestimate these three to four thousand cavalrymen. They are the real elite Mongolian cavalrymen in the tribe who are good at fighting. If the old and weak are included, the number will double.

The Ming Dynasty was extremely short of cavalry. Apart from the cavalry units outside the nine borders, the Ming Dynasty's most elite cavalry was in Liaodong.

Now most of Liaodong has fallen into the hands of the Later Jin, and the previous cavalry has either been defeated or dispersed. The future famous Guanning Iron Cavalry is nowhere to be seen. Even when the future Guanning Iron Cavalry is at its peak, its total number of soldiers is only 30,000.

These 30,000 people are said to be the total number of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, but according to the actual situation, 30,000 is not enough at all. Even if the father and son of the Wu family take less of the vacant quota, it is estimated that there will be no more than 25,000 people.

Among these 25,000 people, there were not many real Guanning Iron Cavalry. The core elite was only about 3,000, and at the peak, it would never exceed 5,000. The rest were just ordinary cavalrymen who were called Guanning Iron Cavalry, or even infantrymen who could barely ride horses.

From these, we can see what it means to have three or four thousand elite Mongolian cavalrymen. If such a cavalry unit with strong combat effectiveness is in Zhu Shenzhu's hands, what role can it play at a critical moment? It is conceivable.

The olive branch that Ashe Temur took the initiative to extend was extremely tempting, and Zhu Shencui would never refuse it. This was also one of the important reasons why Zhu Shencui finally agreed to Ashe Temur. He had to admit that his old fox father-in-law had a unique vision and had noticed some of Zhu Shencui's ideas.

Zhu Shenzhui was not worried about this at all. He was aware of it, but what he did was in his own hands. It would take a long time to see how the future would develop.

Ashe Temur acted quickly, and the next day he officially announced Tenger's appointment as a centurion in front of the tribe. At the same time, Ashe Temur also allocated people and cattle from the tribe, all of which were under Tenger's name. These people and cattle plus the amount owned by Tana before, this way, Tana's strength in the tribe has surpassed her other brothers, and except for Ashe Temur, she is second only to her eldest brother Hadan Bater.

(End of this chapter)