The elders knew very well that if they completely lost the support of their clansmen, they would be nothing.

While the social structure of the Great River Nomads was still in place, the elders could control all the clansmen with the power in their hands, with tradition and a certain degree of violence.

But after Zuan and the Picheng people entered Kumangu, the elders found their power in their hands...... Nothing.

Whether it's Zu'an's joint defense team or Picheng's security team, it seems that neither of them is easy to mess with.

There were also elders who tried to send their men to capture those "bastards who had betrayed tradition", but when they faced the prepared Picheng and Zuan, they directly ran into a bloody bloodstream.

After several defeats, the elders also realized the disparity in force between the two sides.

Hard doesn't work...... Then come to the soft one!

After gathering together and discussing for a long time, the elders finally found a breakthrough.

"The Great River Nomads can't leave their history behind!"

"We can't let the river nomads become rootless!"

"When the Great River Nomads are fully integrated into Phi Cheng/Zuan, they will lose their original selves."

That's right, after discovering that violence was ineffective, the elders finally raised the banner of populism.

You don't care if our traditions are backward or not – they are our roots, our ancestors.

To forget one's own history is to betray oneself in the harshest form!

Don't mention it, when the elders changed their tone, there were really a lot of river nomads affected.

Ethnic integration is a complicated affair – especially in the midst of such a turbulent wave, and many river nomads who have left their tribes find that joining Zaun/Picheng may not be as good as they feel.

Once some habits are formed, it is not easy to change.

And more importantly, it was the profit that drove the merchants to enter Kumanggu in the first place, and now it is also for the sake of profit, they have begun to consciously squeeze the river nomads.

In this case, many people are starting to feel nostalgic for the past, the carefree days of the past - maybe the standard of living was not as good as it is now, but at least it was better to be at ease......

The elders raised the banner of narrow nationalism and finally regained the support of many people, who had been oppressed by the Zuan or Picheng people, or simply found themselves uncompetitive, and the river nomads of all stripes began to pursue the traditions of the past once again.

Under these circumstances, the conflict between the river nomads and the outsiders finally began to gradually intensify.

This is what the elders want to see—for them, once people are focused on the confrontation between different peoples, then they can take advantage of this opportunity to rebuild a new order.

The idea of the elders was actually quite good, and they even had a lot of success at one point - under the banner of the same people, they carried out a pretended "evolutionary reform", abolished some of the unreasonable traditions of the past, and then established new rules in the form of law.

In the process, the elders pretended to be reformers, hiding their self-seeking exploits under a high-sounding façade – and many unknown members of the Great River Wanderers were deceived by them into joining their banner.

And in the face of this situation, Triste, who had been drinking for almost half a year, finally made a move.

With the help of Rod's power, Trist soon pulled up a new force of his own - the New Great River Nomads.

Compared to the reforms of the Elders, Trist's slogan is obviously more precise and clear, and he clearly states that he wants to abandon the mistakes of the past and establish a kingdom belonging to the great river nomads in the Python River Valley.

At the same time, Trist also directly pierced the faces of the elders - during half a year, with the help of his elusive spatial ability, Trist also collected a lot of black material from the elders while drinking, and when this information was completely made public, the prestige of the elders plummeted!

After almost a year of turmoil, the River Nomads discover that the Elders have never been kind, they have only temporarily put away their ugly faces, trying to gain their trust by deception—in this case, Trist soon becomes the new hero of the River Nomads!

The elders began to try to dig up Trist's black material, only to reveal that Trist had been exiled by the elders when he was young for resisting attacks on his family by outsiders, and the results finally spread and the elders finally suffered the heaviest blow.

The elders who kept saying "for the sake of the river wanderers" were originally rulers who exiled their fellow tribes for the sake of outsiders; And Trist, as a new hero who has been away from home for many years and "cares about the clan", naturally won more cheers and support.

More importantly, with Rhodes' support, Trist participated in meetings with Ike and Camille on an equal footing, and signed the "Joint Development Treaty for the Great River Wanderers of the Kumangu Jungle Zaun Piltover".

For the first time, this treaty, known simply as the "Treaty of Kuda Zupi", demarcated the scope of development of the Python River basin in the ancient jungle of Kumang in the form of a written treaty, and formulated a series of practical development plans.

According to the Treaty of Kuda Zupi, the three parties will uphold the principle of full cooperation, equality and reciprocity, and start the special development of the Python River basin in the ancient jungle of Kumang, and the three parties will turn this area that was once a Zyra Garden into a comprehensive development base under relatively fair conditions.

According to the plan, the unique resources such as tree resources, dye resources, and medicinal resources of the Kumang Ancient Jungle will be equally open to the three parties, and Picheng and Zu'an also need to open up the technologies needed for development to the river nomads to truly achieve win-win cooperation......

After the treaty was signed, people suddenly found out...... It seems that all three parties have earned.

Picheng and Zaun got a new material base, and also got a new money-making project; The river nomads, on the other hand, have divided some of their untapped resources in exchange for advanced technology, and even promoted the progress of their own social structure......

The only ones who seem to have lost are the former elders of the River Wanderers—who have lost their authority and their roots among the tribes.

Although Trist didn't choose to liquidate these guys, they had almost exhausted their own money in their previous activities (although the elders had been exploiting the entire tribe, and the answer was due to the level of the tribe itself, they hadn't exploited much), and their future was bleak.

And in this case, the elders, who had lost everything, ended up taking a desperate gamble.