Ever since the racial war thousands of years ago, humans had seized control of the continent from the elves. The living space of the other races had been constantly compressed by humans, and now, there was almost no room for survival.
The reason why Elder Elucía chose to cooperate with Xu Yi and supported Xu Yi was that she hoped to find a way to let the elves have a living space through this opportunity of cooperation with Xu Yi.
The previous cooperation with New Flyer allowed Elder Elucía to gradually understand the changes that New Flyer, or more accurately, Xu Yi, brought to the Nightsong tribe. Moreover, it was a positive change that she was happy to see. This made her see the possibility of the elves and humans living together.
Elder Elucía was a very bold and far-sighted elf elder. Since she saw a possibility from Xu Yi and New Flyer, she hoped to increase this possibility.
To be specific, she wanted to deepen the cooperation with Xinfei merchants and let the elves truly integrate into the lives of humans.
In Elder Elucía's opinion, doing business was the most complicated thing in human behavior. It required consideration of countless aspects. The elves had always felt that it was troublesome and even disdained to deal with human relationships. Therefore, after Elder Elucía made up her mind this time, she simply decided to let the tribe conduct their own business.
Directly opening a plastic processing factory was a very good choice.
In the previous cooperation with New Flyer, the Nightsong tribe had basically mastered all the processes of plastic processing. After the special training in New Flyer, the tribe members were no longer as careless as before. In terms of efficiency and quality, they were gradually approaching or even catching up with human workers. Therefore, Elder Elucía was confident in directly opening a plastic processing factory.
For Elder Elucía, this was the first springboard for the elves of the Nightsong tribe to truly integrate into human society.
If this plastic processing factory could establish itself in human society and steadily develop, it meant that the elves had the ability to live together with humans.
And if the humans were willing to accept and adapt to the elves opening a factory and treat the elves like normal humans, then Elder Elucía's goal would be achieved.
Of course, Elder Elucía was very clear that the Nightsong tribe currently didn't have the strength and environment to step into human society and directly open a factory. Therefore, she chose to set the location of the plastic processing factory in the Falling Rain Valley. She wanted to rely on New Flyer to take this first step.
If Xu Yi was an ordinary human merchant's chairman, he would definitely reject this proposal. This was because the Nightsong tribe was only a small contract factory for New Flyer in the past.
For the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it was clear that it was easier to control a factory that didn't have any autonomy. It was also easier for the Frestech Chamber of Commerce to squeeze out the value of the Night Song Tribe elves.
But Xu Yi was different from normal human merchants.
Compared to purely earning money, he cared more about realizing his dreams.
To create a magic machine industrial system with the characteristics of the Sines Continent that was dominated by magic, the elves were a power that couldn't be lacking.
Human magic was originally learned from the Elves. Although the Elves' magic was gradually developed into the complex and powerful magic mastered by the Humans, the Elves were the originators of magic. There were some unique aspects of magic that the Humans couldn't master.
Therefore, Xu Yi had always hoped that the elves could also participate in the magic machine research. Just like the dwarves, they could apply their special knowledge and skills to magic machines and further develop the magic machine industry.
Previously, Xu Yi's attitude towards Elder Elucía was unclear. Therefore, he wanted to wait until their relationship could deepen before slowly bringing up his idea to Elder Elucía.
But now, out of Xu Yi's expectations, Elder Elucía took the initiative to propose to establish a factory and take the initiative to invest in the magic machine industry. Xu Yi naturally welcomed it.
Of course, he understood it better than Elder Elucía.
The elves were extremely bad at interpersonal relationships and didn't have a special understanding of human society. If they really relied on their own strength to establish a chamber of commerce, it would only cause them to break their heads and bleed in the human society that was countless times more complicated than the elven society. There was no possibility of success.
In order to keep Elder Elucía's hope, even if she didn't take the initiative to propose, Xu Yi would still ask Elder Elucía to establish the plastic processing factory with his help.
The Falling Rain Valley covered an area of more than ten square kilometers. A plastic processing factory was less than a thousand square meters. Naturally, it wasn't worth mentioning.
Compared to the location, the most important issue was to solve the series of procedures.
There was no precedent for the elves or even the other races to establish a chamber of commerce in human society and then establish a factory.
Even if the laws of the Sines weren't perfect and it couldn't be compared to the normal countries on earth, since Elder Elucía wanted to use this plastic processing factory to integrate the elves into human society, it was best to follow the proper procedures.
It was a good thing that Xu Yi and Stiel came to the Falling Rain Valley to help the other race workers obtain official status. Now that Elder Elucía had proposed this idea, Xu Yi was planning on reporting this matter to Seveni as an example.
With the king and the kingdom's parliament's attitude towards the other race workers, it would be approved in the end and allow the other races to establish a chamber of commerce factory in the Lampari Kingdom.
It would take some time to obtain a definite answer. Before this, Xu Yi suggested that Elder Elucía should prepare ahead of time.
For example, the location of the factory, the production process of the factory, and the most important thing was how to sell these products.
Before, the elves of the Nightsong tribe only needed to complete the plastic processing at the New Flyer and didn't need to consider anything else.
Now that she wanted to control these matters, Elder Elucía found that if she wanted to run a chamber of commerce and a factory like a normal human merchant, it was a very complicated matter.
Xu Yi wasn't planning on taking care of everything this time. In order to let Elder Elucía have enough understanding of human business, Xu Yi would only guide her at key moments. Most of the time, he would let Elder Elucía learn by herself.
Every time he saw Elder Elucía listening and seriously learning, Xu Yi felt that it was very strange.
Elder Elucía was over six hundred years old this year, but she was learning all kinds of basic business knowledge in front of him like a primary school student. This scene was a bit strange.
But Elder Elucía didn't feel that it was strange at all. Every time Xu Yi explained a problem, she would be very focused and would ask Xu Yi more questions based on her own thoughts.
When he first met Agnes, Xu Yi found that although the elves looked the same as humans, in many aspects of their personality and attitude, they were very different from humans.
For example, for a human merchant like Xu Yi, it was common sense to save as much as possible.
But for the elves, if they really needed to make something, their priority was to make it perfect and they wouldn't care about the cost at all.
After Xu Yi mentioned this point, Elder Elucía nodded in understanding.
"As a company's factory, the most important thing is to make a profit." Xu Yi seriously explained to Elder Elucía.
"Making a profit is a very simple matter. If you throw away all the costs, you can still make a profit from the price of the product.
There is no problem in pursuing perfection, but as the leader of a factory, you have to consider profit first, so you have to think of ways to save costs. "
Elder Elucía softly nodded, "Although I don't like this kind of utilitarian thinking, opening a company is utilitarian.
Since I chose to open this factory, then I don't have to think about these meaningless problems. "
Xu Yi revealed a faint smile. He thought that Elder Elucía should be the most open-minded of the Nightsong tribe. She was actually willing to go against the common nature of the elves to choose this path and accept the utilitarian evaluation.
This time, Xu Yi only spent a few days teaching Elder Elucía the basic rules of the market.
As for the rest of the things that weren't easy to teach, it was up to Elder Elucía to figure it out on her own.
In these few days, Stiel had gradually completed the necessary procedures for the other race workers in the Falling Rain Valley.
Adding in the five Nightsong tribe elves that were currently working for the Armani Chamber of Commerce, Stiel's New Moon Chamber of Commerce now had 1276 other race workers as agents.
The next step was to wait for the New Moon Chamber of Commerce to report the identities of these other race workers to the upper echelons. Then, they would be able to receive labor permits again. These other race workers could be treated as normal human workers and enjoy the protection of the Lampari Kingdom's laws.
Collecting and organizing all the information of these other race workers was a large project. Although Stiel was very happy to be busy, Xu Yi seriously suggested that Stiel find some people who were interested in this work so that she could relax a bit.
Seeing Stiel rushing back and forth in the Falling Rain Valley to collect the information and obtain the agent rights, Xu Yi couldn't help but feel emotional.
In the past, it was always Xu Yi who was busy and Stiel who was very carefree. In the end, it was always Xu Yi who didn't have time to accompany Stiel.
But now that Xu Yi had enough free time, Stiel was busy with this work and didn't even have time to drink water, let alone stroll around with Xu Yi like before.
Comparing the changes before and after, it really was a reversal of fortune.