Strictly speaking, the so-called affiliation arrangement was a kind of sleight of hand.
On Earth, many small companies without the necessary business licenses chose to affiliate themselves with a licensed company, thereby gaining access to its qualifications.
This method was common on Earth, but rarely seen on the Sains Continent.
While considering how to establish this elven processing factory belonging to the Night Song Tribe, Xu Yi had thought of this common practice from Earth.
After careful consideration, Xu Yi had proposed to Elder Elusia that they affiliate the Plastic Processing Factory with the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
Nominally, the Plastic Processing Factory belonged to the Xinfei Merchant Guild, but everyone working there, from the workers to the management, was an elf of the Night Song Tribe.
Moreover, the Xinfei Merchant Guild held ownership of the Plastic Processing Factory in name only. In practice, no one in the Xinfei Merchant Guild, including Xu Yi himself, could interfere in any of its affairs.
In reality, then, the Plastic Processing Factory belonged entirely to the Night Song Tribe and had nothing whatsoever to do with the Xinfei Merchant Guild.
This could also be considered exploiting a loophole in the Lampari Kingdom's commercial laws.
Since the Lampari Kingdom's commercial laws contained no provisions concerning other races establishing merchant guilds, there was considerable flexibility in how this omission could be used.
Xu Yi could have drawn on his good relationship with Count Samo to help the Night Song Tribe resolve this problem. With Earl Stark's arrival, however, he had not even submitted the request to Bunta City's current mayor's office, because it would certainly have been rejected.
Yet this situation also meant there were no restrictions on the matter. Xu Yi could exploit this loophole by nominally hiring all the elves Elder Elusia had assigned