Villain Princess.
Chapter 42: Negotiation (3)

Chapter 42: Negotiation (3)

If he were to lose the bet, the income of his territory will definitely plummet and it meant that the amount of other things he could buy aside from food would decrease. He couldn’t reduce the food cost as his territory was not suitable for agriculture.

The other types of food that existed in his territory was definitely far from enough.

"Ah, then I want to ask how confident are you in bringing the negotiation to success?" Duke Sun asked. "As far as I know, Sand Kingdom had more advantage compared to us."

Sand Kingdom was a kingdom that was mostly dominated with sand terrain. The products in Duke Sun’s territory was mostly a copy of the products from Sand Kingdom with some variations.

This behavior had made the relationship between the Yellow Kingdom and the Sand Kingdom worsened.

After all, the other territory in the Yellow Kingdom was advised to buy from Duke Sun’s territory more than the Sand Kingdom, so their sales were more or less affected to a certain degree.

"There are differences in the type of sands between the two kingdoms," Aurora said slowly. She smiled. "Don’t worry, when I brought the product over, I can make sure that they will choose us."

Duke Sun arched his eyebrows. He looked at Aurora carefully and then he nodded. "Alright, I will trust you this time."

"No more thinking, Duke Sun?" Aurora was the one surprised this time.

Even though she truly wanted him to agree, she didn’t expect that it could be done so quickly like this. No matter how confident Aurora looked like, this was still the first time she actually had a real negotiation with someone.

"I would rather take the bet since there’s nothing I can gain without taking any risk," Duke Sun said calmly. "Besides, I believed that if you couldn’t do it, the negotiation will be off."

It was already spring and soon, summer will come. When it was summer time, the negotiation with the other three kingdoms will start and Duke Sun will receive his answer.

Aurora smiled. "It’s a pleasure to talk with you, Duke Sun."

"I’ll be watching, Miss Aurora. I hope you can do this." Duke Sun chuckled and then glanced at Mr. Wren. "I believe we have to arrange the paper?"

"Yes, Duke Sun."

Mr. Wren was only the background figure in this negotiation, but he basically watched as Aurora gave her words. To be honest, he was a bit terrified to see how confident Aurora was.

If the negotiation was not done well in a few weeks’ time when those delegations come, then it could end badly.

And there might not be other chance in the future.

Aurora is really brave.

...

The negotiation finished after a few more hours and Aurora felt her body was stiff from sitting for a long time.

’That’s going well.’

Duke Sun had left and only Mr. Wren was left here. He looked at Aurora with a complicated expression. "Miss Aurora, do you think that it’ll be a good idea to give so much promise to Duke Sun?"

He felt that it was not good for Aurora to say so much to Duke Sun like this. If she couldn’t do it in the next negotiation, it would only end badly for her.

"There’s not much that I can do with what’s available in our territory and the usual trades," Aurora said.

Aside from Duke White’s territory, there were several other small trades that she would bring up during the negotiation. It was the usual trades and if there was nothing wrong, it would remain that way for a long time.

But what Aurora wanted to do was to increase the percentage for White Dukedom and also gain more favorable benefit for their kingdom.

Of course...

"I need to have enough power to do the negotiation to make more beneficial trade," Aurora said calmly.

As the diplomat, Aurora would also receive a small percentage of the profit. However, the trade has been quite stale and it didn’t really involve a lot of money since it was mostly for Duke White’s territory.

Her mother looked down on that small money.

But for Aurora, it would be a lot. She wanted to earn more of the money until she could make something from it.

"Miss..." Mr. Wren looked at Aurora worriedly.

Aurora looked up and saw Mr. Wren who was looking concerned. She smiled faintly. "You’re the vassal of Duke White’s territory, Mr. Wren. It’s your duty to make sure that things are going the way it is. I don’t think you want to see the territory suffer, do you?"

Mr. Wren heard Aurora’s words and sighed deeply.

More than anything, he wished for the territory to develop well.

This was why he was worried for Aurora.