Xenia p.o.v.
The last few days went by with a huge mound of impediments over my little head; persuading the merchants felt harder than convincing the king himself. But at last, they agreed to give fifty sacks of bread and seventy sacks of cereal with cooking oil and coal too, in return for thirty-five per cent of tax relaxing in their every shipment throughout the winter, obviously, they are merchants, they never did something for free.
Tax relaxation will affect our treasury badly but not more than riots and rebellions so it was a great deal. However they wanted eighty per cent of tax relaxation and thought they could even achieve it as I am just a woman...who knows nothing, that's what they thought at the start of the meeting which turned out to be bad for them, as I was well aware of
