Cold Blooded Negotiators (1)

There was now absolute silence in the room because of the tragedy, both father and daughter kept staring at each other with resolute eyes

But after the silence before the explosion, Marquis Walpurgis finally exploded

"But Your Majesty!!! How can Sol Walpurgis, the daughter of a family that serves the Empire negotiate against the Empire!?!"

Emperor sighed and Isis was the one to give explanation "Sol Walpurgis is also the fiance of Duke Brahm, of course she can negotiate for him and there is no law that says a member of family who serves Empire can't negotiate against it

And we are paying her too you know, if she can give us satisfactory results we will give her a little part in the partnership of Golden Turtle Organisation, isn't it an attractive offer?

She is gaining 95 platinum coins a month just for a little argument against her father?"

Marquis Walpurgis really had no words against this one, a platinum coin is about 1000 gold coins, which is income of a viscount family in the whole month

[In our world 1 platinum coin is fucking $67k]

You think it like this, with just 1 Platinum coin, you can buy the most expensive car in our world more than 5 times over

So in Sol's case isn't she quite literally the owner of the whole showroom filled with Lamborghini, Ferrari, Supra and other such cars if she successfully finished this negotiation

That was a damn nice deal for one this negotiation, Isis suddenly grinned and asked

"Marquis how much you make in a month, from your territory and rewards from majesty included?"

Marquis looked at the Emperor with a dead fish gaze, the Emperor also avoided that gaze with fox-like reflexes

"3-30 platinum coins"

Marquis Walpurgis's words suddenly changed the weight in room, Klaus's side was suddenly overwhelming power in the room

This was a mental game before the negotiations, Marquis was already given with double damage now

His opponent was the one he cherished the most and now his daughter's income was almost 3 times his own all monthly income combined

This really made a father proud but the man in him was hurt quite badly now

And with low self esteem the Marquis started the negotiations

"Let's start with looking at the stats of the Golden Turtle Organisation..."

Isis immediately nodded and took the set of papers and handled a set to Marquis Walpurgis and started reading out loud herself

Those were basically the information about the spendings, investment, profit, business paths, production, services, donations along with all proofs

After about 45 minutes Marquis and Emperor were left in shock, because what they just witnessed was business and accounting methods of 100s of years in future

The methods Klaus was using in his business were even beyond their own understanding but the stats read by Isis matched absolutely perfectly so with this level accounting they had no upper hand from future negotiations

Marquis Walpurgis kept thinking for the next few minutes and suddenly questioned

"What's the pure profit the Organisation makes over this year?"

Isis looked at Klaus for a moment and after gaining the approval she reported

"The Golden Turtle Organisation makes about more than 373,000 platinum coins of absolutely pure profit"

[373,000 platinum coins = approx $25 billion!]

Marquis and the Emperor were both shocked because that amount was almost comparable to the annual budget of the whole Empire itself

"That's literally quite the lot, but I don't see any income tax provided by Duke Brahm himself for such a great level of profit

You should know you are exempted from tax from the profit of territory not from the income from side businesses you know?"

Marquis Walpurgis was quick to catch on here but opposite to his expectations a grin appeared over faces of Klaus, Isis and Sol

And next moment Sol reported with confidence

"That's because the owner of the Organisation, from the 373,000 platinum coins Duke Brahm himself only takes 1 bronze coin as his income, and about 65,000 platinum coins are distributed among the share owners

I don't think you will impose tax over a monthly salary of less than 1 bronze in a month now will you?"

"What kind of idiotic nonsense is this!?"

"How can anyone only have a salary of one single bronze over a year!?"

This time both Emperor and Marquis Walpurgis completely lost it, Klaus grinned and said

"This is my salary your majesty and Marquis, this is the salary I receive as the 'Head Advisor and Administrator' of the Organisation you know, in a way I'm working for my own Organisation

And the share of profit is all sent directly to charity in church or guilds, so according to Empire's law you can't take taxes from charity and donations you know?"

Klaus's words really stunned the Emperor and the Marquis, they were really sent to the world of deep thoughts for the next 15 minutes

And after returning back to senses Marquis asked "So according to what you are saying, you along with being the owner of Golden Turtle Organisation, you also work there as an employee while taking only mere 1 bronze coin as yearly salary

And the 89% shares you own at Golden Turtle Organisation are sent away donations, according to that aren't you basically donating more than 330,000 platinum coins ($22 billion approximately) directly as donations?"

Klaus just nodded like a fox to his words, The Emperor had a heavy sigh and commented "That's honestly the best unique trick to avoid the tax I ever heard..."

"Thank you for the compliment"

Klaus took the complement with a grateful shining face, Emperor's side just sighed and next Marquis Walpurgis continued with his sharpness

"Then next can you explain about your terms of how you are going to share you profits with the lords of different territories?"

Marquis Walpurgis was actually quite smart, it was quite difficult to gain any lead over negotiation in such a short time

So it is difficult to gain direct profit from Klaus then he wanted to know about the way he can gain indirect profit through lords of the Empire

"No we can't"

Sol seemed one step ahead as she commented that, her words created a little awkward silence over the place

"This won't work sweety, you can't just deny to give information that is directly related with subjects of Empire and on top of that they are directly related to plans of Golden Turtle Organisation isn't that right?"

Marquis Walpurgis was smiling but next moment Sol grinned and replied

"Dear father, it's not like I don't want to tell you about it, it's just that I can't, all territories have different lords and different locations and influence

There is no business plan that can be applied over all of them at same time, all lords will be negotiated with different methods

If you are interested we can give you information about them after the products get released over there isn't that right?"

The smile over Marquis's face suddenly disappeared and he repositioned himself

"Ahem! Then.."

He was about to continue once again but this time he noticed the stare of Emperor, Marquis looked at Emperor with a surprise

The Emperor shook his head and commented "Marquis, this negotiation isn't just a little argument you know, the fate of Empire depends upon this argument of father and daughter here...

I don't remember the guy I chose being so easy going and weak inside a room like this..."

Marquis heard this and goosebumps ran across body and various memories flashed through his mind and he released a deep sigh there

The whole room was silent for the next few seconds and the air around Marquis also suddenly changed

A nervous cat suddenly changed into a serious tiger and Marquis immediately asked with cold face

"Then can you please inform me about your business relation with other nations, since you plan to do business with other nations too

The business relations might get stronger with Empire and taxes over export and import will also be influenced by this move"

The air had changed, Sol and Isis also became serious and Sol replied

"The Golden Turtle Organisation has good business relations with most of the nations"

Marquis heard this and immediately questioned while grabbing a few papers in front of him

"Even then nation who are not in good relations with the Empire?"

"The relations of Empire are completely different from that of a business organisation's and a businessman doesn't care about emotions of others

The Organisation will provide its services to anyone who needs it until it can be considered legal and good for the world and the other party has required money.."

Sol's reply was sharp and flawless at same time but Marquis was no longer a warm dad she has seen her whole life,

"Stop with all these formal talk, if what you say is right then explain why there is so much trade with a enemy nation of the Empire that basically flourishes through wars and you have placed all your products at such a low rate too...

I hope you will stop with all the idiotic good flawless talk bullshit now..."

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