One after another each merchant put forwards their terms and negotiated for exactly what they wanted while giving up a few things here or there whenever we made it clear we wouldn't budge on it.
The budget was getting to an unknown amount currently since we had to deal with the food, drink and other necessities that these merchants were going to be expecting upon each return to the city, so our money problem was only growing.
Yet at the same time we had a solution for it since we now had access to these merchants; in a way they were funding their own stay here since I was going to be ensuring Anput sold everything she didn't actually need while also having Leone brew up at least two batches of good potions per week.
If they did that we could have an easy stream of good money coming in whenever merchants visited, and on top of that the moment we started up this city's economy properly the money that was going to flow would be good as well.
