Negotiations That Didn't Follow the Usual Playbook (2)
"Since everyone has agreed to... the plan of allocating resources through the Soul Master Competition, then I'll offer my initial thoughts." Ye Qingcang crossed his hands and placed them flat on the table, his tone calm and composed. "My idea is: each side contributes 90% of the resources, and then we change the format of the Soul Master Competition to Nine Divisions. The champion of each final will have the right to receive one-ninth of the prize money... If you have any questions, you can ask them now."
"Ninety percent is too high."
"Although the bonuses are distributed according to the total amount of the bonuses, I think we should still take into account the situation under extreme circumstances."
Even if the competition format is changed.
"Use quantity to influence the distribution of reward proportions."
"But what if all the champions of the Nine Divisions are Soul Master at the Dou One? With only 10% of the resources left, are we all doomed?"
"Only 10% of the food remains... how many people will starve to death?"
"Only 10% of the water supply remains... How many people will die of thirst?"
"With only 10% of the various resources remaining, how will a large number of Soul Master cultivate?"
The person sitting in the seat of the Heavenly Soul Empire was none other than Princess Vina of the Heavenly Soul Empire, who was also the core figure in the Heavenly Soul Empire's delegation. The Emperor of the Heavenly Soul Empire was also intentionally grooming this daughter.
It was she who was opposing it at that moment.
However, although Bibidong dared not fight Mu En, Xuan Zi, Du Busi and others due to her physical condition, fearing that her problems would be discovered, she was not at all afraid in this kind of intellectual debate meeting.
He gave a cold laugh.
His tone was arrogant.
With a blank expression, he revealed the truth, as if slapping the Heavenly Soul Empire in the face. "As far as I know, while not all crows in the world are exceptionally black, the vast majority are. According to the Spirit Hall's investigation data, ninety percent of the Heaven Dou Empire's Heaven Dou Empire are controlled and consumed by only one percent of its people, while the remaining ninety-nine percent share the remaining ten percent... Hmm, there haven't been any large-scale starvation or thirst incidents... I suspect that your country's ecological environment will be even more extreme. Therefore, even if nine-tenths of your country's resources were taken away, only one percent of your people would experience a decline in their quality of life. Between that one percent and the ninety-nine percent, I think your country should understand the relative importance of that one percent, right?"
"Puff..."
Xu Jiujiu's lips curled up slightly.
She raised her hand to cover her chin and lips.
Pretending to be deep in thought.
But anyone who isn't deaf can tell who just laughed.
And then Xu Jiujiu smiled.
This also put Princess Vina of the Heavenly Soul Empire in a precarious position.
Who are these 1% of people? Do we even need to guess?
Of course, it's those nobles in the Heavenly Soul Empire!
The Heavenly Soul Empire inherited the extravagance of the Heaven Dou Empire, the Dou Ling Empire inherited the stubbornness of the Heaven Dou Empire, and the Star Luo Empire Star Luo Empire had its own military lord system. Therefore, the royal families of each country had different attitudes and plans for governing the structure of their respective empires.
Judging from the structure of the Heavenly Soul Empire...
If the Heavenly Soul Imperial Family truly allowed the nobles and commoners in the empire to enjoy the same treatment, those nobles would dare to switch to a new royal family.
Moreover, the figure of one percent of nobles is based on data from the Dou One. This data was obtained after the Spirit Hall coerced the Heaven Dou Empire to pay a certain amount of Gold Soul Coin every year, which were then distributed to Commoner Soul Master as subsidies, thus severely suppressing the noble system.
The Spirit Hall even accomplished something incredible.
That is, he forced the nobles to lower their status by his own strength.
Before the Spirit Hall appeared, or more precisely, before Qian Daoliu's massacre, during those hundreds of years of relative fairness, neither the Heaven Dou Empire nor the Star Luo Empire had a rule for bestowing titles at the forty-level. This rule arose because the major noble families and the two royal families realized that if they didn't win over Commoner Soul Master and allowed the Commoner Soul Master Spirit Hall to recruit them, the Spirit Hall could develop a Soul Master army of over 300,000 in less than a hundred years, and then sweep through the two empires and all the noble families. Therefore, the noble families and royal families had to abandon their original rules and even go so far as to send their eldest daughters to marry those promising Soul Master, turning these promising Commoner Soul Master from Dragon Slayer into Evil Dragon, in order to counterbalance the Spirit Hall.
This is a classic example of good money driving out bad money.
It's a classic, a true classic.
Even under such intense pressure and checks and balances, the data of the Heaven Dou Empire was still so poor. After losing the checks and balances of the Spirit Hall and growing wildly like weeds for ten thousand years, the data of the Heavenly Soul Empire today will only be more extreme than this.
Bibidong simply presented this fact.
But this fact itself is a double-edged sword.
This immediately caused the Heavenly Soul Empire to feel as if it had a fishbone stuck in its throat.
However, even when buying groceries, there is a process of bargaining and haggling.
Mu En, who was sitting in the main seat, coughed.
Taking over the topic that Princess Vina couldn't continue, he suggested, "Ninety percent of the reward is still too high. How about we reduce it? We'll contribute fifty percent of our known resources, and you contribute fifty percent of yours. Since our resources are definitely not equal, we can have the party contributing more resources either reduce their contribution or the party contributing less resources increase their contribution. Don't calculate it proportionally; calculate it based on the actual value of the resources contributed. This way, there's room for negotiation... Heaven is benevolent; one should leave room for maneuver in all things."
The people from the Heavenly Soul Empire had various expressions.
To be honest, even this 50% share hurt them, but they really had no reason to condemn Mu En.
They slashed him with one blow.
They cut their share by forty percent.
Ninety percent of the original price.
It's almost been cut in half.
Even in bargaining, I've never seen anything this ruthless.
To say that Mu En didn't contribute anything.
They themselves couldn't bring themselves to say it.
But they still don't want to take responsibility.
"Fifty percent is too meager, how about seventy percent..." Bibidong shook her head and raised the price slightly. "This is, after all, the Soul Master Competition, representing the future rise and fall of the two realms. Does Mu En not even want to invest this much...? If that's the case, how can young talents possibly stand out?"
No, sis, please shut up.
We suddenly realized that investing 50% of our resources wasn't out of the question.
Fifty percent is good enough.
Seventy percent is really unbearable.
No, Mu En, please say something!
We want the 50% one!
I don't want the 70% one!
"Since His Holiness the Pope is willing to compromise, then seventy percent will do." Mu En wouldn't indulge the nobles of the Heavenly Soul Empire, nor would he care about others' opinions. The Nine Divisions format had already minimized the risk. Now, with a firm decision, he believed that when discussing the next issue, regardless of how much he initially negotiated, these forces would support him. No one dared to repeat the foolish mistake of haggling over fifty percent to seventy percent; the "wait and see" approach was outdated. "Regarding the rules of these nine matches and the requirements for the contestants, do you and His Holiness the Pope have any preliminary ideas?"