Note that I wasn't the one who brought it up.
And Madina city is clearly a competitor, not a partner. It gathers food we otherwise would have had for much cheaper to then resell it to us, quite frankly causing Paisly's financial ruin. Paisly's caravans can reach most of Madina's rurals, after all.
Hey now - I negotiated a large and constant supply of slightly less expensive food for you guys. . . took a lot of political power to get the Lords to agree to sell everything to Madina so it can all be shipped to Paisly en masse.
We can always go back to having Halicos hording 2000 bushels in Fatmilak and you guys starving all the time. . .
But really, my job is not to figure out that Abbot and you guys can't do the whole 45gp buy from
Little busy with other things IC