"I have three conditions."
Marvin held up three fingers and said, "First, the Church must purchase a minimum of one thousand gallons of Mercury's Blood every year, and the price per ounce cannot be less than fifty Gold Pounds. The Church may not sell or give Mercury's Blood to any unrelated personnel."
"No problem." Pontiff Ubli I readily agreed to the first condition: "The Church's annual need for Mercury's Blood will never be less than a thousand gallons, and it might even be more."
The Kingdom of Windsor had a large number of overseas colonies that, when combined, even exceeded the total land area of the Romanov Kingdom. Under such circumstances, one thousand gallons of Mercury's Blood a year indeed wasn't enough; it could only be considered a baseline treaty.
