Once more ignoring you, Apocrita said "The ambassador will of course deny whatever number we put out, likely having a predetermined number of 'acceptable losses' given to them by the princesses, but they will do their best to avoid hitting that number and try to low ball us. Then will begin the back-and-forth, us trying to explain why our numbers are acceptable and the ambassador trying to state why it's simply impossible. They'll likely try to offer a little more than what they initially offered and we may drop our number a bit, but nobody is going to agree and they'll head back to Canterlot with the numbers we've issued and revise with the princesses what to offer next. They'll come back and do the whole thing over again, each slowly closing the gap until an agreement is made."