I start my first ever campaign with Byzantines. I found some discussions here about it was the richest one if the trade could be set up. Anyway, it takes 3 years to build a ship and I shall need a lot of them in order to get to the nearest friendly port. Just wonders how can you guy manage to get rich so quick. Is there anything I can do to accelerate the process? Or something else better for Byz to do other than trading.