Quote Originally Posted by Drucius
Playing as Venice I have 4 merchants sitting on Constantinople silk each making about 300 fl per turn. Not too shabby in the early part of the game, I'd suggest.
As HRE I always stop four merchants in the Constantinople region for silk trade and one in zagreb for gold. Turns a nice profit. I believe that a 10 skill merchant generates slightly over 700 florins for silk from Constantinople back to Germany.

Tschüß!
Erich