Quote Originally Posted by Tristan de Castelreng
No, from my experience, the value of buying merchants go up with the acquired merchants level lby a 250 fl. increment like this :

Lvl 0 : 250fl
Lvl 1 : 500fl
Lvl 2 : 750fl and so on...

Thought that might be the case, my little "kamikaze merchants" exploit would be a bit too good otherwise.

250 florins per merchant per turn is still pretty good though.