It would be pointless to grant any trading company a monopoly on trade with Genoa and Venice. We are mutually embargoing each other, so there is no trade between our kingdoms at this time. You can't monopolize what doesn't exist.
Excuse me, Your Majesty. I forgot. Too much time thinking about consequences, so I missed the original point of my own idea - I may be getting old. Then I do not see any reason to grant a legal monopoly, and will also tell the traders the same.
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Castelozzi felt as if hit by the same illness that had plagued his grandfather. What a fool he had made of himself. Well, he had to clear things up.
-to Francesco Chiave-
I am deeply sorry for my last letter, however it may have seemed to you. You must know that my grandfather suffered under some strange loss of memory and mental capabilities at the end of his life, and I fear that I am experiencing similar symptoms. Hopefully it is only a passing loss. In any case, I cannot support your monopoly. It would force any Aragonese trader in Italy to join the TPTC, and exclude any Italians from the lucrative exchange. Aragon has the might to enforce this, but I am sure the Italians wouldn't be happy. I also have my concerns about the growing might of the Trans-Pyrenean Company if it isn't that much Trans-Pyrenean any more. I am also too conflicted in diplomatic matters and not enough in trade to truly understand the benefit it would give to the crown other than the obvious income due to the TPTC.
Again, I express my excuses, and may your affairs turn well,
Vincenzo Castelozzi