Byzantine Trade

[ETAIPOS]

What is the best setup for Byz trade to maximize profits and to spawn Global Trade?

I am currently pulling trade from Alexandra and Crimea. I'm also building manufactures in all Constantinopile's higher value provinces (including my vassals). Is there a point to build manufactures in Crimea's provinces?

 

[mag_zbc]

Spawning global trade? I don't see that happening. You have 21 years to make Constantinople the richest trade node in the world, but you barely conquered anything, you have no access to Persian Gulf or Indian ocean to steer trade from India. At this point you have no chance to compete with trade nodes in India or receiving trade from Americas. You don't seem to have conquered any provinces with valuable trade goods (Cloth, Silk etc) in the Middle east for manufactories to have a large impact on trade value. And to top all that, only two merchants.

Sorry, but that's not going to happen.

 

[ETAIPOS]

Spawning global trade? I don't see that happening. You have 21 years to make Constantinople the richest trade node in the world, but you barely conquered anything, you have no access to Persian Gulf or Indian ocean to steer trade from India. At this point you have no chance to compete with trade nodes in India or receiving trade from Americas. You don't seem to have conquered any provinces with valuable trade goods (Cloth, Silk etc) in the Middle east for manufactories to have a large impact on trade value. And to top all that, only two merchants.

Sorry, but that's not going to happen.

That 's very probable, though at this point Golden Horn (24.4 ducats) is 3rd nod behind English Channel at 27 and Ming at 25 as far as I can tell. Will that change rapidly in the next few years?
I have well developed silk province in Southern coast of Marmara Sea, plus multiple provinces with cloth (most in my vassal Germyan), paper in Amaseia, bronze, salt etc.
I also think I can force Mamluks to give me trade power, which should give me additional few ducats in the crucial moment.