But doesn't it completely negate the fact, that our administration just employed Emporoi in order to give regulations and order to said trade without stepping on their toes, since they could do it themselves? I feel like that allowing these trade fleets invalidates our previous decision without the great boni that people hope they would get. Yeah free trade is awesome and all, but the administration thing was precisely because we wanted trade and economy to be managed by our goverment in order to streamline and work with it.
Having free trade without an economic concept or system in place is just a recipe rife for explotation of not just the natives but our own people as well. Let the state create trade regulations and principles to follow that actually work out and are easily changeable by the administration, since there are actually merchants etc. within it, and then loosen them step for step to guarentee free trade in a controlled manner.
--> I believe that this is one of these cases where our 21st century sentiments are just rearing their heads, without properly looking at the circumstances of the time.
--> It´s not like free trade exists in europe to steal our tax income.