Patrician IV[4] - Easy money - Trade - HD
This shows you a little trick to make it very easy to get a steady income fast in patrician IV. I play this on professional, starting with 3k and 20 towns.
The key is making a LOT of "random" trade routes, which trade everything automatically between enough cities to make a 2 week round trip or so.
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