Merchants chased for profits, which made them one of the hardest bunch to control. While they made contributions to the development of the territory, they too earned a lot.
An unavoidable matter was that due to profits, merchants would join in the battles and fights in an area.
Towards this, Ouyang Shuo would naturally be wary and defensive.
Apart from the Financial Department Business Division managing everything, they needed to develop more Chamber of Commerces to prevent a monopoly.
Local Chamber of Commerces would knock heads with the big ones.
Of course, this only solved the problem in the short term; the root cause remained.
Ouyang Shuo was planning to build a Business Association to increase the monitoring levels on the various Chamber of Commerces.
This matter still needed much planning.
