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Chartered Merchant Companies

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Free-for-all competition among Catalan merchant houses dilutes profits and weakens our negotiating position with foreign powers. The Crown therefore charters consortia such as the Compañía de Navegación de Levante and the Compañía de Filipinas, granting them temporary trade monopolies on specific routes in exchange for renewable royal levies and an obligation to defend our convoys with armed vessels. This regulated mercantile system channels Catalan capital into ventures that can compete with the Genoese, Dutch, and English chartered companies operating from the same basins.

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Chartered CompaniesAdvancerequires

Potential

At least one of
- Culture: Catalan
- CultureUnified Culture Group contains Catalan
Does NOT have the Partitio Terrarum Imperii Romaniae Government Reform

Exact conditions

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Trade Advantage+10%
Trade Sea Efficiency+20%

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Government Reforms

Partitio Terrarum Imperii RomaniaePotential

Cultures

CatalanPotential

Advances

Chartered CompaniesReformationRequires

Belongs to 1

ReformationAge

Scripting 1

References 1

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content_priority = 500

age = age_4_reformation

icon = ara_chartered_merchant_companies

potential = {

OR = {

culture = culture:catalan

culture = {

merged_culture_group_contains_culture = culture:catalan

}

}

NOT = {

has_reform = government_reform:partitio_reform

}

}

global_merchant_power = 0.1

trade_sea_efficiency = medium_trade_sea_efficiency_bonus (+20%)

requires = chartered_companies