Trading with Merchants

In the third evolution era of your city ("Trade Era"), you can build a trade center in your city and after that you can start recruiting merchants in your tavern. If possible, try to recruit the ones with high eloquence points.

Merchants are nice for both earning gold and keeping gold safe, as you can upload gold on them, even while their inside your city and that gold can't be plundered. Other players can intercept your merchants on the world map with heroes, but your merchants won't loose any gold or goods they cary. If they loose the fight, they will be redirected to the nearest village.

Tip:
*keep gold on merchants, so it is safe and doesn't get plundered
*keep one merchant in every capital, to finish the daily merchant task "Fate of Greed" (to get a jade ornament) faster