Control of the trade was increasingly held a few powerful merchants.

It was a rich and powerful merchant, with many guards.

Oh, I suppose if you're a powerful merchant it's nice to have a famous wife.

Vatsyayana comes of age when his father, a powerful merchant, takes him on a caravan into the northern territories.

They'd both been at a banquet hosted by the powerful merchant who'd controlled most of the foreign trade in that city.

Some powerful Chinese merchants trading in the new capital were granted officials titles.

Yet even so, the powerful merchant had hesitated.

It was a long time since the powerful, saturnine merchant and city father had had any real excitement.

Maybe one of the powerful merchants regarded it as an eyesore.

In part this was caused by the continued existence of powerful merchants who wanted to see the old Baltic trade restored.