The person who would have so much to sell to you in the colonies would be sellers in the market who would buy the tea for a re-excuse me how wholesale price and then raise the price to the consumers
The answer is Piero della Francesca
1.8 Million people were at his inauguration.
EMpires used trade for all sorts of reasons a few were to get and sell goods. Another was to exchange information and news. This also connected people far and wide from the main part of the empire. It was easier to rule empires when trade was established