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The Merchant of Venice is a unique Great Merchant replacement. Aside from the normal Great Merchant abilities, the Merchant of Venice can acquire a City-State outright, bringing it under Venetian control as a puppet. The Merchant of Venice is expended when used in this way.
Where does it say you need gold to puppet CS?
It's not the outright. it's the acquire. And you made a nice catch there. Almost all quotations of it change acquire to purchase or buy; as in "buy a city-state outright". Acquire is the correct term in the screenshot.