Cash flow
1. Steal from SB one last time. Don't wait for 50% bonus, just whenever we have the EPs to do the mission
2. a) Put all EPs on Peter starting now.
2. b) Send (surviving?) spy on caravel to (confu) Novgorod to steal (would require a permanent Cease Fire with SB)
Maybe better to just keep stealing from SB til we get caught. Peter has no money, but that would likely change.
3. At least one new sushi exec from Science, to Mecca. Maybe 2 (it would have to go to Tours)
Now that observatories are done, an exec does not delay an important building, so it's easy to calculate ROI.
Cost: ~230g
Return: at least 240g over 30 turns. With a chain of boats, we can spread before T190 in Mecca.
Potential: Sal and Louis could spread it to several cities. +100's of gold, but worst case, we come out ahead.
4. Since Canal is still working on observ. It's probably the best place (for 4t) to run all merchants.