How to cheat money?

[Gamerstieme]

With mods or ingame?

[Uncle Supplies]

open console and type "potofgold"

[schorsch_morsch]

The easiest way is to have a load of expensiv goods in your ship, sell by 1 to a trader and track the numbers with Cheat engine.

The cargo bay works for the whole session, so if you build a new harbour with that ship you can fill up your stash to the brimm and start building away.

p.s. this works also in other anno games

[Primigenia]

sell soap to Eli and cannons to Isabel, you get 30K-100K easy

[Chaosium]

Buy pocket watches at Archibald and sell them to Ketema, 500k-1M per trip