The financials of the whole thing

The deal between Franklin and Grady was $1000 a key but when Teddy took back his plug position Franklin didn’t ask for anything more than $9000 a key and Teddy hardballed him to stay on $10k

Teddy clearly made this move because he doesn’t want Franklin franchising but why not? Teddy wants to limit the number of his CIA assets for liability reasons so he’s not going to want to deal with any dealer other than Franklin so the Saint Organization being a mega plug in every black community nationwide is in his interest and it’s proven that Little Rock experiment paid off too.

So why is Teddy stopping Franklin from doing good when in the long run he’s probably going to be able to fund his fascist death squad better?