Hey, I need tips on industrialization.
So I've been playing a few games simultaneously; one as Mexico and one as France. In both, I'm lagging behind, industrially speaking, by a fairly significant margin.
As Mexico, I managed to get myself to great power status fairly early (got +admin and +tax commerce techs; kept me in the green... followed it up with medicine early on and +power/rail techs), and became an HM monarchy (declared humiliation wars on two uncivs and white peaced out to get the event). I used my NFs to increase clergymen, but I noticed that my industrialization was pretty awful (I was 6th most powerful nation as of 1890, ATM; 2nd or 3rd largest military, 3rd most prestige, but 14th most industrialized). Very few craftsmen.
So I've been using bureaucratic national focuses to increase admin efficiency (after I got every territory to 100%- and I have 100% education and admin spending, and 75% military) followed by NF on clergymen, and I'm fully researched in industry and most of the commerce tree. I'm also state capitalist (now I'm planned economy via socialist party).
I've run into the same problem in my France game (it's, like, 1845 or something and I'm 3rd most industrialized, lagging behind Britain and Russia. I don't think I had high admin efficiency; I've mostly been encouraging clergymen and occasionally craftsmen to populate my factories, but my craftsmen population is fairly low. I'm well researched, again, in industry and commerce and I don't know what I'm doing wrong...).
I'm state capitalist (well... I went interventionist when I was no longer constructing factories as Mexico), I raise taxes on the poor to 100%, and lower taxes on the rich and middle class as much as I can, pop growth is in the green, I have many nations in my sphere (as Mexico I've got every south American state except Brazil, along with China and Egypt), and my factories are all subsidized and in the green. Any tips?