Alright so starting the game I look immediately at the politics situation:
Looks like I already have 1 requirement met, but the prestige and tech rquirements are going to be hard, especially considering my slower research speed of a whole
1.117!!!
Politically speaking I got 3 parties to choose from and they all suck, all are state capitalist so it doesn't matter since I can't build factories or get capitalists which one I get so I'll encourage liberals for the heck of it but not going to risk revolt or lose prestige, I needz my prestige.
Actually wait a second, I got a good reason for liberals!!
ROLE PLAYINGT!
That's right folks, if the Conservatives are against reform but me, the EMPEROR want's reform, then it only makes sense to encourage liberals so I can implement reforms, in game they may not be too relevant to the industrialization process (though it should) but meta speaking... It does make some sense, rp wise.
Liberals want reform, reform leads to modernization, makes sense in context!
Diplomacy screen, surprisingly more I can do here then I thought, if I ally with Tibet, Japan, Burma(?), Vietnam, and Thailand I
should be able to get a CB to intervene in protecting them from Britian, France and other pedobear European white round eyed devils!
I got a surprisingly large supply pool to make a really huge army, a 1,239,000 man army to be precise, this is far too much and is probably taking a huge chunk out of my budget, I'll modernize what I got if I can build regulars* and then put the military budget slider later one to 10% or so, China by being very Pacifistic in ideology (Confucianism) this makes a bit of sense, It'll take a while before the Liberals gain enough traction to demand a large investment in the military forces, for now I needz ze moneyz.
*Thankfully yes, I can build regular infantry.
Technology: As we can see I gotz only 1.17 techpoints per day, at this rate means it's 9 years roughly per tech, I got ALOT of work to do to speed this up.
I'll start with The Rights of Man so I can get my second NF point, which are the games way of letting you to manipulate/encourage your pops to a certain course of action.
Production screen, crap all I can do here until I get capitalists, I'll raise tarrifs to max just so I can keep them in business.
But yeah... HOLY WOAH MAN!
LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS!? It's like my wildest wet dream in terms of production if I was even a
civilized and fully industrialized China! I'm skeptical that I would even want factories if my artisans are doing this much!!!
I'm going to stockpile small arms, supplies, and any other good that's needed for when the inevitable blockade comes knocking.
Trade:
I'll go back to the trade window now that I realized something, I'll be manually stocking up on a few things, since I produce massive amounts of these it won't bankrupt me like it would in Victoria Revolutions.
Budget:
Not sure how mlong my massive surplus will apparantly last buuuuut... *fiddle fiddle* I'll lower military spending to 10%, max out Education and max out my tarrifs while at the same time adjusting the rich, poor, and middle taxes lower so they can still afford whatever goods are on the world market.
Why the heck China had to take a loan in Singleplayer demo as the USA I have no idea...