in,Sichuan is an usually large states.you convert capitalits there first of all.daedalus said:This you dont have to convince me off, I have played China, and have ended up with tons of money, tons of 90k unassigned right culture POPs, and maximum raq materials.
Heck, with china you can easily be making $1k from day one. I am just too lazy to promote every POP.
Now If you add the capitalist exploit to each state
How many capitalist you have per state to get to this point?
I have converted all the pops to capitalits which are above szie 5W,above 60% of population (not pop) capitalists
and then bulid factory producing the material needed in convertion.
and then shandong,zhili,jiangshu,guangdong and hubei.
you have to set tariff 80% in the beginning to accumulate money.
Convert more and more clerks to promote tech.
Build arttilery unit to invade all your neighbours.
you don't need worry about the raw materials,look at the glass factory you will see the reason.
After you get some land from uropean nation,you have to close the factory and the clerks there will immigrate to Sichuan(actually,sichuan province has at least 700pops now from all over the europe)