The War Of Indipendance and Civilisation
The 1860 will be a turbulent decade for Japan, filled with upheaval and renewal.
First, we research the last technology required for civilisation, State And Government. This is perhaps the most important cultural tech apart from the education-increasing ones. The choices the player makes have a very profound impact upon the further course of the game.
Four choices to sheperd your population.
Soon after finishing the technology, the first choice pops up.
I choose anti-clericalism, becouse the other cohice sets my population moralist, and its usually the worst (minority: slavery/residance) parties that are moralist, and atheist populations are relatively happy under secularised/pluralist parties, which are in some ways the best.
I also choose populism, as issue-based voting gives you better options to guide your pop towards the party you, and not they, want in power, meritocracy for the capitalist bonus, and bureaucracy out of tradition.
Before any of these all fire, though, I start my war with the Netherlands. The reason for this is that this way, I can start a colonial war, that means my enemy wont throw all his divisions at me, or at least, so I hope. And after i get civilised, the wont be able to invade at all, and I'll be able to whitepeace myself out.
And so, it begins....
The dutch seem to have a soft spot for the province of Hyogo, the war actually took place in that province alone.
A lackluster begining.
Hmm, this is going somewhere.
The high point of the war.
All in all, the war cost the dutch about fifteen divisions, all destoryed, while I lost about a hundred thousand man, and, judging from the decrease in my reqruitment cap, about 60K population in soldiers.
In the meantime, an important invention fires:
This means, we are about to civilise...
(ignore the date, I forgot to take a screenshot the first time and had to replay a bit to get it.)
Also, the Russians want something from us now that we are a civilised nation:
Becoming civilised also has a profound impact on the budget, our income jumping from 100 to 300 overnight. And here is, why:
Tax efficiency before:
and after becoming civilised:
At this point, the war became a deadlock, with me having no navy to invade the dutch, and the dutch being unable to invade me becouse none of my territory counted as colonies. I waited about a year for a peace offer, then want on and gave one myself:
In a bit under thirty years, Japan transformed form a backwards country ruled by useless warriors, into:
All my industrialisation was done by me, as this is, while costly, is more effective for a solid industrialisation. Who cares about booze when you can have steel?
