The first, boring years
We all know that. Set budget, reorgainze army, normalize population, et cetera. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.
I order the troops to converge upon Kyoto. I'll probably disband them anyways, but this is sometihng I do almost automatically.
Business as usual. Tax everyone half to death, tariffs to max, defence, army maintanance to the minimum, education maxed out, crime fighting non-exsistant. The only thing worth noting is that I overtax the rixh, becouse Japan has ridiculous amount of aristocrats, and I dont like them that much. I'll probably reduce their taxation below 50% in a year or two, but I love to see them suffer :evil grin:
And I split every pop over 40K that still had room in its RGO. I do this to get the maximum out of my current, low production capability . The effect is visible on the production indicator, and its not that small an increase, luckily. The fluctuation on the left side of the income graph is becouse I promoted one pop to clerk to fill those two factories Japan has at its start with the optimal 3-2 mix.
A quick word on the japan population: most of it is concentrated in the ragions around Edo and Kyoto, as I have mentioned, and these produce only worthless stuff (tea, slik, grain), so there is plenty, really plenty of muscel and brain to tap here once I industrialise. About 60-80 pops total, splitting and growth not included.
You can also see my research, and my literacy. The almost obligatory cohice, freedom of trade was unavailable at start, so I picked the next best thing. Both are moot, as I'll be getting some techs from the dutch, whose letter I will accept, thus I colud actually hoard my RP, but I simply cant stand that lamp icon.
Elsewhere in the world, almost everything goes as it always does, with the exception that Prussia supported the Netherlands and landed itself and Austria in a war with Belgium, GB&BI, and Hannover. The result is as such:
Prussia is the clear winner, having reduced Hannover to a shadow of its former self, while the Netherlands has gained some provinces of its revolter, it lost a bunch of colonies to the Lion. This actually works against me, as there wont be all that many warsocre provinces around once I want to break free of the dutch. Ah, well, thats life.
And on the other side of the globe, Brazils little breakaway state beats up its daddy.
Until 1840, a couple of good events also happened. I got the pre-programmed gold rush at Hyugo, which has now 15 pops mining gold at it, and with tihs income, I got defence spending and crime fighting to the max with no net loss. This money also bought me my first regular division, and I got one cavalry division, and one infanrty division (of normal quality, thus very good for mil score) via event. I finished practical steam engine, and went on to romanticism, becouse i do not know wether or not the dutch letter gives any cultural techs, and thus this was a better way to waste my RP, which is around 0,25/month. Then, I got an event that gave me high& low pressure steam engines. Yuppy!
There have been some pre-programmed militancy events, but they are not really imprtant, i skipped through them.
So, at the end of the first four years, Japan has an army of seven, relatively modern divisions, an export amount of a whopping 200 a day, an income of 20, and a bright future ahead, despite, or even becouse of having ridden itself of most of its aristocracy, who now retreat to the shinto shrines (aristos having devolved inot clergy. Good, more RP)
Edit: january 5, 1840: leading scientist defects with Private Banks. Damn, I fear the negative events that will come to equailze this shower of fortune.