This run explores Japan, explaining how to build up a market and an industrial economy essentially from scratch in the early game under conditions of total agrarian isolation. This will not necessarily be a run focused on reform. We will be making slow, measured changes in the Japanese system without losing sight of or respect for traditional methods of production and governance.
In this episode, we continue to work on building up to having skirmish infantry as our main armed force. This will give us plenty of capacity to engage militarily with imperial powers on equal footing. We also continue to build up an economy that will support continued growth. I know that that sounds like what we do every episode, but honestly, it's such a strong concern since our return to isolation that it's genuinely never far from my mind or from the top of the priority list.
Episode Timeframe: January 1851 - December 1854
Recorded in patch 1.4.2 "Irish Breakfast" with all DLC enabled.
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