Er, loading up the save I notice we are in all the wrong civics. Free market should be good in an economy based on trade routes, right? And free religion has got to be better than paganism. I revolt to those, plus representation because I plan on hiring some specialists later on.
Also I notice we are lumbermilling all the forests in our city designated as the national park/national epic city

. Forest preserves?
Also, I change research from steel to scientific method, since it is on the way to the best tech on the tree in our variant: biology.
Actually, then I notice that Qin has Scientific Method, so I give him chemsitry and economics for it. Qin is researching constitution, so we have chance to steal the free great scientist from physics from him.
We have the luxury of having 2 merchants and 1 engineer free. Since we will be getting a scientist soon and our northern city will soon generate an engineer or an artist, we can afford to use these GPs now.
So on the first turn the engineer trade missions the ToA city he is next to (Seoul). The engineer is going to finish the statue of liberty and the other merchant will board a ship to Seoul.
Science to 100% in anticipation of trade mission revenue next turn.
First turn Cuzco (the city that's generating 100GPT from its shrine) asks to go back to incan control

. Next turn the same for Tiwanaku. Needless to say I turn them down. Also Wang asks us to stop trading with Rome, I also refuse.
So we get the GS from Physics. Actually I think I will save the GE because we don't need it to finish the SoL first. I use the scientist to make an academy in top science city Middleburg and will use engineer for another golden age.
Then I realise that we don't need slavery right now, so I change to serfdom in order to build lumbermills and windmills quicker.
Finish some dikes, security bureaus etc, start some airships. We get a priest, so as soon as the GA finishes we start another one with the engineer and the priest.
Once biology finished we started electricity for better windmills. We are one turn away. After that, I think we have all the important techs for our variant and the next players can go in whatever direction they want. Corporation could be good for wall street, but we have plenty of options like communism etc. We finish the national epic and start the national park in vilcamba.
With our GP generation and mauseleum, we virtually have the spiritual trait.
There is a merchant on the way to Seoul in an East Indiaman with a Go-To order.
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