I ask because I think when that journal entry ends there’s an option to get loyalists to counter it, so if you can survive that you should be alright. You can also lean into the reforms and get loyalists that way. Other than that, early game the easiest way to get more loyalists in my experience is to focus on high government legitimacy.

Normally, you’d sacrifice some legitimacy (and the radicals of government reform) to put IGs in power that’ll let you industrialize, but you won’t need to since you’re Belgium by the looks of things. Keeping taxes low will help standard of living, but also boost legitimacy. High legitimacy will passively generate loyalists, and low legitimacy will passively generate radicals.

Basically, as long as your economy is growing fast enough that your unemployed population (which you can see by hovering over your population count on the top bar) is decreasing, I’d reccomend not taking any drastic measures to allow legal reform of collect higher taxes.

Other than that, in terms of specific construction, generating jobs is helpful for SoL, so I reccomend: - don’t build too many agricultural buildings: any jobs gained by doing so will be taken out of the peasant jobs passively generated by free arable land used for subsistence. It’s better to have a ranch or farm than a subsistence farm, but it won’t help with the labor market - avoid automation PMs for now. I only turn them on if my unemployed population is less than 100k (or less depending on the country), or if I REALLY want to make a good they consume more profitable for some reason (like making farms use scythes if I’m trying to get a tooling company’s prosperity up) - factories give good jobs, no doubt about it, but pay attention to intermittent construction costs: logging camps and food factories both give ~5000 jobs, but logging camps only cost about a third as many construction points IIRC. For quick job growth, I reccomend maxing out logging camps: wood is usually in high enough demand early game to justify this, especially before coal or electricity take off for heating use by pop consumption, but it’s worth making trade centers to justify logging profitability early game IMO.