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well most factions are poor because their citizens don´t pay their taxs and don´t fill up tax forms so the best way to get out of debt depending on wich faction you pick is increase your tax paying base by adding new territories to your original ones

don´t enslave or exterminate people that makes their productivity low i mean a slave as hardly any incentive to give his best except for a few lashes (only idiots kill off valuable property because they are lazy anyway ) so when acquiring new territories just share their population between your other towns (all cities with a general will get a share of that population ) plus that "sharing" of population will grant that new conquered region a new trade resource this tactic is particulary usefull and required with maks and epirotes since your army training centers will tend to run out of population on quite a few ocasions

i love the balkans a bit tricky at the start but let me inform you that all those mines more then make up for it and once you develop it (it will take you 2/5 years to kick out the epirotes and the kh if you are the maks and 20 years give or take to develop all those mines ) you can easily suport 6/7 full stack armies and a powerfull navy filled with triremes and quinquiremes