Before level 1 boss I buy 1-2 training edicts, one for STR/AGI/DEX, and the associated improved attack, other for Mind usually. Plenty of money for that.
As for how I keep order high, I don't, particularly. The lower the order is, the higher your subsidies, and thus the more money you get.
Unless you're going for like a 0 corruption run (I did mine, no plans on doing it ever again, so hard), I like to do the reception side-job, which on a good day can improve your order by like 8, provided you actually process paperwork and assign people to rooms, instead of just shaking hands and catching goblin dicks.
If you're really struggling, look into the edict "Basic guard training" (IIRC costs like 1K), which opens up the leftmost solution to the goblin problem, that increases your control by 4. That is a massive boost at a very reasonable price.
