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The unprecedented amount of funds earmarked for the military also made its way to the scientific community. Not only court scholars such as [[Avidor Boruch]] benefitted from research grants, the funds trickled down to schools and academies founded by them too. The 19th century was a febrile time for scientific progress, the adoption of the steam engine revolutionized the Qian navy, giving rise to a new class of ships known as ironclads. Powered by steam engines instead of sails and covered in thick steel plates for protection; the fleets of the Qian became a formidable force. In 1855 a royal dwarf by the name of Xiao Sha invented a type of gatling gun based on old schematics by [[Avidor Boruch|Wang Ming]]. Operated with a hand crank, the gun had five barrels that could fire up to two hundred rounds per minute, capable of mowing great masses of enemy soldiers in moments. Sha's gun would enter mass production in 1862 and service with the Qian army by 1865 and would be deployed in wars in [[Huoxia]] and [[Rusana]] and famously to repel hordes of [[Varshan]]is during the [[Battle of the Blood Plain]] in southern [[Xisheng]]. | The unprecedented amount of funds earmarked for the military also made its way to the scientific community. Not only court scholars such as [[Avidor Boruch]] benefitted from research grants, the funds trickled down to schools and academies founded by them too. The 19th century was a febrile time for scientific progress, the adoption of the steam engine revolutionized the Qian navy, giving rise to a new class of ships known as ironclads. Powered by steam engines instead of sails and covered in thick steel plates for protection; the fleets of the Qian became a formidable force. In 1855 a royal dwarf by the name of Xiao Sha invented a type of gatling gun based on old schematics by [[Avidor Boruch|Wang Ming]]. Operated with a hand crank, the gun had five barrels that could fire up to two hundred rounds per minute, capable of mowing great masses of enemy soldiers in moments. Sha's gun would enter mass production in 1862 and service with the Qian army by 1865 and would be deployed in wars in [[Huoxia]] and [[Rusana]] and famously to repel hordes of [[Varshan]]is during the [[Battle of the Blood Plain]] in southern [[Xisheng]]. | ||
==Land forces== | ==Land forces== | ||
[[File: | [[File:Chinese_officers_with_Montigny_Mitrailleuse.jpg|thumb|Daxian soldiers with one a native gatling gun]] The Great Arsenal period army of the early [[Daxia#QianDynasty(1550-1946)|Qian Dynasty]] was characterized by its widespread adoption of modern black powder firearms, having adapted from the previous usage of what was effectively downscaled cannon as imagined by [[Avidor Boruch]]. The tactics of massed handheld firearms were normalized during the early Qian Dynasty and specialized convergently into the style of line units of musketeers known from contemporaneous [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]]. The late nineteenth century saw the system of regional quotas of the previous [[Daxia#ZhongDynasty(915-1550)|Zhong Dynasty]] done away with, replaced instead by the system of recruitment and universal conscription normalized elsewhere in the world (particularly [[Sarpedon]] and [[Levantia]]) at the time. The central bureaucracy at this time took control of all recruitment efforts away from local governors with a system of recruitment offices in every province; governors were merely ancillary to the process and ordered to make available their law enforcement forces to corral recruits. | ||
New industrial concerns and weapon factories were sponsored by the government. The standardization of the rifles in use by the army was an important step forward as it allowed for more efficiency in the use of material inputs; some 300,000 breech loading rifles had been produced domestically by 1856 in factories belonging to the [[Daxia]]n Gunsmith Guild(one of the antecessors of [[Diaoyu]]). | |||
==Navy== | ==Navy== | ||
Describe expansion and ship upgrades, military theory on force required in audonian periphery vis a vis rivals | Describe expansion and ship upgrades, military theory on force required in audonian periphery vis a vis rivals | ||