Sarah Paine

Yeah.

Martial resources.

It is, but there's another piece.

China's not really a unified state in this period.

If you think about what people's loyalties are, it's to province and place.

It's not to the whole China.

I mean, they're all part of it, but it's to place.

I'll give you an example.

So China has...

three fleets.

And the ones that I've been talking about and use is the Northern Fleet.

And in the Sino-French War, the Southern Fujian Fleet or whatever it is, the Southern one that's fighting in, well, it's into China in those days.

It wants the Northern Fleet to come down and help them.

And the Northern Fleet says, hell no.

So in the Sino-Japanese War, when the Northern Fleet wants the Southern Fleet to come help it, the answer is hell no.

And it also has to do with how are these forces being financed?

Provincial governors are financing it.

And so they want to use these forces for province.

They don't want to send it out of province.

And in the traditional world, where China is just worrying about some barbarians on horses way often, wherever, that works well enough.