In 1907, when the train entered 1907, Germany and Britain were in full swing in the naval arms race, and the other powers were not idle, Japan and the United States were also vigorously building naval capital ships, and the Russian government was busy with the turbulent situation at home and the revolutionaries, although the Russian revolutionary uprising at the end of 1905 was suppressed by the tsarist government due to the great disparity of forces and the lack of unity between the various armed forces, but the foundation of the Russian empire had been greatly shaken. Lenin fled to East Prussia in early 1906 and regained strength while reflecting on the reasons for the failure of the revolution.

Chen Tian began to study aircraft carriers, and in his consciousness, with aircraft carriers, battleships are no longer only battleships.

But at this time, after all, it was 1907, and everything had to be planned and designed by himself, so he decided to start with a simpler one, which was seaplanes and seaplane carriers.

Prior to this, Chentian's aircraft factory had produced a "Exocet" seaplane, which was actually modified on the basis of the "Sky II" aircraft, and a boat-shaped pontoon was installed at the wheel position of the aircraft. All a seaplane carrier has to do is hoist the aircraft from the mothership to the surface, the aircraft takes off and lands on the surface, and the mothership hoists the aircraft back to the ship from the water. The design and modification of a seaplane carrier is very simple, as long as a cargo ship or warship is modified to a certain extent, it can carry 2-10 "Exocet" seaplanes.

However, Chen Tian did not know anything about the project of refitting ships, so he had to go to the Königsberg shipyard to find all the engineers and technicians, including the steamship mechanics recruited from Norway and Sweden, hoping to find someone suitable for the project from among them.

"I need an imaginative engineer or technician who has worked in the construction of ordinary freighters and warships!" Chen Tian said to the dozens of people in front of him.

About 10 people raised their hands on the spot to indicate that they were eligible, and Chen Tian asked these people who raised their hands, "Do you think a plane can take off from a ship?" ”

They looked at each other and both shook their heads, only two of the younger ones raised their hands.

"You two stay! Others can go! Chen Tian suddenly felt that this was a bit like an interview, and he motioned for the two young people who had just raised their hands to sit in front of him. Both of them were blonde-haired, one looked like a typical German on his face, and the other ......

"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer!" When Chen Tian carefully looked at the face of the other person, he couldn't help but call out softly, the baby face looked almost the same as Manchester United star Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. If babyface can be inherited, this person must be Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's ancestor!

"Your Royal Highness, you, you actually know my name?" The man also looked at Chentian with a look of surprise.

"You...... Is it really called Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? Chen Tian looked at this baby face with wide eyes, could it be that the face shape can really be inherited?

"Yes! My name is Ster. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer! How? ”

"It's nothing, it's just that you look a lot like someone I know, and his name is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. I'll have a chance to introduce you to each other in the future, hahaha! Chen Tian laughed awkwardly, and then he looked at the other young man who was wondering, "I'm sorry, what's your name?" ”

"Lyman, Fabit. Lyman! Berliners, ship engineers! "Sure enough, he is German, he speaks concisely and to the point, but he has a rare German imagination.

"Alright! Follow me from today onwards! We want to do something epoch-making! Chen Tian excitedly held their hands, the ancestors of the stars! How about signing it?

Two months later, Chentian completed the conversion of their first seaplane carrier, which was formerly a cargo ship with a displacement of 8,000 tons, and Chentian gave it a very interesting name, "Mother Duck". The "Mother Duck" was equipped with a lift and a long boom at the front and rear of the ship, and several cargo holds in the belly of the ship were opened up as aircraft hangars, which could accommodate a total of eight "Exocet" seaplanes.

On this day, the Baltic Sea was calm, and Chentian, together with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Lehmann, boarded the "Duck Mother" for the first trial voyage with planes taking off and landing.

"Alright, let's start lowering the plane and hoisting it!"

"Left, a little further left."

Solskjaer couldn't help but look at the joyful expression of the crew as they busily hoisted the seaplane onto the boom, which he was responsible for designing and installing, "Look! Your Royal Highness, the plane will soon be smoothly lowered to the water! ”

"Hmmm! Not bad! But I would like to ask, how long does it take for an airplane to go from the boom to the water? ”

"About 5 minutes!" Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thought for a moment and replied.

"It takes at least half an hour for the eight planes to take off from the two ends of the plane! How much time does it take for that plane to retract and set off again? ”

"Hmm...... It takes 10 minutes to hang it up, 5 minutes to refuel and check, and 5 minutes to lift it to the surface again, a total of 20 minutes! ”

"The speed of a seaplane carrier converted from a cargo ship is too slow, but if the ship is converted to a battleship, the carrying capacity is too small, and in any case, it needs to be at a stationary or extremely slow speed to lower or lift the aircraft, and the seaplane cannot take off at all when the wind and waves are high!" Lyman suddenly interjected with a blank face.

"Very well said! Lyman! Chen Tian stretched out his hand and gestured, "What if you take off directly from the all-through deck?" All the problems are solved! ”

Instead of speaking, Lyman and Solskjaer looked at a starting seaplane on the water, which glided some distance above the water before taking off.

"Theoretically possible!" Ryman suddenly thought of something, "As long as the deck is long enough!" ”

"What about landing? It takes a long distance to land! ”

Lehmann is a very creative engineer, while Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a technician who can turn imagination into reality.

"Landing! Attach a hook to the tail of the plane and a few retractable ropes on the deck, and it will be fun to hook the rope with the hook when the plane lands! Decades later, it would be something the world would know, but it left Lehmann and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer deep in thought.

Three years later, under the "guidance" of Chentian and the joint efforts of Lehmann and Solskjaer, a real aircraft carrier - the "Super Duck Mother" with an all-through deck and island bridge was launched, with a displacement of 12,000 tons, a maximum speed of 20 knots, and a deck length of 188×28 meters, which can carry 25 "Seagull I" single-engine biplane fighters or 14 "Mallard I" twin-engine biplane attack aircraft. The birth of the "Super Duck Mother" brought a touch of unusual atmosphere to this era of battleships. Since Chentian and his duck mothers were silently building and experimenting in the Baltic Sea, the world did not know much about this advanced weapon, and in fact they were already many, many years behind Chentian and the German Navy......

It wasn't until December 14, 1910, that American pilot Eugene Erie flew the Curtis biplane from a platform mounted on the front of the cruiser Birmingham. On January 18 of the following year, it successfully landed on a platform installed at the rear of the armored cruiser "Pennsylvania" in a berthed state. The British Navy followed suit, and on January 1, 1912, Captain Charles Samson followed Eugene Erie's example and successfully achieved the first British take-off from the 305 mm main guns of the battleship "Africa" and the makeshift runway erected above the foredeck. In May of the same year, during a naval parade in Wemmers Bay, he took off from the battleship "Ireland" and then from the battleship "London". At the end of 1912, the British Royal Navy carried out the practice of converting light cruisers into seaplane carriers. At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Royal Navy was nearing completion of a converted coal carrier, named "Ark Royal", with a displacement of 7,450 tons and a capacity of 10 seaplanes.

By the time the war broke out, Chentian's Baltic Fleet already had 2 medium-sized aircraft carriers, namely the 12,000-ton "Super Duck Mother" and the 15,000-ton "Lisa", 4 seaplane carriers, 3 of which were later supported by the German High Seas Fleet, and 2 light cruisers allocated by the Admiralty, 14 destroyers built by the Königsberg shipyard, 2 destroyers provided by the Admiralty, 24 self-built submarines, and 13 self-built torpedo boats. With 35 self-built patrol gunboats, this fleet has become a significant military force in the Baltic Sea.