In February 1832, the British, who had caused great trouble on the European continent, once again withdrew their attention from the continent, which was about to be plunged into the storm of revolution, and threw themselves into the battlefield of world war.

The "January Revolution" in France will certainly set off a storm of revolution on the already turbulent European continent, and the loss of Belgium by the Kingdom of the Netherlands is almost a certainty, as the question of whether to make Napoleon II king of Belgium is a constant problem. There is no longer such a problem, so Belgian independence will soon be achieved.

The progressive forces of the German states might want to turn their scattered confederation into a unified republic with a republican revolution – which would mean the collapse of the Austrian Empire and the loss of the German monarchy! Of course, the Austrian Emperor and the monarchs and conservatives of the German states would have tried to suppress the revolution. Among them, the North German states, led by Prussia, were a little better. All they had to do was suppress the republicans, and it would do them no harm in strengthening the huddle between the German states. But the Austrian Empire was miserable!

Austria, which was dominated by Germans, certainly wanted to live with the German states, while the other peoples under the Austrian Empire wanted to live on their own. Anyway, except for the Habsburgs, no one wanted the Austrian Empire.

Italy to the south of Austria was already on the verge of revolt, and their charcoal-burners revolted after the Napoleonic Wars in an attempt to establish a unified and independent Italian republic or kingdom. And in the past 1831, a man named Giuseppe. Mazzini's Young Charcoal Burners founded the Young Italian Party in Marseille, France, and compared with the previous Charcoal Burning Party, the Young Italian Party is obviously more progressive, more thoughtful, and certainly more capable of tossing!

Tsar Nicholas I, the Rakshasa Emperor, will soon be in big trouble as well!

Under the Tsar, Poland had always had a high level of revolutionary fervor, and the Poles hated strong monarchs, so they used to prefer weak outsiders to be kings rather than the possibility of forming a centralized power. As a result, the originally powerful Kingdom of Poland became weaker and weaker, and the neighboring Rakshasas, Prussia, and Austria carved up Poland after achieving varying degrees of centralization. But the Polish people's desire for independence and freedom did not die, and because the Polish Revolution was looking for trouble with Rakshasas, Prussia, and Austria, it had always been supported by France, and Napoleon had also contributed vigorously to the Polish Revolution, and the Polish Bonapartist elements were particularly active, and they had to work overtime to make a revolution in the future.

And the nobles of the Rakshasa country wanted to learn from the French Revolution in 1825! Now I see France republican! They still have to make a big fuss about the rakshasas?

In short, the "January Revolution" in France was a fire that ignited the dry wood of revolution on the European continent!

The whole European continent will have to be in chaos for a while, but Britain will most likely be able to stand alone once again. The hidden dangers of Ireland, as well as the problem of land concentration in England, were of course troublesome, but the British Empire had the resources to deal with it. Britain has a small population, with a total of just over 20 million, and there is a surplus of colonies outside that cannot be used up, and there is a rebel country, the United States, that can give the British poor to realize the American dream (the poor in other European countries can also go, but there is no English speaker to go in the past), so Britain is not in chaos now.

Now that Europe is in turmoil, and the United States is stuck in a proxy war with the Ming Dynasty, looking at the West, it seems that only the British Empire itself can maintain stability and comfort.

Therefore, England will still be the favorite place of Western capital for a long time to come, and the British pound, British debt, and British stocks have also begun to strengthen since the "January Revolution" in France.

In addition, the fact that the British Empire had been worried about the French-Rakshasa teaming up to backstab themselves is now impossible to happen again with the French Revolution. If Napoleon II had been dressed in a purple robe, he might be able to get along with Nicholas I again, but now that he is republican, how could Nicholas I be on good terms with him? Moreover, part of the fleet of the French Navy also ran to Algeria with the black-haired Louis, and many battleships under construction were not built because of the technical support of the Ming Dynasty, even if they could be built, the power could not be compared to the original.

Therefore, the British Empire can rest assured.

And the Duke of Wellington and Viscount Palmerston, who returned from the chaos on the European continent, got two pieces of good news - the British Empire already had carrier-based aircraft and aircraft carriers!

The Duke of Wellington and Viscount Palmerston, who had received the good news from Ordnance Director Somerset, went to the Plymouth Military Harbour in the southwest of England, and saw an aircraft carrier and a biplane parked on the airtight water in the deepest part of the military port.

The reason why this aircraft carrier is easy to ignore is because it is so small! Not a light aircraft carrier in the ordinary sense, but a baby aircraft carrier.

"Fitzroy, this, this is an aircraft carrier?" Standing on a destroyer, looking down at a particularly small ship on the surface that could only hold one carrier-based aircraft, the Duke of Wellington asked Somerset, the ordnance director beside him, very uncertainly.

"Yes!" Somerset nodded, "This is an aircraft carrier, it has a straight-through flight deck that can fly carrier-based aircraft, so it's an aircraft carrier." ”

"How big is it?" The Duke of Wellington asked again.

"It has a standard displacement of 200 tons, a total length of 20 meters, a width of 12 meters, and a deep V-shaped hull design that can keep the hull stable at high speeds of 28 knots"

"What? Can it drive up to 28 knots? What is its powertrain? The Duke of Wellington asked with a smile.

Somerset replied humorously: "Duke, its power system is four long, sturdy oars and four Popeye, but it is difficult for them alone to reach a speed of 28 knots. Therefore, when flying carrier-based aircraft, in order to create as much deck wind as possible, we also need to use our latest high-speed destroyer to tow it. ”

"What model is that plane? It really works in this way. Baby aircraft carrier take-off? "The Duke of Wellington still has a hard time accepting that an aircraft carrier can be so small.

"Duke, the number of that plane is Kelly F1," Somerset replied, "it is a single-engine biplane, the fuselage is wooden and cloth, and it is equipped with an 80 hp rotary cylinder engine, and its maximum speed is close to 70 knots (about 130 km/h), and it can take off from a 20-meter-long flight deck as long as there is enough deck wind." You'll see it from this ship in a moment. The baby aircraft carrier took off. ”

The Duke of Wellington asked again, "That's a take-off. What about landing? How is it going to land? Can a 20-meter flight deck land an airplane? ”

"Of course not," Somerset shook his head, "this type of aircraft carrier does not have the ability to recover carrier-based aircraft at the moment. ”

"So what's the use of it?"

Somerset said: "Duke, it can be used to carry a seaplane. The first aircraft of the Ming Navy to board the aircraft carrier was also a seaplane. In fact, we are already speeding up the construction of large aircraft-carrying battleships and aircraft-carrying cruisers. But the construction of such a large ship takes a long time, and it will take up to several months of sea trials before it can be put into service. So our engineers designed this infant emergency aircraft carrier. If this type of baby aircraft carrier can be successfully finalized, we are ready to build 50-100 aircraft carriers in order to quickly form combat effectiveness. ”

"How long will it take to build such an aircraft carrier?" Viscount Palmerston, Lord of the Admiralty, interjected.

"Three to five days," Somerset said, "another day of sea trials." Even if it is calculated a little wider, from the start of construction to delivery, 1 week should be enough! And this type of aircraft carrier does not have to be built in the United Kingdom, and shipyards in India, the United States and even Australia can produce it in batches. ”

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