Rise of Australia

Chapter 441 Chaotic Order

If Arthur remembers correctly, Britain's first real aircraft carrier should have been built in the late period of World War I in history, around 1917 to 1918.

At that time, the British aircraft carrier was transformed from a cruiser, but the main gun at the front was canceled and replaced with a downward-sloping wooden runway.

This design has too many flaws, which is why aircraft carriers gradually became the first choice for warships of various countries during World War II.

However, the second aircraft carrier design of Sydney Royal Dockyard can well solve the defects of aircraft carriers transformed from cruisers or battleships.

Under Arthur's decision, in addition to the new round of construction of two super dreadnoughts, Australasia also built two more giant-class aircraft carriers.

The Giant-class aircraft carrier is a brand-new warship design, not the British aircraft carrier transformed from battleships and cruisers.

According to the preliminary design of the giant-class aircraft carrier, the standard displacement of this new warship is about 11500 tons, and the full-load displacement exceeds 13000 tons, which is far behind the tonnage of current battleships.

You must know that the current mainstream super dreadnoughts have a full-load displacement of nearly or even more than [-] tons.

This also makes the Giant-class aircraft carrier smaller than the Hope-class battleship, and it doesn't even have the large number of main guns of previous warships.

The Royal Sydney Dockyard designed a full-through flight deck for the Giant-class aircraft carrier, which allows aircraft to take off and land better on the aircraft carrier.

At the same time, this aircraft carrier also has a closed bow, which can better resist wind and waves and strengthen the strength of the full deck.

In this way, the length and width of the giant-class aircraft carrier are 180 meters and 21.5 meters respectively, and the draft is 5.7 meters, which can carry a full 20 aircraft.

Because all the main guns were discarded and only a small number of anti-aircraft weapons were equipped, the Giant-class aircraft carrier lost a considerable part of its weight and its speed was increased under the premise of having the same power system as the super dreadnought.

The estimated speed of the giant-class aircraft carrier can reach 25.5 knots, which is relatively fast among the large warships.

Of course, although it has been decided to build two Giant-class aircraft carriers, Arthur and the Australasian government will not take the initiative to disclose the news of the aircraft carrier until other countries expose the aircraft carrier.

Arthur would not do this stupid thing of strengthening other countries, although Australasia has already achieved a considerable lead in aircraft.

You must know that the combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier basically depends on the number and performance of the carrier-based aircraft.The aircraft in Australasia are all the most advanced in the world, far exceeding the aircraft development progress of other countries.

It also means that even if Australasia's aircraft carrier development progress is the same as that of other countries, the actual combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers will far exceed other countries.

Along with the official start of the aircraft carrier, it also began a three-month inspection trip to the states and territories of Australasia.

The purpose of this inspection trip is to check whether the states and colonies have been affected by the war, and the current real living standards of the people.

There is also urging the state governments to improve the storage of strategic materials and medical materials.If Arthur remembered correctly, the famous Spanish flu would not be a few years away.

Arthur's memory of this influenza is too deep. First, this kind of epidemic virus has made a comeback, and second, the number of infections and deaths caused by the Spanish flu is quite exaggerated.

Arthur still clearly remembers the tragic ending of the Spanish flu, which caused at least 5 million people to be infected and at least 2000 million people to die.

Until that time, the total world population was only about 17 billion people, and one in every three people was infected with the Spanish flu, and one in every 3 people died of the Spanish flu.

What is even more frightening is that the death toll of the Spanish flu is not exact, but it is definitely more than the number of people reported and counted by various countries.

If Arthur remembered correctly, the time when the Denver flu spread coincided with the end of the First World War and the time when soldiers from various countries returned home.

Because of the long and exhausting war, all countries are spreading the good news of the victory of the war, and there is no news of the Spanish flu that is enough to panic the people.

Spain, as the first country that broke the news of the flu outbreak in its own country in a very honest way, was naturally blamed by countries all over the world. Therefore, this pandemic was named Spanish influenza, which is also the famous Spanish flu.

But in fact, the earliest recorded Spanish flu occurred in a military camp in Kansas, USA, followed by cases of influenza in France, Britain and other countries.

It can only be said that Spain has become the one to blame, otherwise this flu will be named the American flu or the European flu.

The scariest thing about the Spanish flu was its death toll of more than 2000 million.

Even the First World War, which took several years, had only more than 1000 million deaths in history.

When such a disease has caused more human casualties than a world war covering the whole world, it is enough to prove how terrible this influenza is.

Arthur can't guarantee that he can completely resist the disease, so he can only ask the government to prepare enough medical supplies in advance, and be ready to close the country's borders during the epidemic at any time, so as to survive the disaster as much as possible.

As for the life and death of other countries, it is beyond Arthur's control for the time being.

While Arthur's national inspection was in full swing, the war in Europe became very anxious and fierce again.

As time slowly came to October 1916, Germany, Britain and France once again fought fiercely in Verdun and the Somme area, and the number of casualties in various countries continued to increase every day, even stepping.

But to say that the most difficult country should be the Russian Empire that has now entered the cold.

Although it was only October, most of the territory of Tsarist Russia had become cold, and St. Petersburg and Moscow in the north had turned into a country of ice and snow, covering this ancient city with a layer of white.

If it is normal, the Russians have long been accustomed to such cold.But it is different now, because of the consumption of the war, the people at the bottom lack coal, food and daily necessities, and their lives are extremely difficult.

In fact, the Russians are not short of money.Their salaries have increased compared to before the war, and their per capita income has even increased by several percentages.

But the problem is that compared with the increase in Russian wages, the increase in prices in Russia is more exaggerated.

Because of the lack of materials, most of the large amount of materials shipped from Britain, France and Australasia were transferred to the front line.

Some supplies that are not lacking in the front line have been sold at sky-high prices in China, and are held in the hands of those capitalists, so it is impossible to buy them without spending a lot of money.

Even coal resources, which are urgently needed by the Russian people for heating, have increased by more than five times in just two years.

Russian civilians at the bottom face a difficult choice, either buy coal for heating or buy food to fill their stomachs.

Only one of the two options can be chosen, because the salary in their hands can only buy one of them.

In desperation, many Russian people huddled together in neighbors and leaned on each other for warmth to resist the coming winter.

Even many families pooled their money to buy coal, and then dozens of people crowded into a small room of more than ten square meters. The red light from the crack of the stove illuminated everyone's faces, but it couldn't hide the sadness on people's faces.

Not to mention heating, even for cooking, Russians share a stove with several families in order to save the damn extravagant coal bill.

Remember, this is only October.When winter really comes in January and February, who knows how many people in Russia will freeze to death?
Perhaps those who were frozen to death this winter were probably these Russian civilians with sad faces.

What's more terrible is that, in addition to coal, the prices of various daily necessities, industrial products, grain, medical supplies and even salt and condiments are all increasing.

The price of grain has more than tripled, and the price of industrial products has more than quadrupled.Even if it is a common daily necessities, buying one casually requires a month's salary of a Russian.

There are many reasons for this situation in Russia, such as inflation, rebellions and strikes in various factories, huge consumption on the front lines, capitalists hoarding goods to make the country lose money, and so on.

Anything will give a country a headache, but Russia has experienced everything.

If it is in other European countries, the government will pay attention to the demonstrations of the people, and the opposition parties will take the opportunity to attack the government, and the media will follow suit.

But in Russia under the tsarist dictatorship, no one would care about the lives of these ordinary people.No way, who let Russia have a population of more than 1 million.

In other European countries, the loss of millions of people may be painful.But in Russia, the loss of population does not exceed 1000 million, and the top Russian officials don't know what it means to be distressed.

But the status quo in Russia does not stop there.The common people in St. Petersburg are fine. After all, it is located in the capital of the empire, and the government will not make the situation in St. Petersburg too embarrassing.

But in remote villages and cities in Russia, the increase in supplies is extremely exaggerated.There are even rumors that for every [-]% increase in the wages of ordinary people, the price of food will double.

If a small number of Russians before the war were hungry, then only a small number of Russians today are not hungry.

If you cover up the status of the great powers of the Tsarist Russian Empire and just look at the remote villages and cities of Tsarist Russia with the eyes of a bystander, you will be surprised to find that the current living environment in these areas is no different from the colonies of the great powers, and even the government exploits the people will be more serious.

When a country cannot even guarantee the most basic living needs of the people, the country is about to be subverted.

In the dark of seemingly peaceful Russia, a turbulent wave is plotting.

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