However, after Xu Ren and others received Li Xian's letter, although they were called idiots, everyone burst into laughter - they were indeed idiots.
With high-speed aircraft, why didn't they think of a decapitation strategy? Why didn't they think of an air strike? Simply convert the 240mm artillery shells into aerial bombs and throw them at the enemy in large pieces!
In the past, ordinary war weapons flew slowly and at low altitudes, so no one had such an idea; but Anyang was different. The two sealed aircraft had a speed of 420 kilometers per hour, and a flying altitude of more than one thousand meters when fully loaded, and a terrifying five thousand meters when empty!
In the unloaded state, the aircraft is brought to an altitude of 5,000 meters using only propellers - at this altitude, the floating cloud formation has no effect anymore.
Li Xian’s letter also mentioned a new aircraft concept, which was simply named “airplane” (O (∩_∩) O ha!).
Different from the general design thinking of war instruments, which are like millstones, the design of the airplane is fully enclosed, pursuing speed, imitating the shape of a flying bird, and adding propellers to the wings and other places.
Designing an airplane is not that easy. Without previous experience in designing aircraft, Li Xian did not dare to take on this project. Flying has always been a life-threatening, dangerous, and special pursuit.
Traditional war weapons are more about low-level flexibility and load-bearing capacity; while Li Xian's flying machine concept is all about speed! Speed is all about speed. Once you have enough speed, you can start attacking!
In addition, Li Xian also said in the letter that in the future, letters between Anyang and the imperial mausoleum should be sent by airplane; sending letters by ground is too dangerous, and Anyang has already paid the price of hundreds of lives for this, the price is too high!
After the group of people finished laughing, Xu Ren took out the second letter from the envelope. This was Li Xian's reply to "Poison Scholar Li Yuanming"; and this reply was very simple, with only two sentences: The world will eventually unite after a long period of division, and will eventually divide after a long period of unity; there will be no establishment without destruction, and only after destruction can one establish!
"What does this mean?" Xia Qingqing didn't fully understand it for a moment; these two isolated sentences seemed to have nothing to do with Xu Ren's question "How to deal with Li Yuanming".
Yan Ze'an seemed to be thinking about something. "Madam, what the young master meant is that if we want to live in peace in a corner, this Li Yuanming is of course unnecessary. But if we want to plot against the whole world, then the poison scholar may have unexpected abilities. Don't poison scholars like chaotic times and poison the whole world? But if we use them well, the poison scholars can become Anyang's pioneer think tank! Let others 'divide' and 'break'; while we in Anyang will 'unite' and 'establish'. But a poison scholar must be controllable. I think Mr. Xu may have a way to do this?"
"Yes!" Xu Ren nodded affirmatively, "The method is very simple, four words: common interests!"
"Common interests?" Hearing these four words, Yan Ze'an nodded thoughtfully.
Xia Qingqing also understood, but she was not very happy - if Anyang were to use Li Yuanming's words, the first country he would have to face would be the Great Xia Kingdom. In other words, the first country to be "broken and divided" would be the Great Xia Kingdom!
Although Xia Qingqing has been able to face reality, it is still uncomfortable to reveal these things.