Treasure Hunt Tycoon

Goats laughed: "No, Amish don't want to make friends like me, but they like to barter, and my car often carries a lot of things they like ..."

Li Du said: "You are a smart guy."

"Maybe a smart bastard, everyone thinks I'm a bastard." He laughed.

Li Du shook hands with him and said, "I'm Li, I'm glad to meet you, just stroll around and see if we have anything you like here."

Goatee said: "I'm also glad to meet you, Boss Li, I'm Got, Goat Got. Similarly, you can see if there is anything you like in my car."

The carriages were very messy, with rusty ironware, copperware with patina, some wooden furniture, and rough pottery, all looking handmade.

Li Du felt that these things were quite quaint. With the experience of the Dodo specimens last time, he was more interested in the Amish stuff and released a small flying insect.

This time, I still live up to expectations. After the bugs came out, they flew to some small machines assembled from iron cans and steel pipes.

Li Du controlled it to return, then calmly reached out and touched the machine.

The small machine is mainly divided into two parts, one is an iron can, and the other is something like a shunt that comes together.

Among them, the iron can is still connected with a rough steel pipe. He reached out and gestured. Through the steel pipe, the iron can and the shunt pipe can be combined together, and it looks like a set of tools.

He didn't know what it was, and winked at Hans.

Hans came over and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

Li Dudao: "Look at this, do you know what it is?"

Hans smiled at a glance: "Things of no value, private brewing stills, I used to have this thing in my home, and it was very common in rural areas before."

Li Du suddenly said: "Oh, this is the tool for private brewing?"

Private brewing, as the name suggests, is privately brewed in secret, and the reason for this is that some people are evading high taxes or completely banning drinking.

In the history of the United States, private brewing has appeared very early. This phenomenon is particularly rampant in rural areas. Whiskey or rum circulating in the market for a long time are almost all this stuff.

Hans said, "Yes, what's wrong? Are you interested?"

Li Du once again released the small flying insects, and the small flying insects once again flew towards the private brewing distiller with interest, so from this point of view, this thing should not be alive for a short time.

So he whispered, "I feel like this thing is antique, it feels special to me."

Hans laughed: "Do you know our private brewing culture? In fact, many of these stills are grandpa-type guys because they are durable."

Li Du asked: "Private brewing culture? This stuff also has culture?"

Hans said: "Of course man, you don't know the history of private brewing? It's as old as the United States!"

Soon after the end of the War of Independence, the financial difficulties of the long war became apparent, and the US government imposed a federal tax on distilled spirits to solve this problem.

However, at that time, the American people had just got rid of heavy British taxes through the War of Independence, so they were very dissatisfied with this measure. They decided to continue brewing their own whiskies and completely ignore the existence of federal taxes.

For these early brewers, brewing and selling wine was neither for hobby nor for some extra money, which is the means by which they depended on survival.

When the harvest is not good, farmers turn their corn into whisky that can be sold for money, relying on a little extra income in return to survive.

For them, paying taxes means they ca n’t support their families, so even if the government issues strict legal regulations, farmers are still trying to make wine secretly.

In this case, the government began to use excessive means, and when the war ended, many farmers were soldiers retired from the army.

In the face of government officials who persecuted the door, the farmers held their guns to fight.

"By the 1860s, the government had financed the American Civil War through the imposition of excise taxes, a practice that intensified the battle between alcohol drinkers and anti-smuggling officials."

"Society was chaotic at that time, brother, it was too chaotic." Hans said, shaking his head.

Li Du asked: "How chaotic? Violent clashes between the two sides?"

Hans sneered: "It's more serious! The drunkards and the three parties have been armed and merged, and they have fought many direct battles with the government!"

Li Du was surprised: "These guys are crazy enough!"

The three parties are the most notorious native evil forces in the history of the United States. They adhere to the principle of white supremacy, discriminate against people of color, and use violence to do evil.

Hans said: "What's even more crazy, buddies, in order to keep the information of their brewery, they intimidate and threaten the local residents, and attack the IRS officials and their families, they are violent lunatics!"

Li Du said, "Then they are so abominable ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ I understand the situation of some alcohol drinkers. They later became gangsters, right? I used a Chicago typewriter as a weapon, and I saw it on TV. "

The Chicago typewriter is the nickname of the Thomson submachine gun because it sounds as crisp as a typewriter.

In the 1920s and 1930s, this gun was the favorite of American gangsters, because its total length is only 85 cm, and the empty gun is only 5 kg. It can be hidden in a coat and used with fierce firepower.

Hans shook his head and said, "What you know is not the real situation. Later, the number of private brewers increased, and most of them were not very aggressive. They were rural farmer brewers."

It was also said that the US government was dead. In the early 20th century, the United States passed several laws to prohibit the sale and purchase of alcohol.

By 1920, the ban on alcohol had officially entered into force nationwide. Suddenly, there was no legal liquor to buy in the market, and people's demand for private wines skyrocketed.

But after the prohibition of alcohol in 1933 was abolished, the private brewing market began to shrink.

Although private brewing was still a problem for federal authorities in the 1960s and 1970s, cases of illegal alcohol have rarely been heard in court today.

Nowadays, private brewing is rarely seen in the market because of poor taste and unstable quality, and private brewing tools are not very popular in the market.

However, there are still some people who like to remember the old days will buy these tools, they just buy them in private to brew and drink them, or just to reflect on the past life.

Among them, the Amish people have always insisted on making wine in private. They do not participate in the circulation and operation of the market economy and are active in their own small circle. Drinking wine is mainly made by themselves.

Therefore, the Amish people's private brewing tools are better preserved and more marketable.