old dream

Chapter 61 Unexpectedly
"The result? It turned out that they weren't going to get into the bootleg business at all, and neither did we."

Hearing this unexpected answer, Colin only felt a buzzing in his head:
"Wait, what?"

"That's the result of yesterday's meeting."

A man who had just walked in the door took off his coat and hung it on a hook, naturally interrupting the conversation between them.

A tall and thin man.Colin remembered that he was now in charge of the ledger for Luca, named Enzo, more of a businessman than a gang member:

"Five hands won't provide any bootlegger with shelter for at least this year."

"You know what that means, right?"

"I know, but why is this?" Colin recovered from the shock, put away the gaffe just now, and then asked.

This means that all moonshine merchants in Southstad do not need to pay any more commissions to the five hands.

It's just that if they are robbed or hacked by someone, or they are approached by police detectives, Five Hands will not be held responsible for them.

Therefore, the establishment of an underground market has become a distant prospect.

The black market also needs order, and even relies more on order because of the opaqueness of information.If it is full of people who want to make money through fraud and extortion, it will dry up very quickly, and no one will ever want to make money safely in the long run.

"More specifically, there is another rule: Although it does not prevent outsiders from participating in the bootleg business, if it is a person inside Five Hands, it is prohibited."

Enzo shook his head, but looked relaxed:
"I don't like this decision very much. If we don't give up such a market, we can also get a little easier financially."

He said jokingly:
"But I have to admit that it is a wiser choice to watch on the sidelines for a while at this time."

"Did Don Marizio think it was too risky?"

Maybe they sensed something, such as the unusual force with which the authorities imposed the ban, so they refrained from participating.

"Yeah." Enzo nodded and said:

"I heard that the above is quite serious. The newly established Prohibition Bureau has received a ridiculous amount of budget. Just take the Principality as an example. Recently, many elites have been transferred from the alliance level. These commissioners are only responsible for the alliance. Nice talk."

But just by seeing this risk, can these gang organizations give up several times the profits in front of them?Colin wondered at the sanity of these thugs.

"It's more than that, of course," Enzo added:

"The wineries in the alliance have been sealed. Although there are still some small workshops that secretly use industrial alcohol to mix fake wine, these things can't sell for a good price. If you want to make a little profit, you must buy it from overseas. smuggled from the wine merchant."

"This year is the end of the hot year, but it's actually a bit cold. The North Sea Fleet needs to leave the Northland port where it was originally stationed in advance, otherwise when the port in that sea area freezes, the steel-cast hull will be crushed by the sea ice. ."

"So in two weeks, the North Sea Fleet will arrive at the Port of Stade. After half a year's maintenance and renovation, it seems that it will be transferred to the distant Western Jingyang and put into the battle with the Kingdom of Iceni. In the end of the confrontation."

"Of course, this is a digression. It doesn't matter to us who can become the overlord of the Western Ocean in the end. The point of the problem is that a large fleet will be stationed in Stade, so the coastal patrols in the future will probably be ten times stricter than before. At least in In the past six months, the risk of secretly unloading goods at a small terminal has become too great to bypass the customs. If the customs at the regular terminal are not bribed, it will be difficult for Stade to conduct large-scale sea smuggling."

"But want to buy into that kind of fat and oily department? I'm afraid they will go a lot if they open their mouths, and it will not be worth the loss. What about overland? You know how many outlaws are staring at the liquor truck now, after all, this thing is very profitable, and the police detective will not care. It is estimated that six out of ten cars will be able to drive to Stade. already."

No matter by sea or by land, Stade lacks the conditions for large-scale shipment of original wine overseas in the past six months.If you choose local brew, the yield is small and the quality is poor.Therefore, before the Beihai Fleet is ready to leave, or the local bootlegging scales, the profits of the bootleg wine trade in the eyes of several patriarchs may not be so impressive.

In addition, the direction of the ban on this ban is still unclear at all levels of the authorities, so the patriarchal meeting can make a decision to wait and see for half a year, which is reasonable, and even very wise.

At this point, no one can say with certainty whether Prohibition will succeed or fail.Even most Ankh people prefer it to be successful, because the Ankh people have no habit of drinking and have always advocated temperance.

Over the years, "wine" has been vaguely regarded as a symbol of the degeneration of the lives of inferior nations in foreign countries.

What's more, the executor of this ban is the Anhe Alliance who has never made any big mistakes.

It repelled the westward migration of the Greys, and then went on to expand without a single defeat for hundreds of years.Even when conquering any ancient kingdom, the biggest obstacle was not the resistance of the local people, but the mutual restraint of several border princes in the alliance.

Such a world's most powerful combination has long proven that it can defeat and conquer everything.

So now, how could it not be able to defeat this little alcohol?
People in this era have not yet realized how much power is contained in a custom and need that has been subtly subverted for thousands of years.

They always exist in obscurity, but cannot be banned by any compulsive external force.Even if everything on the ground is burnt, as long as the need exists, they will continue to take root and sprout into the ground, and even intensify.

At this time, Colin still believed that the prohibition of alcohol was bound to fail, but it seemed a little too rigid to directly refer to the historical trajectory of the previous life as before.

The five hands actually chose to wait and see for half a year. Although this was beyond his expectations, it was also reasonable.

From the historical context, the immature decree of Prohibition is bound to fail.

But for him who is actually in this era, he may have to pay an additional time cost ranging from half a year to several years.

It's like there are occasional waves in opposite directions under the tide, which is never a contradiction.

It's just a pity that he has to obtain 80 Ori before the winter solstice this year, otherwise he may have to wait more than ten years for the cracking ceremony to usher in the right time again.

Previously, he had bet almost everything on Prohibition.

However, the patriarchal meeting has made a clear decision that no one in the five hands can participate in the bootleg wine business.

Now, what should we do?

Colin looked at Luka, who just stood up after talking to someone, and fell into a moment of confusion.

(End of this chapter)