NOVEL NEXT WORLD Treasure hunt begins in England
Chapter 71 The Age of Prohibition
Chapter 71 The Age of Prohibition
Just a few seconds after Liang En took out the metal detector and started searching, the metal detector beeped.After bending down to search for a few seconds, Liang En quickly found a brass bullet casing on the side of a wine barrel.
".45ACP pistol bullet, and it's a model after World War I." Liang En picked up the shell case and took a look at it, and immediately confirmed the model of the shell case.
Because the early version of the pistol bullet that appeared in the early [-]th century, in order to prevent the bullet from retracting into the shell, a roll groove was pressed on the shell. It was not canceled until the process was improved during World War I.
Soon, Liang En found another seven or eight bullet casings in various corners of the wine cellar.Bullet casings are naturally worthless, but it is an interesting thing to see bullet casings in the wine cellar, at least under normal circumstances, few people would shoot in the wine cellar.
"It seems that this wine cellar is not simple." After discovering the situation here, Liang En became interested in this wine cellar.As a result, the movements of his hands naturally accelerated.
Half an hour later, he sorted out all the things in the wine cellar now.In addition to the shell casings, he also cleaned out a dozen bottles of whiskey, large and small.
The reason why there are not many loot is mainly because the poor local environment is really not conducive to the preservation of various items.For example, the large wine barrels seen at the entrance of the wine cellar were later found to be empty.
This is because of long-term corrosion, the wood of the wine barrel has long been rotten, and the wine is also gone.
The same is true for those wines in glass bottles. Because the corks and caps were corroded, most of the wine in them disappeared. Only these dozen or so bottles were lucky enough to be kept.
However, during this process, Liang En discovered that the wine cellar was indeed not as simple as it appeared on the surface, but there might be a hidden space.
The reason why he said that was because when Liang En checked into the depths of the wine cellar, he found that there was actually a pile of all kinds of garbage piled up at the end of the wine cellar, which not only looked out of place with the surrounding environment, but also was unreasonable.
After all, a place like a wine cellar needs to be kept clean, so it is naturally impossible to put a lot of garbage in it.And if it is thrown in after the wine cellar is abandoned, as long as the brain is normal, it will not be moved to the innermost part, but will be piled directly at the door.
So after moving those wine bottles that looked like they still had wine out of the wine cellar, Liang En waved a shovel to clean up the huge pile of rubbish that was piled up on the ground.Soon, an iron plate painted black appeared in front of his eyes.
After lifting the iron plate and breathing for half an hour, Liang En slipped down wearing a gas mask.After reaching the bottom of the steps, Liang En realized that there was a space of tens of square meters below.
The strange thing is that although the basement in this basement is not large, apart from a room with a height of three meters, there is actually a corridor that is only ten meters long and can only be passed by one person.
At the other end of the room, there was a large pile of things covered with tarpaulins.
"Let me see what this is—" Liang En said as he stepped forward to lift off the oilcloth and brought up a cloud of dust.When the dust fell with the oilcloth, a set of strange containers appeared in front of his eyes.
"Is this a boiler?" Liang En thought curiously as he looked at the machine consisting of a sealed container and a series of pipes, because in his impression, this kind of machine with containers, pipes, combustion chambers and instruments was easy to let Reminiscent of boilers.
But soon he gave up this conjecture, because after going up to check, he found that the walls of both the container and the pipe were very thin, and even the container could be disassembled with simple tools.
"In other words, the thing here is a still. A still used to make private whiskey." After realizing that this thing is not pressure-resistant at all, Liang En quickly guessed the purpose of this set of equipment based on the wine cellar above.
After all, Ireland itself produced whiskey, so he had seen something similar.As for the reason why these instruments were hidden, Liang En felt that it might have something to do with the prohibition of alcohol specified by the United States at the beginning of the [-]th century.
From 1920 to 1933, the United States enacted the No. 18 Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited the brewing, transportation and sale of all alcoholic beverages.This period is also known as the period of Prohibition.
The reason why Americans promulgated this decree is because the United States itself is a Puritan country, so they believe that the existence of alcohol will corrupt morality, and alcohol prohibition will return the United States to a pure and secular society.
On the other hand, because, unlike the low-alcohol beer and cider that Americans used to drink in the early days, the United States began to produce more whiskey with a much higher alcohol content in the mid-to-late 19th century.And drinking a lot of spirits has caused a series of social problems.
However, the effect of the Prohibition Law was not as good as the makers had imagined. From the first day of the promulgation of the Prohibition Law, all kinds of illegal drinks, underground bars and the accompanying illegal forces continued to grow brutally.
And those illegal drinks, except for a small part from overseas, most of them come from bootleg alcohol produced in such stills.
Therefore, it is not surprising that such a distiller appeared in this place. After all, there were a large number of mines here at that time, and most of the people working in these mines were wealthy bachelors, and alcoholic beverages must have huge sales.
Although it is said to be in the wilderness here, the people who inspect the prohibition laws rarely arrive.However, because the channels for obtaining alcohol from the outside world were cut off, the boss here could only choose to make his own alcohol to provide supplies for his bar.
In this way, the stills used for wine making naturally don't need to be as small and cheap as those in the big cities on the east coast, so after Liang En checked carefully, he found that this still was no different from an official still except that it was easy to disassemble.
Both the pure copper main structure and the instruments used to monitor the distillation look similar to those in regular breweries, only a little smaller in size.
This design was convenient for Liang En. After studying the simple structure of the still, he quickly disassembled the still with the tools he carried.
I have to say that the previous [Vikings (SR)] card was indeed very useful. If it weren’t for the strengthening brought by this card, he would have found it difficult to carry these distillers with a maximum of 50kg each. to the car.
"Well, what is this?" Just when Liang En disassembled the main container, he suddenly found a tightly bound oilcloth bag in the container.
After moving the oilcloth bag to the ground and opening it, a violin case and a small suitcase were revealed inside.But when Liang En reached out to the violin case to open it, he found that the case was much heavier than expected.
"Sure enough, this is the Chicago violin." After opening the box cover, a disassembled Thompson submachine gun lay quietly in the box.Because it has been in a sealed container before, there is no rust on the whole gun.
Unlike the improved version of the M1A1 in World War II, this M1928 submachine gun has a muzzle compensator, a barrel cooling fin, a small grip under the barrel and a large drum with 50 rounds.It is the best quality version of the Thompson submachine gun.
Of course, due to the complex structure and high cost, the output of this version of the submachine gun is naturally not satisfactory.But correspondingly, it is expensive now.
(End of this chapter)
Just a few seconds after Liang En took out the metal detector and started searching, the metal detector beeped.After bending down to search for a few seconds, Liang En quickly found a brass bullet casing on the side of a wine barrel.
".45ACP pistol bullet, and it's a model after World War I." Liang En picked up the shell case and took a look at it, and immediately confirmed the model of the shell case.
Because the early version of the pistol bullet that appeared in the early [-]th century, in order to prevent the bullet from retracting into the shell, a roll groove was pressed on the shell. It was not canceled until the process was improved during World War I.
Soon, Liang En found another seven or eight bullet casings in various corners of the wine cellar.Bullet casings are naturally worthless, but it is an interesting thing to see bullet casings in the wine cellar, at least under normal circumstances, few people would shoot in the wine cellar.
"It seems that this wine cellar is not simple." After discovering the situation here, Liang En became interested in this wine cellar.As a result, the movements of his hands naturally accelerated.
Half an hour later, he sorted out all the things in the wine cellar now.In addition to the shell casings, he also cleaned out a dozen bottles of whiskey, large and small.
The reason why there are not many loot is mainly because the poor local environment is really not conducive to the preservation of various items.For example, the large wine barrels seen at the entrance of the wine cellar were later found to be empty.
This is because of long-term corrosion, the wood of the wine barrel has long been rotten, and the wine is also gone.
The same is true for those wines in glass bottles. Because the corks and caps were corroded, most of the wine in them disappeared. Only these dozen or so bottles were lucky enough to be kept.
However, during this process, Liang En discovered that the wine cellar was indeed not as simple as it appeared on the surface, but there might be a hidden space.
The reason why he said that was because when Liang En checked into the depths of the wine cellar, he found that there was actually a pile of all kinds of garbage piled up at the end of the wine cellar, which not only looked out of place with the surrounding environment, but also was unreasonable.
After all, a place like a wine cellar needs to be kept clean, so it is naturally impossible to put a lot of garbage in it.And if it is thrown in after the wine cellar is abandoned, as long as the brain is normal, it will not be moved to the innermost part, but will be piled directly at the door.
So after moving those wine bottles that looked like they still had wine out of the wine cellar, Liang En waved a shovel to clean up the huge pile of rubbish that was piled up on the ground.Soon, an iron plate painted black appeared in front of his eyes.
After lifting the iron plate and breathing for half an hour, Liang En slipped down wearing a gas mask.After reaching the bottom of the steps, Liang En realized that there was a space of tens of square meters below.
The strange thing is that although the basement in this basement is not large, apart from a room with a height of three meters, there is actually a corridor that is only ten meters long and can only be passed by one person.
At the other end of the room, there was a large pile of things covered with tarpaulins.
"Let me see what this is—" Liang En said as he stepped forward to lift off the oilcloth and brought up a cloud of dust.When the dust fell with the oilcloth, a set of strange containers appeared in front of his eyes.
"Is this a boiler?" Liang En thought curiously as he looked at the machine consisting of a sealed container and a series of pipes, because in his impression, this kind of machine with containers, pipes, combustion chambers and instruments was easy to let Reminiscent of boilers.
But soon he gave up this conjecture, because after going up to check, he found that the walls of both the container and the pipe were very thin, and even the container could be disassembled with simple tools.
"In other words, the thing here is a still. A still used to make private whiskey." After realizing that this thing is not pressure-resistant at all, Liang En quickly guessed the purpose of this set of equipment based on the wine cellar above.
After all, Ireland itself produced whiskey, so he had seen something similar.As for the reason why these instruments were hidden, Liang En felt that it might have something to do with the prohibition of alcohol specified by the United States at the beginning of the [-]th century.
From 1920 to 1933, the United States enacted the No. 18 Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited the brewing, transportation and sale of all alcoholic beverages.This period is also known as the period of Prohibition.
The reason why Americans promulgated this decree is because the United States itself is a Puritan country, so they believe that the existence of alcohol will corrupt morality, and alcohol prohibition will return the United States to a pure and secular society.
On the other hand, because, unlike the low-alcohol beer and cider that Americans used to drink in the early days, the United States began to produce more whiskey with a much higher alcohol content in the mid-to-late 19th century.And drinking a lot of spirits has caused a series of social problems.
However, the effect of the Prohibition Law was not as good as the makers had imagined. From the first day of the promulgation of the Prohibition Law, all kinds of illegal drinks, underground bars and the accompanying illegal forces continued to grow brutally.
And those illegal drinks, except for a small part from overseas, most of them come from bootleg alcohol produced in such stills.
Therefore, it is not surprising that such a distiller appeared in this place. After all, there were a large number of mines here at that time, and most of the people working in these mines were wealthy bachelors, and alcoholic beverages must have huge sales.
Although it is said to be in the wilderness here, the people who inspect the prohibition laws rarely arrive.However, because the channels for obtaining alcohol from the outside world were cut off, the boss here could only choose to make his own alcohol to provide supplies for his bar.
In this way, the stills used for wine making naturally don't need to be as small and cheap as those in the big cities on the east coast, so after Liang En checked carefully, he found that this still was no different from an official still except that it was easy to disassemble.
Both the pure copper main structure and the instruments used to monitor the distillation look similar to those in regular breweries, only a little smaller in size.
This design was convenient for Liang En. After studying the simple structure of the still, he quickly disassembled the still with the tools he carried.
I have to say that the previous [Vikings (SR)] card was indeed very useful. If it weren’t for the strengthening brought by this card, he would have found it difficult to carry these distillers with a maximum of 50kg each. to the car.
"Well, what is this?" Just when Liang En disassembled the main container, he suddenly found a tightly bound oilcloth bag in the container.
After moving the oilcloth bag to the ground and opening it, a violin case and a small suitcase were revealed inside.But when Liang En reached out to the violin case to open it, he found that the case was much heavier than expected.
"Sure enough, this is the Chicago violin." After opening the box cover, a disassembled Thompson submachine gun lay quietly in the box.Because it has been in a sealed container before, there is no rust on the whole gun.
Unlike the improved version of the M1A1 in World War II, this M1928 submachine gun has a muzzle compensator, a barrel cooling fin, a small grip under the barrel and a large drum with 50 rounds.It is the best quality version of the Thompson submachine gun.
Of course, due to the complex structure and high cost, the output of this version of the submachine gun is naturally not satisfactory.But correspondingly, it is expensive now.
(End of this chapter)
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