Goatee smiled and said, "No, Amixu doesn't want to make friends like me, but they like to barter, and I often carry a lot of things they like in my car..."

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

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

Li Du shook hands with him and said, "I am Li, I'm very happy to meet you. Just check out and see if we have something you like here."

Goatee said, "I'm also very happy to meet you, Boss Li, I'm Goat Goat. Similarly, you can see if there are anything you like in my car."

The things in the carriage were very messy, with rusty ironware, copperware with copper rust, some wooden furniture, and rough pottery, which looked all handmade.

Li Du felt that these things were quite simple. After the last time he had a dodo specimen, he was more interested in Amixu's things, so he released the little flying insects.

This time, the insects still lived up to expectations. After flying out, they immediately flew towards some small machines assembled by iron cans and steel pipes.

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

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

Among them, there was a rough steel pipe connected to the iron can. He reached out and gestured. Through the steel pipe, the iron can and the shunt pipe could be combined, which seemed to be a set of tools.

He didn't know what this thing was for, so he gave Hans a wink.

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

Li Du said: "Look at this, do you know what this is?"

Hans glanced at it and smiled: "It's worthless, a private brewing still. My family used to have this thing, which was very common in rural areas."

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

As the name suggests, private brewing is a privately secretly brewed wine. The reason for this is that some people evade high taxes or complete ban on alcohol consumption.

In the history of the United States, private brewing has occurred very early, and this phenomenon is particularly rampant in rural areas. For a long time, almost all whiskey or rum circulating on the market were all this.

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

Li Du released the little flying insect again, and the little flying insect flew towards this private brewing distiller again with interest. From this point of view, this thing should have been around for quite some time.

So he whispered: "I feel like this thing is antique, it gives me extraordinary feeling."

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

Li Du asked: "Private brewing culture? Does this thing have culture?"

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

Shortly after the end of the war, the financial difficulties brought about by the long-term war emerged, so the US government imposed a federal tax on distilled liquor to solve the problem.

However, at that time, the American people had just escaped from heavy British taxes through war, so they were very dissatisfied with this measure. They decided to continue brewing their own whiskey and completely ignore the existence of the federal tax.

For these early private brewers, brewing and selling wine was neither out of hobbies nor to earn extra money, and it was the means of survival.

When the harvest is not good, farmers make their corn into whiskey that can be sold for money, barely making a living by the little extra income they get back.

For them, paying tax means not being able to support their families. In this way, even if the government issues strict legal regulations, farmers are still trying to make wine secretly.

In this case, the government began to use radical means, and when the war had just ended, many peasants were soldiers who retired from the army.

In this way, the farmers held guns and fought.

“By the 1860s, the government raised funds for the American Civil War by imposing excise taxes, which intensified the fight between smugglers and anti-smuggling officials.”

"The society was in chaos at that time, brothers, it was too chaos." Hans shook his head when he said this.

Li Du asked: "How chaotic is it? There was a violent conflict between the two sides?"

Hans sneered: "More serious! The brewer and the Ku Klux Klans merged in an armed manner and directly engaged in many fierce battles with the government forces!"

Li Du said in surprise: "These guys are crazy enough!"

The Klan Klan is the most notorious local criminal gang in American history. They pursue the policy of white supremacy, discriminate against ethnic groups of color, like to use violent means, and do evil.

"What's even more crazy is that, man, in order to keep the information of his brewery, they intimidate, threaten local residents and attack IRS officials and their families, and are violent lunatics!"

Li Du said: "They're so hateful. I know some of the situations of the brewing winemakers. They later became gangsters, right? I've seen it on TV using a Chicago typewriter as a weapon."

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

In the 1920s and 1930s, this gun was a favorite of American gangsters because it was only 85 cm in length and only 5 kilograms of empty guns, which could 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. Most of them were not very extreme. They were rural farmers brewers."

It was said that the US government was committed suicide. In the early 20th century, the United States passed several laws that prohibited the sale and purchase of alcohol.

By 1920, the ban on alcohol was officially put into effect nationwide. Suddenly, there was no legal wine to buy in the market, and people's demand for private brewing rose sharply.

But after the ban on alcohol was abolished in 1933, the market for private brewing began to shrink.

Although private brewing was still a problem that plagued the federal authorities in the 1960s and 1970s, cases of illegal wine can rarely be heard in court.

Nowadays, private brewing wine is rarely seen in the market due to its poor taste and unstable quality, and private brewing tools are not very popular in the market.

However, some people who like to recall the old days will buy these tools. They only make wine privately and drink it by themselves, or just use it to reminisce about their past lives.

Among them, the Amish people have been insisting on brewing wine in private. They do not participate in the circulation and operation of the market economy and are active in their own small circles. The wine they drink is mainly brewed by themselves.
Chapter completed!