Chapter 39 Countermeasures
If you look at the trio just by what they are dressed and how they look, you might think that they are all glamorous upper-class people. Everyone wore suits hand-sewn by the best tailors in town, as well as shoes made for them by the most famous cobblers. There are also some popular or classical trinkets that decorate them like big people. If you ignore these outward things, they are nothing more than a bunch of moonshiners, moonshiners who sell high alcohol in violation of the laws of the empire and the theocracy.
But the power of money is so great that it can turn one person into another, and it only takes a small amount of money to spend.
The room was small, and Wood, who sat near the door, looked to be in his forties, his shiny hair meticulously combed back to the back of his head, even though not a single hair had moved as his head shook. His eyebrows were thick and short at the same time, like a triangular hairpinch on his two eyes, and there was a deep fierce light in his narrow eyes, and there was no one in the whole city of Turner who did not know him.
Known as "Woodcutter Wood" as he was "respected", he became a master of Turnier City in less than a decade after he was nineteen years old and chopped three homeless men who were going to rob him into dozens of pieces with an axe in his hand. To this day, there are still some people who brag about his past things that are worth showing off in order to praise his stinky feet. This is a very interesting guy, since he became a "human master", he always feels that he is different from other people of his kind, always flaunting his identity and status, very face-saving, no matter what the occasion is always a gentle and elegant look.
People may not imagine that Wood's gloomy appearance at this time, how can he show mildness outside?
The silence in the room made him uncomfortable, and even his breathing was a little heavier, he tore his neckline, and tapped his knuckles on the table twice, "Gentlemen, we should come up with countermeasures, we can't let this unknown guy ruin our cause!"
On the table were two bottles of wine, the Snow Elf and the First Love, each of whom had two glasses in front of them, and all three had tasted them. I have to say that compared to the cold and fructose taste of the snow elves, they also like the mellow taste of the first love, which is slightly bitter and does not affect the taste. Overall, these new high-moonshine wines are slightly better than the ones they are dealing, both in taste and quality.
"Have you checked these labels?", the person who spoke was only in his thirties, with a fair face, a little handsome, thick eyebrows and big eyes, very in line with the aesthetics of the current society, and his flaxen-colored hair made him look relatively gentle and elegant, which is also the advantage of mixed race, and he can always make a breakthrough in appearance.
If Durin were here, he would have been amazed at the man in front of him, and it was this person who made Durin earn the easiest dollar in his life.
His name was Ernst, and he had his own cellar and winemaking enterprise. On the surface, he produces and sells low-alcohol liquor, but in fact he has been producing a steady stream of high-alcohol liquor. Because it is a family business, the relationship that should be opened has already been passed, and even his father is a guest of the mayor. So even if the other two were eager to kill him, they had to admit that they didn't have the guts to do it.
Wood picked up the bottle and glanced at the label on the back of the bottle, and sneered, "I immediately asked some federal suppliers, they have never heard of this Tomorrowlight Distillery, and they have never drunk such wine. ”
This was the reason why Dohrin asked the three suppliers to change the label and the production company, so he was suspicious and couldn't find the so-called upper house.
Ernst nodded noncommittally and turned his head to look at the other person, "What about the station? Such a large number of goods shows that the other party has a lot of inventory, so many foreign wines want to come in, either chartered from the bus station, or pulled from the station, there will always be some clues." ”
The person he was looking at was the third person at the table, an old man named Karul. The old man has silver hair and looks kind, but those who know him know how many bad things he has done and how many people he has killed in his life. The reason why he can still sit here is because he is ruthless enough, as long as someone dares to testify in court, he will guarantee that the other party's whole family will die.
It is precisely because of this guy's ruthlessness and decisiveness that in the end, even if he was prosecuted by the prosecutor, there was an embarrassing situation where no one testified.
Of course, he can live so arrogantly to this day because he is willing enough. Money, he has, he also has a famous saying, "If you can't prove the value of money, why bother with money"
He proved himself right, from the mayor to the chief of police, and even a nobleman who was his friend. He used money to smash open the doors of these people's homes, became their friends, and proved the value of money.
Karul touched his fluffy silver hair, he was a little bald, so he needed to perm his hair, "Recently, only a batch of low-alcohol wine has arrived at the station, and there has been no high-alcohol wine. ”
The other two suddenly stared at each other, in the eyes of these people, low-alcohol wine is low-alcohol wine, and high-alcohol wine is high-alcohol wine, and the two are completely different existences. Most low-alcohol wines are made from a variety of fruits, so the price is low, and it is precisely because of this low price that there are many problems with low-alcohol fruit wines. For example, if it is not clear enough, you can still feel the graininess of the flesh during drinking.
There is also a slight sour taste, which is the sour taste of the rotten fruit, which affects the pleasure of drinking. But because its price is low enough to be acceptable to the lowest workers, the sales are not bad.
Height wine is different, when brewing, it needs to be mixed with dragon's blood wood slag, and the wood dregs are not just just a few of them. Dracaena that is at least three years old is used as the material, the bark is removed after natural drying, and then suffocated in a cellar with a temperature of more than 300 degrees after cutting. When the temperature in the cellar naturally cools to room temperature, the wood will turn blood red. The blood-red dragon's blood wood is then made into wood residue with a special machine, and then mixed with spices and other things to be used in the compound brewing material.
The wood residue of these dragon's blood wood can help to purify the puree, and depending on the amount of input, the degree of these wines will be as high as the pulp will be. These dragon's blood woods are disposable materials, which are expensive and also contribute to the high price of high-grade alcohol. Even if all countries have large areas of dragon's blood wood forest farms, it is far from enough to face the huge alcohol market in the whole world.
Therefore, in the concept of these people, low-alcohol wine is low-alcohol wine, high-alcohol wine is high-alcohol wine, low-alcohol wine cannot become high-alcohol wine, and high-alcohol wine can become low-alcohol wine after being mixed with water.
If you can't find a new player who has violated their interests at the source, then you can only use stupid methods.
"I remember that the boss of Wild Rose was your nephew?", Ernst looked at Wood, who twitched and nodded reluctantly.
He didn't admit Colt as his nephew, but he had to admit the relationship. Colt was a distant relative of his wife, and somewhere he heard that Wood was now a big man, and immediately ran over to confess his relatives. I don't know what kind of rhetoric he used to move his wife, so he had an extra nephew. When his wife asked him how to arrange Colt, he thought about it for a long time and decided to lend Colt a sum of money to let him open a bar.
Wood is a moonshiner himself, so he's well aware of how horrible the profitability of the bar can be. Colt followed his advice and opened the bar. According to this, even if the relationship between the two is not good, it should not be too bad, but the problem lies in Colt's character who likes to be cheap.
Once Colt's bar ran out of alcohol, he would call Wood's wife, and Wood's wife felt that everyone was her own person, and Carter was her junior and mother's family, so she should take care of it, and would arrange for someone to deliver the wine, but did not mention the money. Back and forth, Colt sold Wood's moonshine for free, which made the guy almost blew up. Whenever he asked someone to stop sending wine over, his wife would complain to him, but he couldn't give up one or two thousand yuan of wine, and he had to go against his own will to continue to let people give wine to Colt for free to sell.
Of course, he also won a certain standard, only 3,000 yuan of free moonshine per month, and any more had to be paid according to the market price.
But the boy would rather spend money on wine from Ernst or Karul than from him, and said that he wanted to diversify his business and avoid rigidity and repetition.
If it weren't for the fear that his wife would be sad, Wood would have wanted to kill that guy with an axe right away.
So when Ernst proposed to trace the source back along the supply line, Wood's face was not very good. He has always looked down on people like Colt, but he didn't expect to ask him for an errand. Of course, Wood also knew very well that this was a big deal, and there was no room for his temperament.
As for why not find other bars, it is because all the bars in the entire city of Turnaire, in addition to those controlled by gangs, are controlled by the families of the big people, and none of them will agree to their demands to avoid getting involved in the war.
There is only Colt this choice, the only choice.