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Roy was even more ruthless, arranging for Carly and her Christian women to give speeches in the riverside district, public talks, using large tin loudspeakers, the kind that anyone could stop and listen.

"Who told me why the ugly country imposed a ban on alcohol!" Carly Lang said.

There were hundreds of people gathered in the audience, most of them women, but some of the workers looked a little embarrassed.

An eldest sister in the front row raised her hand:

"In the mid-to-late 19th century, due to the recent end of the civil war, coupled with the prevalence of drinking culture, and the fact that alcohol was still a high-profit and high-tax thing in the ugly country.

For the sake of financial considerations, the relevant departments have opened up and even encouraged the consumption of alcohol by the people to the greatest extent.

From the towns to the cities, there are all kinds of taverns everywhere, and in the heyday, the average people of the ugly country consumed 1.7 bottles of highly strong wine per week.

However, while alcohol brings physical and mental pleasure to the citizens of the ugly country, it also brings a lot of trouble to the ugly country.

Some people like to make trouble when they drink too much, plus they can't ban guns, a few drunkards are drunk, and when they see people unhappy, they directly pull out the revolver, and then start a tavern brawl.

Riots and bloodshed caused by alcoholism are frequent, and there are many people who drink and fight in taverns during the day and go home at night to punch their wives and children.

In order to curb this, more and more people are participating in the 'alcohol control movement'. ”

Carly loudly encouraged:

"Well said!"

Someone else raised their hand:

"But have we done it for so long?"

The scene was solemn, and the atmosphere was slightly stagnant.

"That's a good question, are we getting results? Of course it worked!

It was Protestant members who initially responded to the movement, but as the number of violent incidents and domestic violence skyrocketed, women from all walks of life, your fellow citizens, who had been beaten by their husbands, began to join in the campaign.

In order to prevent those who are addicted to alcohol from looking for alcohol when they are thirsty, we have also built various public drinking fountains in various parts of the country.

Then we brought in a group of entrepreneurs, because there were many drunkards among the workers, and they often got drunk and then quit work.

Either because of drunk work, there are all kinds of accidents, not only make the factory inefficient, but also have to pay compensation for work-related injuries every three or five times.

As a result, the profits of the factories fell dramatically, and the entrepreneurs realized that this would not work and chose to join the right ranks.

Aren't these results?

Isn't it an achievement that the ZF passed the Wartime Prohibition Act, which bans the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of more than 1.28% nationwide?

On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Volsted's Act, came into force throughout the country.

The bill prohibits the production and sale of alcohol content in excess of 0.5% alcohol and has 1,520 federal anti-liquor agents in charge of enforcing the bill nationwide. Isn't that progress? ”

The audience applauded thunderously, cheers spread throughout the street, and even many cars stopped to honk their horns to cheer!

Li Yaoyang listened to it in the shadow for a long time, and had to admire Carly's eloquence, and the topics that were often talked about in the same old tune were stunned by her enthusiasm.

The more Carly spoke, the more excited she became:

"The days before the first decree was put into effect, it was called 'the day of the loss of freedom' by many drunkards, who not only demonstrated in the streets, but also launched large-scale terrorist and violent attacks.

The yamen burst into the homes of Protestants or entrepreneurs, shot their entire family and hung their bodies outside the door, writing, 'This is the price of prohibition.'"

Or in the course of our women's association's march and propaganda, it is not uncommon for people to suddenly shoot and kill in the street.

According to incomplete statistics, in the week before and after the implementation of the prohibition order, there were more than 600 violent bloodshed and 94 massacres in Quancho, causing more than 3,400 casualties.

However, this situation was quickly suppressed, and the prohibition began to be officially implemented!

Aren't these results? ”

Dissenting views were raised:

However, after the Prohibition was enacted, people began to actively take advantage of the law.

For example, a kind of thing called 'wine brick', concentrated grape juice solidification began to be sold on a large scale, and each 'wine brick' will be printed with this line of words: please do not dissolve the wine brick to produce grape juice, leave it for more than 21 days, otherwise it will become wine, and people who know how to buy it and make it themselves will be done.

In addition, the number of 'patients' in the ugly country has also begun to surge, and whisky is not only alcohol, but also a medical product, and ordinary people only need to take a doctor's prescription and buy it at any drugstore.

We are abstaining from alcohol at the same time, and drunkards should drink the same, is this also effective? ”

The fiery atmosphere froze instantly, and there was a hint of coldness.

This man is telling the truth, due to the lack of strict federal supervision, doctors will prescribe very arbitrarily after receiving money, resulting in many people being able to buy alcohol through this channel.

Some people perceive the business opportunity and buy large quantities of liquor from pharmacies and smuggle it to others at high prices for huge profits.

But compared to these things, Prohibition brought more vicious social problems.

First of all, there was the proliferation of moonshine caused by Prohibition, which in the 19th century was more of a way to avoid federal taxes because there was no nationwide ban on alcohol.

But a few months after Prohibition was enacted, "moonshine" became the only way for people to obtain alcoholic beverages directly, and countless moonshiner sellers sat on the ground and raised prices to make huge profits by brewing and selling moonshine.

And the man said:

"Due to the poor conditions of many moonshine distilleries, the brewing process of moonshine is very prone to pollution, and some workers eat, drink, and prostitute in the distillery, so it's best not to think about anything in the wine.

If a large number of people fall ill or die in such a situation, is this also effective?

Also, I'm afraid you don't know, right?

In order to curb the spread of moonshine and get moonshiners to stop brewing, some departments have also come up with a trick up the trick up to poison a group of people by adding methanol and other toxic substances to imported alcohol as a warning to others.

It's said that drinking alcohol is bad for your health, you don't believe it, now it's okay to be poisoned, see if you dare to drink? ”

This man's words caused an uproar, and many people said in fear:

"Are you telling the truth? Did the authorities really do that? ”

"Don't talk about it, it must be fake, they can't do it!"

"Like, are they crazy? Kill people to stop it? This is the devil, the act of Satan! ”

"Absolutely impossible! He must be an alcoholic, to destroy our faith, quick, to drive him away, there is no need for a stupid and dirty alcoholic to educate us! ”

Everyone shook their fists and roared: "Drive away!" Drive away! Drive away! ”

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.