In fact, the United States began to promote the prohibition of alcohol as early as 1870, but it has not been successful, because the prohibition of alcohol can be said to be an anti-human law, and no local government can do it (friendly reminder: the United States is a federal system, and local governments have great power), and in the nineteenth century, the federal government has very little power, not even prisons, so naturally it will not care about this kind of thing, because even if you want to manage it, you can't manage it.

But during the First World War, the best time to ban alcohol came when it came to make wine, because wine needed food, and food was a strategic commodity at this time; SECONDLY, THE MAIN ADVERSARY OF THE UNITED STATES AT THAT TIME WAS GERMANY, AND THE MAIN BREWERS IN THE UNITED STATES WERE ALSO GERMAN IMMIGRANTS, SO IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WAR, GERMAN COULD NOT BE SPOKEN, GERMAN NEWSPAPERS COULD NOT BE PRINTED, AND EVEN GERMAN FOOD HAD TO BE RENAMED, SUCH AS HAMBURGER CHANGED TO SALIBURY (HAMBURGER ORIGINATED IN HAMBURG, GERMANY, AND IS A RARE FOOD NAMED AFTER A PLACE. ）

In this context, Prohibition was passed in Congress in 1917 and officially implemented in 1919.

But this is just the fuse, there is a strong religious factor behind the real reason for prohibition, because the United States is essentially a Puritan country, and even the United States was founded by Puritans, of course, with the development of hundreds of years, there are not many real Puritans, but everyone dare not openly pierce this layer of paper, what can be done can not be said, what can be said can not be done. If you don't give face to the Puritans, a big hat that "takes the evil road of changing the flag and betrays the ideals of the founders" is buttoned up, and you will lose half your life if you don't die.

Coupled with the promotion of feminist organizations, anti-tavern coalitions and the Prohibition Party, the reason is that alcoholism has caused a lot of domestic violence, and they believe that in the average working family, the first thing many workers do after paying their wages is to buy alcohol, so after the ban on alcohol, they can use this part of the alcohol money to improve their family life, I have to say, they are really naïve......

Because people's desire and need to drink cannot be eradicated, the prohibition not only did not play the desired role, but led to a significant increase in the profits of the manufacture and sale of moonshine in the market, and it was impossible for law-abiding businessmen to engage in such activities, so the gangs began to intervene, which led to a sharp increase in crime and rampant gangs. (I recommend a movie from this period "Righteous Ambition")

Of course, after Prohibition was repealed, the price of alcohol plummeted, and the gang found it unprofitable to sell moonshine, but the gang did not disband, but switched to selling powder......

However, Prohibition did not affect Monet, he himself was not particularly fond of drinking, and he did not want to do the bootlegging business, but there were people around him who were planning to enter the business, such as Thierry.

On this day, he suddenly found Monet and said to him, "Monsieur Monet, I have something I want to ask you for!" ”

"Well, you say!" Monet replied casually.

"Well, I want to buy 1,000 copies of Playboy every month!" Thierry spoke in astonishment.

Monet was taken aback by this sentence: "What?!" A thousand copies of Playboy? What are you doing here? Each guest gets a copy of Playboy as a guide? ”

Thierry was amused by Monet's "instructional teaching": "Monsieur Monet, you are so humorous! Then he began to explain: "Actually, I've been secretly selling alcohol recently, and although the business is good, the money is not visible, so I plan to find some people to buy your Playboy first, and then you can use the money to buy paintings in my newly opened gallery, and indirectly return the money to me, so that the money will not see the light of day, of course, you can rest assured that I will not let you help in vain, I can give you ...... percent."

"The Sword Comes"

Before Thierry could finish speaking, Monet interrupted: "I see, don't you just want to launder money!" ”

But as soon as the words came out, he regretted a little, because there should not be the word money laundering at this time, but this gave him a reminder, so he continued: "Actually, you don't have to be so troublesome, I will teach you a simple method, that is, you open two laundries, because the business of laundries is a small amount of cash for many times, so the tax bureau can't investigate how much business you have in a month, and then you say that the money is earned by the laundromat, and then pay taxes according to the chapter, so that the money will be clean?" There will be some taxes, but it's certainly more convenient and less expensive than opening a gallery and having me flip hands! ”

In fact, this is how the word "money laundering" came from, and everyone must have heard of the power of the US Internal Revenue Service, even if it is a black club, they have to pay taxes according to the regulations, they can not be afraid of the police department, but they are afraid of the tax office......

Thierry's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he couldn't help but praise: "Oh my God! This method is so great! Monsieur Monet, you are a genius! Originally, I was a little worried that if you let your magazine frequently go to a gallery to buy expensive oil paintings, it would be easy to attract the attention of the tax bureau, but now in this way, even if the tax bureau is exhausted, they can't find out, so I just find some people to carry clothes to the laundry every day! ”

"In fact, if you run this laundry well, it is estimated that the normal daily traffic is enough, and maybe even after you have done it for a while, you will find that the laundry is also very profitable!" Monet kindly reminded.

Thierry nodded and agreed: "Okay, I will hire some Chinese, they are very diligent in doing this!" ”

Although Monet knew that Thierry did not have any malicious intent in saying this, it was still uncomfortable to listen to, so he changed the topic and asked: "By the way, Thierry, you are now switching to selling alcohol and no longer doing that?" ”

Unexpectedly, Thierry waved his hand and said, "No, I'm doing it!" In fact, I didn't want to sell wine at first, but you also know that customers usually drink a little when they are looking for girls, but as soon as the prohibition came out, I found that it is too expensive and inconvenient to buy wine now. ”

But when he said this, he sighed again and said, "But it is estimated that this business will not last long!" ”

"Why can't you do it for long? Is Prohibition about to be lifted? Monet asked curiously, because he knew that Prohibition would not be lifted so quickly, at least ten years!

Thierry shook his head and replied, "It has nothing to do with Prohibition, someone may not let me sell it!" ”

PS: I've been watching "Rebel" for the past two days, it's really super good-looking, super fast-paced, and not inked at all!