The Death Knell

Su Ming held the small wine barrel and walked quickly underground. The appearance of the Supreme Mage gave him a sense of reality.

This is not a normal twentieth-century New York, but a Marvel world. Regardless of whether you see them or not, those with extraordinary powers still exist objectively.

There is no problem with his plan, and there is no problem with Gu Yi's attitude. It is just that the progress needs to be accelerated and the scale of the plan needs to be expanded.

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Next, he successfully fell in love with an abandoned underground reservoir. He deliberately chose this place because it was located underground at 117 Bleecker Street.

In other words, overhead is the New York Temple...

Doesn’t Gu Yi love to voyeur? Then be a neighbor and let her see enough. She may be curious about new things, but no matter who observes them for decades, she will become numb and subconsciously ignore some small details. This is what is often called darkness under the light in psychological tactics. .

It was impossible for her to ask anything. After all, in her opinion, Su Ming didn't know anything, and choosing this place was just a coincidence.

Moreover, I chose this place because of the New York Temple itself. It is like the Muggle dispelling spell in "Harry Potter". If it is not invited by the wizard, Muggles will not be able to see it. It can serve as a winery. cover.

There are No. 116 and No. 118 on this street, but there is no No. 117. If you are not a guest of the mages, you will only subconsciously ignore the weirdness here. This also means that from the ground, others want to find Su Ming’s winery. It's also impossible.

Her feeling was correct. This was not the last time she and Su Ming would meet. Now it was truly a time to look up and see each other. From now on, Su Ming will be like a 'big treasure', which he sees every day.

Gu Yi probably also used cosmetics, probably...

After choosing the site, he immediately went to buy some equipment and raw materials. He himself was a humanoid crane. He bought a truck and went to the beach to find a flood discharge channel and drove it underground. He used complex underground passages to transport the equipment to the temple and assemble it. Ancient The small barrel of wine given to him also came in handy and could be used as a wine starter.

He can start recruiting people the next day. He wants to hire former winery employees or unemployed workers with no ambitions. Priority will be given to those with elderly people and children at home.

Prohibition caused a large number of regular wineries to close down, and there were too many such workers. Su Ming just searched a few neighborhoods where poor people lived, and found that many people sunbathing on the streets were once wine workers.

The bolder ones are not here. They have already started secretly brewing wine on their own. However, these people in front of them are worried about starting work in the basement for various reasons, so Su Ming plans to lead them to do it.

These people are in urgent need of money, and the existence of their families makes them easy to control. Su Ming is rich and powerful, as long as these people are loyal.

After all, making moonshine is a job where you will go to jail if you are caught, so the salary is also very high.

But recruiting workers was much easier than Su Ming imagined. All he had to do was approach or come to the door like a spy.

"Friend, have you heard of Amway?" Su Ming asked while looking around. The mystery aroused people's curiosity and made them willing to continue listening.

"What is Amway?" The target looked confused.

"Don't ask what it is. I have a job that pays 100 US dollars a month. Do you want to do it?" Su Ming took out a cigarette and lit it, and asked absently.

"Do it, do it!" The target looked excited.

How could you not take the bait? The average salary of workers in this era is 20 US dollars, and Su Ming immediately gave it five times.

So Su Ming gathered the workers he recruited and brought them into the factory through a maze-like route. When the workers discovered that it was brewing, they were relieved.

Girl, if you give me so much money, you think you’re going to kill someone, but it’s just making wine, it’s nothing.

Not to mention that they all worked in this industry before, some of them even used to be workers in a factory. They were ordinary people at first. But one day they woke up and the country declared that the job they had been doing for most of their lives was illegal. This How can people live?

People always have to eat, not to mention that with $100 a month, you can buy seven to eight hundred hamburgers.

If you do it yourself, you really don’t dare to do it. If you are caught, your wife and children will suffer. But now if someone organizes it, you will be more courageous.

If you are caught, you will only go in for half a year. The prison will still provide you with food and housing. After half a year, you will be a good man again. Besides, if you are caught for family business, the boss will not treat his family badly.

Su Ming had no intention of joining any gang, but his behavior and business seemed different to people of this era.

Underground production, organizing members, secret contacts, brewing private wine, illegal sales...

Well, the groups that sell and transport alcohol in this day and age are criminal underworld gangs, or gangsters for short.

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A week later, Su Ming's first batch of private wine went on sale.

Of course there were no firecrackers or reporters invited, just some people coming in and out of hidden manhole covers in the dark, moving boxes of wine into a basement on the roadside.

Su Ming feels more at ease with these people now. They all know that only with the winery, they have food to eat. Without the winery and Su Ming, his whole family will starve.

So these people are very reliable now, and Su Ming has also taught them the route through the underground maze. They can go to and from get off work like normal people every day, and there are no restrictions on their activities.

It's just that while others go to work by bus or bicycle, Su Ming's workers are just drilling manhole covers.

Because wine is brewed underground and transported through sewers, Su Ming named his wine brand "Skywalker". Unlike most moonshine wines of this era, they just put them in earthen jars or glass bottles and sell them dirty. Yes, Su Ming’s wine bottles are very clean and beautiful, and have very conspicuous and beautiful logos.

Why trademarks appear is because people could not read but could understand patterns a long time ago. Trademarks are things that use patterns to distinguish products. Although as the times progress, more and more people are literate, but the use of trademarks It has become a habit.

Su Ming knows the importance of brands, and now is a good time to start a brand. He has improved some of the techniques through future knowledge, and does not water down the wine. As long as he builds a good reputation during the prohibition era, he will be an iron rice bowl in the future.

Drinks are also an industry with very high brand recognition. Once a person gets used to drinking a certain kind of wine, it is likely that he will continue to buy it throughout his life.

At the current scale of the underground winery, if it can produce 500 barrels of various types of wine a month, it is considered to be operating at full capacity.

But there is no need to worry. This is only the first month. Five hundred barrels of wine are enough for him to earn about 30,000 US dollars. After deducting the cost of about 3,000 to 4,000 US dollars, as well as his fixed investment in purchasing equipment, the rest is pure profit. All he has to do is keep snowballing.

The current location is not close to the winery at all. They transport alcohol in a small truck in the sewer. Here, Su Ming bought the basement of a building as his own bar.

When he has time, he also plans to directly connect the bottom of the bar to the sewer, so that it will be more concealed.

There is no decoration inside, just rows of round tables and chairs, a bar, and a piano. Anyway, when there is wine, there is business, so why waste money on useless things.

Su Ming nodded with satisfaction as he watched the workers carry the drinks into the store and fill the bottles and put them on the shelves behind the bar.

"Hurry up and tidy up tonight. We can open tomorrow night." Walking in the bar and touching the brand new counter, he felt a sense of belonging.

"Okay, boss."

A young man wearing glasses followed him and took note of his arrangements.

He was an Irish stowaway. Su Ming accidentally picked him up when he was recruiting workers and found that he was very literate. The literacy rate in the United States these days is 14%. It is not easy to find a literate and flexible person nowadays, so Su Ming kept him. Responsible for running errands and daily management around you.

After all, the winery was underground, and as the boss, Su Ming couldn't live there all the time. He rented himself a small apartment opposite the New York Temple and controlled it remotely.

Irish people have some very strange names, especially those of Nordic origin. The young man's original name, Su Ming, was hard to pronounce. It sounded like a string of curses.

For the sake of convenience, Su Ming gave him a new nickname, Jin, which means gin. After all, they have established a winery, so why don't the people under him have a code name for the wine?

Of course, the style of painting is quite different. There is a killer in black with long hair, while Su Ming is a thin man with glasses.

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"I will stay in the bar from now on to prevent anyone from causing trouble. If you have family and friends you can trust, call a few over and let them work in the bar. The salary is 80 US dollars a month."

Looking at the people busy cleaning, Su Ming talked about recruiting workers again, which made the workers very happy. After all, the wages were also very high.

Of course, for such a good thing, you should let your family try it first. Friends are definitely not as reliable as your own family members, and it is best for you to make money first.

Of course, Su Ming had a plan, which was to tie the workers' whole families to his chariot through blood ties and interests.

"Okay, this underground bar is not small, but I only need 20 people. You guys think about the candidates and submit the list to Gin." Su Ming patted the young man next to him on the shoulder, making him shake involuntarily: "He will Conduct review and judgment, and remind everyone again that if untrustworthy people join in, they will definitely harm others and themselves in the end, and I am not a philanthropic person."

"Of course, boss, don't worry, I will ask my brother to come over tomorrow, I will definitely trust him!"

"That's right. Does the boss need a pianist? My son can do it a little bit."

Seeing their active expressions, Su Ming turned to Ginjiu and said, "You know how to deal with it, right?"

"Please leave it to me, boss."

He pushed up his glasses and showed a confident expression.

Su Ming was a little curious about what he did before. With such magnanimity and ability, was it necessary to come to the United States as a stowaway? What is he hiding?

But Su Ming didn't find anything wrong. He was alone and spent most of the time with Su Ming. There was nothing wrong with him so far.

Don't be suspicious of others. I'm not Batman, so there's no need to doubt everyone.

Su Ming nodded, turned around and walked deeper into the basement, where a small room was separated as his residence.

"I'll leave it all to you. If you do a good job, you'll be in charge of the bar and winery from now on."