Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Just a few seconds after Liang En took out the metal detector and started searching, the metal detector buzzed. After bending down and searching for a few seconds, Liang En quickly found a brass cartridge case on the side of a wine barrel.

".45ACP pistol bullet, and it's a model after World War I." Liang En picked up the cartridge case and took a look at it and immediately confirmed the model of the cartridge case.

Because the early version of this pistol bullet, which only appeared in the early 20th century, would have a roller groove pressed on the cartridge case to prevent the bullet from retracting into the cartridge case. This was not eliminated until the process improved during World War I.

Soon, Liang En found seven or eight more bullet casings in every corner of the wine cellar. Of course, bullet casings are not worth a penny, but the presence of bullet casings in a wine cellar is an interesting thing. At least under normal circumstances, few people would shoot in a wine cellar.

"It seems that this wine cellar is not simple." After discovering the situation here, Liang En became interested in this wine cellar. So the movements of the hands naturally accelerated.

Half an hour later, he had sorted out everything in the wine cellar. In addition to the bullet casings, he also cleared out more than a dozen bottles of whiskey, large and small.

The reason why there are not many trophies is mainly because the poor local environment is really not conducive to the preservation of various items. For example, the large wine barrels I saw at the entrance of the wine cellar were later found to be empty.

This is because of long-term corrosion, the wood of the barrel has long since rotted away, and the wine has also drained away.

The same goes for the wine in glass bottles. Because the stoppers and caps were corroded, most of the wine inside disappeared. Only these dozen bottles were lucky enough to be preserved.

However, during this process, Liang En discovered that this wine cellar was indeed not as simple as it seemed, but that there might be a hidden space.

The reason why I say this is because when Liang En checked into the depths of the wine cellar, he found that there was a large pile of various garbage piled at the end of the wine cellar. It looked not only incompatible with the surrounding environment, but also unreasonable.

After all, a place like a wine cellar needs to be kept clean, so it is impossible to put a lot of garbage in it. And if the wine cellar was abandoned and thrown in, anyone in their right mind would not move it to the innermost part, but would pile it directly at the door.

So after moving the bottles that looked like they still had wine out of the wine cellar, Liang En brandished a shovel to clean up the pile of garbage piled on the ground. Soon, an iron plate painted with black paint appeared in front of him.

After lifting the iron plate to breathe for half an hour, Liang En got in wearing a gas mask. After reaching the bottom of the steps, Liang Encai discovered that there was a space of dozens of square meters below.

The strange thing is that although the basement in this basement is not large, apart from a room with a height of three meters, there is actually a corridor that is only ten meters long and can only be passed by one person.

At the other end of the room, there was a pile of things covered by oilcloth.

"Let me see what this is-" Liang En said, stepping forward and lifting up the oilcloth and bringing up a cloud of dust. When the dust fell along with the oilcloth, a strange set of containers appeared in front of him.

"Is this a boiler?" Liang En thought curiously as he looked at the machine in front of him, which was composed of a sealed container and a series of pipes, because in his impression, this kind of machine with containers, pipes, combustion chambers and instruments was easy to make. It reminds me of a boiler.

But he soon gave up this conjecture, because after going forward to check, he found that the walls of both the container and the pipe were very thin, and the container could even be disassembled with simple tools.

"That is to say, the thing here is a still. A still used to make private whiskey." After realizing that this thing was not able to withstand pressure at all, Liang En quickly guessed the purpose of this set of equipment based on the wine cellar above.

After all, Ireland itself produces whiskey, so he had seen something similar. The reason why these instruments were hidden, Liang En thought, was probably related to the prohibition on alcohol designated by the United States in the early 20th century.

From 1920 to 1933, the United States enacted the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibited the brewing, transportation, and sale of all alcoholic beverages. This period is also known as Prohibition.

The reason why the Americans promulgated this decree is, on the one hand, because the United States itself is a country that pursues Puritanism, so they believe that the existence of alcohol corrupts morality, and prohibiting alcohol will return the United States to a pure secular society.

On the other hand, it is because, unlike the low-alcohol beer and cider that Americans often drank in the early days, in the mid-to-late 19th century, the United States began to produce more whiskey with a much higher alcohol content. And drinking a lot of spirits has caused a series of social problems.

However, the effect of Prohibition was not as good as the framers imagined. From the first day of Prohibition, various illegal drinks, underground bars and accompanying illegal forces continued to grow wildly.

As for the illegal alcohol, except for a small amount that comes from overseas, most of it comes from private wine produced in such distillers.

Therefore, it is not surprising that such a distiller appears in this place. After all, there were a large number of mines here at that time, and most of the people working in these mines were wealthy bachelors. There must be huge sales of alcoholic beverages.

Although this place is in the middle of nowhere, prohibition inspection personnel rarely arrive. However, because the channels for obtaining alcohol from the outside world were cut off, the boss here could only choose to brew his own wine to provide supplies for his bar.

In this way, the stills used for brewing naturally do not need to be as small and cheap as those in the big cities on the east coast. So after Liang En carefully inspected it, he found that this still was no different from a formal still except that it was easy to disassemble.

Both the pure copper main structure and the instruments used to monitor the distillation situation look very similar to the equipment in a regular brewery, but they are just a little smaller in size.

This design was convenient for Liang En. After studying the simple structure of the still, he quickly disassembled the still using the tools he carried.

I have to say that the previous [Viking (SR)] card was indeed very useful. If it weren’t for the reinforcement brought by this chapter’s card, it would be difficult for him to carry these distillers, which can weigh up to 50kg each piece, by himself. Get to the car.

"Well, what is this?" Just when Liang En disassembled the main container, he suddenly found that there was a tightly tied oilcloth bag in the container.

After moving the oilcloth bag to the ground and opening it, a violin case and a small leather suitcase were revealed. However, when Liang En reached for the violin box to open it, he found that the box was much heavier than expected.

"Sure enough, this is the Chicago violin." After opening the lid, a disassembled Thompson submachine gun lay quietly in the piano case. Because it has been kept in a sealed container, there is no rust at all on the entire gun.

Different from the improved M1A1 in World War II, this M1928 submachine gun has a muzzle compensator, barrel fins, a small grip under the barrel and a large 50-round drum. It is the best quality version of the Thompson submachine gun.

Of course, due to the complex structure and high cost, the output of this version of the submachine gun is naturally unsatisfactory. But the corresponding price is now quite high.