As he was about to hang up, Noel suddenly seemed to think of something. "Mr. Lin Qi, should we temporarily suspend our liquor business?"
The Green Brothers' industrial upgrade had now been completed with Lin Qi's unlimited financial support.
In the past, the Green Brothers had represented the bottom-rung gangs from small cities in the southeast. Now, however, they had become part of the capital.
Even in the Pan-Federal Gang Parliament, they were prominent figures. Their business could no longer simply be called illegal or criminal.
Perhaps it was more gray than anything else—not black, but not white either.
The law did not explicitly prohibit it, but if someone insisted on investigating, it could still cause trouble!
Take strip clubs, for example.
The Federation allowed strip clubs to exist, but did not allow strippers to accept any form of escort service.
The Federation did not allow women with technical skills and men who needed those services to coexist, yet both kinds of people were everywhere.
Strip clubs provided a private performance service similar to a private room, with one-on-one performances.
They also hung warnings in various places prohibiting dancers from providing sexual services to customers. If anyone violated the rule inside a private room, the club would bear no legal responsibility.
After all, it was impossible for someone to keep watch over every one-on-one private room. If someone broke the rules, it was the dancer's and customer's own problem.
It looked as though this had avoided legal responsibility, but in reality, it had not.
It was merely a... fig leaf, one used in peacetime.
When "war" arrived, even treaties signed between nations could be torn up at any time, let alone an announcement that had virtually no legal validity.
There were many minor problems like this, but all of them