Chapter 449 Philatelic Album
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The young man Morin seems to be a typical white Australian, but fortunately he is highly educated, not the kind of street gangster, so his attitude towards the Chinese is very friendly, and Jin Muchen is more relieved to contact him.
Moreover, even if this guy has any evil intentions, Jin Muchen is not very afraid, on the one hand, he has a special ability to protect his body, and on the other hand, it is also because there are a few guns in the space.
If this guy wants to knock his own stuffy stick, Jin Muchen doesn't mind teaching him a lesson.
Early the next morning, before it was dark, Jin Muchen received a call from this Mo Lin, it turned out that for the salary of 200 Australian dollars, this kid got up early.
He now drives to the hotel, which is thirteen yuan an hour, so the two hundred Australian dollars promised by Jin Muchen is not a small amount for him.
After a hasty wash, and then changed into an inconspicuous sportswear, Jin Muchen walked out of the room.
This Morin had been waiting for him at the door of the hotel for a long time, but this time Morin did not drive the hotel's luxury car, but drove his own Horton.
This car is actually GM's joint venture OEM product in Australia, which should be hung with the lion mark that Australians are proud of, so it is very popular here, and many people think that this is Australia's local independent brand, which is very common on the road.
Jin Muchen got into the car and sat in the back seat, Mo Lin said hello to him, and then kicked the accelerator and drove straight to the rocky area.
The Rocks is one of Sydney's most famous tourist landmarks, and most of the earliest British colonists who came to colonize Sydney landed here.
One could even say. This is the prototype of the earliest urban area of Sydney. Because of the architecture here. Most of them were built by the first batch of colonists in the past, using local rocks, so it has its current name, the Rock District.
Later, it became an area infested by thieves, traders, and priestesses, and after the city of Sydney was built, it became a famous dirty and messy area in Sydney.
Crimes of all kinds occur frequently here. Thieves and criminals were rampant, and this situation lasted until 1920, when the construction of the Sydney Iron Bridge began, and many of the neighborhoods were demolished.
Since then, the pomp and circumstance of the place has not been what it used to be, and in 1970, the city of Sydney has expanded and expanded, and it has also changed from a remote and dirty area to the heart of Sydney.
The City of Sydney at the time took a look. Isn't it a waste of a piece of feng shui treasure to let this place rot?
So it was renovated from the ground up. The commercial center with the goal of tourism has been developed, and it has become prosperous again.
Jin Muchen didn't know this history, but Mo Lin, who was driving in front, was a very responsible tour guide when he arrived, and drove Jin Muchen all the way here, and introduced the situation here to Jin Muchen all the way.
So this journey is not boring, and Jin Muchen listens to it with relish.
Soon the car is at Circular Quay, turning northwest and driving for five minutes to the famous Rock District, Moore Park is in the heart of the Rock District, next to a racecourse.
"Horse racing here is quite interesting, and when there are no horse races, there are greyhound races or pig races, so you might as well come and see the ...... when you have time."
When the car approached Moore Park, Mo Lin pointed to several large competition fields not far from the park and introduced it to Jin Muchen.
Jin Muchen also felt a little ridiculous when he heard it, these white-skinned people really dare to bet on anything.
In fact, in the world, our Chinese have a good reputation for gambling, but in fact, it is these whites who gamble better than Chinese in the world.
Someone has made statistics that the second largest loser in the gambling industry in the world every year is the Chinese, and the first is the Americans, which shows the gambling nature of these guys.
As early as in the United States, Jin Muchen had heard that Americans gamble on everything, and you may see more Chinese in the casino, but what about Americans?
They usually sit at home and make phone bets, and they bet more on various sports events, such as American football, baseball, ice hockey, basketball, horse racing, dog racing, pig racing, etc.
However, he didn't know much about these projects, so he didn't personally participate in them.
What he didn't expect was that these preferences of the Americans, his little brothers in Australia actually learned all of them, which is quite interesting.
Seeing that Jin Muchen was silent, Mo Lin knew that the boss might not be interested in those things, so he stopped pouting and drove him directly to Moore Park.
Moore Park is famous in The Rocks as it is a great place for cyclists to come for free rides every week, but there is a rest area in the park and a flea market every weekend.
In the early days, this flea market was just a large-scale agricultural product sales meeting organized by some farmers in the suburbs, but later many thieves discovered the advantage of this market, that is, the flow of people is particularly large, so every weekend morning before the farmers' market opens, these guys come back here to set up stalls to sell their things, and over time it has become a habit.
Many local residents know that there will be a black market in the morning on this side of Moore Park, where everything you can think of can be seen here.
Mo Lin found a place to park the car, Jin Muchen got out of the car, and followed him all the way to the morning market.
At this time, the sky was not yet bright, but he had already seen from a distance that in the middle of the park, there was a place where many people were crowded and gathered, many people were constantly rummaging through various stalls with flashlights, and some people were bargaining with the stall owners.
Jin Muchen was interested at a glance, although the scale of this ghost market is not large, far from the one he has been to in the United States, but after all, this is a ghost market, as long as there is such a place, it means good things.
Soon he was in the middle of the market, which seemed to have about a hundred stalls, and there were not a few people who came to visit the market, and he probably glanced at it, and found that there were almost a thousand people.
The stalls here are not standardized, and most stall owners simply spread a blanket on the ground and then put the items they want to sell on the blanket.
And many of the stalls have no lighting, so if you want to pick up good things from here, it depends on the eyes of buyers, and if they don't have flashlights when they come, they will definitely be unlucky.
Jin Muchen followed the flow of people and walked into the market, and when he passed by each stall, he would take a few looks.
However, he soon felt a little disappointed, although he knew that most of the stalls sold here were stolen goods, but among these stolen goods, there were not many things that he could value.
For example, he didn't see all kinds of antiques, or works of art, oil paintings, but he saw all kinds of electronic products the most.
For example, a stolen iPhone, or a camera, or a tablet, a laptop, or something like that.
THERE WERE EVEN XBOX, AND PS, AND A LOT OF GAME DISCS, AND MOST EXAGGERATEDLY, HE EVEN SAW A BOOTH WITH SEVERAL HUGE FLAT-SCREEN TVS.
Most of these electronic products, without exception, are dirty goods, mobile phones and computers, etc., which may be found by the thieves from tourists, and those game consoles and televisions may be the trophies of the thieves who patronize other people's homes or shopping malls and warehouses.
The price of these things is indeed very attractive, a brand new Apple computer only costs 1,000 Australian dollars, and 89% of new Apple mobile phones are even cheaper, only about a few tens to 100 Australian dollars.
If Jin Muchen was a poor student, then he would definitely be very tempted, but he was not a poor student, and he didn't come for these things.
Disappointed, he was still a little unwilling, so he continued to follow the crowded flow of people inside, but he walked through most of the market, and did not find any antique artworks worthy of his attention.
Just as he was about to return disappointed, suddenly an item on the stall attracted his attention with a flash of black light.
He walked over, and the owner of the stall was a white young man with a pimple-laden face, that is, in his twenties, and several half-used XBOX and PS game consoles on the stall.
There is also a cardboard box next to it, which contains a variety of game discs.
"What does Mr. like, pick whatever you want?"
When the young man saw Jin Muchen coming to his stall, he was a little nervous at first, but when he saw that Jin Muchen seemed to be very good at talking, he took the initiative to greet him and said.
Jin Muchen didn't look at the game consoles and CDs at all, and directly pointed to a photo album under the carton containing some CDs, and said to the young man.
"What's that? Can you show me this? ”
The young man was stunned, but he didn't say anything, he directly moved the cardboard box, then pulled out the thing and handed it to Jin Muchen.
Jin Muchen opened the photo album and was shocked, it turned out that this photo album was not the kind of album dedicated to family photos, but a philatelic album.
The pages inside are covered with stamps of all kinds and eras.
At first glance, most of these stamps are issued in Australia, and they all have local Australian postmarks on them, which look a little old.
For example, there are many stamps of Queen Victoria's head or bust that Jin Muchen has seen many times in the United States, such stamps were very popular for the British colonies back then, and the circulation was not small.
After Jin Muchen entered the antique industry, he not only specialized in Chinese antiques, but also studied Western antiques, especially in terms of stamps, and also knew a little about them, so he also knew a little about the collection of Western antique stamps. (To be continued......)