Chapter 446: Australian Second-hand Sale Festival

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In this part of Australia, when Jin Muchen was in high school before, he and his parents came once, and on that family trip, he probably played here for more than two weeks, so he has some understanding of this country.

Speaking of this country, we can't help but admire the luck of their British ancestors, as we all know, this big island was first discovered by the Dutch, but later with the decline of the world status of the Dutch coachman and the rise of the empire, it became a British colony at that time.

More than 8 million square kilometers of land, when the British first discovered this place, it can be said that they were ecstatic, but when a group of geologists came here to investigate a circle, they could only take advantage of the excitement and return home.

More than 80 percent of this large area is barren land with a severe lack of fresh water resources, and the area suitable for human survival, that is, the southeastern area, and a coastal area around the island.

As for most of the middle, it was a dry desert, about the same size as the United States at the time, but if we talked about the natural environment, it was far from it.

So the British simply regarded this place as a place of exile, but they could not have imagined that hundreds of years later, their descendants would find so many precious natural resources in a land that seemed to them to be depleted.

Although there is no important strategic resource such as oil, it has the world's most high-quality iron ore and uranium ore, which is the modern Australian. It is by virtue of these abundant resources. Live a life of affluence that is the envy of Europeans.

People from other countries and regions now describe Australians. They will say that they are a gang of nouveau riche sitting on wool and minecarts, which shows how resource-rich the country is.

Of course, the Australians also paid a lot of price in order to be able to become independent from the British.

In the two world wars, it became the most stable rear of Britain, not only providing Britain with a large amount of food and various mineral resources, but also providing them with a large number of soldiers.

The descendants of those exiled criminals are notoriously brave and ruthless. In the absence of the British Army, these Australians, in North Africa and Europe, barely kept the last glory of the empire on which the sun never set for the British.

Of course, this is not Jin Muchen's most intuitive feeling of this country, a few years ago after traveling here for more than two weeks, Jin Muchen's feeling of this country is that it has a very beautiful natural environment, but it has very unfriendly people.

Although Australia can now be said to be an important destination for the country's wealthy immigrants, it is the British criminals of the past. and the descendants of mixed blood with the local aborigines, in fact, the attitude towards the Chinese. It's not friendly.

It's one thing to have money in your pocket, but it's another thing for them to make your money and scold you at the same time.

So after that trip, Jin Muchen and his parents never had the idea of coming here for the next trip.

It's a bunch of turtles themselves, but it's just because they are wearing a white skin, but when facing their rice benefactor, they often have an indescribable arrogance, and they will inadvertently reveal an indescribable sense of superiority in their bones, which makes Jin Muchen very disgusted with the people here.

To tell the truth, it is because this country is not strong now, if they now have the status of Americans in the world, even if they are a few grades lower than the Americans, I am afraid that the dirty things they did in the early years would have been found out and talked about a long time ago.

And now there is a face, pretending to be a civilized person in front of us? Bullshit!

It's just the descendants of a bunch of exiled criminals from the British, what did you do in Australia? The process of plundering the land is almost the same as what the Americans did to the Indians in person.

Robbery, deception, massacre, expulsion, and other heinous means, they are all the same.

Even at the beginning of the last century, in order to maximize the integration of the local indigenous people, their government also imposed a decree, that is, to send the police, directly to the indigenous homes, take away the indigenous children, and then carry out albino education.

The Act was enforced from 1910 until 1970, when it was discontinued, and the White Australia policy, which had been in place for more than 60 years, was now reversed.

There are also faces often in front of the Chinese what frontier, West @ Tibet and other ethnic minorities problems, and then show superiority in front of the Chinese, after a few exchanges with local whites, whenever those Australians say such a question, Jin Muchen wants to spit on his face.

So his feelings for Australia are actually very simple, that is, he is polarized, and he likes the natural scenery there, but he is not sensitive to the people there, especially those who are proud and arrogant in their bones.

This time I came to Australia, in fact, I have had an idea for a long time, although this country has been established for a long time, but in fact, their country's various antique collections are not small.

The British exiles who first pioneered this place didn't bring much treasure, but the key point is that the nobles who were later sent by the British government to supervise here brought a lot of good things here.

And the two world wars that followed, the country ushered in two huge waves of immigration, and the Europeans who immigrated to this country from the war-torn areas of Europe brought a lot of good things.

And because of the proximity of their native Asia, there are also a lot of Asian-style treasures here, which is also the main reason why Jin Muchen has confidence in coming here to Taobao.

And the main reason why Jin Muchen really decided to come over is because there is a world's largest garage sale festival.

It all started with the growth of the second-hand fire market in Sydney a few decades ago.

At that time, because of the golden development and the great migration period after the war, Australia at that time finally reluctantly squeezed into the club of developed countries in the West.

At that time, the Australian people were very wealthy, and every household had a lot of second-hand goods, because there was no market for professional second-hand goods like the United States, so many families simply put out their unused old goods in front of their garage and on the side of the road, and let passers-by choose.

In order to avoid confusion and cause unnecessary crime, the Sydney City Council simply set the date of the city's second-hand goods sale as October 26 every year, and opened several parks in the Sydney area, so that all the sellers who need to sell old goods will be concentrated here to concentrate on the sale.

The people of Sydney are very satisfied with the government's decision, and then this day has become a day for Sydneysiders to dump second-hand goods, and the Sydney government did not expect that the local people would burst out with so much energy, and this day was started with a shot, which also contributed to the reputation of this Sydney thrift sale day trip.

After that, every year on October 26th, it was like a carnival for Sydneysiders, almost every household took out things for sale, and many people from all over the country would come here to watch the excitement, and by the way, they would also pick up a few things they needed to go back.

As soon as other local governments across Australia saw that the Sydney City Government had reaped the benefits of the festival, more than 100 local governments immediately signed an agreement with the Sydney government to gather all the people in their city who had the need to sell second-hand goods, and let them go to Sydney to sell things on that day.

So October 26 became the famous second-hand sale festival in Australia.

And today, because the scale of this fire sale festival is getting bigger and bigger, and the number of people participating is increasing, so that the Sydney government has to divert this festival, which was originally held once a year.

But this year, they plan to hold it twice, and if the implementation is good, it will be regulated like this, and of course if the purpose of diverting the flow of people is not obvious, of course they don't mind, and it will be held three times a year.

And this time, Jin Muchen plans to participate in this second-hand fire sale festival at the end of April and early May.

After more than ten hours of flight, Jin Muchen arrived in Sydney and stayed directly at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney.

Sydney is the earliest and most famous city in Australia, but when it comes to their hotel, it can really make Jin Muchen complain for a few days.

Because this is an old city, many of the hotels here are old, and the decoration and environment are honest, which is really bad.

Many of them are five-star hotels, but not to mention the five-star hotels in the United States, they are compared with the hotels in China, and the most is the four-star environment and decoration.

Originally, Jin Muchen wanted to stay at the Intercontinental Hotel, after all, when Chinese leaders visited Australia in the past, they stayed here.

By the sea, quiet, good greenery, five hundred meters out of the world-famous Sydney Opera House, but where to see the decoration, Jin Muchen directly withdrew, spent the money of a five-star hotel, lived in a four-star, or even three-and-a-half-star hotel environment, he has not been wronged to such a point.

Looking around, I found such a Hilton hotel in Sydney and it is more decent, the internal environment has just been newly renovated in recent years, and the environmental conditions are similar to the Hilton Hotel in the United States, Jin Muchen chose to live here.

Put a few simple pieces of luggage in the luxury suite of the hotel, and then Jin Muchen went outside the hotel and started to look for the hotel.

Before he came, he checked a lot of Sydney food, and a rich person like him now, of course, will not treat his stomach badly wherever he goes, and some local Australian food is still quite attractive to him.

For example, those kangaroos that look cute on TV, he is very interested in trying the taste of this thing...... (To be continued......)