The restoration work of Qingluan Port has been ongoing. After all, this port is very large, and in the future it should be the most important maritime transportation port of the Tang Empire at the southern end of the Western Continent.
Most of it was destroyed due to the war, but it is very easy to rebuild. At least after clearing a dock, the materials of the Tang Empire can be landed directly from here.
A large amount of materials are loaded at Nanshan Port or Linshui Port Terminal, and then transported directly to Qingluan Port, where they are directly used in the port reconstruction work. Obviously, the efficiency is very high.
Within a few months, the engineers and workers of the Tang Empire changed the appearance of this place. The collapsed and damaged houses in the past were all cleared and replaced by clean and tidy small buildings.
Huge cranes were erected on the docks to improve loading and unloading efficiency, and those dock workers who had been invisible due to the war quickly came back because of the attractive salaries.
They lined up to help unload boxes of goods, and forklifts were also sent here along with the shipping, replacing part of the work of porters.
Brand-new cars were parked on the dock one after another. They were all sent to Shu for use. The Tang Empire could produce more than 1.5 million cars every year, and it was obvious that this number was still not enough.
But compared to the past, this number is already very shocking. According to the plan, the Datang Empire will increase its car production to more than 5 million vehicles in the future.
Everyone who hears this number will be surprised. No one thought that there could be so many cars in the world at the same time.
But with the development of the economy, everyone was equally surprised to find that after millions of cars were put into production and life, not even a splash was made. It seems that after retaining 10 million cars, the world still needs another 1,000
Thousands of cars...
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, a middle-aged dock worker looked at the busy forklift in the distance with envy. That thing could carry things that would take dozens of workers to carry at one go, and it was very fast.
The person driving the forklift used to have the same job as him. Later, he went to night school and learned how to drive a forklift, so he is now prosperous and his income is more than three times that of his.
It's a pity that he didn't pay attention to such learning and improvement at that time, so now he is almost without a job.
Now, dock workers like him, who rely on strength to make a living, only have some odd jobs and the work of carrying valuables.
Unfortunately, it is very dangerous to move valuables, and you will have to pay compensation if they are damaged. Therefore, many people, including him, are afraid to take on such a job, so many times they can only stand aside.
At today's docks, the unloading work of goods can be divided into several states. The fastest one is the container freighter operated by the Datang Empire itself, and the containers on it do not require porters to unload the goods.
A crane can easily and neatly lift these containers to the side, then load them onto a trailer, or place them directly on the train's wagon, and transport them away neatly.
This kind of work has high technical content and is more efficient. The original dock porters could not do it. The smart people who have been trained now have their own formal establishment. They are called serious dock workers, not dock porters.
work.
Dock workers operate cranes, drive trailers, and are responsible for safety inspections and other tasks. They are easy and well paid.
The second class is those who drive forklifts on the docks or drive ordinary freight trucks. These workers have learned something in temporary night schools or technical schools, and then engaged in related jobs, earning three or even five times their original wages. Naturally, they are doing well.
Have a good life.
But the middle-aged worker in front of him has not caught up with anything good. He missed the first batch of good opportunities to learn new technologies, and now he can only watch others move faster and faster.
Just as he watched with envy as the forklift in the distance picked up the stacks of flour and raised it to the height of the back compartment of the car, and then several porters began to unload the goods, a man wearing a yellow vest with a hand on his arm
A man with a red armband came over.
"Old Sun, I will do whatever you asked me to do for you." His words made the dock porter named Sun turn around.
Known as Lao Sun, when he saw that he was the steward on the pier, he immediately lowered his body respectfully and went down, greeting with a smile: "Director Liu, please excuse me, I'll treat you to a nice meal later."
"Come on, I make more in one day than you do in a month. It's your turn to treat me to dinner? If we hadn't been neighbors, I wouldn't have bothered to care about this nonsense of yours." Director Liu hates the fact that iron cannot be made into steel.
He pointed at the other party and said helplessly: "We were both laborers moving things, but when the time came, I asked you to learn skills. You really took my words as farts."
As he spoke, he took out a folded form from his pocket and handed it to the porter named Sun: "Take it! I can tell you, whether your family will starve to death or eat meat, you will be better in the future.
Whether you ride in the crane or beg for food, it depends on this time!"
"My face is worth so much to Director Han. There will never be a next time!" He is also an out-and-out Shu native. He was transferred to Director Han from the Tang Dynasty because of his cleverness and hard work.
After growing up a little bit of fame there, he was appointed as a small manager.
As he said, if the two families hadn't been friends for a long time, he wouldn't have had the courage to ask his boss for a place in a technical school where he would be taught how to operate a crane.
Of course, he didn't know that this kind of quota was actually not valuable to Director Han. It was nothing more than a favor or something to openly recruit students.
"I will definitely learn how to behave this time! Don't worry!" The porter surnamed Sun smiled and nodded. Naturally, he regretted that he had missed the previous opportunity. So he was really determined this time.
You should learn a craft well, after all, there are many mouths waiting for food at home.
The Tang Empire brought advanced technology and at the same time a better life. A better life comes at a cost. If you don't make progress, the increased cost of living will definitely be enough to crush people to death.
This era is an era of change, and change means that some people will be brutally eliminated. If you cannot adapt to such changes, you will be crushed by the wheels of progress and eventually turned into powder.
Obviously, the dock porter named Sun Sheng did not want to be eliminated by the times, so he tried his best to seize this last opportunity.
