The restoration work on Qingluan Port has been continuously ongoing, considering that this port is large in scale and should beco the most important mariti transport hub at the southern end of the Western Continent for the Great Tang Empire in the future.
It was mostly destroyed due to the war, but rebuilding it is relatively easy. Once a pier is cleared, the materials from the Great Tang Empire can directly land here.
Large quantities of materials are shipped from Nanshan Port or Linshui Port, then directly transported to Qingluan Port, where they are imdiately used for the reconstruction of the port, clearly making the process highly efficient.
In a few months, the Great Tang Empire’s engineers and laborers have transford the place. Previously collapsed and damaged houses have been cleared, replaced by neat and clean small buildings.
Gigantic cranes have been erected on the dock, improving loading and unloading efficiency, while the dock workers missing due to the war have swiftly returned due to attractive wages.
They line up to help unload boxes of goods, and forklifts sent via sea transport have arrived here, taking over so of the work previously done by dock workers.
Brand new cars park on the dock, sent to Shu Territory for use. The Great Tang Empire can produce over 1.5 million cars annually, but obviously, this number is still not sufficient.
However, compared to the past, this number is already astonishing. According to the plan, the Great Tang Empire will increase car production to over 5 million in the future.
Everyone who hears this number is shocked; no one believes the world could simultaneously have such a vast number of cars.
Yet, with economic developnt, people are also surprised to find that hundreds of thousands of cars enter production and life without causing even a ripple. It seems that after having 10 million cars, the world still needs another 10 million cars...
Wiping sweat off his forehead, a middle-aged dock worker enviously glanced at the busy forklifts in the distance. Those machines can transport what dozens of workers could, and at a rapid pace.
The person driving that forklift used to do the sa work as him. Later, he attended night school and learned to drive a forklift, so now he’s thriving, earning more than three tis his salary.
Unfortunately, he didn’t value such educational improvents at the ti, leading to his near unemploynt right now.
Currently, dock workers like him who rely on physical strength only have sparse tasks and the transportation of valuable items.
However, transporting valuable items is very risky; if damaged, compensation is required. Thus, including him, many don’t dare to take such work. Consequently, many tis they just stand idly by.
Nowadays at the dock, unloading work is divided into several types; the fastest is the container vessels operated by the Great Tang Empire, where containers don’t require dock workers to unload.
Cranes can easily and swiftly transport these containers aside, then load them onto a trailer, or directly place them on a train carriage and send them cleanly away.
This work involves high technical content and greater efficiency, which the original dock workers couldn’t undertake. Smart individuals who underwent training now have their own formal roles; they are called proper dock workers, not dock movers.
Dock workers operate cranes, drive trailers, handle safety inspections, which is simple and well-paid.
The second tier involves driving forklifts on the dock or driving ordinary cargo trucks. These workers learned so skills in temporary night schools or technical schools, then engaged in related work, earning three or even five tis the wage, naturally enjoying a good life.
And this middle-aged worker here didn’t catch any good opportunities; he missed the first batch to learn new technology. Now, he can only helplessly watch others progress quickly.
Just as he enviously watched from afar as the forklift lifted stacks of flour up to the height of the truck’s rear compartnt, several movers began unloading the goods, a man wearing a yellow vest and a red armband strolled over.
"Lao Sun, I’ve done what you asked," said the man, causing the dock mover surnad Sun to turn his head.
Seeing it’s the supervisor at the dock, he imdiately humbly bowed slightly, with a smiling face, and greeted: "Director Liu, I’ve troubled you, I’ll treat you to a nice al later."
"Cut it out, I freaking earn more in a day than you do in a month. Is it your turn to treat ? If we weren’t neighbors before, I wouldn’t bother with your trivial issues." Director Liu pointed at him helplessly, saying: "We were both manual laborers back then; when the opportunity ca, I advised you to learn the technology, but you really took my words as nonsense."
As he spoke, he pulled a folded form from his pocket and handed it to the mover surnad Sun: "Take it! I’m telling you, whether your family starves or eats at, whether you operate a crane or beg, all depends on this ti!"
"My reputation with Director Han is only worth this much; there’s no next ti!" He’s a genuine Shu person, relied on intelligence and hard work to gain so reputation with Han Director, who was transferred from Tang Country, and was appointed as a small supervisor.
As he said himself, if their families weren’t old acquaintances, he wouldn’t have dared to ask his superior and request an enrollnt spot for crane operation technical school.
Of course, he didn’t know this enrollnt wasn’t actually valuable to Director Han, used rely for favors or publicly inviting trainees.
"I’ll definitely learn sothing this ti! Rest assured!" The mover surnad Sun nodded and promised with a smiling face. He obviously regrets missing the previous opportunity, so he’s truly determined to learn a skill this ti. After all, the family has several mouths waiting to be fed.
The Great Tang Empire brought advanced technology and also better living. Better living cos at a cost, and if one doesn’t improve, then the increased living cost is enough to crush a person.
This era is a ti of revolutionary change, and change ans so will be ruthlessly eliminated. If one cannot adapt to the change, they will be crushed by the wheel of progress and ultimately turned into dust.
Clearly, the dock mover nad Sun Sheng does not want to be left behind by the tis, so he’s fiercely determined to seize this last opportunity.
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