Chapter 1448: 1449An opportunity to learn
The restoration work of Qingluan Port has been ongoing. After all, this port is very large and should be the most important maritime transportation port of the Tang Empire at the southern end of the Western Continent in the future.
It was mostly destroyed due to the war, but it was very easy to rebuild. At least after clearing a dock, the materials from 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 port reconstruction work. Obviously, the efficiency is very high.
Within a few months, the engineers and workers of the Tang Empire transformed this place. The collapsed and damaged houses in the past have been 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 were 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 sea transportation, replacing part of the work of porters at the dock.
Brand-new cars were parked at 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. Obviously, 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 thinks that there can 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 daily life, not even a splash was made. It seems that after retaining 10 million cars, the world needs another 10 million cars...
Wiping the sweat from his forehead, a middle-aged dock worker looked enviously at the busy forklift in the distance. That thing can carry something that would take dozens of workers to carry at one go, and it's very fast.
The person driving the forklift used to do the same job as him. Later, because he attended night school and learned how to drive a forklift, 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, dare not take on such a job, so many times they can only stand aside.
At today's docks, there are several states of unloading cargo. The fastest one is the container freighter operated by the Tang Empire itself. The containers on it do not require porters to unload the cargo.
The crane can easily and neatly lift these containers to the side, and then load them onto a trailer, or put them directly on the train's carriage, 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 also doing well. Had a good time.
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 them 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 The man with the red armband came over.
“Old Sun, I will do it for you as you asked me.” 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 head respectfully and greeted 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 weren't neighbors, I wouldn't even bother 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 good times 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 a crane or beg for food, it’s up to you 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, he was appointed as a small steward.
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 named Sun smiled and nodded as he promised. He naturally regrets that he missed the opportunity before. So this time he was really determined to learn a craft. After all, there were several mouths waiting for food at home.
The Tang Empire brought advanced technology and 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 you.
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 dust.
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.
(End of this chapter)