At Weikou, beside the newly expanded dock, a large number of steamships were berthed. Yuwen Wen took his family off the boat and came to the palace temporarily converted from the port area inn to stay. He set off early tomorrow morning to take the land back to Chang'an.

Yuwen Wen breathed a sigh of relief when he traveled safely on a steamer boat. The requisitioned steamer will then remove various compartments, decorate them, and restore them to ferries, serving the people in the three places of Yumenjin, Pujin and Fenglingjin.

By the way, it will make profits for the General Administration of Shipbuilding.

Because it was still early before dinner time, Yuwen Wen talked to his family for a while and summoned officials from Weikou Port Area to learn more about the current development of the Port Area.

Weikou, as the name suggests, is the estuary of the Wei River entering the Yellow River. On the south side of Weikou, there is also the estuary of the artificial canal "Guangtong Canal" entering the Yellow River. Guangtong Canal bears the important task of supplying canal materials to Chang'an. Guandong materials must be transported to Chang'an through the canal here, so their role is very important.

Back then, Yuwen Wen led his troops to attack the granary at Weikou, burning down the morale of the Sui army that saved Chang'an with a fire. Now he is revisiting his old place, of course, the first thing he emphasized is the security issue.

Safety refers to "production safety". The Weikou Port Area is related to whether massive amounts of materials can be supplied to Chang'an, so safety accidents must not occur, which will affect the transfer capacity.

Among them, food is the most important thing, followed by coal.

A large ship with a load of more than 1,000 hu of coal was loaded with coal produced in Bingzhou, and flowed down the Fen River into the Yellow River, and then arrived at the Weikou Port Area to unload the cargo. The coals were transferred to the canal ship with a load of 400 hu and headed to Chang'an along the Guangtong Channel.

The reason for this is that the Wei River cannot escape the large ships, and the current water level of Guangtong Channel cannot accommodate a thousand hu of large ships.

Therefore, the coal waiting for transportation in Weikou Port Area has become a huge safety hazard.

When coal accumulates into coal mountains, the internal temperature will be very high. Under the scorching sun, it will spontaneously burn over time.

The burning coal mountain is similar to the Flame Mountain. Mars flew around with the wind and easily ignited other warehouses. At that time, countless food and materials were burned to the fire. The huge losses cannot be recovered by killing a few people.

Yu Wenwen attached great importance to it and personally visited the coal yard to see if all the protective measures were in place and whether these measures were effective.

As he looked at it, he suddenly felt a chill in his neck because there was a crooked tree in a corner of the coal yard.

Yuwen Wen coughed dryly and continued to move forward.

It would be extremely boring to cut off the tree for a good deal.

When he came to the steam crane on the edge of the coal yard, he looked at the huge creature and asked about the relevant matters.

The operation of a steam crane is too complicated for most people, but no matter how difficult it is, someone needs to operate it, so safe operation is the key.

Because of the rush of time, there are not many qualified steam crane operators, and many of the on-the-job operators are graduates of the assault training class. They are considered "half-barrel of water" and there is not even an internship period, so they go to work directly.

This is a huge hidden danger, but there are too many benefits for steam cranes. With steam cranes loading and unloading and material transfer, the work efficiency has increased greatly, so the demand is high, which is why the current situation is now.

Yuwen Wen looked at the crane running in front of him from a long distance, and looked at the swaying crane arm, and his back felt a little chilled: I feel like this is really a novice on the road!

Technical education is urgent, and something will happen sooner or later if this continues.

Thinking of technical education, a demonic voice suddenly echoed in Yuwen Wen's ears.

Learn technology and go to Lanxiang!

The sound was so magical that he almost hummed.

After thinking for a while, Yuwen Wen realized a question: So, what should the agricultural heavy metal style technical school advertisement look like?

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Chang'an, Xiuzhengfang in the southeast corner, is under construction. The original old house has been demolished and the new building is rising. Next to the construction site, a large number of people gathered, staring at the steam pile driver in front of them, watching the piles being driven underground.

The pile driver is erected with a heavy hammer at the top, the end of the heavy hammer is an iron cable, and the other end of the iron cable is a set of gears on the ground. The gear set is driven by a steam engine. As the gear rotates, the heavy hammer rises and then falls.

With a "bang", everyone present seemed to be hit by a heavy object, and the heavy hammer smashed the pile pole down a little.

Amid the roar of the machine, the pile driver kept making "bang, bang, bang". The onlookers watched the pile driver with relish. This magical machine is really powerful.

There is another machine with infinite power, called the "steam crane". This giant can easily lift hundreds of hu of heavy objects, which can be said to be "lifting heavy weights as lightly".

When the steam crane is running, it also makes a roar. The huge cantilever "grabs" the heavy object, then slowly turns, turns to the other side of the construction site, and then gently puts it down.

The construction site of Xiuzhengfang is now one of the most famous attractions in Chang'an City. Every day, many people come to watch how various behemoths are constructed.

Among the onlookers, there were hawkers shuttled around. They kept shouting and selling various snacks and drinks. In order to attract business, they also introduced inside information about the Xiuzhengfang project to the surrounding people.

In fact, many people know this insider news, that is, the newly established "Shipbuilding Administration" will set up a "technical school" in Chang'an City to specialize in cultivating steamship practitioners, and the school's location is Xiuzhengfang.

Many people find this strange because if you just study a school, how do you need to use a "steam pile driver" and a "steam crane".

The "insider news" in insider news means that the school needs to provide students with a large number of "internship" places, including the operation and maintenance of steam units, as well as the processing and repair of various spare parts, which requires a tall "factory building" to place a large number of steam units.

At the same time, the technical school will teach the members how to operate the steam crane.

Therefore, to build a tall factory, this requires that the piles must be deep so that the factory will be stable.

The ceiling of the factory requires a crane to lift heavy beams during construction. At the same time, the gantry cranes in the factory also require larger cranes to cooperate with the installation.

Therefore, the construction site is equipped with so many huge objects, and I don’t know how many kilograms of coal it burns every day.

Many people onlookers didn't know a single word. The news revealed by the vendors, many of which were not understood, but they understood one, that is, after the school formally recruits students, graduates went to "work". Even if they were just apprentices, their monthly salary was not less than two cents.

This is an incredible income. You should know that many people work as servants. The daily wage is thirty cents a day, and the work is twenty-five days a month, and it is only 750 cents to work to the death.

Studying in this "technical school", you can earn two cents a month after graduation, which is a good job.

Many people are eager to try this, but it is said that the admission requirements are not low. First of all, you must be able to read and know basic arithmetics, or which business company or factory "commissioned students" are. As for what "commissioned students" are, everyone is not sure.

Anyway, if you know one thing, you can live a good life by learning "technology".

But after learning "technology", you have to deal with the vicious "steam engine". It is said that if you are not careful, people will be eaten by this monster, so many people feel a little scared.

I have never heard of any "steam engine" for generations. Whether these coal-eating machines will suddenly become the most concerned topic in the market.

But no matter what, steam engines, steamships, and cranes are getting closer and closer to everyone. I think in a few years, you will definitely see these giants everywhere, whimpering with black smoke.

When many people older than the ages feel restless when they think of this scene, they don’t understand what the world is, and why it is getting stranger.

While everyone was watching, they suddenly saw a group of people coming to the fence outside the construction site and starting to pull up banners. After the banners were pulled, they saw many words written on them.

Everyone was illiterate, so they didn't understand what was written on the banner. After finally someone came to read it, they recognized it for a long time and finally read it out.
Chapter completed!