No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Ancient Harbor is relatively backward, and all goods require manual handling. Whether it is loading or unloading from a ship, it is inseparable from a lot of coolie. The strength and strength of the coolie directly determines the operation of Harbor. s efficiency.

To evaluate the prosperity of a Harbor, it can be seen from the number of coolies. The number of coolies is a hard indicator of Harbor ’s prosperity, which is more reliable than the size of Harbor. Harbor does not mean a certain prosperity, but if there are many coolies, then It must be a prosperous harbour, because the coolies all need to eat. A Harbor can gather a large number of coolies, which is enough to show that the Harbor’s loading and unloading of goods is very frequent, and the coolies have enough work to do.

However, the large number of coolies, the handling of goods back and forth, also made Harbor messy. There are people working everywhere, and the goods are piled up in disorder. How can it not be messy.

The larger the Harbor, the more serious this kind of confusion, sometimes even triggering contradictions, military force conflicts broke out, causing further confusion.

The transportation conditions in ancient times were very limited, and the transportation cost of horses and horses was relatively high. However, the large volume of transportation by boats can save costs very well. Therefore, water transportation has always been a very effective method of transportation, which is valued by all merchants.

Both the starting point and the end point of water transportation are on the pier. Therefore, the pier is very important. If anyone can control the pier, he can control a continuous wealth.

In many times, in order to compete for a wharf that can generate wealth, many black and evil forces will fight for life and death, and the dead are batch after batch.

There is a small fishing village called Shanghai in later generations. Because the geographical location is very suitable for Harbor, it has been built by the Western powers into a very large Harbor. The scale of the city is constantly expanding, and the number of docks is increasing, and many of them are It is controlled by different evil forces, so that the pier becomes a tool for them to gather money.

Tanal is also a relatively important trade transit point, especially in the era when the shipbuilding industry in Great Tang is not very developed, the self-sustainability of sea ships is very limited, and it must be docked in a sea port like Tanal, so, just It seems quite important.

Since it is an important Harbor, Li An naturally needs spare no effort to carry out the construction, and now, improving the efficiency of loading and unloading the cargo at the terminal has become the latest goal Li An pursues.

Different merchant ships are suitable for docking at Harbor, and the height of the deck from the shore is different, almost all are much higher than the dock.

When unloading and loading, a sloping wooden board needs to be placed on the deck of the ship. In this way, the coolie can walk along the deck to the merchant ship, and then move the cargo on the merchant ship from the plank with the slope Come down, pile the goods on the dock, and then continue to move, these goods piled up on the dock, someone will take the carriage to pull away.

This original unloading method lasted almost 1000 years, and it was gradually changed into container unloading after the rise of large-scale ocean trade in later generations, thereby greatly improving the efficiency of unloading.

In this era, it is difficult to carry out huge container transportation, because the containers of later generations are really too large, and they need a very large crane to lift them. Moreover, such a huge container, ordinary carriage is also Unable to transport, in short, all kinds of unrealistic.

However, the use of cranes to hoist the cargo directly from the merchant ship is a good way to achieve it, but the mechanical cranes are only available in the Great Tang, and the number is still relatively small. I am afraid that it cannot be applied to Tanal for the time being.

It is feasible to use the moving pulley to reduce the pulling force. As long as a few more moving pulleys are used, the weight of the goods can be reduced several times, so that a coolie can easily unload it.

The manufacturing of the simple survey of the moving pulley is not difficult, and it can be built under the current conditions of the Tanal harbour.

There are a lot of pulleys in Li An, which is enough to use. In addition, a strong crane column needs to be built on the wharf, and a beam is used to install the pulley.

The whole organization needs a strong rope. One end of the rope is in the coolie’s hand, and the other end is hung with an iron hook. The iron hook is used to hook the goods. The coolie is responsible for controlling the rope and the direction, so that the goods can be dropped safely.

Some goods are relatively small in size, and can be easily carried by only one person. If you use such a large equipment, one by one’s transportation is not a very heavy small sack, which is too cost-effective and not enough. economic.

Therefore, it is necessary to equip each and everyone with an appropriate square box. The top of the box is open, and one of the four sides can also be tiled to facilitate loading and unloading.

When in use, you can hang the empty box on the merchant ship, and then use coolie to pile up a large amount of goods in this large square box. After the preparation is complete, carefully transport the square box and the goods to the dock, open the side One panel can easily unload the goods.

If there is a transport vehicle next to it, it is more convenient, just dump the goods into the transport vehicle.

In this way, it seems that the number of handling is more frequent, but there is less effort to carry the goods on dangerous wooden boards. This is not only labor-saving, safe, but also more efficient than direct handling.

Especially when encountering large cargoes, it is often necessary to lay a lot of templates, and more than a dozen people carry them together to move the cargo securely. If you use the crane system, you can easily move it down, and the efficiency has not only improved. a little bit.

Li An had already thought about this issue yesterday, so I had already drawn the drawings and immediately handed them to the staff behind me, opened the mouth and said: “This is a crane, which can make the unloading of merchant ships easier. And let local craftsmen build it immediately, This Official wants to see the effect as soon as possible. “

“Yes, Minister Li, my subordinates understand.”

The subordinates quickly produced the drawings and cautiously handed them to the people behind them.

The commercial terminal is currently barely able to maintain, and the urgent improvement ideas Li An can think of are only to improve the handling method. As for the expansion of scale and so on, after the funds are in place, it slowly changes.

Moreover, the current commercial port pool is not too large, and the potential for change is very limited. The Shipyard and the fisherman’s hut on the 2 side also make this port pool destined not to be the main port in the future.

Shipyard is a small facility that can only build extremely simple boats and medium-sized ships. The shipbuilding technology is very half, not at all what is commendable. Li An does not intend to change him. It is also good to keep it for a while. After all, Shipyard There is a ship repair function. There are so many ships in Harbor. It is inevitable that there are ships that need to be repaired. This Shipyard will be able to do this task.

The fisherman ’s hut is a major feature of the civilian Harbor, and it is also quite lively. When men go fishing, women will make salted fish at home, and children will play in the vicinity and play happily, just these children. All are dirty, at first glance is the child of the poor.

The existence of the fisherman ’s hut has made the whole harbor quite warm, and increased the popularity of the harbor, making the harbor look more prosperous. Therefore, these unmanned cabins cannot be moved, and it is also good to put it here. Anyway, the future main port needs to be re-selected for construction.

At this time, most of the fishermen went out to catch fish, and there were very few fishing boats left in the harbour. At a glance, there were less than ten.

Because the fishing technology in this era is still very backward, simply cannot pose a substantial threat to the fishery resources in the natural world. Therefore, the fishery resources are always abundant, which also guarantees that the fishermen can catch every time. A sufficient number of catches to feed themselves and their families.

The fishing boat has not returned at the moment, as long as the fishing boat returns, the flow of people at the fishing terminal will increase quickly, and the hawkers who purchase large quantities of marine fish will quickly snap up the marine fish they need.

Even at this moment, there are already fewer hawkers waiting at the fishing dock. As long as the fishing boat is docked, they will run to buy.

The fishy smell near the fisherman’s hut was too big. Li An couldn’t stand it for a while, and quickly took the people to leave and went to the barren beach next to it.

The desert beach here is very close to the commercial harbor and the area is very large. Moreover, a path extends farther into the sea, so that the Sea Territory in front of the beach becomes 2 land-based terrains, only a little modification is needed. , You can form an extremely wide harbour.

In Li An’s eyes, this place can become the main port for future commercial trade, and it is also the main location for commercial ship replenishment. When the main port is built, the original Harbor commercial terminal can be gradually dismantled and the place is given to Shipyard And hit the fisherman.

After all, there will be more and more ships coming and going, and there will be more users who need to repair the ship. With the existing Shipyard, it will definitely be too busy, so sooner or later it will be expanded, and it is most appropriate to occupy commercial sites. However.

“This place can be fenced to form a new Harbor, and the path that extends into the sea should also be heightened and widened to become a dock for storing goods.”

Li An pointed to the nearby terrain and began to deploy the construction plan.

Li An ’s idea of ​​building a new port is to build the new Harbor with the help of some natural conditions and manual efforts. In order to increase the efficiency of unloading and replenishment, it is necessary to build all the docks in the three directions of the new Harbor, only the closest to the sea On the side, only a closed wall that is not too long is built to block the impact of the waves and protect the ships in the harbor.

“There are also a few places where large water towers must be built. The merchant ships that come and go need fresh water supply. In the future, there will be more and more merchant ships, and there will be a lot of fresh water that needs to be replenished. Merchant ships are delayed because they cannot supply fresh water in time. “

Li An continued to arrange.

“Yes, Minister Li, my subordinates understand.”

Replenishment of fresh water is of vital importance to ocean-going merchant ships. When all ocean-going merchant ships pass through the harbour along the route, there is no non-replenishment of fresh water, so the efficiency of replenishment is very important.

In many backward seaports, the method of replenishing fresh water is very troublesome. Mariners of merchant ships are required to first transport the empty buckets off the merchant ship, then fill up the fresh water with Harbor, and then effortlessly transport the wooden barrels filled with fresh water onto the merchant ship.

Transporting in wooden barrels back and forth in this way is too time-consuming and tiring, and will seriously affect the speed of supplying fresh water.

After the water tower is built, the efficiency of the replenishment can be greatly increased. The water tank is built at the highest point of the water tower, and the height of the bottom of the pool is higher than the deck of the merchant ship. In this case, only a thin and soft The pipe can be used to introduce the fresh water in the water tower to the merchant ship. The speed is much faster than the manual transportation, and the improved efficiency is not a little bit.

The Great Tang Empire has been developing for so many years, and it has been possible to manufacture soft pipes. Especially after the development of the rubber business, such soft pipes as rubber pipes have been manufactured. Li An ’s ships have carried a lot of them, which can fully meet the harbour ’s Claim.

As for the source of fresh water in the water tower, it is the nearby well water. Using a crane device, a large bucket of fresh water is transported into the water tank of the water tower to meet the supply requirements of the merchant ship.

Therefore, in order to maximize the replenishment efficiency, each water tower must be equipped with more than one crane mechanism in order to quickly input fresh water resources to the water tower to ensure the supply requirements of the merchant ship.

In addition, if there are more freshwater wells near the harbour, the effect will be even better.

There is also rainwater collection, which will also be a very good way. On tropical beaches, there are still many chances of rain, and the rainwater is all fresh water, as long as a cement-structured underground water reservoir is established at the lowest position, Then the rainwater will not be wasted, and the water will be transferred directly from the underground rain reservoir, the effect will be faster than the well water.

Of course, if the pumps of Great Tang are popularized here, the effect will be even better. At that time, even the water tower will become redundant, because the pumps can directly pump the well water to the reservoir of the merchant ship. Pump the water into the water tower, so that when it is the busiest, you can start at two places. The pump and the water tower will replenish together, and the efficiency will be doubled directly, and the effect will be leveraged. By then, the crane will become a spare. After the tool is used to prevent the pump from being damaged, it cannot be refilled.

For the location where the wharf is close to the sea, more cranes must be built to meet the needs of transporting various materials, and the open space of the wharf behind the crane must be large enough so that it is not easy to produce a feeling of confusion.

Of course, it is also imperative to set up a transport vehicle, so that the materials unloaded by the merchant ship can be transported away faster, avoiding the occupation of Harbor’s precious vacant land and hindering the normal operation of Harbor.

Although it is a civilian Harbor, the most basic defense settings are indispensable, especially here will be the main port of Tanal in the future, security cannot be relaxed, it is enough to build a few observation towers and two huge might turrets.