When the huge ship docked, soldiers in uniform uniforms quickly ran off the ship at a uniform speed. The first batch of soldiers to take over quickly handed over their posts to the previous soldiers.
After the handover, the soldiers who had been standing guard before continued to gather in the same neat queue, and then headed to two smaller docks to dock, and they disembarked from the small boats.
It wasn't until these soldiers boarded two small boats and disappeared that everyone's attention returned, because the soldiers unloaded from the big ship began to expand the control area of the dock.
Still in the same tone as before, he gently persuaded all the people to retreat and leave enough space at the dock.
But the area of the pier itself is not too big. When it expands to a certain extent, there will be some shops doing business on the pier.
After setting aside a passage, these soldiers began to use the ropes unloaded from the ship to pull out what they called a cordon. These hemp ropes were tied with red strips of cloth at regular intervals, which looked extremely eye-catching.
It's just... the people who were watching were a little envious when they looked at those strips of cloth. This was too luxurious. Just a hemp rope would be enough. Why do we have to do these things? Good pieces of cloth are wasted like this.
How many pieces of rope and cloth would be needed to encircle such a large area! And it’s dyed red cloth!
Is this the wealth of Datang?
After drawing the relevant areas, they then saw two special long wooden boards set up from the ship, and then some special steel frames, and cloth was quickly transported down from them.
Then some soldiers who were not wearing armor but were wearing uniforms, armed with shovels, hammers and other tools, quickly leveled and cleaned the dirty pier.
They were so fast that no one complained, and no one even said anything when they encountered some feces. They just quickly shoveled these things together with the soil and poured them into a basket.
Others dug a large pit downwind, quickly filled it with garbage, and finally buried it directly.
The soldiers in the front cleaned up, and the soldiers in the back quickly used these steel frames to build frames on the flat and clean ground, and then built a thick gray canvas on top of them.
Gray tents were quickly built.
Everyone on the entire pier just watched, watching these Datang soldiers. In just an hour, the originally chaotic pier here was not only cleaned up, but also the gray tents were as neat as houses. was built on the pier.
This place... quickly became so orderly that you couldn't even imagine what it was like before.
Everyone was stunned! What kind of army can do this?
After the tents below were set up, the soldiers quickly unloaded bags of unknown objects from the ship through skateboards composed of some very smooth wooden grooves.
Then they were quickly transported to several tents on the dock near the perimeter of the cordon.
Until the ship was vacated, it quickly left the dock. The second large ship in the distance began to approach slowly. At this time, a captain walked out from among the soldiers and walked to the side of the cordon, where the largest number of people gathered. .
Facing the people of Silla, he directly said loudly: "Dear people of Silla, now the Tang Dynasty fleet needs to dock to load and unload cargo, and it needs coolies to do the loading and unloading. If there is anyone who is willing to work, it will take four hours of loading and unloading and a salary of four Kilograms of rice.”
After the captain finished speaking, the soldiers who had moved over a dozen sacks directly behind him untied all the sacks in their hands.
When the piles of rice inside came into view, the people of Silla were stunned.
Is this... really rice? Four pounds? !
Did they hear it correctly? !
Everyone could hardly believe their eyes. For such a thing, in the past, Silla officials would directly recruit all the coolies at the dock and then help with loading and unloading.
In the distance, Queen Kinderman of Silla hesitated after hearing these words, and then quickly gave instructions to an official beside her.
In any case, Kinderman felt that he could not sit idly by because Datang came to help. According to the letter sent back by the envoy, Datang did not need them to pay any money. Did Datang need to hire people to even move things? ?
This... is so unsettling, and this is what Silla should do as a matter of course.
The Silla official who received Kinderman's instructions quickly ran over and said to the captain: "General, do you dare to ask the general's name? I am Kim Il-yong, the Minister of Rites of Silla."
"Hello, Jin Shangshu, I am Xue Rengui, the captain of the Tang Dynasty, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. I am currently in charge of all the work at the dock. What do you do, Jin Shangshu?" Xue Rengui said expressionlessly.
He did not forget his duties. According to the instructions of His Highness and the orders of General Li Daozong, they came here to demonstrate the Tang Dynasty's strength, wealth, order and prohibition, people-oriented and a series of concepts.
And these concepts should not be spoken with words, but with actions.
Therefore, he, the top officer of the temporary dock, is very important.
This is one of the reasons why Li Daozong put him, an outstanding person in the military academy, in charge of this place.
"Lieutenant Colonel Xue, it's like this. The Tang Dynasty supports our Silla and comes all the way. As a vassal country, we should do some things within our ability. For example, Lieutenant Colonel Xue doesn't have to worry about things like loading and unloading goods."
"I will immediately organize the coolies on the dock to load and unload goods for Datang." Jin Riyong said quickly.
Jin Il-yong's voice was not particularly loud, but because Xue Rengui was now close to the place where Silla people gathered, even though his words were not loud, the people of Silla also heard them.
But what I heard was silence. No one dared to say anything, and Kim Il-yong didn’t care. The life and death of these civilians was none of his business.
How dare they rebel?
"Sorry! Jin Shangshu, I appreciate your country's good intentions, but before receiving the general's order, I must follow the discipline of the Tang army. The Datang army has the discipline of the Tang army, no matter where it is. "
"So, your country's actions are against our discipline. Although this is your country's behavior, I'm sorry, but I can't accept it, because this is not the order I received. I cannot violate the military discipline of the Tang Dynasty." Xue Rengui said in a serious tone, He spoke directly without any room for maneuver.
"Lieutenant Colonel Xue, this is what our Queen of Silla means." Jin Riyong thought Xue Rengui didn't understand, so he hurriedly said.
"Sorry, I only obey the military orders of the Tang Dynasty. Other unrelated people have nothing to do with me until they receive the order." Xue Rengui showed no expression.
