Regardless of men or women, as long as they are healthy, Datang wants it! Everyone will arrange corresponding work, whether it is eradicating weeds, leveling the land, or doing other things, you can find a suitable job.
The other is to heighten the existing wharf, build detection channels, etc.
Although this wharf is not as good as the Tang Dynasty wharf, it is almost the only external wharf in Silla, so the channel of this wharf has actually been expanded for hundreds of years.
Whether it is a seaport or a river port, ancient docks almost always followed the principle of wide bays and deep water. Building ports where there are bays can avoid the impact of waves caused by violent storms.
The water is deep enough to accommodate a large number of ships.
The same is true for the port terminal near Jincheng. The current water depth of the terminal is estimated to be at least seven or eight meters deep.
This depth can fully satisfy the current Datang's main battleships, which have a full load displacement of 2,800 tons. The fully loaded draft of Datang's main battleships is only 4.5 meters.
But because the ships are tall and the pier here is too low, loading and unloading cargo is troublesome, so Li Daozong and the others want to expand and build the pier.
Ancient docks are different from modern docks that go deep into the ocean. Especially seaports. Even if there is a natural bay, it is difficult to build a large port due to water depth and other reasons. At most, some small docks can be built to dock some small fishing boats. .
It was very difficult to build a large seaport terminal in ancient times, so there was a natural bay forty or fifty miles northeast of Gyeongju where a port could be built, which is where the Pohang City of South Korea was later located.
It will be one of the most important ports in South Korea in the future, but now it is just a small wharf used by some fishermen.
Datang had already begun construction of piers similar to later seaports, but they could only be built after reinforced concrete was available. Wooden piers were not impossible, but they could accommodate fishing boats, etc. Large warships were too difficult.
In addition to these, whether it is the seaports of Datang or other countries near the sea, to be precise... they are still river ports. For example, Datang, whether it is Guangzhou Port or Shanghai Port, is actually built inside the estuary of a river, not really close to the sea.
The reason for this construction is naturally because it is easier to build a river port. Pilings and other methods are started near the river bank to fix the bank. After the fixation is completed, the soil around the pilings will be excavated.
Because it is close to the river bank, it is not difficult to dig very deep.
Such a port can be built very quickly, which is much less difficult than the construction of the coastline, and the wind and waves are smaller and safer.
The current port of Jincheng is a river port to be precise, and its exact location is the Taehwa River in Ulju County, Korea in later generations.
Although the Taihe River is only a river less than 50 kilometers long. In the Tang Dynasty, it was probably just a stream or something like that, but in the future it would be a river in Korea.
Because Jincheng in Silla is the closest to here, the port here is developing the fastest. Of course, this is also because the current ships do not have high requirements for the port and water depth.
If there is a demand for deeper ships, Busan, not far next door, will probably develop, but the current terminal in Busan is not as good as this one.
The construction and expansion of river ports is much simpler than that of sea ports.
Li Daozong did not plan to build a pier that extended into the river. Instead, he could just build it directly on the edge of the embankment and extend the pier.
But unlike the original wharf construction, which required laying foundation piles first and then digging out the soil outside, this was too slow. Li Daozong decided to lay foundation piles directly extending about one meter from the river bank into the water.
On this section of the river bank, the water depth at this distance can basically reach about seven or eight meters, which is enough for the ships of the Tang Dynasty to dock.
If we follow this foundation pile, it will not be a problem to create an additional two thousand meters long pier.
The foundation piles were chosen to be fifteen-meter-long steel pipes that were as thick as an adult's arm and were shipped directly from Datang.
These steel pipes are directly rolled and forged and cast together.
However, we have to wait until the second batch of cargo ships to arrive. The total distance is about 2,000 miles. With the current speed of Datang's ships and the ability to sail at night, it will take less than two days to arrive.
The round trip only takes four days.
Before that, you only need to do preliminary work. For example, after laying the foundation piles, prepare a large amount of filler to fill the gaps between the foundation piles and the shore.
For example, a large amount of gravel is directly filled into sacks and then thrown in to create a foundation. This is the fastest filling construction solution.
The reason for this construction is mainly to build the pier higher in the future. In this way, cargo loading and unloading will be more convenient after the ship docks.
But this requires a lot of stones. As it happens, there is a mountain not far away from the port, so there is definitely no shortage of stones.
There is no shortage of food in the Tang Dynasty. In this era, there may not be enough tools, but in this era, you can hire enough manpower at a very low price.
In later generations, various tools may be able to dig out a lot of rocks in a day, but in this era, it doesn't matter if there are not many rocks, as long as there are enough people.
As long as there is enough time, Li Daozong can employ tens of thousands of people here.
Even if one person only transports 100 kilograms per day, 50,000 people will transport 5 million kilograms or 5,000 tons.
One person transports 200 kilograms, which is 10,000 tons.
Anything, as long as the base is large enough, it can have a terrifying effect.
What's more, this is the capital of Goguryeo, with a population of more than 50,000? As for the cost of hiring them?
A person can only get four kilograms of grain a day, and a hundred thousand people can only transport 200 tons of grain a day. However, a Tang Dynasty's main transport ship can transport 1,500 tons of grain in a five-day round trip with a full load.
This is just a ship, and there are at least dozens of transport ships like this in the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Daozong did not lack any supplies at all, not to mention...salt was far more valuable than food in Silla.
In the Tang Dynasty, the cost price of a pound of salt was even much lower than that of a pound of grain. In Silla, it took twenty pounds of grain to exchange for one pound of coarse salt.
What's more important is that many times, you have twenty kilograms of grain, but you may not be able to exchange it for salt.
But now Li Daozong has a lot of salt in his hands. As long as you work for three days, you can exchange it for one pound of salt or twelve pounds of grain.
It can be said that such a salary caused a huge sensation around the entire dock, and spread in all directions like ripples in the water.
The hiring of coolies was spreading, and the conversation was divided into two sides. On the other side, those inconspicuous beggars came back near noon.
