The Southern Industrial District of Dawn City was quiet at the moment. Most workers had already gotten off work, and only a few scattered lights shone from the guard booths on duty.
Ever since the railway to Dawn City had been completed, The Alliance's heavy industry and large numbers of industrial workers had shifted northward. This earliest industrial district had been left with only some light industries.
However, thanks to that very fact, with the relocation of heavy industry, the light industries that remained received focused support from Dawn City and The Alliance authorities.
Especially last year, when The Alliance and Boulder City engaged in fierce competition across numerous fields, this light industrial district gave rise to a great many outstanding large-scale factories.
Tujia Printing Works was one of them.
The owner of this printing works was named Wang Tu, a survivor from Jinchuan Province and a member of the second wave of immigrants after the Bonechewer Rebellion.
Since the printing industry had, during the Prosperous Era, basically been on the verge of disappearing from history, The Alliance's industrial sector had no existing production lines to use as reference.
At the time, the war in Luoxia Province had just broken out, and The Alliance faced threats from the Legion's eastward expansionists. The players' wild ideas were all focused on military matters. They had neither interest nor energy for a field like printing, which even players of lifestyle classes found too niche. Thus, The Alliance's printing technology at the time was barely automated; both pulp processing and printing had to be done manually.
Against that backdrop, this traveling merchant from the south spotted a business opportunity. He cleverly modified a canned food production line, giving The Alliance its first fully automated line capable of handling everything from pulp processing to printing