This is a room in a workshop located at Ves Lake South Bank. There are strange machines on display. In addition to the machines, there are also stacks of papers of different sizes. The workers are busy. They lay the paper on the machine. After a series of operations, dense words appear on the paper.
In mid-February, after overcoming technical difficulties such as ink and metal movable type, Arda's first Printing Factory—which can also be said to be the world's first Printing Factory—was finally built.
"Sam!"
From the corner of the workshop, an angry voice sounded.
"Yes, Mr. Director, I'm coming right away!"
A typesetting worker trotted over to the workshop director in a panic. He felt from the director's tone that he was about to be in disaster.
Sam was a refugee who came to Arda years ago. He knew a few words. When he was looking for a job, he originally wanted to take the Affairs Officer recruitment exam of Government Affairs Council. Unexpectedly, he failed and was rejected.
In desperation, he had no choice but to go to the factory to work, and secretly made up his mind to use his spare time to work hard on literacy and compete in the examination room next time. Arda is no different from other places, it requires you to have a relationship with the lord's family, etc. As long as you can pass the exam, you can become a Affairs Officer who is high in the eyes of common people.
After careful comparison, Sam found that those whose recruitment conditions included literacy requirements obviously had much higher wages. So he became a Printing Factory typesetter. At the beginning, he didn't know what a typesetter did, let alone what Printing Factory did. It wasn't until he actually entered the factory and started to get in touch with the working environment that he discovered that this was such a magical place.
In his previous understanding, books were copied word by word by scribes. However, this place named Printing Factory actually has a magical machine that can mass-produce books in a jaw-dropping way.
Sam cherishes this job very much. Being a typesetter is a good training opportunity, and you can continue to learn while working. However, due to his limited literacy at the current stage, he is only assigned some simple tasks, such as typesetting some literacy booklets compiled by Department of Education for literacy.
He was now worried about whether he had made something wrong again, which made the workshop director lose his temper.
"You are a lowly and stupid foreigner, a sloppy man who walks without eyes!"
A series of swear words came out of the mouth of the workshop director. He pointed to the printing plate that had been arranged on the table, which was the previous handwriting of Sam.
"Idiot! Open your eyes and take a good look. Are the letters of this word in the wrong order?"
Sure enough, there was a problem with his previous job. Sam looked at the word pointed by the director tremblingly and found that the word was indeed in the wrong alphabetical order.
"Mr. Director, it's my fault! I'm sorry! I swear to be careful in the future!"
He hung his head and apologized again and again, regretting why he didn't check more.
"If I remember correctly, this is not the first time you have made this kind of mistake! If I hadn't checked it out on the spur of the moment, another batch of books would have been ruined!"
The workshop director waved his fist, as if he was hitting him, which made Sam scared for a while. But even if the director really wanted to beat him, he wouldn't dare to fight back.
"Do you need me to remind you? You are still in the probation period! As the workshop director, I have the power to tell you to get out!"
"Sir, please give me another chance. I swear I will never make a mistake again!"
Sam's voice was filled with tears, for fear that he would lose this job.
Seeing that his threats were effective, the workshop director was secretly satisfied. He actually didn't want to fire Sam. It was still difficult to recruit a literate worker, even if he was a half-assed worker like this one.
But I still have to put it more seriously. He will not allow typographical errors in the books printed in his workshop. This phenomenon must be eliminated.
He threatened fiercely:
"Okay, I'll give you another chance, but I swear, if you make such a stupid mistake again, I will kick you out of my workshop. If other workshops don't want you, you can just pack up and leave."
"Yes! Yes! Sir, thank you, old man! I will never do it again."
Sam nodded and bowed, glad that he had not been expelled.
"Half of this month's salary will be deducted!"
"Ah? Mr. Director... yes, yes, I will do whatever you say."
Sam secretly felt distressed. The probation period salary was not high to begin with, and half of it would be deducted.
"Oh my God! There are so many books here!"
A clear, lark-like voice sounded at the door, causing everyone in the workshop to look at the door.
"Ah~ so beautiful!"
Sam also looked at the door and found the factory director of Printing Factory walking in accompanied by two women.
The one walking in front had dazzling golden hair, and his face was full of liveliness and surprise.
The one walking behind has green hair, and the expression on his face is calmer than that of the one in front. At this time, he is also observing the layout of the workshop, with curiosity in his eyes.
Both girls were very beautiful and had an extraordinary temperament. The workers stopped their work in unison and couldn't move their eyes stupidly.
The factory manager who accompanied the two girls put on a majestic face and yelled at the workers, "Why are you stopping? Keep working."
The workshop director immediately kicked Sam's ass hard, "Plan your version carefully, and don't forget what I just said."
Sam rubbed his butt and concentrated on his work. He couldn't make any more mistakes.
The workshop director remembered that the factory director said that two big shots from Government Affairs Council were coming today. Judging from the polite look on the factory director's face when he came in, it was probably these two people.
I didn't expect them to be two young girls, but their appearance showed that they did not come from ordinary civilian families.
After yelling at the workers, the factory director put on a smile and introduced to the two girls next to him, "Supervisor Diaz, consultant Setia, this is our largest printing workshop, and we plan to print the samples you sent here."
It turned out to be the newly appointed "Acting Supervisor Department of Education". This incident spread like wildfire because the acting supervisor turned out to be a woman. This was the first time that a woman was an official. Many people thought the lord's move was ridiculous.
The workshop director quickly came over.
"Heavenly Father! I've never seen a book be 'produced' so easily."
Irene had a look of disbelief on his face. Although he had heard Paul talk about Printing Press's idea, he was still surprised after seeing the book printing process in person.