Chapter 225 Printing Factory

This is a room in a workshop on the southern shore of Lake Weiss. There are strange machines on display inside. In addition to the machines, there are also piles of paper 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, the first printing plant in Arda - it can also be said to be the first printing plant in the world, was finally established.

"Sam!"

In a corner of the workshop, an angry voice sounded.

"Yes, Mr. Director, I'll come right away!"

A typesetter hurriedly trotted towards the workshop director. He felt from the director's tone that he was about to face a disaster.

Sam was a refugee who came to Arda years ago. He knew a few words. When looking for a job, he wanted to take the recruitment examination for administrative officials of the State Council, but he failed the score and was eliminated.

In desperation, he had to retreat to work in the factory, and secretly made up his mind to use his spare time to work hard to learn to read, and fight in the exam next time. Arda is not like other places. It requires you to have a relationship with the lord's family. As long as you can pass the exam, you can become a high-ranking official in the eyes of civilians.

After careful comparison, Sam found that those who had the requirement of reading in the recruitment conditions obviously had much higher wages. So he became a typesetter in a printing factory. At first, he didn't know what a typesetter did, let alone what a printing factory did. When he really entered the factory and started to get in touch with the working environment, he found that this was such a magical place.

In his previous cognition, books were copied word by word by copyists, but this place called a printing factory actually had a magical machine that could mass-produce books in a jaw-dropping way.

Sam cherishes this job very much. Becoming a typesetter is a good opportunity to exercise, and he can continue to learn while working. However, at this stage, because of his limited literacy, he was only assigned some simple tasks, such as typesetting some literacy booklets for literacy compiled by the Education Department.

He was now worried, wondering if he had made a mistake again, which made the workshop director so angry.

"You lowly and stupid outsider, you are so careless that you don't have eyes when you walk!"

A series of swear words came out of the workshop director's mouth, and he pointed to the printing plate that had been arranged on the table, which was Sam's previous work.

"Stupid! Open your eyes and look carefully, are the letters of this word in the wrong order?"

Sure enough, there was a problem with his previous work. Sam looked at the word pointed by the director with trepidation and found that the order of the letters of that word was indeed wrong.

"Mr. Director, it's my fault! I'm sorry! I swear I will be careful next time!"

He hung his head and apologized repeatedly, regretting why he didn't check it a few more times.

"If I remember correctly, this is not the first time you have made this mistake! If I hadn't checked it on impulse, another batch of books would have been ruined!"

The workshop director waved his fist, looking like he was going to hit him, which made Sam scared. But even if the director really wanted to beat him, he didn't dare to fight back.

"Do you need me to remind you? You are still in the probation period! I, the workshop director, have the power to ask 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, fearing that he would lose this job.

Seeing that his intimidation had worked, the workshop director was secretly satisfied. He didn't actually want to fire Sam. It was still difficult to recruit a worker who could read, even if he was a half-baked worker in front of him.

But he still had to say it seriously. He would not allow the books printed in his workshop to have typesetting errors. This phenomenon must be eliminated.

He threatened viciously:

"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! I will never make the same mistake again."

Sam nodded and bowed, glad that he was not fired.

"Half of this month's salary will be deducted!"

"Ah? Mr. Director... Yes, yes, whatever you say."

Sam secretly felt distressed. The probationary salary was not high, and half of it had to be deducted.

"Oh my God! There are so many books here!"

A clear voice like a lark sounded at the door, attracting everyone in the workshop to look at the door.

"Ah~ So beautiful!"

Sam also looked at the door and found that the director of the printing factory walked in with two women.

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one content, one book, one bar, one 6, one 9!

The one walking in front had dazzling golden hair, and her face was full of liveliness and surprise.

The one walking behind had green hair, and her expression was more calm than the one in front. At this time, she was also looking around the layout of the workshop, with curiosity in her eyes.

Both girls were very beautiful and had extraordinary temperaments. The workers stopped their work at the same time, and couldn't take their eyes away.

The factory director who was with the two girls put on a dignified face and yelled at the workers: "Why are you all stopping? Keep working."

The workshop director immediately kicked Sam's butt hard, "Do your layout well, 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 figures from the State Council would come today. Seeing the polite look of the factory director when he came in, it was probably these two people.

I didn't expect them to be two young girls, but their dress showed that they were not from ordinary civilian families.

After yelling at the workers, the factory director put on a smile and introduced the two girls next to him: "Director Dias, Consultant Setia, this is our largest printing workshop, we plan to print the samples you sent here."

It turned out to be the new "acting director of the Education Department". This matter was widely spread because the acting director was actually a woman. It was the first time in history that a woman was an official. Many people thought that the lord's move was ridiculous.

The workshop director quickly came over.

"God, I have never seen a book being 'made' so easily."

Erin's face was full of disbelief. Although she had heard about Paul's idea of ​​a printing press, she was still surprised when she saw the printing process of a book in person.