Wizard Lord of Westeros

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Dreadfort Castle

POV of Domeric Bolton

"It does work." Aunt Barbrey commented as she saw the newly created printing press.

"Yup. But now I'm thinking that I've wasted all my time and effort for nothing." He said and looked at the new bundle of pages he had recently received from Braavos.

To say that paper was an expensive commodity during this era would be a huge understatement.

What was even more disappointing thing was that the Citadel and the paper-making guilds in the Essos only sold a limited amount of paper to their temporary customers.

So, in the end, he realized that he wouldn't be able to open his book-producing business if he didn't have a steady supply of paper.

Which meant that, sooner or later, he'd have to open a paper mill of his own. Because buying such a large supply of paper from some Braavosi guild was just asking to be bankrupt.

But even if he had an eidetic memory, opening a paper mill was not an easy endeavor. He could remember everything he had seen or heard in the past clearly. But he couldn't remember things he hadn't seen or heard. He could try the trial-and-error method with distant pieces of information he could recall from his past but that would take a lot of time.

So, the book about paper and printing came at the perfect time. It was so perfect that he thought about the possibility of the Symbol of Deathly Hallows giving this gift to him knowing his wishes. Well, it didn't matter to him at the moment. He was happy with what he got.

His only regret was that when he was at Braavos he already bought some paper from guilds. And that cost him a lot. If he knew that he would gain a book about paper and printing he wouldn't do that. Alas, he didn't even know his tattoo could give him items so there was nothing he could do.

"How is the work at the port going on?" He asked as he started remembering all the methods that were used from the 16th to 21st century to mass-produce paper from the 'Paper and Printing' book he got. He already finished the book so he could recall everything in the book with his eidetic memory.

"It's a slow-going process." She said with a shrug. "We've made enough space for 5 ships to dock in the port but that's all the progress we've been able to make in the past 2 months. Though I'm surprised that you were able to buy so many ships from Braavos. I didn't think that they would give away their ships and crews so easily." She said, giving him a shrewd look.

"I am a persuasive guy." He replied with a careless shrug. "And no, I've not bought 5 but 10 ships. The other 5 are still docked in White Harbor. Or have you forgotten about them?"

"Of course I remember them." She lied unconvincingly and he had to stop himself from rolling his eyes.

"Regardless. Put more men at the port. I want it expanded as quickly as possible." He said and got a weird look in return from her.

"Why do you want a large port?" she asked "It's not like we have anything substantial to export or import from Dreadfort."

"Yes. I know. But believe me. We'll have many things to export and import in the future."

She gave him a skeptical look but then simply gave a nod and he knew that she'd follow his command.

"And don't worry about the gold either. We've enough gold in our coffers to hire tens of thousands of men for decades without emptying it. And if we start running out of gold then I'll just go and steal more of it from Littlefinger or the Iron Bank of Braavos."

She chuckled at my words before her chuckles turned into full-blown laughter.

After coming from the King's Landing, he shared the story about the corruption in the small council and the incompetency of the king. He also told her about the absolute genius of Littlefinger who stole from the Crown but got hoodwinked by him instead.

But despite saying that, he was sure that they would not need to do that as he had already started sharing the magically created High Yielding Seeds with some farmers who lived close to Dreadfort.

Before giving away the seeds, he had magically altered them so that the grain procured from them wouldn't grow new wheat plants. Otherwise, some of the farmers might sell the seeds to other people and he'll lose his monopoly on the High Yielding Seeds.

Regardless, the point was that within a year, he'd have all of the farmers within his land work with High Yielding Seeds. That would easily increase the amount of wheat he got from the peasants by 8 times.

And since many of the Northern houses usually import food from the Riverlands or the Reach, he'll be able to sell it to those houses at a cheaper price and still earn a good amount of gold from them.

And that was just the start of one of the many industries that he'll soon be forming within his lands.

"My Lord. My Lord…" his thoughts were interrupted as there was a frantic knocking on the door.

"Come in." He said, looking up at his Auntie whose face scrunched up in disgust as Maester Wolkan entered the room.

"What is it grey rat?" Auntie asked in an irritated voice and the Maester looked slightly pale under her scrutiny before he passed on a piece of paper to him.

"The Greyjoys have risen in rebellion. Balon Greyjoy has named himself the King of the Iron Islands, burnt down the Lannister fleet, and pillaged and raped their way through the Westerland coasts my lord." He said, "The king has called for the banners. Lord Stark has sent us a message to start gathering our levies and meet him in Winterfell within a moon's worth of time."

Domeric stopped for a moment and then wondered if he heard that right.

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