Chapter 62

His people have finally learned how to make ice cream.

Ice was yet another thing that they could sell to the Southern houses and he was a bit miffed that it took him so much time to invent it.

Now, his chef and other cooks were trying to mix different fruits and dry fruits with the ice cream to see which would make the best ice cream.

He had no doubt that they would be able to create a few different flavours by the time his people create some more ships that would be able to sell Ice to the Southern houses.

The Ship Building factory that he copied from Braavos was within it's final stages and would start creating one Carrack or one trireme war galley every week. He could finally stop relying on Braavos to buy ships for his navy.

On a side note, his spy master recently told him that King Robert Baratheon planned on hosting a grand tourney for the 10th name day of his heir Joffrey Baratheon. But everyone that knew anything about the king knew that he was hosting this expensive tourney just so he could amuse himself and enjoy his pathetic life by watching some bloodshed even as he emptied the coffers of the whole realm while doing so.

The realm was already 3 million gold dragons in debt by this point. 1.5 million to the Iron bank. 1 million to Tywin Lannister and 0.5 million to the Faith of the Seven.

The sheer fact that the King was wasting away gold like water while his subjects in Kings Landing lived in abject poverty sometimes filled him with great anger but that only made him more determined to make his lands more prosperous and his people more literate.

He had already sent a literate person to all the villages in his domain with the order to teach children how to read and write and do some simple counting at the very least and had no doubt that such a thing would show result over a long period of time as the percentage of literate people in his domain grew higher and higher.

And because of that, he also planned to increase his military might through other means so that he would be able to protect his people when his protection is needed.

For that matter, he wanted to go to Kings Landing and meet the Pyromancers who made Wildfire. A liquid substance that could either act as a napalm or a bomb if used in large quantities.

Because of that, he planned on going to Kings Landing. And since the fat king was hosting a tourney, he might as well have his sworn shield participate in the melee.

He had no doubt that they were as capable as some of the greatest warriors in Westeros and giving them the proper magical armor and weapon would make it so that they would most likely win the melee.

Plus, he could take a sample of ice cream and give it to the royal family.

Since Robert Baratheon was so adamant in throwing away his wealth and bankrupting the realm, his might as well take advantage of it and earn some of the money that way.

And even if this ice cream venture fails, he'll at least have a good desert to share with his friends and family.