Chapter 55

Dear Diary,

I apparated to my Braavos a few days ago and took a good look at the large bookstore that was selling books that were produced by my Printing Press.

It was the largest bookstore there was in Braavos and similar bookstore have opened up in some of the other Free Cities as well as Kings Landing and Gulltown.

After checking up on the Bookstore, I went to the Iron Bank where I returned the 100,000 gold dragons as well as the interest. Not that I ever used the wealth that I borrowed from them in the first place. But appearances needed to be kept.

After that, the Iron Bank showed it's interest in buying the Printing Press from me and I would have been willing to sell them the new Printing Press my people were producing but they wanted an exclusive trade deal for it so I refused.

After all, once I started selling my Printing Press, I would sell it to as many people as possible so that literacy could spread in the world. And selling them solely to the Braavosi people would defeat that purpose.

After that deal fell through, they were still interested in buying the armor and weapons made up of Frost Steel and placed a large order which I had no reason to decline.

Not like I was hurting for money but working on as many projects as I was doing currently took a lot of wealth and I would rather not steal any more gold from the others as it was a bad strategy in the long term.

Once I left the Iron Bank, I went to check up on the main reason why I came to Braavos.

And the main reason was the Ship Building factory in Braavos that was capable of building 1 War Galley in a single day during war time.

Currently, I had a lot of Shipwrights in my lands as well as a lot of engineers and builders so I decided that instead of having them build ships of their own designs one by one, I would rather create a whole new factory where they would all be able to work in unison and produce better results.

So I spent the next few days noting down all the details of the Ship Building Factory. Something that I wouldn't have been able to do had I not been a wizard. But in the end, I was able to take careful notes of every single procedure and was sure that my men would be able to create such a factory within half a year.

And even if my men shipwrights were not as experienced as these men from Braavos, they would still be able to produce better ships with the new ship designs that I had in my hand.

With that done, I returned to Dreadfort and started the construction of the Ship Building Factory at the mouth of the Weeping Water River where the Port was being built.

Because of all the construction work going in my lands, more and more people are arriving from different parts of Westeros but I had a feeling that with the way I was starting new projects everyday, I would never have enough manpower under me.

After all, the idea of the building the Grandest Library in the whole world was still just an idea would take some time for me to create.

I would probably start it's construction by the end of the year once the builders have completed the other projects and are able to start building the library that would even put the Citadel to shame.