It turned out that Jacaerys was a bit too idealistic; the assembly line for Exploding Fruits was established.
But the simplest part, the magic infusion, became the bottleneck limiting large-scale production.
With Ela's magic level, she could infuse and charge about one hundred Exploding Fruits per day.
However, she also needed to conduct her own magic research, so after Jacaerys's negotiation, she agreed to use half of her magic each day.
As for leaf, it was much simpler; using the lives of those two Wood Dancers as leverage, she squeezed her magic dry every day.
However, her magic level had only recently been boosted by the Green Seer through some method, and she could charge a maximum of fifty Exploding Fruits per day.
This means that with just the two of them, the current daily output of Exploding Fruits is one hundred.
This is far from the level Jacaerys envisioned in his mind for saturation bombardment with Exploding Fruits.
Because Westeros was previously controlled by the church and the Citadel, there were very few true mages.
So Jacaerys was already thinking of hiring or capturing a group of mages from Essos as labor.
In his opinion, the internal troubles in both the north and south of Westeros had been resolved.
It was also time to settle the various past grievances, then recuperate for a period, and begin to address external threats.
Before leaving the north, Jacaerys even specifically rode the recovered Womax to patrol Beyond the Wall.
No Children of the Forest, no others!
And according to the Night's Watch stationed at the breach in the wall, even the Free Folk seemed to have settled down during this time, no longer constantly probing and attacking this breach.
These past two days, Ela and leaf had infused a total of two hundred Exploding Fruits.
Jacaerys rewarded earl glover of Deepwood Motte with twenty, and duke Cregan with eighty.
The new lord commander of the Night's Watch is marq caswell from The Reach.
The caswell family's castle is at Bitterbridge, and they were firm supporters of the Blacks during the Blood Dragon Dance.
Jacaerys granted them the fertile lands of Harvest Hall.
Although marq, who came from a collateral branch of the caswell family, swore off contact with his family after joining the Night's Watch.
But having learned about his family's recent situation through ravens, he was particularly enthusiastic and respectful towards Jacaerys.
So Jacaerys gave the remaining one hundred Exploding Fruits to the Night's Watch.
He already saw the Free Folk Beyond the Wall as his reserve of dictionary points; he gave these Exploding Fruits to help the Night's Watch guard them better.
After returning to Deepwood Motte from Beyond the Wall, Jacaerys rode Womax with Ela.
The three dragon servants each carried a large iron cage in their dragon claws, and within the iron cages were leaf and the other two, tightly bound.
The four dragons gradually flew away, and duke Cregan also said goodbye to earl glover and returned to King's Landing.
A raven on a nearby branch quietly observed the entire process.
In the legends of the north, the use of ravens to transmit messages was initially taught to the First Men by the Children of the Forest.
Although the times were different, the Andals caused the First Men, who liked to raise ravens, to disappear into the long river of history, but the wild ravens in the north became more and more numerous.
So as long as it wasn't a large flock like a black cloud as before, no one would notice one or two.
This raven seemed to tilt its head and think for a while, finally flapping its wings and following duke Cregan and his party as they disappeared into the wolfswood.
...
When Jacaerys returned to the Red Keep in King's Landing, only the White Knight captain Dario and the House Lannister sisters who had stayed behind came out to greet him.
Indeed, his trip to the north had only lasted a little over half a month.
Even if Baela and the others had finished the remaining cleanup work in dorne, they should still be on their way back to King's Landing at this moment.
After all, without Ela accompanying them, neither Baela nor Joffrey could ride their dragons.
As soon as Womax landed, Ela, who had been studying source language magic almost obsessively recently, immediately returned to her room with a pile of parchment.
Jacaerys immediately told Dario in detail how to guard leaf and the other two, and instructed him to place the three large iron cages in the royal garden.
This is Womax's lair, and he believed that even if the guards were negligent, they couldn't possibly escape from under Womax's nose.
After Dario left with the order, Serella and Tissara greeted him with radiant smiles.
It's likely that duke jason had sent raven messages back to King's Landing during this time and instructed them on something, as these sisters were even more enthusiastic than before.
Their burning gazes seemed as if they wanted to melt Jacaerys.
But Jacaerys deliberately pretended not to understand, exchanged polite pleasantries for a while, and then left the charming sisters to head to the Black Jail.
Compared to women, he wanted to see his 'work' sooner.
Creak!
In the innermost part of the Black Jail corridor, the four royal guards standing at the door saw their king.
They immediately bowed respectfully and opened the prison door, allowing Jacaerys to enter.
"Ah wa wa, cha cha wa..."
As soon as Jacaerys entered the cell, a faint cry of unclear meaning sounded.
Looking closely, this sound was actually coming from the once most powerful dragon rider in the Seven Kingdoms, Aemond Targaryen.
However, his current appearance gave the feeling that it would be better to be dead than alive.
Aemond was seen with his limbs cut off, placed in a large vat.
His silver hair was shaved off, his nose and ears were cut off, and his tongue in his mouth was cut off, leaving only the root.
This was the most excruciating torture in ancient china, the human pig!
Originally, Aemond's single eye should have also been gouged out, but Jacaerys specifically left it.
But this was not because he was merciful...
Besides being force-fed food and drink by the royal guards outside every day to keep him alive, they would also hold up a mirror to let Aemond see his own appearance.
The proud master of Vhagar had been tortured to the brink of madness, and now only wished to die.
Although Jacaerys didn't understand the cries just now, the meaning was undoubtedly Aemond begging him to kill him.
"Hey, you can't die without my permission!"
Looking at Aemond, who was weakly gasping after crying out a few times, Jacaerys sneered and said.
Then he took off his life gem pendant and put it around Aemond's neck.
With this magical item that could forcibly extend life, Aemond seemed to have a burst of energy as if recovering from the brink of death.
However, no matter how magical the life gem was, it could not help him regenerate his severed limbs.
Jacaerys nodded in satisfaction at the sight, then turned around and began picking from a row of torture instruments hanging in the cell.
Soon after, a series of piercing screams echoed from the cell.
The royal guards outside the door were already accustomed to this, and remained impassive while guarding.
After that, every day, Jacaerys would come to the Black Jail to extend Aemond's life with the life gem, and play a revenge game with him along the way.
During this time, the sisters Serella and Tissara would dress beautifully every night and come to Jacaerys's door to chat.
When meat is delivered to your door, why wouldn't you eat it?
One night deep into the night, Jacaerys, full of excitement, directly summoned the House Lannister sisters to his bedchamber.
How could the inexperienced sisters be his match? They immediately begged for mercy repeatedly, and finally even fainted.
Jacaerys, who had broken his abstinence with Baela, was now completely unrestrained, essentially using all the knowledge he had learned from japanese adult films in his previous life.
And indeed, Jacaerys found it to be just as the old drivers from his previous life had said:
Young beauties would show different charms after tasting the forbidden fruit.
These sisters' personalities on the goose down bed were completely opposite to their usual selves.
The usually gentle, shy, and quiet older sister, Tissara, would become incredibly wild when she got excited.
Not only was she brave enough to try various things with Jacaerys, but she also screamed like a wildcat during the process.
While the intellectual and generous younger sister, Serella, who seemed very open, was shy and hesitant, unwilling to participate in many activities.
Even when Jacaerys exerted himself to bring her to the climax, she would only grit her teeth and groan for a while, as if afraid of being heard.
This strong contrast immediately heightened Jacaerys's interest, making him linger over the two of them.
But he did not neglect his duties because of this; every day, he would handle the numerous state affairs that had piled up due to Stone's absence from King's Landing.
And he notified the lords of the Seven Kingdoms by raven to come to King's Landing for the victory celebration for the conquest of dorne and the final trial of the traitors.
Half a month later, Baela and the others returned to King's Landing with all the soldiers, commoners, and countless gold, silver, treasures, and food supplies.
A considerable portion of the commoners in King's Landing, who had previously been angry at Jacaerys but dared not speak, began to turn from haters to fans on this day.
Why?
Because the nearly sixty thousand commoners from King's Landing not only returned with almost no casualties, but also brought back generous wages for their families.
Not only that, because most of dorne's resources were sold to The Reach.
The already extremely wealthy lords of The Reach found themselves in the awkward situation of a currency shortage.
They had no choice but to sell off large quantities of hoarded food supplies in exchange for currency.
And this directly solved the food crisis issues in the crownlands, Riverlands, and Stormlands.
With Jacaerys selling the large batch of dorne food supplies brought back by Baela and her group at a low price.
The previously soaring food prices in King's Landing also quickly plummeted as if falling down a steep slope.
No matter which world it is, the common people have only the most basic, simplest demands, and that is to be fed and clothed.
If this can be achieved, even the most tyrannical king is a wise ruler in their eyes!
A month and a half after the expedition to dorne, the victory celebration and the trial of the traitors were held in Aegon's Square.
Rumble, rumble!
The large royal carriage, inscribed with the Black Three-Headed Dragon on its exterior, slowly drove out from the Red Keep.
Gold Cloaks and Unsullied stood on either side of the street, blocking the commoners of King's Landing who were watching.
Unlike before, these commoners of King's Landing now had smiles on their faces, excitedly shouting the name of king Jacaerys.
The large royal carriage arrived at Aegon's Square, where dense crowds and the lords of the Seven Kingdoms were already waiting.
The giant bluestone platform, nearly four meters high, in the center of Aegon's Square had not been dismantled; instead, it had been reinforced and widened.
From now on, this would be the designated location for announcing royal decrees and other important matters.
The door of the royal carriage opened, and Jacaerys, dressed in a red royal robe and a Black Three-Headed Dragon cloak, stepped out.
Today was not a coronation, so there was no need to create a spectacle by appearing from the sky.
Furthermore, the seven dragons, large and small, circling above Aegon's Square at the opportune moment were the best means of deterrence.
Greetings to king Jacaerys!!!
As soon as Jacaerys appeared, tens of thousands of commoners in King's Landing knelt down, and their kowtows sounded like a mountain roaring and a sea surging.
To be honest, Jacaerys hadn't expected to be so popular.
But what grand scenes hadn't he seen in this world?
He simply smiled, gestured with his hand, and walked towards the giant bluestone platform.
Since she hadn't been officially married and given a formal status, Baela, who had come in the same carriage, could only go to the VIP section under the protection of the White Knight.
The victory celebration began first, starting with duke jason, Ser Lorent, and the direct vassals under Jacaerys.
They only received high praise from Jacaerys and corresponding rewards of golden dragons, weapons and armor, and food supplies.
Instead, it was the lower-ranking officers and soldiers who had performed exceptionally well in the war to conquer dorne and gained a lot of military merit,
Who received different levels of land granted by Jacaerys, leaping to become newly promoted lords of dorne.
This immense reward caused these officers and soldiers who had gained military merit in the dorne war to stand frozen in place.
Then, like fan jin passing the imperial examination, some laughed wildly in ecstasy, some slapped their own faces in disbelief, and others wept on the spot.
It is understandable, they, no, rather they and their families, have crossed the social strata from today onwards.
No longer commoners who could be arbitrarily killed, but the privileged class of lords in the Seven Kingdoms.
After these newly promoted lords of dorne came to their senses, they quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Jacaerys in gratitude, publicly swearing eternal loyalty to him.
And it wasn't just them who were excited; the tens of thousands of commoners in King's Landing watching also became excited.
The land Jacaerys had just granted was at most the size of one or two dorne cities.
This also meant that there were still many precious opportunities to gain granted land and become part of the lord class.
Some young people even wanted to join Jacaerys's army on the spot, then fight for their king and gain military merit through it.
Jacaerys nodded with great satisfaction at the sight, the effect of his tactic of buying horse bones with a thousand gold pieces was better than expected.
If he were to conquer the continent of Essos in the future, it wouldn't be the small skirmishes of today.
Otherwise, it would be like before, conquering a city-state but not having enough troops to garrison it.
The other lords of the Seven Kingdoms had no dissatisfaction with Jacaerys's grants; after all, it wasn't their territory.
Some lords even began to consider how to get their second sons and bastards granted land and become branches of the family in dorne.
After the victory celebration concluded, it was time for the final trial.
Naturally, Aemond, who had been transported from the Red Keep by carriage, was the first to be brought out.
His journey here seemed to have been anything but easy, as the large vat he was in was covered in traces of rotten eggs and spoiled vegetables.
But Aemond seemed to understand what was about to happen, and his face instead showed a relaxed expression of relief, tears even flowing from his single eye.
Jacaerys did not waste much time; after loudly proclaiming Aemond's numerous crimes including treason, kinslaying, and violating royal commands.
He drew blackfyre and personally cut off the head of this human pig.
From then on, his feud with Aemond was settled!
Below the giant bluestone platform, Alexandra, bound tightly with ropes, looked at the large vat.
With a face full of panic, she cried to her father: "Father, I don't want to become like that, and I don't want to die!"
Prince Corren, whose face had turned ashen upon hearing that the dorne lands had been granted by Jacaerys, heard her words.
He softly comforted her: "It won't happen, even if they temporarily occupy dorne, they can't completely conquer it.
So we still have value.
Don't worry, we won't die!"
But he overestimated himself, or rather, he underestimated Jacaerys too much.
As soon as Prince Corren and his daughter were escorted onto the bluestone platform, Jacaerys proclaimed their crimes of treason, assassination of the king, and disobeying the king's commands.
Ultimately, he pronounced the sentence of immediate beheading.
Hearing the verdict, Prince Corren, with a face full of disbelief, immediately turned to look at his daughter beside him, who showed an expression of despair.
He gritted his teeth fiercely and shouted loudly to the numerous lords and commoners below the bluestone platform: "I, the prince of dorne, lord of Sunspear, corren Martell!
Hereby request the seven gods to witness, and demand a trial by combat..."
Swish!
Thump thump thump!
Before Prince Corren could finish speaking, Jacaerys suddenly swung blackfyre from behind.
The head of this esteemed prince of dorne bounced a few times on the bluestone platform, then rolled down to the ground below.
Hiss hiss hiss!
Ah!!!
Prince Corren's headless body, like a burst pipe, continuously gushed blood.
Alexandra, who had been stunned like a wooden chicken, was roused by the blood and let out a piercing scream.
A sword shadow flashed, and her scream abruptly stopped.
Jacaerys stared at the headless bodies of Prince Corren and his daughter, and said coldly: "No one in this world can change my judgment!
Not you, and not even the gods!!!"