Yingzui Island, Lord's Lodge.

"Everyone, please sit down."

Samwell was the first to sit down in front of the round table, and then asked everyone to sit around the table.

However, everyone was a little hesitant. After all, they were not used to sitting at the same table with the lord.

Only Chiman sat down at the first seat on Samwell's left.

With the leader taking the lead, everyone else took their seats one after another.

For this meeting, Samwell summoned the village chiefs of his fourteen villages, plus the territorial steward Gavin, the craftsman leader Vidor, the blacksmith leader Buso, and the bachelor Qyburn, a total of eighteen people.

These people are the main managers in his territory.

Originally, Todd Flowers was also considered one, but this guy went to Highgarden to gather the refugees and has not returned yet, so he was absent.

After sitting down, Natalie, wearing a floral dress and slender legs, served everyone tea.

After pouring the tea, although there was no place for her here, Natalie did not leave. Instead, she stood behind Samwell, looking like a well-behaved maid.

Samwell did not chase her away, he just coughed slightly and drew everyone's attention back from the energetic beautiful girl:

"Although the castle has not been built yet and I am not officially a lord yet, it will happen sooner or later. Therefore, in order to better manage the territory, I have decided to officially accept you as my retainers."

Hearing this, everyone stood up quickly. Some bowed and saluted, some swore allegiance loudly, and some were so excited that they didn't know what to do and just giggled...

Although the lord's retainers did not even touch the threshold of the nobility, this still could not stop everyone from being proud of it, as if with this title, they would be a superior person from now on.

Samwell waved his hand and motioned for everyone to sit down: "Don't be so serious, everyone, everyone, sit down. In this meeting, I also want to talk to you about the obligations of retainers to their master.

First and foremost, you have the responsibility to uphold my authority and support every decision I make;

Secondly, you have the responsibility to make suggestions for me and help me manage the people and govern the territory. Such meetings will become a routine in the future and will be held once a month. At the meeting, you will report the work situation to me and I will also give instructions;

Finally, when I launch a war order, you must answer the call and join my army or provide logistical support for the army. If I am captured, you must find a way to raise a ransom to rescue me."

After Samwell finished speaking, everyone quickly responded.

"Okay." Samwell pressed his hands down to stop everyone's expressions of loyalty, and then turned to look at his butler, "Gavin, now it's up to you to introduce the current basic situation of the territory."

"Yes, sir." Gavin stood up and saluted Samwell, then sat down again and said, "Currently, the territory has more than 12,300 citizens, including 184 soldiers, and another

One hundred new recruits were recruited.

In addition, there are thirty-five cows, twenty-seven horses, fifty-four pigs, more than forty goats, and more than one hundred chickens and ducks.

Counting the grain supplies just shipped from Yangwu City yesterday, the territory has 1.3 million pounds of flour, 700,000 pounds of oats, and 500,000 pounds of beans. In addition, we have also reserved 50,000 pounds of

Dried meat, and over three thousand pounds of salt..."

Samwell listened and silently estimated in his mind.

Although there seems to be a lot of food, it is really not a lot to share among more than 12,000 people.

Not to mention the soldiers, they were fed every meal and had meat every day. After all, the other laborers did physical work and had a large appetite. In order to speed up the construction of the castle and win people's hearts, Samwell never skimped on food.

, so the amount of food consumed by the entire territory in one day is truly staggering.

The current reserves are enough to last for more than a month.

This is the disadvantage of not being self-sufficient in food. No wonder no one has ever explored such a strategically important place.

It's a completely bottomless pit.

Fortunately, he has signed a food and material supply contract with Yangwu City, Qingting Island and Old Town, so he doesn't have to worry about running out of food for the time being.

However, these contracts only have a three-month "free period". If the subsequent supply is to be sustained, Samwell must spend real money to buy them.

This is a large amount of money.

Fortunately, last time on the Qingting Island, Samwell acted with all his heart and got a lot of golden dragons from the Lannister family, otherwise he would definitely be panicking now.

But this is only a one-time occurrence, and such good things cannot happen every day.

If the territory wants to develop sustainably, it still needs to rely on the two cash cows of brandy and silver mines.

At this time, Gavin also began to introduce the brewing of brandy.

"...organized three hundred female savages to pick wild mountain grapes in the nearby mountains and forests. In addition, they also opened up 900 acres of open space near the valley entrance and planted mountain grapes. It is expected that the first batch will be harvested in half a year..."

Upon hearing this, Samwell interrupted:

"The planting area of ​​mountain grapes will be doubled again, to 1,800 acres. And after this batch is planted, you will have to open up another area of ​​similar size for rotation of fallow crops. Don't worry about sales. Our wine

As long as you brew it, you don't have to worry about not being able to sell it. And even if there is any leftover, you can keep it and store it."

"Okay, sir." Gavin agreed quickly and then continued, "Currently, due to limited raw materials, the production of brandy cannot be increased for the time being. There are only twelve gallons per day..."

Hearing this number, Samwell frowned, but also felt helpless.

It is really difficult to increase the yield just by picking wild mountain grapes. We can only expand the scale of production after the grapes planted half a year later mature.

The subsequent steps of brewing and distilling the brandy involve confidentiality, so Gavin did not go into details.

Samwell turned to Maester Qyburn again and said:

"Qianbain, tell me about the situation of silver mining."

"Yes, sir." Coburn nodded and said in a calm tone, "The mining and refining of silver mines are on track. The daily output of silver is about 140 ounces. If there are more silver mines in the future,

With more people joining in, the output can be increased..."

Samwell made a rough estimate based on the weight of the silver deer, which is equivalent to producing about 350 silver deer per day.

Of course, there will be losses during the casting process, so the actual output will be lower than this.

Moreover, this has to be divided with the royal family... Of course, because of the ill-intentioned finance minister, the taxes and fees paid to the royal family will not be too much.

So, this is definitely a considerable amount of income.

The output of this silver mine alone can provide food and clothing for more than 10,000 people in the territory.

Sure enough, you can still make money by mining!

And this is just a silver mine, if it were a gold mine...

No wonder the Lannister family is so wealthy and willing to spend so much money just to drive away blind date rivals.

Damn big dog!

Jealousy made Samwell look beyond recognition, and he felt more and more that his last asking price was still low.
Chapter completed!