After hearing about the production of silver, the participants around the round table all had smiles on their faces.

This is also another purpose of Samwell's meeting, to give everyone confidence.

Let them believe that this territory has a future.

After talking about the silver mine, Victor, the leader of the craftsmen, also talked about the construction of the castle.

Due to the abundant manpower and the work-point system, various kings emerged one after another, and the construction of the castle progressed very quickly.

The foundation has been laid, and the outer city wall has been built to a height of three feet. At this rate, the main construction of the castle will be completed in about four months.

At that time, Samwell can apply to the Duke of Metz and officially become a lord.

Baron of Eagle's Beak, Samwell Caesar!

Thinking of this, Samwell couldn't help but smile proudly.

After Vito, it was the turn of the blacksmith Buso.

Since there was no iron ore in the territory, Samwell actually did not let his blacksmiths forge steel weapons. After all, instead of spending time and effort to buy iron ore from outside to build them, it was more convenient to purchase the weapons directly.

Therefore, the task he gave the blacksmiths was mainly to cooperate with Bachelor Coben in casting silver deer.

In addition, although there is no iron ore on Yingzui Island, there is definitely no shortage of animal skins, so Samwell did not buy the leather armor worn by the soldiers from outside, but asked the blacksmiths to make it.

However, it’s not true that they didn’t even let them make any iron tools.

Samwell asked Buso to customize a warhammer for him.

Because as his strength attributes continued to increase, Samwell felt that ordinary steel swords could no longer display his strengths.

Warhammer is the best choice.

"...Sir, the warhammer forged for you has been completed. You can try it out later." At this point, Buso was actually a little uneasy.

It's not that he has no confidence in his craftsmanship, but because the war hammer forged according to the Lord's requirements is too heavy.

Although he had tried to persuade him many times, he still could not change the Lord's mind, causing Buso to worry that the reckless young knight would make a fool of himself later...

"Very good!" Samwell was very happy. He praised Buso and said that he would try his hand after the meeting.

Next, the fourteen village chiefs also introduced the situation in their respective villages.

In fact, they had nothing to say.

After all, most of the savages have been attracted to Yingzui Island, either to become laborers, to participate in brewing, or to mine. There are also a small number of people who can become soldiers under the lord. The old, weak, women and children have also entered the welfare home, so outside the valley Almost all of those villages have become uninhabited villages.

It is estimated that after some time, these official positions such as village chiefs will be abolished.

The village chiefs present were also aware of this problem. They took advantage of the opportunity to report on their work and tested the lord both inside and outside their words. Obviously, they did not want to lose the power in their hands, let alone lose their status as retainers.

Of course, Samwell was well aware of this, so he took this opportunity to announce that all fourteen village chiefs would be transferred back to Yingzui Island to continue serving as managers. The original villages would no longer have village chiefs, but fourteen villages. There is a circuit constable and a tax collector.

After calming people's hearts, Samwell allowed everyone to speak freely, make suggestions and ask questions.

Everyone suddenly fell silent. They were not used to such a "democratic" meeting, and were more used to listening to the orders given by the lord.

After a long while, Gavin broke the silence and asked:

"Sir, these savages don't farm or hunt now, but work for you. How will they pay taxes in the future?"

Samwell smiled slightly. In fact, he had already thought of this problem.

But it's still within the three-month tax holiday he promised, so he didn't bring this issue up.

"It doesn't matter. They all have work points, so just use the work points to pay taxes."

"Pay taxes with work points?" Gavin was stunned.

"That's right. Didn't I promise that one work point can be exchanged for one copper plate, so work points are money. After the tax holiday, let them use work points to pay taxes."

"Okay." Gavin also understood and nodded in agreement.

This young butler obviously failed to see the real "subtlety" of the system designed by his lord.

Of course Samwell wouldn't say much.

With Gavin taking the lead, everyone was no longer restrained and started to make suggestions or ask questions.

The meeting lasted for two hours before ending.

After the meeting, Samwell followed Buso to the blacksmith shop, ready to try out his new weapon.

"Sir, this is it." Buso lifted the black cloth covering the weapon, hesitated for a moment and then reminded, "Be careful, it weighs seventy pounds!"

Yes, seventy pounds!

Buso had never forged such a heavy weapon in his life.

It was hard for him to imagine that someone could actually wield such a warhammer in battle.

Samwell didn't care about Buso's attitude, and he also knew that his request was somewhat unreasonable.

No one would choose such a heavy weapon.

But he is different.

During this period of time, through continuous krypton gold and krypton silver, his strength attribute has reached an astonishing 4.02!

After the attributes exceeded 4, Samwell found that it would be extremely difficult to continue to improve.

Now he wants to increase the strength attribute by 0.01, but it actually costs thirty gold dragons or two hundred silver deer.

This made him suspect that even if he ate all the golden dragons tricked from the Lannister family, his strength attribute might not be able to break through 5.

In this case, the cost-effectiveness of continuing to spend gold is too low. At this stage, it is a wiser choice to spend gold dragons on territory construction and arming the army.

Moreover, he also discovered that using silver deer to enhance strength attributes was actually more cost-effective.

Although the effectiveness of one gold coin is equal to six or seven silver deer, the common gold and silver exchange ratio in Westeros is 1:210.

In addition, the territory already produces silver, so for a period of time, krypton silver will be the right way to go.

In the future, it will be more cost-effective to switch back to krypton gold when the utility of silver continues to decline to a certain extent.

However, the strength attribute reaching 4.02 is already terrifying.

Samwell didn't know how powerful he was now, but an ordinary sword in his hand was no different from a branch.

That's why he had to change weapons.

The two-handed war hammer in front of me does look quite exaggerated. The hammer body is as big as a watermelon, and it is covered with spiral spikes, shining with an icy cold light.

Samwell took a step forward and lifted it up with only one hand.

After trying the weight, Samwell nodded with satisfaction, then took the handle with both hands, swung it up, and smashed it toward the ground——

boom!

It was like a muffled thunder exploding, and the earth trembled.

Everyone in the blacksmith shop was dumbfounded, looking at Samwell as if he were a monster.

It took Buso a while to come back to his senses, and his eyes had changed from suspicion to admiration:

"Sir, you are truly a god! Please give it a name."

Samwell put the warhammer on his shoulder with a smile and said:

"Just call it - Thunder!"
Chapter completed!