Hawksbill Island, Lord's Cottage.

"Sit down."

Samwell took the lead in taking a seat at the round table, and then beckoned everyone to sit around the table.

However, everyone hesitated, after all, they were not used to sitting at the same table as the lord.

Only Cheman sat down in the first position on Samwell's left-hand side.

With the one taking the lead, the rest of the crowd took their seats.

At this meeting, Samwell summoned the chiefs of his fourteen villages, plus Gavin, the steward of the territory, Vidor, the leader of the craftsmen, Busso, the leader of the blacksmiths, and the bachelor of Coben, a total of eighteen people.

These are the main managers in his domain.

Originally, Todd Fohua was also one, but this guy went to the High Court to collect the displaced people and didn't come back, so he was absent.

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

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

Samwell didn't drive her away, but just coughed lightly, drawing everyone's attention back from the energetic beautiful girl:

"Although the castle has not yet been built, and I am not yet an official lord, it will be sooner or later. So, in order to better manage the territory, I have decided to officially accept you as my vassals. ”

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

Although the lord's retainers didn't even touch the threshold of the nobility, this still couldn't stop everyone from being proud of it, as if with this name, he would be a superior person from now on.

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

First and foremost, it is your duty to uphold my authority and support every resolution I make;

Secondly, it is your duty to advise me and help me manage my people and govern my territory. Such a meeting, which will be held once a month in the future, will be held once a month, at which you will report to me on the work, and I will also give instructions;

Finally, when I issue my war order, you must answer the call to join my army, or provide logistics for the army, and if I am captured, you must find a way to scrape the ransom to save me. ”

After Samwell finished speaking, everyone hurriedly claimed yes.

"Okay." Samwell pressed down with his hands, stopped everyone's expressions of loyalty, and then turned to look at his butler, "Gavin, let me introduce the current basic situation of the territory." ”

"Yes, sir." Gavin stood up and saluted Samwell, then sat down again, and said, "At present, there are more than 12,300 people in the territory, including 184 soldiers, and 100 new recruits.

In addition, there are 35 cows, 27 horses, 54 pigs, more than 40 yellow sheep, and more than 100 chickens and ducks.

Counting the food supplies that were just delivered from Yangwu City yesterday, the territory has 1.3 million pounds of flour, 700,000 pounds of oats, 500,000 pounds of beans, and we have 50,000 pounds of jerky and more than 3,000 pounds of salt......

Samwell listened and silently estimated in his heart.

Don't look at it, it seems to be a lot of food, but it costs more than 12,000 people, which is really not much.

The soldiers don't talk about it, they eat enough and have meat every day, and the other laborers, after all, do manual work and eat a lot of food, Samwell in order to speed up the construction of the castle, plus to win people's hearts, never eat on the deduction, so the food consumed in the whole territory in a day is indeed amazing.

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

This is the disadvantage of not being self-sufficient in food, and it is no wonder that such a strategically important place has never been explored.

It's a bottomless pit.

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

However, these contracts are only for a three-month "free period", and if the supply is to continue, Samwell will have to pay real money to buy them.

That's a lot of money.

Fortunately, last time on Qingting Island, Samwell starred in the role and got a lot of golden dragons from the Lannister family, otherwise he would definitely panic now.

But this is only a one-time thing, and it is impossible to have such a good thing every day.

If the territory is to be sustainable, it still has to rely on the two cash cows of brandy and silver mines.

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

“…… 300 female savages were organized to pick wild mountain grapes in the nearby mountains and forests, and 900 acres of open land near the valley mouth were also opened up and planted with mountain grapes, and the first batch of ...... is expected to be harvested in half a year."

Hearing this, Samwell interrupted:

"The planting area of mountain grapes has doubled to 1,800 acres. And after this batch is planted, you have to open up another piece of about the same size for rotation and fallow. Don't worry about sales, as long as our wine is brewed, we won't have to worry about not being able to sell. And even if there is a surplus, it can be kept and stored. ”

"Yes, sir." Gavin hurriedly responded, and then continued, "At present, due to the limitation of raw materials, the production of brandy cannot be increased for the time being, and it is only twelve gallons per day......"

Hearing this number, Samwell frowned, but he was also a little helpless.

It is indeed difficult to increase the yield just by picking wild mountain grapes, so we can only wait for the grapes planted in half a year to mature, and then expand the production scale.

The subsequent steps of brandy brewing and distillation involve secrecy, so Gavin did not elaborate.

Samwell turned to Bachelor Coburn again, saying:

"Cobain, tell me about the silver mines."

"Yes, sir." Cobain nodded, and said in a non-undulating tone, "The mining and refining of silver ore is on the right track, and the daily output of silver is about one hundred and forty ounces, and if more people can join in later, the output can be increased a little more......"

Samwell estimated the weight of the silver deer, which is equivalent to about 350 silver deer per day.

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

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

So, that's definitely quite a decent amount of income.

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

Sure enough, it's still mining to make money!

And it's just a silver mine, if it's a gold mine......

No wonder the Lannisters are so wealthy that they are willing to pay so much money in order to drive away blind date competitors.

Damn big dogs!

Jealousy made Samwell unrecognizable, and he felt more and more that his last asking price was still underpriced.