When they heard about the production of silver, the attendees at the round table had smiles on their faces.

This is another purpose of Samwell's meeting, to give confidence to the people.

Let them believe that this territory has a future.

After talking about the silver mines, Vidor, the leader of the craftsmen, told about the construction of the castle.

Due to the abundant manpower and the division of labor system, various scroll kings have emerged, and the construction of the castle is progressing very rapidly.

The foundations had been laid, the outer walls had been built three feet high, and at this rate, the main works of the castle would be completed in about four months.

At that time, Samwell will be able to apply to Duke Metz and officially become a lord.

Baron Hawkspew, Samwell Caesar!

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

After Victor, it was the turn of the blacksmith Busso.

Since there is no iron ore in the territory, Samwell actually did not let his blacksmiths to craft steel weapons, after all, it is more convenient to buy weapons directly than to spend time and effort buying iron ore from outside to build it.

Therefore, the task he gave to those blacksmiths was mainly to cooperate with the bachelor of Coben to cast silver deer.

In addition, although there was no iron ore on Hawksbill Island, there was certainly no shortage of animal skins, so Samwell, the leather armor worn by the soldiers, did not buy it from outside, but let the blacksmiths make it.

However, it's not true that they didn't have a single iron tool to build.

Samwell asked Busso to tailor a war hammer for himself.

Because with the continuous growth of his strength attributes, Samwell felt that ordinary steel swords could no longer play their strengths.

Warhammer is the best choice.

“…… My lord, the warhammer forged for you is finished, so you can try it later. Speaking of which, Busso was actually a little apprehensive.

It wasn't that he didn't have confidence in his craft, but that the warhammer forged at the lord's behest was too heavy.

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

"Good!" Samwell was pleased, praised Busso, and said that he would try it out after the meeting.

Next, the 14 village chiefs also introduced the situation in their respective villages.

Actually, they don't have much to say.

After all, absolutely some of the savages have been attracted to Eagle's Mouth Island, either to become laborers, or to participate in winemaking, or to mine, and a small number of soldiers can become soldiers under the lord, and the old and weak women and children have also entered the welfare home, so those villages outside the valley are almost uninhabited.

It is estimated that after a while, these official positions such as village chiefs can be abolished.

The village chiefs present were also aware of this problem, and took advantage of the opportunity to report their work, and they were testing the lord in and out of their words, obviously, they did not want to lose the power in their hands, let alone lose their status as retainers.

Samwell was of course well aware of this, so he took the opportunity to announce that all fourteen village chiefs would be transferred back to Eagle's Beak Island to continue to serve as administrators, and that the original villages would no longer have village heads, but that each of the fourteen villages would have a roving sheriff and a tax collector.

After reassuring people, Samwell let the crowd speak freely, offering advice and asking questions.

The crowd fell silent suddenly, they were not quite accustomed to such a "democratic" meeting, and even more accustomed to listening to the lord's orders.

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

"My lord, now these wild people don't farm or hunt, but work for you, so how will they pay taxes in the future?"

Samwell smiled slightly, in fact, he had already thought of this question.

It's just that it's still within the three-month tax holiday period he promised, so he didn't bring up the issue.

"It doesn't matter, don't they all have a share of work, just use the share of labor to pay taxes."

"Labor tax splitting?" Gavin was stunned.

"That's right. Didn't I promise that one cent of work can be exchanged for a copper plate, so the amount of work is money. After the tax holiday has passed, they are allowed to pay their taxes with their share of labor. ”

"Okay." Gavin also understood, and nodded in response.

The young butler apparently failed to see the true "subtlety" of the system designed by his lord.

Samwell, of course, wouldn't say much either.

With Gavin taking the lead, everyone was no longer inhibited, and they opened their mouths one after another to offer advice or ask questions.

The meeting lasted two hours before it ended.

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

"My lord, this is it." Busso lifted the black cloth that covered the weapon, hesitated for a moment, and reminded, "Be careful, it's seventy pounds!" ”

Yes, seventy pounds!

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

It was hard for him to imagine anyone who could really wield such a war hammer to fight.

Samwell didn't care about Busso's attitude, and he knew that his request was a bit unreasonable.

No one would choose such a heavy weapon.

But he's different.

During this period of time, through continuous krypton gold, as well as krypton silver, his power attribute has reached an astonishing 4.02!

Once the stat was above 4, Samwell found it extremely difficult to continue to improve.

Now if he wants to increase his strength attribute by another 0.01, it will cost him thirty golden dragons, or two hundred silver deer.

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

In this way, the cost performance of continuing krypton gold is too low, and at this stage, it is a wiser choice to spend the golden dragon on territory construction and arming the army.

Moreover, he also found that using Silver Deer to improve the strength attribute is actually more cost-effective.

Although the utility of one gold coin is equal to six or seven silver deer, the gold-silver exchange ratio commonly used in Westeros is 1:210.

In addition, silver is already produced in the territory, so for a period of time, krypton silver is the right way.

In the future, it will be more cost-effective to wait for the utility of silver to continue to decay to a certain extent, and then change back to kryptonite.

However, reaching 4.02 in the strength attribute is already terrifying.

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

That's why he had to change his weapon.

The two-handed war hammer in front of him did look quite exaggerated, the hammer was the size of a watermelon, covered with spiral spikes, and shimmered with a cold cold light.

Samwell stepped forward and lifted it up with just one hand.

After testing the weight, Samwell nodded in satisfaction, then grabbed the handle with both hands, slammed it up, and smashed it towards the ground—

Rumble!

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

Everyone in the blacksmith shop was dumbfounded, looking at Samwell like a monster.

It took a long time for Busso to come back to his senses, and his eyes had changed from his previous suspicion to adoration:

"Your Excellency, you are truly powerful! Please come up with a name for it. ”

Samwell smiled and carried the warhammer on his shoulder, and said:

"Just call it Thunder!"