Chapter 39
"My lord, this is indeed silver ore, more precisely, it should be argentite."
Vido and Buso studied the ore crystals in the pit for a long time, and finally came up with a in conclusion.
Samwell immediately smiled, and quickly asked:
"Do you know how to refine this silver ore?"
Vido stroked his beard, shook his head in embarrassment and said:
"Sorry, my lord. There is nothing we can do about this, upland city doesn't have silver mines so we don't know how to refine them."
"Then where should I find someone who can refine silver mines?"
"The maesters from citadel should be able to."
"Maesters..." Samwell suddenly felt a little emotional.
Without his time travel, the original owner would have become a maester in the end.
It seems that I still have to go to OldTown.
"Okay, you can leave."
"Yes, my lord."
Regarding the newly discovered silver mine, Samwell did not ask them to keep secret as too many people are involved in the mining, refining, and casting of silver so it is too difficult to keep it secret.
Besides, in Westeros, mining silver without permission is a felony.
If Samwell was willing to take this risk, why didn't he just agree to Madam Olenna and become a pirate?
Anyway, being caught has consequence.
Of course, the silver mine was discovered on his territory, which no one can take away.
It's just that if he want's to mine, he must obtain the king's consent.
Silver mines are generally mined for a small amount of luxury goods such as silver jewelry and silver tableware and most of them are used to mint silver deer coins.
Of course, the right to mint coins is firmly in the hands of the royal family.
He who discovered the silver mine had to be authorized by the king to mint silver coins. The king will also send someone to supervise the minting of silver coins, and take a part of it as an authorization fee.
Most of the income from this silver mine will still belongs to Samwell.
Why is the Lannister family the richest family in the Seven Kingdoms? Is it because of the gold mines beneath Casterly Rock.
The value of the silver mine in front of his is certainly not as high as that of the gold mine, and it is not yet known how many reserves it has, but it has already surprised Samwell.
After all, everyone thought that the Red Mountains were a barren land with nothing, and Samwell originally planned to make money by brewing brandy.
Now with this silver mine, the development speed of the territory will definitely reach a new level.
He who was still frowning because of the sudden increase in the number of his subordinates just now is not worried at all .
With this silver mine, he will have more confidence to "raise investment".
Moreover, the significance of this silver mine to Samwell is not only wealth.
According to his previous conjecture, the real effective substance to increase the strength attribute is probably the silver in the silver leaf grass.
So, why not just eat silver?
Samwell gritted his teeth and hesitated.
However, he ate so much silver-leaf grass just now, his silver intake was not low and he didn't experience any discomfort in his body. Instead, he could clearly feel the increase in strength, as if his whole body had endless energy.
So , from this point of view, he could indeed digest silver.
Thinking of this, Samwell picked up a small piece of ore in front of him, and seemed to put it in his mouth, but hesitated for a moment, and put it back.
This kind of silver ore has too many impurities, and it may cause problems if eaten directly.
So, he took out a silver deer coin from his pocket and threw it into his mouth.
Gudoo -
The hard silver coin scratched Samwell's throat.
But the next moment, he didn't care about it anymore, because the power attribute increased by 0.01!
Silver really works!
From this point of view, the silver content of five silver leaf grasses is roughly equivalent to one silver deer.
What about goldentail shrimp?
Samwell had specifically inquired before that the golden tail shrimp is a specialty of Bright Water City, and this kind of shrimp can only be caught in a lake connected to the HoneyWine River.
Therefore, Samwell suspected that there might be a gold mine under that lake!
The shrimps that grow in the lake have been devouring the sediment mixed with gold at the bottom of the lake for a long time, which causes the gold element to be enriched in the body and become golden tail shrimps.
Of course, even if he guessed that there might be a gold mine at the bottom of the lake, Samwell couldn't mine it. After all, it was the territory of the Florent family.
Even if Samwell's mother was actually from the florent family, the things there had nothing to do with him.
However, he can try to see if eating gold directly can also improve the strength attribute.
Thinking of this, Samwell took a Golden Dragon Coin and threw it in his mouth.
After a while, the strength attribute really increased, and the increase was 0.02.
Good guy, this time I really became a krypton gold player.
Wait a moment.
Samwell suddenly realized that since gold and silver can be used, what about other ores?
So he took out another copper plate and threw it into his mouth.
After waiting for a while, there was no response.
It seems that copper is not good...
As for other metals, Samwell decided to try it later, otherwise he was afraid that his chrysanthemum would not be able to bear it.
However, it is estimated that there is not much hope.
After all, which goldfinger is not picky...
After learning that gold and silver are the substances that can really enhance the attribute of strength, Samwell fell into the trouble of happiness.
These two substances are actually not rare, they are—
expensive!
But expensive is not the fault of gold and silver, but his own fault...
It is necessary to make money as soon as possible.
Thinking of how directly devouring gold and silver would increase the power attribute, Samwell felt hot inside.
Based on the fact that one golden dragon increases power by 0.02, if the effect decay is not considered, as long as there are one hundred golden dragons, the strength can be increased by a full 2 points!
Of course, it can't be counted like this.
According to previous experience, the same substance will cause tolerance, the more you eat, the worse the effect on improving attributes will be.
Fortunately, although gold and silver are precious, he will earn a lot . As long as he keeps eating, one day he will be able to pile up his strength attributes to a terrifying level.
At that time, even if he really meet's a giant dragon, he can try to punch it .
Then let's start with the silver mine in front of us.
Of course, he can't eat it directly, he have to refine it first.
Samwell originally planned to go to Arbor Island, but now it seems that he has to go to Old Town again to see if he can lure a maester back from the citadel .
In the next two days, Samwell personally visited the thirteen newly surrendered tribal camps. While appeasing people's hearts, he appointed village chiefs, affairs officers, tax officers, and justices of the peace.
Everything was dealt with peacefully.
After finishing everything, he departed from his territory with Todd Flower, cheman, and twenty guards to arbor city .
The reason for taking cheman away was simple. Samwell didn't trust this "mad dog", so he had to keep him with him to watch.
As for Todd flower, although he was not considered trustworthy, at least Samwell was not worried that he would make trouble for him. The reason why he brought him this time was entirely because the other party was the illegitimate child of arbour Island.
The group headed west along the northern shore of the Summer Sea, and soon they walked out of the red Mountains and came to the territory of the Cuy family - Sunflower City.
In fact, Samwell originally planned to go straight to arbor Island, and did not intend to go to the city to visit the Cuy family.
But now, after the population of the territory has exploded, the problem of food shortage is extremely serious. It may be too late if he rush to arbor Island to buy food and then transport it back.
Therefore, he decided to stay in sunflower City for a while, buy some food and transport it back for emergency.
Since he chose to enter the city, out of courtesy, Samwell sent a soldier ahead of time to send a letter of visit to the Cuy family.
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