It turns out that there is a world of wood in the wall of this three-yuan view, and all kinds of wood are neatly placed everywhere, some of which are firewood used for fire, but occasionally you can see a large number of logs placed together, and the quality of wood is obviously good.

Sun Daoyuan was particularly sensitive to things like wood, so he understood that the amount of firewood was at least two or three million quintals, and stacks were stacked together, like mountains and seas, boundless.

The price of firewood in Guangzhou, before the Sino-British War began, was about five cents a load, but now the price has risen many times, and the market can usually reach one penny and two cents to one penny and five cents.

Although the price of this thing is not high, but it is not in high demand, every household has to use it, and the annual consumption of firewood in Guangzhou is more than one million taels, which is twenty or thirty million quintals according to the total amount.

Recently, the Huaxia Army set up a so-called supply and marketing cooperatives in Guangzhou, leasing or purchasing shops in various good areas, and vigorously selling grain, firewood, cloth, and other materials that are in short supply.

There are also businessmen who secretly hoard goods in the city of Guangzhou, and they all feel that in order to stabilize prices and supply all kinds of materials at low prices, they can also stick to the current situation for a short period of time, and they all rely on the Qing Dynasty inventory confiscated some time ago to support, and the actual total amount will not be too much, so they have been secretly fighting with the Huaxia army, not lowering the prices of various materials, and even spending money to buy cheap goods for the Huaxia army.

What these businessmen want is to wait until the supplies of the Huaxia Army are not available, and then sell the goods in their hands at a high price to make a lot of money from them, regardless of the fact that these things are closely related to people's livelihood, such an action will make many ordinary people unable to live.

However, when Sun Daoyuan saw so much firewood, he knew that the idea of those merchants was probably wrong, at least in the firewood section, it would not work, and the firewood reserves of Sanyuanguan reached the level of millions of quintals, which was enough to make up for the firewood shortage caused by the embargo of the Qing court.

Of course, Sun Daoyuan, as the owner of the boat company, pays more attention to the wood that obviously does not belong to firewood and seems to have a good price.

Sun Daoyuan saw that there were few people around, so he took Xue Fatzi to the pile of logs that were air-dried in an open place, touched it with his hands, knocked it again, and listened to the sound, and carefully observed the wood.

Sun Daoyuan has been the owner of the boat shop for most of his life, and he can tell one, two, or three about thousands of kinds of wood in the Qing Kingdom, but he can't recognize what kind of number these woods belong to, but he just looks at the compact texture of the wood, which is quite strong, and it should be a good wood that can be used as a boat.

Sun Daoyuan just wanted to take out a knife from his waist and prick the wood to take a look, only to remember that he didn't bring the knife he usually uses, and he left it at home when he went out.

"Master Xue, do you have a knife on your body, how about borrowing it and using it?" asked Sun Daoyuan.

"I didn't even bring a knife with me.

The two marshals are invited, what do we say about bringing knives to the banquet, naturally we will leave them before coming.

Master Sun, why bother with these broken woods, it's better to hurry to the front. Xue Fatzi had no interest in these woods at all, and just urged Sun Daoyuan to move forward.

Sun Daoyuan couldn't help but curse in his heart, in order to avoid hiding from the banquet this time, he didn't bring a knife himself, so it was a little troublesome at this time.

He was a little unwilling here, but someone next to him came to his aid and handed over a rather sharp dagger.

"I have a small dagger here, Master Sun can use it. The man said.

"Thank you. Sun Daoyuan was overjoyed, and he didn't look at what the man looked like, but after thanking him indiscriminately, he picked up the dagger, plunged into the logs, carefully felt the feeling of the dagger going in, and then cut out a piece of wood and observed it carefully.

After doing all this and having a certain understanding of these woods, Sun Daoyuan remembered to return the dagger to others, and just turned around to say a few words of thanks to someone, but when he saw the man's face, he couldn't help but stiffen, and as soon as his legs were weak, he wanted to kneel on the ground.

"Master Sun, you are a master in the boat industry, and you are very familiar with all kinds of wood, what do you think is the quality of these woods? Can they be used to make boats?"

"Xiaomin has seen Li Shuai. Sun Daoyuan's heart was in a mess, he couldn't think of anything, so he wanted to kneel down and kowtow, but he was finally stopped.

It turned out that the person who came was Li Xian, Sun Daoyuan had not dealt with Li Xian directly, but he had seen it from afar on many occasions, so he could recognize it.

"Master Sun is polite, you know that our Huaxia Army respects military salutes and abolishes kneeling salutes, which is not a good thing. Li Xian said with a smile.

"The handsome is polite, Xiaomin is just a white body, and the handsome can call me by name. Li Xian said politely, but Sun Daoyuan was flattered, and he didn't dare to let this demon king of the mixed world, who controlled the life and death of millions of people in Guangzhou, call him master.

"Then I'll call you Boss Sun, it's convenient to call it this way. Closer to the point, what do you think of this wood, can it be used as a boat?" asked Li Xian.

Sun Daoyuan looked around and found that Xue Fatzi also looked like he had been thundered, thinking about kneeling down to say goodbye, but he also looked like he couldn't kneel, but he had already let Li Xian hold it with his other hand.

Li Xian's reputation among the gentry and merchants in Guangzhou is not good, and he has titles such as murderous and chaotic demon king, which is not the image of a Qing official or a Ming lord that often appears in romances, to put it bluntly, everyone is afraid of Li Xian's mastery of force, not because Li Xian has any charm.

However, families like the Sun family and the Xue family are only at the bottom of the city of Guangzhou, engaged in lowly business, and they are white, without fame, much different from those gentry families with a long heritage, that is, there are many businessmen who are stronger than them, and it is not their turn to evaluate the problems of the commander of the Chinese army.

Sun Daoyuan was a little frightened when he met Li Xian, but he also knew that he had to answer Li Xian's words well, otherwise there might be an unpredictable bane.

"The wood looks good, it's strong enough, and it's very clear to hear, but it's good wood.

This should be no problem for making furniture or something, but the toughness is a little lacking, I'm afraid it can't be used as an ocean-going ship, and the most important thing is that it seems to have some problems when it's dry. Sun Daoyuan didn't know how to answer, but he mustered up the courage to say his opinion.

"Oh, it's rare that Boss Sun can see so much in such a short period of time. It's just that what's wrong with the drying of this wood, please tell me. Li Xian said expressionlessly.

"I looked at the wood and looked dry, but after the knife was inserted, I felt a little unfinished, this is not pure air-dried wood, it should be dried first and then air-dried according to Western methods.

In this way, it can indeed speed up the drying speed, but it will affect the quality of the air drying to some extent, and the wood has some shortcomings, which can only be used for offshore ships or something, and it is very reluctant to use it for large ships. When it comes to his own expertise, Sun Daoyuan talks eloquently and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of wood very thoroughly.