Fan Wuxi sat in the box of the train, looking at the scenery that kept passing by the window, a little distracted.

Of course, he wasn't fascinated by the sight outside the window, in fact he was thinking about it.

After the meeting with the Politburo, his father Fan Heng gave him another lecture, and nagged him about some of the ideas of the high-level for a while, and finally let Fan Wuxian figure out their thoughts, so he also knew that the stakes of this trip were very important, and the success or failure of his trip to Russia touched the hearts of many people.

Shen Ying was already asleep in the box, and this time when she came out, it happened that an Indian passenger plane had just crashed, and the two adults were more worried, so they didn't take the plane, but made a train from the capital to Moscow.

If we look beyond the Chinese map to the world, you will be amazed by the fact that from Vladivostok on the Pacific coast to Chelyabinsk in the Ural Mountains, the Trans-Eurasian Trans-Siberian Railway, the main artery of communication from Siberia to the Far East in Russia.

When the international train departing from Jingcheng Station leaves Erenhot and enters Russia via Ulaanbaatar, the railroad tracks extending from Mongolia join the Trans-Siberian Railway, which is just over half a day's journey from the legendary Baikal Lake.

From the capital to Moscow, it takes only seven or eight hours by plane, while the train takes six days and five nights.

If you want to understand the vast territory of Russia, you must take their train, because the Russian railway is the most distinctive, especially the Trans-Siberian Railway, which is the most unique on the earth, which is a product of the Tsarist Russian period, and it is a special yearning place for European and American tourists.

Russia is a large country with a total length of 140,000 kilometers of railways, and their plains occupy most of the territory, so the conditions for the development of railways can be said to be unique. Nineteenth-century Anna. Karenina begins with the heroine Anna taking a train from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

However, the standard distance between Russian railways is 12 centimeters wider than that of China, and Chinese trains can enter Russian railways slowly, but not vice versa. Europeans and Americans are very interested in the magnificence of the world's longest Trans-Siberian Railway, and they have to visit it to be happy, just like foreigners who have to visit the Great Wall of China.

The train departs from Jingcheng Station and arrives at Erenhot, a border checkpoint in China, via Zhangjiakou South, Datong and Jining South, where passports will be stamped with an exit stamp, and passengers will need to fill out a declaration form for passengers' luggage and belongings, and at the same time change the rails, because the rails in China are different from those in Mongolia and Russia.

The track change is carried out in the international wheel change warehouse, the train cars are lifted one by one, the Chinese rails are removed, and the Russian-style rails are replaced, and the passengers do not need to get off the train during the whole process, and they do not feel any shock.

Because of the track change and border check, the train will stop in Erenhot for about three hours. In the evening, the train left Erenhot and entered Mongolia, and then stopped at the Mongolian border checkpoint to carry out the Mongolian entry (transit) visa inspection, customs declaration and other procedures, and arrived in Ulaanbaatar in the afternoon of the next day, and arrived at the Mongolian border again in the evening for the Mongolian exit inspection.

Moscow time is four hours behind Yenching time, and after entering Russia, the train stops at Naushki on the border to carry out the entry visa inspection of the Russian side, fill in the customs declaration form and migration card, and the inspection here is more detailed. At this point, the tedious border checks are finally over, and the train can run through the vast land of Siberia.

Through Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tyumen oil fields, into Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, after the Ural Mountains, the train officially entered Europe, then passed through Bermi, Kirov, the ancient capital of Vladimir, and finally entered Moscow with a population of 9 million.

The route passes through three countries, runs through the north and south of Mongolia, passes through at least 14 administrative units of Russia (oblasts, republics, autonomous regions, territories), passes through the Mongolian Plateau, the Yablonov Mountains on the Mongolian-Russian border, Lake Baikal, the deepest inland lake in the world, the southern part of the Central Siberian Plateau, the southern part of the Western Siberian Plain, and enters the Eastern European Plain after crossing the Ural Mountains.

It takes a day for the train to leave China, a day to pass through Mongolia, and the other four days are spent on the vast territory of Russia.

More than half of the international trains are foreign tourists, and a considerable number of those few are from all over the country, almost all of them are wearing suits and carrying suits, carrying a large number of leather jackets, tourist shoes and sportswear, and the nameplates range from Adidas to Nike, of course, they are basically fakes.

As soon as the train left the country, it turned into a mobile wagon, and the inverted men on the train were all gearing up and excited. Every time they arrive at a station, the local people will rush up, gather around the windows and doors, echo up and down, and the purchase and sales are booming.

As soon as the train entered Mongolia, it was hooked up in the Soviet dining car and began to use rubles, so the gentlemen also traded in rubles.

Shen Ying was more sleepy on the train, so she and her female assistant were sleeping, and Fan Wuxi felt relatively fresh about the things on the train, so she walked around to watch the excitement.

The public carriage was more lively, and there were two young couples who put two bottles of two pots on the small table in front of the window, and sold them at a price of sixty roubles, but the men were mainly carrying large bags and small bags and mainly traded on the platform, so only occasionally people came to patronize them, and after two or three rounds of counteroffers of fifty roubles were not sold, in the end they could not hold on, and sold them to two Mongolian men with red and black faces for fifty roubles.

The windows of the international train are divided into two sections, the upper one is about eight centimeters wide and can be pushed outward forty-five degrees, and the lower one is dead. They went through the small window above, paying with one hand and delivering the goods with the other.

The international train lives four people in each private room, which is quite a soft sleeper in China, and two small couples live in the same private room with a fallen master, and when the train starts again, everyone gathers outside to talk about the war situation. The two young couples said that they had also opened it, and took out the fifty yuan and shook it.

Immediately, they were laughed at them, saying that you had been deceived. Then he took the fifty dollars, opened them and showed them, and said that they were Mongolian money, and then took out a fifty roubles from his bosom.

The two young couples had never seen fifty yuan rubles before, and when they compared, they found that the two coins were too similar, the size was the same, and the front of the design was the same, with a profile portrait of Lenin on the left, and a big word "50" on the right, only the small characters were in Mongolian. The color is basically the same, it is gray-green gray-green, like the Mongolian one is a little grayer.

However, the two young couples are not short of money, and buying wine is just to join in the fun, so they are giggling and saying that they have long seen each other, and there is nothing unpleasant.

There is air conditioning and TV in the carriage, the seat is spacious, the TV plays the classic movie "Station for Two" of the former Soviet Union, traveling by train in Russia, you must have the mentality of Europeans and Americans, just treat yourself as if you are here for leisure, just like arriving at a health resort, to stay for a few days, the temperature and hygiene in the carriage will make you feel very comfortable, even if it is minus 40 degrees outdoors, the carriage must be above 25 degrees, you can wear a short-sleeved shirt.

All carriages in Russia are non-smoking, but there are special smoking areas, and in order to take care of the Islamic people, the public meals in Russia are generally beef, so they do not ask each other about their beliefs.

The doors are electric, the toilets are very clean and automated, the tall female conductor has a good service attitude, someone bought smoked fish from Lake Baikal and wanted to temporarily store it in their dining car for a few hours, she also gladly agreed, but after a while she ran back and said that she knew that this was a paid service, and the price charged was twice the price of smoked fish, so the man said forget it, it was better to eat it directly.

The railway embankment in Russia is very poor, and the running smoothness of the cars is much worse than that of China, and the speed is even worse. If it were in China, it would take two and a half days to reach such a long distance, but they didn't have the concept of speeding up trains, which was the train schedule twenty or thirty years ago.

Not long ago, there were train derailments in the Far East, all caused by the lack of maintenance of the railway embankment. Of course, they also have objective reasons, for example, their railway line is too long, and there are not so many workers, so they can only use it, and most of the sleepers of the railway are wooden, and there is relatively little cement, which is also one of the reasons.

After waking up the next day after leaving the country, Shen Ying looked out of the car window with some excitement, expecting to see the endless reckless grassland, but she immediately felt very disappointed, because she did not see the scene of the sky and the wilderness, and the wind blowing the grass and seeing the cattle and sheep that day.

The Mongolian steppe is indeed high and high at a glance, but there is no green grass in the sky, the grass is sparse and sparse against the ground and grows a thin layer, and half of it is yellow, obviously this summer is very dry, it seems that the land is particularly barren and desolate, the train runs for two or three hours and cannot see a tree, a house or a yurt, not to mention the sheep that float like white clouds, and the scenery is very monotonous all the way.

Before dusk, the train drove into the Russian land, strange to say, the scenery in front of me suddenly changed as if by magic, the eyes were full of lush, dense vegetation, artemisia grass on both sides of the railway was luxuriant, a few meters away from the small birch forest along the way, the forest shrubs were colorful and colorful, the birch trunks of the slopes were silver and white, the leaves were yellow and green, sparkling in the afterglow of the setting sun, the primeval forest was covered in the distance, the trees were tall and straight, and the wild interest was rare and the people were rare.

There is only one realm, the scenery of the north and the south is so different, the land in the north is so fertile, but the south is like a barren land, Shen Ying couldn't help but sigh at Fan Wuxi, God is not fair, favoring one over the other.

"It's not unfair, after all, Mongolia's mineral resources will go crazy if anyone looks at it now-" Regarding this matter, Fan Wuxian obviously has a different opinion.

The scenery on the ground is good, which is pleasing to the eye, but there is treasure under the ground, which can be exchanged for money.

Before the night had fallen, the train finally reached the shores of Lake Baikal.

Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world, it contains one-fifth of the earth's total freshwater, which is equivalent to the total water storage capacity of the five great lakes in North America, and it is also the deepest lake in the world, with an average depth of 730 meters and a maximum depth of 1,620 meters.

Fan Wuxian and Shen Ying looked at Lake Baikal from the window in the car, and the boundless waters were white and vast, like a dream under the approaching night. Unfortunately, it was completely dark after a while, and I couldn't see anything from the black hole through the car window. It is said that the story of Su Wu's sheep herding that has been praised for thousands of years took place here, but it was called Beihai at that time.

After entering Russia, the men were even busier, it turned out that in Mongolia it was just a small fight, which was a warm-up before the war, and these people were basically at least two people working together, they sold goods and shouted, and one of them was in charge of collecting money. It seems that the northern ones mainly sell leather jackets, while the southern ones, such as Wenzhou, mainly sell tourist shoes.

The two young couples were not idle, they continued to sell two pots of moonshine, and as last time, they still put two bottles on the small table in front of the car window, and the price was still marked at sixty rubles, and they were still very high-spirited at the beginning, and after two or three dials, they couldn't hold back, and finally sold them for fifty rubles and sold them to a middle-aged man and woman, who seemed to be husband and wife. The man was extremely tall, estimated to be two meters, lean. The small window on the train didn't bother him at all when he paid for the pick-up.

At first, they came and went around once, and they left without cutting the price, and after a round they came again. They seem to be very simple and honest. At first glance, they wanted to buy, and the two young couples also wanted to sell, and finally they became friends.

When the train started again, everyone gathered in the carriage again to talk nonsense, chatting and chatting about the little couple who had just pulled out the money they had just received and played with it in their hands, or the guy who had just seen through the counterfeit ruble yelled at them, you were deceived again, and then laughed.

The two young couples all looked at him in a daze, so he took out a fifty yuan ruble from his bosom, proudly compared it with the one of the two young couples in front of everyone, and said slowly, your one is the fifty yuan ruble that has been invalidated.

So everyone came over to take a closer look, and found that compared with his one, the two young couples were the same everywhere, but the color was slightly brown.

The guy who debunked the scam has experience, and he concluded, you two young couples look like Sven, like scholars, and people look around and find that you two are the most like rookies.

Fan Wuxian listened to it unconsciously, and said in his heart that these people are very interesting, it seems that no matter what they do, they are all very fun, of course, a lot of fun is bought with money.

(To be continued)