In the northwest of the vast Guanzhong Plain of Seris, there is a place surrounded by mountains, where the raging Yellow River stretches for more than 100 miles, and the ancient and modern famous Longxi Golden City is located here......

Jincheng is now known as Lanzhou.

Lanzhou, built in the Western Han Dynasty in 86 BC. Because the gold was dug up when the castle was first built here, it was named Jincheng by the locals in the early days. During the two Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, the imperial court set up Jincheng County here, and the Sui Dynasty opened three years, that is, in 583 AD, Emperor Wen of Sui set up the Lanzhou Governor's Office here, and the name of "Lanzhou" began to appear in the book. Later, although the state and county were renamed several times, the establishment of Lanzhou was basically fixed.

This ancient and modern city is famous for the Silk Road town since ancient times, but in the long history of the Han nation, there are many disasters and difficulties, since the end of the Jin Dynasty Zhang Rail Jianliang secession, the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Dangxiang and other nomadic peoples have repeatedly invaded the local area, and the Han people have been repeatedly slaughtered. In modern times, Muslim minorities such as the Hui in the northwest rebelled many times, and Lanzhou was attacked several times, making the residents of the city in a difficult situation. It was not until around 1896 that the Ceris political axe under the leadership of Chen Zeyu defeated the former Qing Dynasty and led the army westward to pacify the northwest frontiers one by one, that the development of Lanzhou and other places was gradually on the right track.

After 1898, Seris adhered to Chen Zeyu's ideas, and immigrated a large number of people from the inland areas in the central and eastern parts of the country to the local reclamation and construction. By the beginning of that year, the local population of Lanzhou has exceeded 2.9 million, of which the Han nationality occupies an absolute dominant position, reaching 99.13 of the historical surname, with the gradual increase in the flow of people, Lanzhou's various undertakings have also developed more and more smoothly, the local chemical industry, aluminum smelting and the long-standing woolen industry has made remarkable achievements at home and abroad.

While the economy is developing rapidly, Lanzhou is greatly troubled by the lag in its own transportation. After all, transportation is the catalyst of the economy, and compared to the increasing railway mileage in the eastern part of the country, there is no doubt that Lanzhou's transportation industry, which can only rely on roads as its main channel, is far behind. Fortunately, that will change from now on......

On November 12, 1900, in the midst of the lively and festive firecrackers, the Jincheng Railway Station, located in the southwest of Lanzhou City, on the south bank of the Yellow River Bridge, was finally officially opened to the local people and put into operation after many days of intense preparations.

After receiving the news, the major newspapers and media in Seris suddenly became noisy!

After nearly 14 months of intense planning and construction, the 1,759-kilometer-long Longhai Railway, which runs through the east and west of the country, was finally completed a month ago!

At the same time, the Lanxin Line Railway, which has more complex and arduous construction conditions, is not so lucky, compared with the timely completion of the brother line project, the construction team of the Lanxin Line is subject to the harsh local geological and climatic conditions, and is still in the process of hard work day and night. Fortunately, although it has not yet been fully completed, the eastern section of the Lanzhou-Singapore line, the line from Lanzhou to Liuyuan, has been completed in advance.

The reason why it is worth celebrating is not for anything else, this is almost just in time for Seris's first snowfall of the winter that year, the eastern section of the railway, which was built by luck, just ahead of Seris's strategic point in the western part of the country, Yumen Pass.

Yumen, located at the westernmost end of the Hexi Corridor in Seris Gansu Province, near the Qilian Mountains, covers an area of about 13,000 square kilometers.

Unlike the southern plains, where rivers are intertwined and the land is fertile, the northern part of the continent is crisscrossed by countless hills and mountains. In ancient times, while mountainous areas were used as a military barrier for the interdependence of various geopolitical forces, they were often ignored by the local political ruling class, and became synonymous with barbarism and lagging development. The same is true of the Yumen, a small border city with a population of less than 20,000 men, which was used by the Li dynasty as a barrier against the Turks in the west during the Tang Dynasty, before the large-scale construction of the Ceris political axe.

In the vast western part of Seris, there are many places like Yumen, but in May 1900, a geological survey team from Yanjing, the capital of Seris, fixed its sights on here......

Time goes back to half a year ago.

At the foot of Qilian Mountain, on the bank of the Shule River in the western suburbs of Yumen City.

A compact team of geological research on mules and horses is struggling on the rocky beach on the bank of the river.

At the front of the group, a middle-aged man in a plain shirt and about 45 years old was holding a telescope to observe the surrounding terrain, perhaps because the local weather was a little hot during the day, and the elder casually draped his dark coat over the saddle of the travel bag.

"This should be the ......"

After a while, the middle-aged man took the drawing handed by the deputy next to him, and after comparing it for a while, he nodded with a slightly affirmative expression and said.

"Mr. Jianchu, Laojun Temple has arrived, right?"

The deputy who spoke was a man with a high nose who was a few years younger, and from the look of his action and the look on his face, he had a very strong style like a soldier.

"Hehe" Hearing the words of the deputy beside him, the middle-aged elder smiled and pointed to a local mountain man not far away.

"Shall we ask the folk?"

"I'll ask!"

Behind the two, a young man in a brown cowboy hat who heard their conversation answered loudly and immediately galloped away on his horse......

"This little king!" Looking at the young man's frizzy figure riding away, the man with a high nose said a little helplessly.

The middle-aged elder shook his head, looked at the other young team members around him who were a little eager to try, and laughed, "Haha, it's better to be young, I'm almost tired and fall apart, look at them...... All of them are still alive! ”

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At the same time, on the other side, the cowboy hat was already galloping in front of the villager on horseback.

"Fellow, may I ask, is Laojun Temple here?"

"yes, it's not far along the riverbank! No, that's it. The villagers on the opposite side also rode mules and enthusiastically pointed to a small temple not far away.

"Okay, thank you......"

After receiving the exact news, the young cowboy hat did not wait for the villager on the other side to reply, and immediately whipped his whip and drove the horse back.

"This doll is interesting and has a tiger spirit!"

The villagers laughed, scratched their heads, and rode their mules in the direction of their homes.

The enthusiastic villager had no idea what the young man in front of him represented. In fact, it won't be long before the young man's geological survey team will change his life and that of all the local Yumen people around him......