"Foundation" is a realistic novel that focuses on the intertwining of personal growth and feelings of family and country under the torrent of the times. The story starts from the first day when college graduate Zhao Yunchen reports to the coal mine in Fengming City, Northern Frontier Province, and unveils a deep and fiery life journey. Born in a military family, he followed his adoptive father's teachings of "growing up wherever you take root" and resolutely walked into the dusty mining area with roaring machines and devoted himself to the arduous and dangerous coal mining industry. He was assigned to the Production Safety Inspection Section. Faced with the complex geological environment, the indifferent attitude of his colleagues and the harsh underground reality, he did not rely on his background or fear of hardships, and earned respect step by step with his practicality and tenacity.
However, under the calm sea of coal, there are undercurrents. Zhao Yunchen didn't know that his life experience was implicated in a secret that had been sealed for many years. The head of state in Beijing was silently watching his life trajectory, and his adoptive father, a general in the eastern theater, built an invisible shield for him thousands of miles away. The two fathers chose to guard him silently and not help him, just to let him grow on his own.
"Foundation" is not only an inspirational chapter about young people's struggle at the grassroots level, but also a profound symphony about blood, responsibility and faith. In this land blackened by coal ash, a young man is measuring his destiny with his footsteps, and a truth that has been buried for twenty years is slowly emerging with the light under the derrick.
