Rise of the Argentine Empire

The two-day holiday passed in a flash. The site selection and planning for the plastic bottle factory were initially completed. The municipal department mobilized a construction team to carry out the clearing work and laid the foundation for the first factory building. This will be a super-large steel structure factory covering an area of 30,000 square meters, accounting for a quarter of the investment cost.

The mayor obviously cherishes this new factory more than Saint Hesser, even if the new factory may bring some air pollution. Of course, compared to the government which is about to go bankrupt, this is just a minor problem.

Saint Hesser also returned to the barracks. Nothing major happened in the past two days. The National Defense Forces in the city were transferred to other garrisons outside the city. Cordoba City became the world of the City Defense Forces again, and the City Defense Forces were once again commended by the Ministry of National Defense. Commander Little Thompson was also promoted, but his official position remained unchanged. This was quite unexpected to Saint Hesser, who originally thought he would have to continue fighting.

Saint Hesser also made a simple analysis. A new round of general elections is coming. Although the City Defense Forces are not powerful, they represent the most important local forces outside the capital, and are related to nearly 500,000 votes. Currently, the number of eligible voters in Argentina accounts for about 15% of the total Argentine population, an average of one vote for every six people. Cordoba also influences the votes of nearby San Luis, Santiago del Estero, La Rioja, and Catamarca.

Even the local forces are relatively united. The National Defense Forces cannot gain any advantage, which may affect the general election later. The Peron government seeks re-election and must also consider the face of this important province, and it is best to win them over. Anyway, the promotion in rank without a change in official position will still be decided by Peron, the commander-in-chief of the three armed forces, in the future.

These are just Saint Hesser's simple guesses. After all, he currently has no access to the thoughts of those old men in the Ministry of National Defense.

The Ministry of National Defense also specifically allocated 1,000 of them to the City Defense Forces to form a new mechanized infantry brigade, and listed the City Defense Forces as a second-level combat unit in Argentina, providing a large amount of military equipment. The Cordoba City Defense Forces were also listed as one of the important units.

Since Saint Hesser was promoted to warrant officer, his daily work has been the same as before. He works as a squad leader, responsible for whistling to gather the troops for roll call every day, and then patrolling the designated urban street defense zone. He occasionally interacts with people from the police department.

"He has the air of a city management team leader," Saint Hesser smiled. In his opinion, the warrant officer has already reached the top of his military career, unless he can make some military achievements. But there are no military achievements in peacetime, so he has reached the top.

Apart from the Falklands War in 1982, the others were some encirclement and suppression of guerrillas. Argentina does not have their survival soil. The military government pays great attention to the suppression of these guerrilla fighters, and Cordoba is located in the central area of Argentina. Those people mostly cause trouble in places like Colombia and Bolivia. It seems that Vaggra is still in college. Maybe he can communicate with this big shot.

He doesn't need to patrol himself. Occasionally, he chats and brags with Crudic, the former instructor of the Fifth Battalion, and the day passes.

Every day is relatively boring, roughly like this:

Get up at six in the morning, wash up and make a simple breakfast, such as tomato beef noodles, or a burger sandwich with milk. While eating breakfast, read the newspaper and occasionally tease the little kids next door. Leave home on time at seven thirty, riding that old second-hand motorcycle. Akra now lives in the barracks, and the tricycle has been taken back by the army.

Report to the barracks on time at eight o'clock, sign in at the security office of the barracks, and chat with the little fat man in the security office.

Then, at 8:15, give a speech to the squad members in the barracks, exhort them to read out the precautions, and arrange the affairs of the day.

At noon, eat stewed potatoes with beef in the barracks canteen, or stewed corn kernels with beef, with spaghetti or something. Occasionally, you can eat something better, and then drink a bowl of thick vegetable soup. During the lunch break, lie on the army cot in the barracks for a while.

The afternoon is the same as usual. Read books in the small office in the barracks, chat with other squad leaders, and occasionally show off a skill on the training ground. Finish work at five o'clock and gather the team on duty to get off work.

The soda is packed in wooden boxes, 20 bottles per box. Currently, there are only two flavors: orange and apple. The only thing is that the carbonation doesn't feel so strong. The advantage is that the price is affordable. Saint Hesser eats slowly at night, which takes about 30 minutes. This restaurant is a fast food restaurant, and there are many people who come to eat, mostly workers from nearby factories.

There are also state-owned glass bottle factories that Saint Hesser cooperates with. After counting, almost everyone will take a bottle of Meta soda. Some workers who are more extravagant will buy beer and drink it slowly, which is about five times more expensive than Saint Hesser's soda, and the taste of that beer is really not very good. Overall, the sales situation is not bad.

The taste is okay, but it still needs to be improved. It is still a bit far from Saint Hesser's ideal taste. Of course, the taste of this soda is still good for now. It is not a problem of raw materials, but the accuracy of the processing equipment and workers, because the carbonation speed and the bottle cap sealing are relatively poor.

The soda factory is also preparing to open up channels to the City Defense Forces barracks, but the bidding has not been successful. Saint Hesser has a small idea that the thick vegetable soup is really not delicious. Occasionally, drinking some soda is still possible. Of course, because of the show, he still supports it. In front of other people, he does not hide his love for soda, and often brags to people that he drinks four or five bottles a day. Most of the time, he still drinks more boiled water.

If he doesn't go to a restaurant to eat, he cooks his own dishes, usually two dishes and a soup, and then cooks some rice. Argentina also has domestic rice, but the taste is a bit worse, and the output is also average. There is very little rice imported from abroad. Generally, the rice-producing area is Thai-produced cheap rice, which is relatively good. Indian rice is suitable for fried rice, and the price is more expensive. There is no trade between these two countries now.

In the current 1950s, industrially planted rice is indeed not as good as intensive cultivation. It is also related to the seeds and climatic conditions of the rice. When improved varieties and fertilizers are cultivated in the future, not only will the yield increase, but the taste will also get better and better.

After making the food, eat, rest, wash the dishes, then stretch your body, and start reading and doing test papers.

Start reading, reviewing, and previewing until 10:30, take a shower, and go to bed on time after your hair is dry.

Day after day, week after week.

One day, Saint Hesser suddenly felt, "Isn't this what I used to do at work? It's quite salted fish, and the side business is too big...", smiled, as if it was a bit boring.

If there is a Bihu forum, you can write a question and answer "What is life like after rebirth?".

"Thank you for the invitation. I haven't been reborn for long, and now I'm fishing every day, which is almost the same as before I was reborn" -- Likes: 1, Comments: That's right, I'm that fish, and I've been touched bald.

This period lasted for about two weeks, with no specific arrangements from above, until September 9th, when Saint-Helese received a transfer order issued by Commander Thompson.

He was assigned to the General Staff Department of the new command, while his position as squad leader was taken over by Aragon. The bald little brother was gone, and he would have to drive himself from now on.

However, there was good news: Saint-Helese received his first salary increase since coming to this world. His base salary rose to 11,000 pesos, an increase of 5,500 pesos, nearly doubling. Of course, this also indirectly showed that Saint-Helese's predecessor was indeed a versatile money-maker, although this little salary was insignificant compared to Saint-Helese's current earning ability.

But a salary increase is always pleasant. Promotion and salary increase meant that Saint-Helese's predecessor's side hustles were basically stopped, which were indeed quite uncivilized.

Back then, his predecessor's monthly income dropped from a peak of 20,000 pesos to less than 8,000 pesos because Saint-Helese didn't think it was necessary to engage in these messy things. And the extra income from bank wealth management didn't materialize because Saint-Helese had spent it all.

He was to take office on September 10th, and he had to move near the headquarters. Driving more than ten kilometers every day was too troublesome. A few kilometers wouldn't matter, but fortunately, the headquarters wasn't too far from the cannery, so he could rent a place in the middle of the headquarters and the cannery.

This time, he had to move.

So Saint-Helese began his journey of finding a house and moving.

The city was quite large, and generally, real estate agencies provided introductions. Saint-Helese took advantage of Aragon's not yet taking office and went to a real estate agency with him on a motorcycle.

They arrived at one of the largest real estate rental companies, a newly renovated building. Saint-Helese pushed open the glass door, and the walls of the agency were filled with rental advertisements.

The person in charge of the reception was a young man with short, dark golden hair and a tired look. He looked very clever, but also a bit green and inexperienced.

"Hello, sir, I am Cthulhu Kate from Harian Real Estate Agency. You can call me Kate," Kate introduced himself, and then began to introduce the houses.

"This villa is the most expensive property in our store. It has two floors, a small garden, four bedrooms and two living rooms upstairs, and three bedrooms and two living rooms downstairs. It's 27 years old. The monthly rent is 20,000 pesos." Good heavens, that's really a rip-off, the equivalent of Saint-Helese's monthly salary, too expensive.

"26 Saint Martin Avenue, Lane 7, Bauhinia Court Apartment, 7th floor, no elevator, two bedrooms and one living room, fully furnished, move-in ready, monthly rent 9,000 pesos, three months' deposit and one month's rent in advance, lease term of 2 years or more." Although it looks good, the price is a bit too high, and it's on the top floor, the lighting is too good, and climbing the stairs is troublesome.

"169 Champs Elysees Avenue, Lane 2, Bauhinia Apartment, fifth floor, two bedrooms and one living room, one library, one bedroom, ordinary decoration, no furniture, independent bathroom, we can provide a wooden bed, 3,000 pesos a month, one month's deposit and one month's rent in advance, minimum contract of 1 year." This one looks okay, it has a library.

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"Kate, please take us to see the house at 169 Champs Elysees Avenue," After selecting a round, he finally felt that the third one he introduced was more suitable, and the price was not expensive.

"Okay, sir, I'll go get the key right away," The young man originally thought that Saint-Helese was just here to take a look, but he didn't expect that he really intended to rent a house. Three thousand pesos a month was considered very expensive. The average person in the city has a salary of about 5,000 pesos a month, and the cheapest rent is only 500 pesos, which can be shared with others.

The group walked to Champs Elysees Avenue. The environment here far exceeded Saint-Helese's current residence. It was close to the city center and the city police headquarters, and the surrounding area was mostly inhabited by high-ranking officials and powerful families, as well as government officials, which was much better than Saint-Helese's Otto Force Street.

They arrived at Bauhinia Apartment, an eight-story building without an elevator, which was better than the original top-floor location. There was also an old man downstairs in the apartment responsible for managing the gate and doing simple cleaning, which looked pretty good.

After greeting the old man, the three climbed the stairs to the fifth floor and opened the room. There was still some garbage in the room. One bedroom and one living room, with a kitchen and an independent bathroom, the area was about forty or fifty square meters. Saint-Helese turned around and was quite satisfied.

The entire apartment adopted a red brick structure, the lighting was also good, the spacing between the nearby buildings was relatively large, there were two windows, the ventilation conditions were also very good, and it was not close to the main street, so it was relatively quiet.

Except for the lack of a bed and other extra furniture, there were some stains on the walls of the room, but it was not a big problem. You can buy some lime powder to brush it up at that time. The cement floor was quite flat and would not be bumpy. It was a pity that there were no tiles.

In addition to some garbage left by the previous tenant, the overall was quite satisfactory. Kate said that he could immediately ask the cleaning staff to clean it up and disinfect it.

Saint-Helese nodded immediately and went to see other apartments. He simply bargained with Kate, picking out some minor problems, such as the toilet in the bathroom being old, the bedroom door lock being broken, and the walls being relatively dilapidated.

Finally, they reached an agreement of 2,500 pesos per month for rent, and the rent was paid on the 1st of each month, only supporting cash. This was more troublesome. Basically, cash was used more often now, and card swiping was rare. It was also a bit troublesome to withdraw cash from the bank. He missed the smart phones of later generations.

Saint-Helese was even considering whether to withdraw more money at once, but the bank told him that he could not withdraw too much at one time, and after Saint-Helese took out the lease contract, he obediently shut up.

Renting a house was not within the limit of cash withdrawal.

After signing the contract, it was time to move. He found a carriage. There were not many daily necessities, and they were all given to Aragon. He had to buy a new set of kitchen utensils, tables, and chairs.

He purchased new daily necessities. Except for books and newspapers, everything else was basically thrown away.

Kate moved quickly and cleaned the room and disinfected it. Saint-Helese found a handyman to whitewash the room with lime, for safety.

He repaired the door and the bed, and told the postman to transfer the newspaper delivery location to the downstairs mailbox offline, to prevent him from not having any recreational reading material to read tomorrow morning. Yes, now Saint-Helese's most important pastime every day is reading the newspaper.

It took another day to call Aragon to help move in. He rented a pickup truck, threw it on the car, and bought new furniture and appliances.

He was busy all day, throwing away a lot of things. The big wooden bed in the bedroom was not thrown away, because it looked very strong and was made of solid wood. He spread new sheets and quilts, and bought a lace mosquito net from Old Chen, and lived in it, damn mosquitoes.

The new environment was really good, the old house was not returned, leaving it there was a thought.

The matter of moving came to an end, and Saint-Helese went to bed early at ten o'clock, and went to report to the General Staff Department of the headquarters the next day.

Today, he still set the alarm clock for six o'clock, got up to wash, heated breakfast, the newspaper had not been delivered yet, I don't know if the postman got it mixed up, so I read university books.

He arrived at the headquarters gate on time at seven thirty. When he first went to work, he had to leave early and take out his letter of appointment to report.

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