Rise of the Argentine Empire

"We can unite and build Blanca City into a large port with a throughput exceeding 10 million… no… 20 million tons."

Saint-Helms suddenly thought that the throughput of La Plata City this year is likely to be 10 million tons, and the coal and iron ore needed by the steel plant alone are astronomical figures.

To cope with the new challenges, the Blanca City Police Department established a Coast Guard Brigade to patrol Blanca Bay jointly with the Belgrano Military Port. The first Blanca City Coast Guard Fishery Administration ship, the 2,200-ton 'La Pampa,' was also officially commissioned and equipped with one naval gun and two machine guns developed by Rhein Military Industries.

On October 2nd, Blanca City Mayor Saint-Helms Cohen, Santa Rosa City Mayor Dario Damian of La Pampa Province, Viedma City Mayor Pablo Landro of Río Negro Province, and General Talim Dumont, head of the Belgrano Military Port, jointly attended the ocean conference.

The four representatives conducted a series of discussions on behalf of their respective forces. This meeting mainly involved new cooperation in coastal defense and trade exports, representing a completely upgraded version of cooperation.

Led by Blanca City, more in-depth cooperation was carried out. In the next 5 years, Blanca City will invest in the construction of reservoirs, hydroelectric power stations, artificial canals, dredging rivers, and jointly invest in the construction of highways and other projects, implementing sea-land intermodal transport.

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Meanwhile, in the Argentine National Congress Senate, they were bickering and discussing the cross-provincial division proposal, turning it into a complete mess.

Argentina implements a federal system, and each province has a considerable degree of autonomy.

New President Eduardo put the increasingly intense division issue before the Senate for discussion.

5. To propose to the government the impeachment of judges, government ministers, senior military generals, and other heads of administrative departments.

In this light, this meeting should not have been put to Congress for discussion, after all, the current power of Congress has been greatly reduced, and it does not have the power to decide on the division of provinces.

However, Eduardo is not a qualified or high-powered president. The new cabinet and the new president did not want to take the blame, so they simply threw it to Congress for a resolution.

"We cannot accept such division conditions,"

said Senator Stark Owen of Buenos Aires.

"Our La Pampa Province needs a new sea outlet. You are oppressing us, and this is in line with the development interests of the Argentine people. Is there anything wrong with that? Moreover, autonomous cities also have freedom, right? Is it possible to always be in Buenos Aires Province? I think it is necessary to ask the people of Blanca City for their opinions."

"Blanca City is just a city under our province… What qualifications do they have to violate the provincial constitution?"

"It's just a normal administrative division adjustment, and can you Justicialist Party members represent the interests of the people of Buenos Aires Province? Moreover, the division of districts seems to be based on the Argentine Constitution, right?…"

Before the senator from La Pampa Province could finish speaking, the senator from Buenos Aires Province jumped up and cursed.

"To hell with your interests! This is an inseparable part of our Buenos Aires Province, a legitimate right that has existed since the founding of Argentina. This is an unchangeable history."

At this time, a senator from Córdoba Province stood up and furiously confronted the senator from Buenos Aires Province:

"Then, in 1820, when the province of La Rioja was also divided from Córdoba Province, it was also your Buenos Aires Province that voted in favor, right? Also in 1821, Tucumán Province was also separated from Catamarca Province, I remember it was also your province that took the lead. In 1834, Jujuy Province was separated from Salta Province, you also had a hand in it. In 1884, the Patagonia Territory was divided into five, wasn't that your intention? So today, if we split Buenos Aires Province, you people of Buenos Aires Province have no right to object, right?!…"

The senator from Córdoba Province was reasonable and convincing.

In the beginning, there were many large provinces in Argentina, but later they were slowly split into a bunch of small and weak provinces, and the biggest mastermind was Buenos Aires Province.

This led to the increasing strength of Buenos Aires Province and the decline of local strength, completing the suppression.

In Argentina, only the senator from Córdoba Province dares to point his finger at the senator from Buenos Aires Province and scold him.

La Pampa Province, on the other hand, did not dare to say too much, after all, it was a very offensive thing.

The Senate was arguing almost like a vegetable market.

"Alright, I think everyone's statements are very reasonable. Today is not for arguing, but for reasonably taking care of the legitimate rights and interests of Blanca City, La Pampa Province, and Río Negro Province. The proposal was put forward by a Radical Civic Union Party senator. I suggest we follow the presentation procedure. After the presentation, there will be 10 minutes for everyone to raise their hands and vote to resolve it."

Vice President José, who is also the President of the Senate, finally made a statement.

But everyone clearly heard that he was biased towards splitting Buenos Aires Province, but the reason was not very clear.

Maybe it's because of everyone.

In the end, no one could convince anyone.

José could only announce that a vote would be held.

So 72 senators and 1 vice president raised their hands to vote.

37 senators agreed to the division and allowing La Pampa Province to have a sea outlet, and 35 senators disagreed with the division of Buenos Aires Province.

In the end, the ball was kicked back to the Vice President's side, and José announced the end of the meeting.

This hand-raising vote proposal was also submitted to the Casa Rosada.

Eduardo's astonishing decision made Eduardo's reputation for being weak and incompetent seem less serious.

At least, this is very Córdoba.

However, in this way, Eduardo also offended many people.

On the day the new resolution was announced, 100,000 people in Buenos Aires City launched a protest against the division.

Then, newspapers revealed that the proposal was put forward by the mayor of Blanca City.

Saint-Helms's reputation also stank.

"Traitor, lackey…" and a series of other nicknames were automatically added to Saint-Helms's head.

Some people suggested that the University of Buenos Aires revoke Saint-Helms's diploma.

Some people even tried to assassinate Saint-Helms, but fortunately, the Blanca City Police Department was not to be trifled with.

In less than 10 days, the Blanca City prison added more than 20 free laborers.

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Returning to the Blanca City side,

In order to cope with the challenges of Blanca City's population growth and to develop more employment opportunities, in addition to the previous support for the textile industry, Saint-Helms also made new arrangements for the food industry.

The food industry ushered in a spring of development in Blanca City. Blanca City introduced a food industry support policy to encourage food factories to develop their own brands.

Pulari Foods is the leader in this regard. In order to better promote the development of Pulari Foods and concentrate its efforts, Pulari Foods was also split into two new companies.

One is Pulari Foods Company, headquartered in San Martín City, focusing on the export of food products, mainly targeting and deeply cultivating the domestic and South American markets, and the Nanyang market. It inherits and obtains a batch of factories such as flour mills, oil extraction plants, biscuit factories, canneries, meat joint slaughtering and processing plants, ham factories, noodle factories, and luncheon meat factories, expanding more categories, and developing upstream, building its own pig breeding bases, cattle breeding bases, and poultry bases.

The other is Minian Da United Food and Beverage Company, which has a new headquarters in Blanca City, focusing on the development and development of various beverages, and targeting the global market and localization. It inherits and obtains a batch of beverage and alcohol factories such as Minian Da Soda Factory, Videma Brewery, Coffee Beverage Factory, Mate Tea Factory, Wine Factory, Zhuyecun Distillery, and Milk Factory, developing various beverage brands.

For example, Minian Da soda has entered the Brazilian market and has already entered the top three in the Brazilian market. It can produce sodas of various colors and tastes from black to white, and the price is quite cheap. Even Coca-Cola has been beaten back, and Minian Da also exports to the United States through its Brazilian subsidiary. It can also sell 2 million US dollars of soda and coffee a year, and advertise in many media in the United States. People who don't know think that Minian Da soda is an American brand.

There are also special Brazilian brands for wine, spirits, coffee products, and flavored beer to adapt to the Brazilian market. This year, more than 10 million US dollars of various beverages were sold in Brazil.

The annual sales of the two major food and beverage companies before the split have exceeded 66 million US dollars, and the export volume has reached 45 million US dollars. After the split, the sales of Pulari and Minian Da are 37 million US dollars and 29 million US dollars respectively.

Before the split, Pulari Foods had nearly 14,000 employees in more than a dozen factories, making it one of the companies with the most employees in Argentina, second only to Argentine National Railways, Argentine National Petroleum Company YPF Petroleum Administration, La Plata Steel Company, and Blue Cloud Textile Group. These large groups exceeded several meat slaughtering and refrigeration consortia, and also exceeded Argentina's five major military-industrial joint groups.

This also makes Pulari Foods the largest food processing group in Argentina this year, and it has to be split up and reorganized.

The number of employees of Pulari Foods in Blanca City has also grown from 200 to 4,000, making it the company with the most employees in Blanca City.

Even Blue Cloud Textile is a little bit behind. Blue Cloud Textile has only 3,000 employees, which is already very amazing, but Blue Cloud Textile has many outsourcing processing plants, so its sales volume is higher than that of Pulari Foods.