Rise of the Argentine Empire

From the 22nd to the 26th, the main roads from the eastern district of Blanca City to the port industrial zone were closed to car horns, road construction was halted, and within a 10-kilometer radius around the two universities, it was as if a mute button had been pressed.

This area housed the examination halls for the two universities, with the campus gates tightly shut and patrolled by police and volunteer militias.

Saint-Jacques stood on the roof of the municipal building, looking at the somewhat silent city, with only the sounds of birds and the wind in his ears; the weather was fine today.

Four years ago, he was preparing for the entrance exam at the University of Buenos Aires, and the problems he practiced seemed to be still before his eyes.

This year, he was providing security for the students of the National University of the South and the Blanca Higher Technical School.

He drew 300 police officers from the police department, along with 1200 auxiliary militia members, to maintain order and ensure the smooth progress of the entrance exams.

These 1200 auxiliary militia members came from all walks of life, mainly from several nearby factories, with daily financial subsidies provided by the municipal finance department, and equipped with riot control weapons such as batons and riot forks, but no firearms.

The 300 police officers were all armed police, equipped with two-piece suits, MP40 submachine guns, and P40C pistols, attracting envious and respectful gazes from the citizens of Blanca City.

The Blanca City Auxiliary Militia is a non-military organization established in May, under the jurisdiction of the Blanca City Police Department, somewhat similar to the Maria Militia, one of the predecessors of the San Martin City Police Department, but with many differences.

Every adult male citizen of Blanca City over the age of 16 can register to participate in the militia, using weekend time to attend basic military training at the Blanca City Delta Security School.

They can practice live-fire shooting at the range for free, improve their physique, and make friends, which is very popular among young people in Blanca City.

They also offer military对抗赛 and a series of other activities, and at least half of the eligible young people in Blanca City have participated, making it the second most popular place to go after soccer games.

Of course, if given a choice between watching a soccer game and live-fire shooting, most young people in Blanca City would choose to watch the soccer game.

Moreover, having more than 5 children can also get commercial tax reductions in Blanca City, even 1% is a huge benefit.

What, you say tax evasion? Sorry, if you are a large factory, unless you move out of Blanca City, you must pay taxes, small factories will be given a blind eye, as long as they don't pay nothing at all, then there is no problem.

Of course, the tax rate here in Blanca City is actually very low, and you can also get tax refunds and financial subsidies.

Moreover, Blanca City also has a new police classification called tax police, which is the invention of the new mayor. If you want to develop well, you should pay your taxes properly. As long as it is legal tax avoidance, no one will care about you.

At the same time, in order to prevent gun crime, gun licenses within the scope of Blanca City have been suspended, and only a few security schools can provide guns for training.

If armed individuals are found on the streets of the city, Blanca City Police Department personnel are authorized to shoot them directly, even if they have a gun license, it will be defined as a violation of the city's public order laws, and the security of Blanca City has obviously improved.

According to Mayor Saint-Jacques, "This is a lesson learned in blood," a tribute to the 17 citizens and civil servants who died in the "1·25 bombing", and a fulfillment of the wishes of "the great Mayor Otto."

And this kind of gun ban is also slowly spreading to the surrounding suburbs.

For Saint-Jacques, this is the most effective way to maintain public order management; otherwise, in a city of more than 300,000 people, how much danger would the police need to face every day, not to mention that people are entering Blanca City every day now.

Such a huge population management is still quite difficult for Saint-Jacques.

He does not want Blanca City to become like Buenos Aires, a place to hide dirt and filth.

Therefore, a strong police department is very important. Saint-Jacques also creatively created an identity certification system. As long as you enter the scope of Blanca City, you need to register with the police department. Even if you are a foreign illegal worker or even an undocumented immigrant, you can get a free identity and residence information certificate, which registers the Blanca City identity card and can get help from Blanca City.

As for the problem of forgery, Saint-Jacques does not care, as long as they don't commit crimes.

The identity documents are all in triplicate, and they can be quickly retrieved in case of an accident. Of course, this workload is indeed very large.

Now is not the era of the Internet Skynet, there are no fingerprints or iris recognition, forging identity is too normal. Now he is using such identity certificates to quickly conduct a census. Each police department has an archive, and the original backup archives are located in the newly built underground vault in Blanca City.

Speaking of tax police, in Saint-Jacques' view, tax collection is a major event.

Most people and factories in Argentina do not pay taxes.

In order for the future of Blanca City to develop in a healthy manner, he has to take measures and means to allow Blanca City to receive more taxes.

Therefore, he specially set up a tax police force outside the Blanca City Tax Bureau, which is also under the management of the police department, to cooperate with tax payment, especially the tax payment problems of large families and large factories.

The tax rate in Blanca City is actually very low, but there are often problems with not being able to collect taxes, so in addition to the public opinion problems, he requires every factory to pay taxes, led by a group of factories under his command, so that the municipal government can operate better.

Saint-Jacques formulated Argentina's most advanced tax management bill, and such a system will also be promoted to the entire La Pampa province.

… …

As the final bell rang at 5 pm on the 26th, the 4-day exam also ended.

Most of the candidates were somewhat lost.

Blanca City returned to its noisy state.

Saint-Jacques did not idle, and began to let the teachers of the 7 schools start organizing the grading work.

Philipp, who is far away in Germany, seems to have acquired a large parts factory, called the German Alliance Automotive Company, and is going to acquire it wholly.

The production line debugging of the Rheinmetall Automobile Factory has entered the final stage, and the first batch can be put into production as early as the end of April next year.

The fertilizer plant of Maya Chemical has been debugged, and urea and synthetic ammonia will also be put into production at the end of February. This time, imported equipment is still used, and localization is still far away.

However, it can also alleviate the agricultural fertilizer demand in most of southern Argentina.

It just didn't catch up with this year's spring plowing.

At present, there are only two large-scale fertilizer plants in Argentina, one is the Maya Fertilizer Plant in San Martin, and the second is the Maya Fertilizer Plant in Blanca City, which can probably meet the fertilizer needs of one-twentieth of Argentina's land.

Due to raw materials and equipment problems, it is temporarily impossible to achieve the localization of synthetic ammonia equipment, and some technologies have been accumulated.

Now we have to wait for the technological breakthrough of Philipp Industries and the material breakthrough of the special steel plant.

Only importing equipment is still too expensive, and currently we can only consider the approach of Argentina's Redwood Fertilizer Plant.

Build ordinary fertilizer plants to produce agricultural organic fertilizer.

Moreover, the overall power plant construction in La Pampa province is also very important, and the fertilizer and chemical industries are both energy-intensive industries.

… …

At this time, Buenos Aires, the capital, is staging a new round of coups.

President Eduardo has joined forces with Vice President José to carry out the final decisive battle against the Cordoba military hawks.

I don't know who will win the final victory.

President Eduardo has implemented several good new policies, such as suspending the printing of banknotes, taking a tough stance against the Peronist Party, and reforming customs taxes, which has made his seat much more stable, and the Radical Civic Union is also willing to have a moderate military figure as president.

However, in the eyes of the Cordoba military, Eduardo's unwillingness to abolish the constitutional amendment and his unwillingness to completely ban the Peronist Party are signs of weakness and incompetence.

So now it is completely different from history, and the public opinion of the church is not as strong as in history, which has caused the hawks to lose some of their strength.

As it stands, the two sides are in a stalemate.

Saint-Jacques would prefer the moderate Eduardo to continue as president.

And it is necessary to stabilize the new territory of La Pampa province.

So he contacted General Thompson and slightly expressed his views, but General Thompson was also quite hesitant.

"Cordoba promised to let me serve as vice president, replacing José's position, instead of the current Minister of Defense."

General Thompson said to Saint-Jacques, in fact, he was very tempted, after all, that is the vice president, second only to one person, above ten thousand people.

Few people can refuse such a temptation.

"If a head of state does not have enough ability to do such a thing, it may cause a disaster for the entire country, and the consequences of a military government can be said to be very serious, and may lead to a disaster for the Argentine people. If you, General, can guarantee that the new president can stabilize the situation and guarantee the peaceful life of most people, I will fully support you. If you cannot make changes to the situation, then being vice president is actually not very necessary."

Saint-Jacques euphemistically persuaded.

He believes that General Thompson does not have the ability to rule the country at all. He is better at military affairs.

And he is an important weight on the current national balance, and both sides are trying to win him over.

… "I will consider it again."

"Okay, General."