Rise of the Argentine Empire

La Pampa Province is a new province with uneven development within its borders. Blanca City must align its pace with La Pampa Province to create a virtuous cycle and seamlessly integrate.

Currently, the provincial government provides significant support to Blanca City, and the connection between the province and the city is quite close, with very smooth communication. This is built upon the strength of San Jose and the large size of Blanca City, presenting a top-heavy trend that is somewhat unhealthy.

After all, the distance is still a bit far. Currently, it's almost 20 kilometers from the west district of the City Hall to the provincial government hall in the Achiriqi district, which is not conducive to rapid communication and talent exchange.

From a political perspective, Blanca City now has a complete and powerful City Hall that can quickly implement various excellent policies.

In terms of population, it has rapidly increased seven or eightfold in a short period, vaguely becoming the second-largest city in Argentina, and it is still growing rapidly, forming a considerable consumer market. It is expected to exceed 1 million soon. In the 1950s, this was already a very astonishing number, with over 100,000 foreign immigrants alone. Currently, more than 50,000 people migrate to Blanca City every month.

From an environmental and climatic perspective, it also belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, with a certain continental environment, making it a relatively livable place.

Economically, this is the fastest-growing region in Argentina. Blanca City's manufacturing industry has started, from OEM factories to international trade, with a large number of labor-intensive industries and heavy industries. Blanca City's living and production materials have also rapidly become abundant, and the price level is already the lowest in Argentina, with a good competitive environment and a large number of exported industrial products.

It's just that with a hundred people, there are all kinds of personalities. If there are a million, then various interest relationships are even more vaguely visible, and new interest groups are constantly emerging.

Especially when the city's economic activity is high, it is even more different. This is a good thing, but there are also some problems. San Jose, as the largest power center in Blanca City, strives to guide the healthy development of the entire city, making industrial layouts, rather than letting Blanca City rely on its old capital and eventually become mediocre.

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San Jose had many thoughts in his mind, and a large group of forces behind Blanca City emerged in his mind. These people not only included those who had recently risen but also many from neighboring provinces, as well as the layout of foreign giants.

Blanca City's development speed is brilliant and unparalleled, already comparable to the development speed of cities like Hong Kong and Tokyo in Asia after World War II. Even Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in South America have not developed as fast as Blanca City.

Moreover, the trade throughput has undergone explosive growth in the past two years, making Blanca City occupy an important position in Latin America. In addition, the development of industries such as automobiles and petrochemicals has also attracted many companies to invest here.

San Jose tries to maintain a fair competitive environment in the market, and no one has special privileges. This is also the reason why many foreign investments can be attracted. After Argentina opened up foreign investment, Blanca City attracted more than 10 million US dollars of foreign investment in one year, which almost accounted for 1/5 of the entire Argentina's foreign investment.

Urbanization has accelerated the development of Blanca City, so the relocation of the City Hall has also become urgent. San Jose wants to build a super city area with an area of more than 500 square kilometers and a population of 3 million, so it must be relocated.

San Jose began to slowly publicize the relocation, and only when those people jumped out could he clean them up together.

The Falcon Bureau in his hands became more secretive and carried out strategic contraction, deeply integrating with the staff team, making a large number of analyses every day, and then responding to everything. Otherwise, he would not have such a strong computing power to deal with various problems in the entire city in detail.

Among these thirteen wealthy families, some have moved from Santa Rosa City, some have developed rapidly, and some are large manor families originally around Blanca City. At least they have accumulated tens of millions of US dollars in wealth, which is already comparable to the family forces in Cordoba at the beginning. There are also some political families with not much wealth, but they have cultivated many politicians, and the accumulation of wealth is also quite astonishing. Although they are far from being comparable to the large families in Buenos Aires, they are also a component of Blanca City's economic composition.

The richest is the Martinez family, which was originally the richest of the four major families. When the Gayin family was destroyed by San Jose, they completely became honest. Through Martinez Trading, the largest trading company in the south, they accumulated hundreds of years of wealth, used their own huge farms, and invested in the construction of 4 large industrial zones with huge areas.

Martinez also invested heavily in real estate, construction, textiles, food, parts processing, and other industries, and once again accumulated a lot of wealth, vaguely becoming the number one wealthy family in Blanca City. It is said that they already have at least 18 million US dollars in wealth, which is also in the top 20 level in Buenos Aires, and is quite friendly to San Jose.

And most of the emerging wealthy families are not included in the statistics, and some Chinese families are also quite low-key, just like San Martin City. Looking at it this way, you can also see how amazing the speed of wealth accumulation in Blanca City has been in the past two years.

Like the Hans family behind the Hans Steel Plant, with assets exceeding 10 million US dollars, they have also completely moved to the west district of Blanca City and become the new wealthy in Blanca City. They are also San Jose's staunch supporters. San Jose has also changed the original plan to merge the La Plata Steel Plant with the Hans Steel Plant. Instead, he is selling shares little by little, and the special steel plant is investing in the construction of the steel plant itself.

In addition to his optimism about Hans's management level, the development of Hans Steel Plant is also very healthy. Compared to one or two million tons of steel blast furnaces, talents are more valuable. With a certain competitive pressure, Blanca City's steel plant can develop better.

Others, like the three major companies controlled by the Garcia family, have assets exceeding 4 million US dollars, namely Garcia Daily Chemicals, Garcia Textiles, and Garcia Shoes. Garcia Semi also developed when San Jose was engaged in the coastal industrial zone. Currently, it is already among the top 20 wealthy families in Blanca City, and may even be ranked in the top 15.

In addition to some gossip news about the new wealthy, San Jose has always attached great importance to population increase. As long as babies are born in regular hospitals, they can obtain citizenship at light speed. The birth rate of Blanca City has also slowly decreased from the original high of 13-15% to about 8-9% this year, which is still a very amazing number.

This is also good, releasing a sufficient number of female jobs. Another reason is that several nearby towns used to come over to give birth, but they were not considered citizens of Blanca City. When Blanca City only had 200,000 to 300,000 people, there were still quite a few newborn babies in the statistics at this time, which also created that terrifying birth rate of 13%-15%.

With the increase in population, the original data above 10% has slowly decreased. Among 1,000 women of childbearing age, at most 80-90 people give birth, and cities near Blanca City also have the same population policy, and the pressure of survival in Blanca City has also increased a lot, so these uncounted data no longer exist.

In addition, the increase in education level and years of education is also a reason. Originally, there were still many 14-15-year-olds who gave birth to children, but now there are fewer, and basically all are over 16.

La Pampa Province and Rio Negro Province have become the two provinces with the highest birth rates in Argentina, both exceeding 8%.

Large areas of reclaimed fertile land, in addition to being granted to agricultural reclamation companies, are also owned by agricultural cooperatives. These agricultural cooperatives are new villages.

The newly reclaimed land has increased the grain output of the two provinces by more than 5 times compared to 1950. These wheat and rice are enough to feed tens of millions of people. In addition to being purchased in large quantities by Blanca City Grain Reserve Company and several food companies, the grain is also used for export.

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This time, there were not too many people causing trouble during the relocation of the City Hall. Basically, those with a bit of insight would not try to oppose San Jose.

San Jose also calmly responded. As long as the ideology within the City Hall is unified, the other families and wealthy families can be cleaned up slowly.

The original accumulation is bloody, and don't expect these wealthy families to be good people. San Jose just doesn't want to manage too much, but these records are all recorded in the Falcon Bureau's database.

There are those who bully men and women, and even kill people, but they are just hidden. It is also a bit difficult for the police department to investigate.

After all, the city's scale has expanded too quickly, and it is impossible to take care of everything.

After meeting the new Police Chief Barton, San Jose put forward his requirements. Barton Heiston was newly appointed by San Jose and is considered his third since becoming mayor.

Increase the intensity of crime investigation, no matter which family, there are no special privileges. Those who should be arrested should be arrested, and those who should be sentenced should be handed over to the Blanca City Court.

He said slowly, without saying anything else, just making some routine deployments.

Yes, Mr. Mayor.

After leaving the mayor's office, Barton breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't dare to take a breath in the office just now.

Someone is going to be unlucky.

I am still too kind after all.

San Jose looked at the intelligence page by page and gently exhaled.