Rise of the Argentine Empire

An election is an all-out war.

To gain nationwide appeal, Macri adopted an alliance strategy. Before the election, he formed the center-right political alliance "We Change" with the centrist Radical Civic Union, the left-wing "Citizen's Union," and several smaller parties.

The Radical Party, as a long-standing national party, still has a certain voter base in various provinces, despite its poor historical performance.

However, the problem is that the Justicialist Party has a stronger influence in the old La Pampa province. Although Saint-Hesse led the Radical Party to expand its influence in the coastal area and the city of Santa Rosa, this is not something that can be resolved in a short period.

Through newspapers, radio, and other means, but not too obviously.

This election is a good opportunity.

The La Pampa Provincial Council is currently the overt political opponent.

It is also the only force that can contend with the provincial government.

Because they have two senators in the Argentine National Congress.

The number of senators in Argentina is not large; currently, each province only has two.

La Pampa province will gain some advantages when the House of Representatives is re-elected.

It's just that the power of the representatives is relatively small.

The expanded La Pampa Provincial Council can already be considered Saint-Hesse's territory, and Saint-Hesse also has considerable influence in the Senate.

Saint-Hesse hopes to launch a real nationwide election.

Spending a lot of money.

Professionals estimate that as long as the vote share exceeds 45% in the general election, it is very likely to be elected as the next senior official.

And Saint-Hesse currently has the highest support rate in the polls.

The combined support rate of the other five candidates is not as high as Saint-Hesse's.

However, in order to cope with the difficulties, the Justicialist Party and the Republican Party have instead united, and they have launched a civilian political servant - Nania Dietrich, who is Saint-Hesse's biggest competitor.

Her support rate is also rising steadily.

Saint-Hesse's biggest weakness is still his age.

Nania is in her forties and has served as an Argentine senator for a long time, while also having extensive experience in the municipal and provincial governments.

They attack Saint-Hesse with a very interesting point, which is the pork issue.

Inexpensive, high-quality Argentine Large White pigs from farms are accepted by many people at the bottom.

But Argentina is, after all, an immigrant country, with more than 85% of its residents being descendants of Italians and Spaniards, so the food culture also incorporates European and Western cuisine. Meat is mainly beef and chicken, and pork is rarely eaten.

And Saint-Hesse challenged the tradition and made the pig farming industry a great success.

These beef and mutton trusts have a wide range of influence in Argentina.

The cost of raising pigs is low, they mature quickly, and the scale of breeding expands rapidly. It has already spread to several nearby cities, which has had a huge impact on local beef and mutton sales.

Of course, these are just some of the reasons.

There are still many people who oppose Saint-Hesse.

Saint-Hesse doesn't want to capsize.

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Foreign trade occupies an important position in the national economy of Blanca City.

In the past two years, the Blanca City government led by Saint-Hesse has vigorously promoted exports and actively promoted the diversification of product export structure and export markets.

But the foundation and the long-term development direction have not changed, that is, to develop heavy industry and invest in heavy industry. This is the foundation of the country, especially the development of the originally weak heavy chemical industry.

The importance of the heavy chemical industry can be as important as the steel and machinery industries, and sometimes even more important, such as the production of chemical fertilizers, which plays a role in increasing grain production.

People outside Blanca City are still pouring into this new industrial city. Several large-scale industrial projects have been completed, once again demanding workers, especially oil workers and chemical talents.

As the chemical industry district of Blanca City, the headquarters of Southern Petroleum is also located here. Argentina's largest petrochemical industrial zone has quietly risen.

Different from the Alta district, which focuses on the development of steel and machinery industries, the Bosca district focuses on the development of heavy chemical industries.

The Alta district is now frantically building steel blast furnaces. The 500-cubic-meter blast furnace has the best market benefits, with low investment, fast construction speed, and mature technology. Even Hans Steel Plant has invested heavily in construction.

The construction department of La Plata Steel Plant built 12 500-cubic-meter blast furnaces for Blanca Steel Plant in one go. Approximately 4 million tons of annual production capacity stimulated Hans Steel Plant to also place orders to build more iron-smelting blast furnaces.

The construction of these steel blast furnace converters has also greatly stimulated the development of other industries in Blanca City, such as the machinery manufacturing industry and the construction industry.

As a non-resource-based heavy industrial city, the progress of Blanca City's industrial structure depends on the establishment and development of resources from other provinces and other countries.

This time, Southern Petroleum's recruitment of 10,000 technical workers across Argentina once again made Blanca City famous.

The commissioning of Southern Petroleum will undoubtedly bring the economic strength and industrial level of the Bosca district to a higher level.

The heavy chemical industry is one of the cores of developing heavy industry. In addition to Southern Petroleum and Maya Chemical, two large chemical plants, there are already a number of local small and medium-sized chemical plants.

San Jose also arranged for the establishment of three large-scale chemical industrial parks, utilizing bank platforms and investing a large amount of capital. He introduced nearly ten or more chemical plants, mainly from German and Italian companies, such as BASF and other giants. He also supported a group of local small chemical plants, and many chemical plants that had previously developed in the Alta district also relocated to the Bosca district.

In addition to petrochemicals, there were also coal chemical, natural gas chemical plants, synthetic ammonia plants, and fertilizer plants.

With the support of ample low-interest loans, new chemical plants were continuously built, and these small chemical plants also strengthened the power of Blanca City.

In addition to low-interest loans, the city hall also provided tax exemptions, financial subsidies, factory building subsidies, employment subsidies, and a large number of other preferential policies to chemical enterprises, attracting many new start-up factories.

If these factories could be fully put into production, the annual output value of these chemical plants would exceed 300 million US dollars, directly making it Argentina's most powerful chemical base.

Southern Petroleum and Maya Chemical are among the giants.

Although the output value of 300 million US dollars is still very small compared to the scale of tens of billions of US dollars in other industrialized countries, it is the seed of Argentina's industrialization.

The new presidential palace has already begun to consciously develop heavy industry, but it is mainly concentrated in steel and automobiles, and basic chemical plants represented by "three acids and one alkali" are extremely rare.

The coal chemical industry in Blanca City is developing very rapidly. Low-quality coal from the south can be purified and sent here for chemical synthesis again.

Although Argentina lacks coal resources, there are still many reserves of low-quality coal, especially in the Patagonia plateau region. In addition, high-quality coal mined from Australia and South Africa is already sufficient to meet the needs, at least more than half cheaper than old British imported coal.

San Jose also officially spun off a portion of resources from the professional power generation Southern Energy Company and independently established Argentina Southern Coal Chemical Company, while also merging with Thunder Mining Patagonia Coal Mining Company to create a complete industry chain.

Developing coal chemicals is also an important direction.

In Argentina, coal mining is not a good business, and no large high-calorific value coal mines have been discovered.

Argentina has abundant mineral resources, good mineralization conditions, and many undeveloped minerals, making it a country with great potential for mineral resource development.

Even in the twenty-first century, Argentina still has a large number of unexplored mineral resources.

The biggest cash cow of the San Jose Group is Thunder Mining, and its domestic profitability is also very considerable.

Thunder Mining is now focused on mining copper, gold, iron, and other non-ferrous metals, as well as the secret mining of uranium mines.

The development of heavy chemical industry is extremely important to a country.

Buenos Aires has begun to slowly recover and rebuild, and has also introduced a large number of foreign industrial projects, attracting American investors.

Blanca City has also become a key city for the US Central Intelligence Agency.

Making the situation somewhat complicated.

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In the past two years, Blanca City has undergone tremendous changes almost every day. The city has been constantly renovated and expanded outward, and there are construction sites everywhere.

People have become accustomed to the city's constantly rising buildings with clanging sounds every day.

San Jose has also formulated construction industry standards, representing the interests of nearly 70,000 construction workers.

Where there are people, there is entertainment.

Not to mention a city of 1.5 million people.

Too many unknown dark sides are already hidden, and San Jose cannot fully control it.

In the eastern new city of Alta District, there is such an area, which is called "White Light Avenue" or "Whitelight Avenue" by the people of Blanca City, because it is brightly lit all night, like daytime. This is a real city that never sleeps, a gold-selling cave of extravagance and debauchery.

This place is not too far from the East District, and has a large area, close to the University City. White Light Avenue is 3 kilometers long, and is lined with countless bars, opera houses, night snack stalls, and cinemas. It has gradually replaced the entertainment street in the East District and become the most prosperous night avenue in Blanca City.

At two or three o'clock in the morning, it is still brightly lit here.

A young man in his thirties named Echo Colson, this unremarkable guy is actually the behind-the-scenes boss of the largest bar and dance hall on White Light Avenue, with complicated relationships, known as being well-connected, and there are also people inside the city hall covering him.

Moreover, he is also the head of the largest underground criminal gang in the Alta District.

The most troublesome thing is that he has recently hooked up with the Central Intelligence Agency.

This is what San Jose cannot tolerate.

Today, San Jose is going to take him as the first knife.

Originally, he could turn a blind eye for the sake of urban development, but with the excavation of Aragon and the information analysis of the Falcon Bureau, there are a large number of problems and countless evils here.

These people have become unscrupulous with the start of the election, which is a good time to severely deter a group of people.

When San Jose saw that these people had tried to reach into the University City, he didn't want to give them a chance anymore.

Every newly established university in Blanca City has poured countless efforts into him. These universities are a real talent treasure house that can support the future industrial leap of Blanca City.

Moreover, the forces here are intricate and complicated, and there are vaguely some political enemies who have a lot of interests here. Now is the time to clean these people up again.

Just like the room should be cleaned frequently, and the leeks should be harvested frequently.

These rats and cockroaches should also be eliminated regularly.

Moreover, there are also big rats inside the city hall who are informing them, and the strength of the police department is not enough. (To be continued)