Rise of the Argentine Empire

In the process of rapid economic development in the city of Blanca, huge economic benefits are inevitably accompanied by a large number of crimes and pollution problems. Saint Hesser can only try his best to avoid pollution problems and arrange factories in the suburbs, away from water sources, while various crime problems are dealt with regularly.

He doesn't know if industrialization in La Pampa Province will be successful, but he has indeed invested money to continue doing it.

Regarding the planning of the future development of cities in La Pampa Province, the focus will be on building five major cities in the future, namely the four coastal cities headed by Blanca and the old provincial capital, Santa Rosa.

These cities all have good development conditions and natural conditions, and have great development potential.

Except for some initial unsuitability, Saint Hesser now manages La Pampa Province as easily as he manages Blanca.

In addition to the five major cities, other cities in La Pampa Province have also been included in the development plan, but the primary focus is on developing the primary industry, that is, agriculture and animal husbandry.

The other cities after the merger seem to be huge in scale and area, but their development potential is basically still very poor.

Although the area of these cities has expanded and the population has indeed increased, it can only be said that the land is still sparsely populated, which also helps the development of agriculture and animal husbandry. The only problem that needs to be solved may be the land problem. However, many agricultural and pastoral areas in La Pampa Province have gone bankrupt, and land is concentrated in a few companies or families, while those who opposed Saint Hesser have been killed, and now Future Agriculture has acquired a lot of land.

Saint Hesser doesn't engage in land distribution or anything like that, but establishes specialized farm planting companies and turns farmers and herdsmen into farm workers, which is the best way he can think of.

The blood-making ability of these small cities before the merger is extremely poor, and there are some very serious problems, such as not having their own resources, not having their own industries, and having poor geographical conditions, so it is very difficult to create enough jobs.

But the fundamental problem is still the lack of people. Without enough population, even if 10 cities with thousands of people are merged into 1 city with tens of thousands of people, it is still meaningless. In fact, it is just a slightly larger town.

But Saint Hesser will not easily give up these cities, and the geographical location and natural conditions of La Pampa Province are actually quite good. What if someone really develops them? It's not impossible.

Solving the transportation problems and desperately developing and increasing the population still has a great chance.

This is a contradictory community. The lack of employment cannot retain people, and the lack of people means there is no employment.

Moreover, these places are not coastal cities, so it is difficult to develop a decent secondary and tertiary industry.

The three small coastal cities still have a great chance. If they can develop as rapidly as Blanca, then they will not be too bad.

The essence of economic development is the convergence of people flow, logistics, and capital flow.

Now Blanca has become the economic development center of La Pampa Province. In the future, if several more industrial cities are developed.

Then, at that time, a little bit of financial funds can be flowed out to engage in financial transfers, which can support these remote cities. Moreover, it is not that there is no chance to develop now.

At least there are many more opportunities than before.

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In order to raise enough development funds, the La Pampa Provincial Government began to issue construction bonds. This is the third way for Saint Hesser to rapidly develop La Pampa Province, in addition to increasing fiscal revenue and establishing various banks and urban investment groups.

And it's legal and reasonable.

Issuing bonds is not a novelty in Argentina.

The reason why issuing bonds in La Pampa Province was not feasible in the past was because the local governments were too poor. Bonds that could not be purchased by people were just a pile of waste paper, or toilet paper.

Real foreign investment is actually very limited. Even the banks controlled by the State-owned Assets Committee of the Provincial Government cannot increase their loans to themselves indefinitely. A large increase in loans can easily lead to corruption crises and government trust crises, and this debt cannot be sustained.

In terms of investment, the Cohen Consortium is not purely Saint Hesser's alone. The Cohen Consortium has become a complex community of interests. He can grasp the general direction. He is the helmsman, but he cannot do charity. Guaranteeing basic survival and development is very necessary.

He cannot always use the Cohen Consortium to make free investments in La Pampa Province and Blanca. Sooner or later, the Cohen Consortium will collapse, which will also cause dissatisfaction among many subordinates.

What's more, a truly healthy government should have a reasonable development plan. Saint Hesser has guided the Blanca City Hall onto a suitable development path, and now it is time for them to run on their own.

The investment in a large number of infrastructure construction, highways, railways, and water conservancy facilities is very huge. It is very necessary to use suitable construction bonds.

On July 16, Saint Hesser officially announced the construction of the Colorado-Blanca Bay Canal Hydropower Project, jointly issuing a 5-year, 80 million US dollar construction bond by the La Pampa Provincial Government and the Blanca City Government for the initial construction work.

Using the existing blocked historical river channels and lakes, the water of the Colorado River is introduced into Blanca Bay to provide Blanca with a clean tap water supply system sufficient for 3 million people. At the same time, hydropower facilities are arranged upstream, and the large hydropower station to be built can supply 300,000 people with electricity for one year.

The Cohen Consortium and the private chamber of commerce will subscribe to a portion of these construction bonds, and many will be provided to citizens for subscription. The interest rate is much higher than that of banks, which is a very reasonable financial product.

With the credit endorsement of the two major governments, all of them were successfully subscribed in less than a week, raising a huge amount of construction funds. This attempt was a great success.

Such a fundraising speed is quite rare in Argentina.

It is enough to prove the credibility of the new Provincial Government.

Saint Hesser quickly formed a water conservancy project construction team and a research team to conduct project approval and directly launched the project. He also transferred troops from the La Pampa Defense Army for water conservancy project security work.

Issuing bonds can only be regarded as a small test. The real development still depends on industry, especially the development of heavy industry. The La Pampa Provincial Government used Blanca's resources and funds, as well as financial resources, bank loans, and issuing bonds to establish a new La Pampa Provincial Industrial Investment Company.

Continue to introduce and build more industrial enterprises, build large-scale heavy chemical plants, and organize more science and engineering universities. The first five-year development plan includes important proposals such as the construction of La Pampa University of Industry, La Pampa University of Science and Technology, and the expansion of La Pampa University of Technology.

The meeting report and plan specifically proposed that by the time the 1960s arrive, the steel production target of La Pampa Province will exceed 12 million tons. Currently, the gap is about 5 million tons. It will continue to focus on supporting Blanca Steel United Company and Hans Steel Company, and prepare to establish La Pampa Steel Plant, which will also be built in another location in Blanca.

Other key development plans, including the petrochemical industry, coal industry, automobile industry, machinery manufacturing industry, have been included in the new government proposals, dividing a large number of key supported companies and factories, and providing preferential treatment in terms of taxation, policies, and loans.

The Blanca Customs, which cooperates with the National Customs Administration of Argentina, has also established cooperation with the La Pampa Finance Department and the Taxation Bureau at the request of Saint Hesser to obtain more available financial tax revenue.

The new five-year plan focuses on building and supporting 100 large enterprises, establishing industrial departments such as steel, aircraft, automobiles, tractors, chemicals, heavy machinery, precision instruments, and shipbuilding. Each important department has at least 1-3 large enterprises.

For example, the import of machine tools in Blanca Customs is now tax-free, and even companies are subsidized if they import too much. Of course, it is not done in name. Customs plays the game of import tax rebates.

If many large industrial machine tools cannot be imported, Saint Hesser also has a white glove company specializing in helping these companies "import" industrial equipment and machine tools. He started his career by playing smuggling in those years. Plari International still has a large number of smuggling projects, but they are very "legal" smuggling.

Indiscriminately restricting the import of industrial equipment not only fails to protect the domestic industry, but also harms the development of other industries. With the blessing of Blanca Customs, Saint Hesser can do many things much more conveniently.

Plari International imports a large amount of American equipment from Brazil and transports it to Argentina through various smuggling channels. After being laundered, it becomes Argentine machine tools and is sold to factories in La Pampa Province at low prices.

If you play industrialization in an upright manner, the cost is too high, and the probability of failure is too high.

In order to develop industry, Saint Hesser is now using all means to spend one dollar as three dollars.

Now the investment in basic industries in La Pampa Province, with this economic scale, must at least double the population of La Pampa Province.

Moreover, it still needs young and middle-aged labor force. Saint Hesser can only hope for domestic immigrants and a small number of ordinary foreign immigrants.

As for the issue of population birth rate, it can only be left to time.

Urbanization and industrialization are the best contraceptives.

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Saint Hesser Cohen, the new senior official who has gradually adapted to the rhythm of the Provincial Government, has finally begun to free up his hands to prepare for the professionalization of the army.

The affairs of the La Pampa Provincial Hall, in reality, only required him to grasp the general direction, and naturally his subordinates would execute them, even more easily than when working at the Blanca City Hall.

Saint Hesser no longer had so much time and energy to waste on such trivial matters, and the newly promoted group of people in the Provincial Hall were all a group of capable individuals.

These subordinates were experienced, each capable of handling their own responsibilities, able to communicate well with other departments of the Provincial Hall, with the Presidential Palace and the Congress above, and with the city halls of various places below, basically all young and promising.

No one dared to underestimate him because of his age anymore.

He reformed the Provincial Hall step by step according to his own direction, and established a relatively complete fiscal and taxation system, which could exert influence on the subordinate city halls, with Blanca City Hall being the most important link.

And the construction of La Pampa Province required external resources, with a large amount of capital flowing into the four coastal cities of La Pampa from some important companies of the Cohen Consortium, as well as the American Sequoia Investment Bank.

The Cold War can be said to be the greatest "war" in human history, and various technological inventions emerged one after another. Saint Hesser set his sights on various American technological inventions, as well as the future of California—Silicon Valley.

There is no concept of venture capital now, and many electrical appliances and semiconductor material technologies have only just started, making it an era where super profits can be obtained. The future Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel have not yet appeared, and Bell Labs is only just starting up.

Saint Hesser only needs to imagine some future electrical appliances and electronic products, and then invest in immature technologies to make a fortune.

The upcoming 1960s and 70s were an era of explosive technological development. Modern industrial products will increasingly focus on electronic technology. Argentina does not have the foundation to develop this industry, nor is it Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan, which can rely on the United States to develop its own electronics industry, but it can also gain something from it, and even reserve some technology from the United States.

The US government invested a lot of money to develop the "American Dream," advocating democracy and freedom, giving Saint Hesser plenty of opportunities to increase wealth and expand. As long as there is enough foreign investment, the rise of La Pampa Province is inevitable.

Moreover, dispersing and transferring wealth can also prevent Sequoia Investment Bank and Blackstone Investment from being too conspicuous, after all, this is just a foreign company disguised as an American consortium.

Basically, as long as the company's accounts reach a profit of 50 million to 100 million US dollars, there will inevitably be a loss or outflow of more than 40 million US dollars. As for whether this money is invested in California or Mexico, or in Japan or Brazil and Japan, it has not caused too much of a stir.

In this way, Sequoia and Blackstone Investment basically only fluctuate in the 20th to 50th rankings on Wall Street. On the contrary, many emerging consortia have risen, diverting the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The post-World War II period was also a stage of crazy expansion and globalization for large American consortia and multinational companies. It is very normal for doing business to have profits and losses. Even many media and families believe that Sequoia has fallen into the expansion curse, which is the so-called 100 million US dollar trap, also known as the "Sequoia Trap," and many experts and professors have studied it in business schools.

In the future world, the largest organized armed group selling flour and smuggling arms is the US Central Intelligence Agency. The arms smuggling business of New Cohen Heavy Industries is carried out with the permission and commission of the CIA. This is also because the cheap weapons of New Cohen Heavy Industries are what American weapons lack. New Cohen Heavy Industries obtained the drawings and information of the Czechoslovak version of the AK-47, optimized the Argentine version, and directly exported it to the free United States of America, which is how it obtained the protection of the CIA.

But all of this has nothing to do with Saint Hesser. New Cohen Heavy Industries was independently stripped out by Saint Hesser and placed under the name of a subordinate, earning Saint Hesser enough profit every month, and was also approved to enter the Nanyang market by default, which was also Saint Hesser's first "formal" export of arms to Nanyang.

The essence of arms trade is the extension of political influence. Fortunately, light weapons and artillery are still very marketable as long as they are of good quality and low price.

Large arms deals are negotiated with countries, small deals can be sold to African tribes. New Cohen Heavy Industries' arms sell quite well in Africa, and have always sold relatively well, but they are just too poor.

The arms market is actually quite special, not belonging to the category of free economy, but more of a continuation of political interests. New Cohen Heavy Industries' orders are very scattered, and the number of large orders is very small.

New Cohen Heavy Industries can still muddle through for now, and can also provide support for some important arms research and development. It is already very remarkable to maintain a profit of tens of millions.

Just like the world's five largest arms dealers in the future, their names are: the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and New China.

Yes, it is the five permanent members of the Security Council. If you rank the top ten, there may also be Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and the like.

By the new century, Germany's ranking will sometimes be higher than that of the United Kingdom.

New Cohen Heavy Industries can now normally "export" arms to the Latin American region, all of which is based on "friendly" protection fees.

If you export to the Latin American region, you basically have to pay 300,000 US dollars to the CIA for every 1 million US dollars you earn, and you can also smuggle 1 million US dollars in profits privately, so you don't lose in any way.

In the future, there will be no place on earth that can avoid the five permanent members of the Security Council. Even New China, which seems poor now, also has a lot of prestige in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, but the United States and the Soviet Union are too powerful.

Just like war is the continuation of politics, the arms trade is actually the same!

In South America, the influence of the United States is at its peak. Argentina, where Saint Hesser is located, cannot avoid it, so he tries his best to connect with the CIA and the United States, actively importing American weapons and American machines, and showing goodwill to American arms dealers, but Saint Hesser mostly only imports products that are needed, and transfers benefits to the United States.

To put it bluntly, the United States itself is the world's largest arms dealer, so the United States will actively crack down on other small arms dealers. After the nationalization of Rein Arms, the amount of smuggled exports basically returned to zero, and then New Cohen Heavy Industries took it back, and even expanded it three times.

And the United States has never been powerful enough to do whatever it wants, so Saint Hesser has enough opportunities to develop.

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Time soon came to August 1st, and the weather in Blanca City today was only 11 degrees Celsius.

The La Pampa Defense Force organized a winter exercise program, and at the same time prepared to start a new round of optimization work.

Some of the soldiers who were optimized out of these troops will have priority in applying for the Blanca City Police Department.

The large-scale recruitment of soldiers at the end of last year caused the number of troops to expand excessively, resulting in many training programs not being carried out properly.

This time is also for the same purpose of implementing the elite soldier plan, and it can also be regarded as saving expenses.

Judging from the current situation, Buenos Aires will not be chaotic for the time being, and it seems unnecessary to reserve so many soldiers, and it has also lost a large number of eligible labor force and childbearing population.

The La Pampa Defense Force will cut at least 1-2 regiments, and Saint Hesser intends to let the Radical Civic Union enter the army.

The original La Pampa Defense Force did not have the existence of the Radical Civic Union. Most of the soldiers were actually like Saint Hesser used to be, basically graduating from elementary school, and graduating from middle school could already be a squad leader.

As people who command guns, these people can only be said to be some professional soldiers.

Saint Hesser hopes that the army will have real combat effectiveness, and high-quality combat effectiveness, fighting for ideals.

But this can only be said to be an idea.

Unless the country changes.

Otherwise, this can only be a small-scale experiment.

However, it is also feasible to let the Radical Civic Union enter the army.

It is only necessary to develop some of the primary officers into the Radical Civic Union, instead of stuffing the people of the Radical Civic Union into the army.

But what is the Radical Civic Union, after all, it is still a capitalist political party, and there is not much idealism, it is already very remarkable to be able to run a state institution.

What's more, the army, this violent institution, is not simple.

The current combat effectiveness of the La Pampa Defense Force is not comparable to that of the Cordoba Defense Force.

Far from it.

The root cause is the quality and training, as well as the issue of investment.

An army, to be truly able to fight, to fight hard battles, needs too many things.

This is not the same as doing mercenary work or security teams in the beginning, that can only be said to be playing house.

From system construction to weapon development investment, even a powerful country like the United States has gone through I don't know how many years,

From the War of Independence to the Westward Expansion, to the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, the strength was built through fighting, and the world's number one military power was built through fighting.

As great as the Soviet Union was, it also had the support of a strong national strength and industrialization system inherited from the Tsarist era, which led to the victory of the Great Patriotic War and the victory of World War II.

Closer to home, Brazil also sent an expeditionary force to Europe.

And now the weak Argentina is more about fighting civil wars. The last foreign war seems to have passed a century.

Relying solely on a few books and some simple ideas is far from enough.

There must be enough training, enough exercises, enough investment, enough institutionalized construction, and improvement of the quality of the army's soldiers.

It takes a long time of effort, and even the blessing of ideology and culture.

The reform of the army is also steadily advancing.

Saint Hesser can only change as he goes.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of various arms and weapons.

Saint Hesser poached dozens of young military officers from the Ministry of Defense for army training.

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