Rise of the Argentine Empire

The establishment of the Fifth Research Institute in Blanca City was a good start for the Argentinians.

Just as the people of New China could wait forty years for a domestically produced aircraft carrier, San Jose felt he could also wait forty years.

San Jose felt that day wouldn't be too far off. He was only in his twenties now, and he could wait, he could endure. Argentina could also wait and remain low-key until the day it transformed itself, which might not be far away.

San Jose didn't believe that Argentina would be inferior to North Korea or Iran.

Of course, the prerequisite was that Argentina had a sufficiently large population and a domestic market large enough to sustain itself, a sufficient industrial system to cope with American sanctions and economic blockades. That day would be very difficult.

With Blanca City as a super-powered economic engine in La Pampa Province, coupled with an extremely aggressive population expansion policy, the opportunity wasn't too small.

San Jose had a good relationship with the current President Frondizi, and La Pampa Province had gained a strong backing. In return, La Pampa Province firmly supported some of the new policies issued by the Presidential Palace.

Among them, the unemployed, the shirtless army, who were a headache for Buenos Aires, were all packed up and sent to Blanca City.

Initially, the La Pampa Provincial Government acted very embarrassed about the transfer of various unemployed people, and even profited from it. After various negotiations, they obtained policies, lobbied Congress, and obtained low-interest loans from the National Bank. No one would嫌弃 their own money was too much. Anyway, the Presidential Palace couldn't use that much money.

A few months ago, the new Presidential Palace was still troubled by the large unemployed population in Buenos Aires. During the Peron era, for the sake of votes, more than 2 million people poured into the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area in just eight years, which was far more outrageous and troublesome than the situation in Blanca City.

The population of Greater Buenos Aires increased from 2.2 million to 4.7 million, and the population of the inner city also increased from 1.5 million to 3 million.

And these people were not actively accepted by Buenos Aires.

Most of the 2 million new residents were unemployed and poor. Buenos Aires did not have extra jobs, only endless unemployment, and lived a hard life in slums.

Now, tens of thousands of people can pour into Blanca City every month. San Jose has already built nearly several thousand residential areas in the suburbs of Alta, Bosca, and Medanos. These tenement buildings, which have just been renovated, can accommodate nearly 300,000 to 500,000 people. The surrounding area is full of large factories, and some are small garment factories.

Blanca City is not short of houses. San Jose has built nearly 10,000 such houses in Blanca City, and it has never stopped, forming a standardized housing standard: cheap, sturdy, and easy to use. This is San Jose's confidence.

Each 6-8 story tenement building can accommodate 200-300 people. If it is a 6-story factory dormitory building, then the number can be increased to 500-600 people. These large-scale buildings are being built every month.

The strong material supply guarantee capability comes from dozens of state-owned farms on the outskirts of Blanca City and the future agriculture under the Cohen Consortium. As long as people come, there is no fear of not having food to eat. In the past two years, Argentina has had a bumper harvest of grain, and San Jose has stored enough food for nearly 30 million people.

Unlike Blanca City, although Buenos Aires has large-scale companies and factories, it cannot digest such a huge influx of new population like Blanca City. Many companies in Buenos Aires have closed down due to various trade policies and inability to adapt, and the employment scale has also shrunk.

State-owned enterprises also have to lay off employees, and demonstrations make it even harder for companies and factories in Buenos Aires, let alone newcomers.

Blanca City is different. San Jose focuses on basic manufacturing industries such as construction, steel, shipbuilding, textiles, clothing, and chemicals, which can basically accommodate a large amount of employment. Many large factories are built every year.

For example, Blanca City is almost frantically building various highways, residences, and industrial zones every year. Blanca City has more than 70,000 construction workers alone. The advanced planning brought about by infrastructure construction has attracted more people to Blanca City. Now, the three coastal cities have begun large-scale infrastructure construction.

The most important thing behind infrastructure construction is steel and cement. Behind the steel plant, in addition to the steel plant, there are also dozens of rolling mills and machining plants that rely on the steel plant. A steel plant can accommodate more than 20,000-30,000 workers, and can also provide considerable profits. Half of Argentina's steel is exported to Brazil and neighboring countries, and the other half is exported to Europe, Mexico, Australia and other places.

The so-called political ceiling determines the economic ceiling. With the constantly reformed and strengthened La Pampa Provincial Government, leading a group of municipal governments and district governments below, the industrial development of La Pampa Province can continue.

Of course, San Jose must hold on long enough. Construction may take ten years, but destruction only takes a few days.

The darkest hour is before dawn. He still believes that light will eventually come.

Now, Blanca City's labor-intensive light industry, mainly based on processing with supplied materials, is booming, solving a large amount of employment, and heavy chemical industry is also growing vigorously under continuous investment.

Blanca City imports a large amount of raw materials from home and abroad, exports industrial manufactured products, obtains profits, and supports workers.

As a late-developing country, Argentina must develop industry to become strong. Industrialization is the only way to become a powerful country.

There is no shortcut to development, and there is no pie in the sky. Waiting and relying can only lead to a dead end.

"Because history will not give Argentina such an opportunity to develop industry again."

San Jose once said with a face full of regret at a meeting to a group of his subordinates, and these people were all his staunch supporters. He was no longer satisfied with one city and one place in La Pampa Province, but the time had not yet come.

Now, it is necessary to continuously develop, develop, and develop again.

He established basic heavy chemical industry sectors for La Pampa Province through import substitution industrialization, and then established export-oriented industrial bases through trade.

San Jose still needs the technology of Italian companies, the most important of which is the cooperation in petrochemicals and automobiles.

Italian National Oil also needs funds and markets outside of Italy. Italy's industrial base itself is not as good as countries such as the United States, France, Britain, and Germany. If it wants to achieve something in the petrochemical industry, it must have more development resources. Argentina can also be regarded as one of the friendly countries of the same language and culture. After all, even a mosquito is still meat.

Although Fiat Auto did not take too much advantage of the Leithon Auto project, it can also be said that it helped Fiat make a name for itself in Argentina and South America, which is equivalent to free advertising. The President of Fiat Auto still recognizes this matter clearly. Fiat Auto is temporarily unable to develop the South American market. Although it cannot control the behavior of Leithon Auto, it can be said to be a good thing.

Lobbying to establish the Brazilian consulate is the responsibility of Plari International, and it is not within San Jose's plan, but the coup in Uruguay a few months ago made the establishment of the Brazilian consulate possible, and it has been approved by the Brazilian Congress.

Brazil is currently Argentina's most important export market, without one. Now Brazil is carrying out large-scale economic construction, ambitiously preparing to realize industrialization and large-scale urbanization, which gives Blanca City the opportunity to export trade. The steel bars, cement, building materials, and tiles produced in Blanca City are all hot commodities, and the prices are cheaper and the transportation is very convenient.

Siderca Cement Company, headquartered in San Martin City, is already the largest cement exporting company in Argentina, and it is also the trump card company for export trade.

Siderca Cement Factory has cement factories in more than a dozen mining areas in Argentina, providing one-stop service for crushing, sintering and packaging. It can produce millions of tons of cement every month, which can not only easily supply Argentina's local market, but also export to Brazil every month.

In addition, there are other various cement factories such as La Pampa Cement Company, Blanca Building Materials Company, and Blanca Cement Company.

Also, various daily chemical and ceramic industries, as well as tile factories emerging in Blanca City, have flourished. Additionally, there are furniture factories, hardware processing factories, and more.

Besides trade, the more important aspect is manufacturing, or simply put, industry. Products are everything. Even the most powerful trade network still needs products to support it. Without manufacturing, the development of banks and finance is unsustainable.

The proportion of industry in La Pampa Province's GDP has rapidly increased from less than 10% to 46.9%, becoming the largest economic pillar industry in La Pampa Province.

The overall debt scale of the La Pampa Provincial Government has continued to climb to US$470 million this year, while the repayment amount is only US$60 million. Among them, US$240 million was obtained from abroad, and most of the new debt, in addition to large-scale infrastructure construction, was invested in manufacturing by Saint Hesser.

Developing manufacturing is an important pillar industry in La Pampa Province in terms of providing employment and tax revenue. Therefore, supporting manufacturing is one of the most essential and important tasks of La Pampa Province, and the steel industry is the top priority of La Pampa Province's manufacturing industry.

A rule in the steel industry is that cost determines profit, and scale determines cost. Therefore, the two steel plants in Blanca City can be said to be behemoths in Argentina. The number of employees is second only to the Argentine National Railway Company, ranking in the top five in Argentina.

Moreover, the steel industry is an important basic industry of the national economy, an important support for building a great power, and an important symbol for measuring a country's comprehensive national strength and defense strength.

Upstream iron ore, coal, and electricity support the steel industry, while downstream steel consumption in construction, automobiles, machinery, and other industries jointly constitute the steel industry supply chain system in Blanca City. The entire steel industry chain can easily accommodate hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Under the impetus of Saint Hesser, Hans Steel, with a current annual output of 1.9 million tons and a capacity of 2 million tons under construction, can be ranked globally. It is praised by many major Argentine media as one of the "Three Miracles of the Argentine Steel Industry," the "Miracle of the Industrial Rise of Blanca Bay," and the third is the La Plata Steel Plant.

You should know that in the past, although Blanca City was considered good, it was far from comparable to the three major cities in Argentina. Now, it easily crushes Cordoba and Rosario, and it is still developing like crazy.

Blanca Steel, with a current annual output of 2.2 million tons, has a capacity of over 3.2 million tons under construction.

More, higher, and larger blast furnaces and converters are also under intense construction.

Blanca Steel has obtained 5,000 acres of reserved factory land provided free of charge by the Blanca City Government and La Pampa Province, while Hans Steel maintains close contact with Saint Hesser and has also obtained 4,000 acres of reserved factory land. The two steel plants are also constantly developing eastward to stay away from the central area of ​​Alta.

Hans Steel and Blanca Steel now have their own large iron ore transshipment ports. The new factory area is very close to the port, and the distance between the two large steel plants has become farther. Land swaps have been carried out. Under the instructions of Saint Hesser, Blanca Steel took the initiative to develop eastward and sold the 1,200 acres of factory land that had not yet started construction to the Hans family at a low price. Coupled with individual scattered acquisitions, the Hans Steel plant area reached 9,000 acres.

As compensation, Blanca United Steel obtained a wide sheltered port, closer to the Belgrano Port, a separate steel plant area, and an existing large thermal power plant.

The surrounding companies and factories of the two major steel plants have basically reached more than 100.

The two steel plants and the family areas behind them can almost be said to be two small cities, a real city of steel.

While La Pampa Province is increasing policy-oriented financial loans to the steel industry, Blanca Customs, the Presidential Palace, and the Argentine Customs Headquarters have reached an agreement to encourage investment in steel production equipment by reducing import taxes and offsetting equipment depreciation.

These policies initially targeted only Blanca City, but later expanded to Buenos Aires Province, Santa Fe Province, and Cordoba Province to support steel investment in these four provinces. However, most Argentine steel plants have not made much progress and are still dominated by small steel plants with a capacity of less than 500,000 tons. La Plata Steel Plant, as the first local Argentine steel blast furnace and converter construction contractor, has also obtained huge profits.

In February of this year, with the support of Saint Hesser, it was officially spun off and established La Plata Steel Construction Company, focusing on steel plant infrastructure and blast furnace and converter construction.

After one year of demonstration, Western European and American steel companies put forward relatively harsh technical sales conditions and prices for Blanca Steel Plant's 2,500 cubic meter blast furnace project, which was eventually abandoned by the poor Saint Hesser.

Blanca Steel Plant still adopts the current relatively mature and lower-cost 1,580 cubic meter blast furnace. La Plata Steel Plant and Blanca Steel Plant, as the first and second largest steel plants in Argentina, jointly established the Argentine Steel Research Institute with La Plata Steel Construction and the National University of the South to achieve technological independence and autonomy.

The planned 3 million-ton Medanos Steel and 5 million-ton La Pampa Steel in the southern county of Blanca City will also utilize more economical blast furnace technology.

The existing steel production capacity of La Pampa Province alone is close to 5 million tons. Although most of these steels are relatively backward in technology and have high energy consumption, they can indeed be said to be large in quantity and cheap.

La Plata Steel Plant, one of the core of the Cohen Consortium, has exceeded 4 million tons in production capacity.

The production capacity of more than a dozen steel plants north of Buenos Aires is also increasing rapidly. Argentina is expected to complete nearly 10 million tons of steel production capacity this year.

Among them, Hans Steel and Blanca Steel are planning new and larger blast furnaces and doubled production capacity. In the past, in order to accelerate the rapid scale formation of Blanca Steel, Saint Hesser adopted more mature, cheaper, and faster-to-build medium-sized blast furnaces, but they caused greater pollution and could not adapt well to future trends.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the production capacity of the current major steel plants is basically sufficient. La Plata Steel Plant, Blanca Steel Plant, Hans Steel Plant, Medanos United Steel, and La Pampa Steel's new plant area are already building 1580 cubic meter super-large blast furnaces, which is related to Saint Hesser's support. As construction becomes more mature, costs are also decreasing rapidly, and La Plata Steel Construction Company is also constantly strengthening technology introduction and has successfully mastered 1580 blast furnace construction technology.

Among the state-owned companies in La Pampa Province, La Pampa Mining Company, La Pampa Petrochemical Company, Medanos United Steel Company, and La Pampa Power Company were the earliest established and had the largest investment scale, accounting for almost 80% of La Pampa Province's state-owned company investment last year.

After the four major state-owned companies, Saint Hesser established La Pampa Industrial Bank, La Pampa Commercial Bank, La Pampa Investment Bank, La Pampa Power Company, La Pampa Textile Company, La Pampa Trading Corporation, La Pampa Food Company, La Pampa Beer Company, La Pampa Meat Union Factory, La Pampa Highway Investment Company, and more than sixty other state-owned companies and factories.

With the support of the La Pampa Finance Department and the La Pampa State-owned Assets Committee, he newly established La Pampa Industrial Investment Company, La Pampa Construction Engineering Company, and La Pampa Transportation Construction Company, preparing to make a big effort, accelerate the development speed, and formally issue more construction bonds.

In terms of channels, in addition to the city-owned Blanca Department Store, Saint Hesser established a special Pampas Department Store Company and also established various commercial and trade cities to fully utilize the domestic market.

The Cohen Consortium, through the bond of Balun Bank, can fully utilize financial ammunition for expansion. Pranley Food's Mirinda soda has built six new factories, basically spread across Argentine cities with convenient transportation. The winery, dairy factory, and brewery are also the same.

In the development of the banking industry, Balun Bank has opened a large number of branches in major provinces and most cities with a population of over 2,000, with 873 branches nationwide. It has made outstanding contributions to the development of the Argentine banking industry. Conversely, it can also be said that Saint Hesser has extended his tentacles to most corners of Argentina.

Balun Bank has been promoted from the fifth largest bank in the country to the largest bank in the country, surpassing the Bank of Buenos Aires, the Argentine National Bank, the Bank of Buenos Aires Province, and the Argentine National Commercial Bank.

Wherever there are Argentines, there is Balun Bank.

The number of domestic bank account holders at Balun Bank has increased from 1.9 million to 8.1 million, an increase of nearly 5 times, and is still increasing. Bank deposits have increased from 32 billion pesos to 140 billion pesos, and the scale of loans has increased from 23 billion pesos to 120 billion pesos. The profit expectation is very strong, and it is expected that this year's profit will exceed 7.4 billion pesos.

The staff of Balen Bank Financial Group increased from over 9,000 to 17,000, and its headquarters temporarily moved from Buenos Aires to Blanca City.

The nationalization of Rein Military Industries led to the relocation of the Cohen Consortium's core company headquarters to Blanca City, while others moved to San Martin City.

Only the factories were retained in Buenos Aires. Of course, Blanca City's economic status was still far inferior to that of Buenos Aires, which hindered the development of the Cohen Consortium to some extent. However, it spurred rapid economic development in Blanca City. San Martin, an emerging city in the central region and a key strategic location for Saint Hilaire, served as the Cohen Consortium's stronghold and could easily cover the entire Argentine market.

To promote the development of the trade industry in Blanca City, Balen Bank provided international remittance tools for Argentine local traders and trading companies. In July, it acquired the financial sector of Plarrie International. In addition to major cities in South America such as Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile, Balen Bank acquired banking licenses in major European cities to achieve internationalization.

The other Blanca Bank, La Pampa Industrial Bank, and La Pampa Commercial Bank also experienced significant development.

The La Pampa Provincial Government and the Blanca City Government fully utilized the banks to drive economic take-off. Among them, Balen Bank played the most important financial role in the early development of Blanca City. Most of the development loans in Blanca City in the past few years were provided by Balen Bank, and the proportion only decreased after the establishment of Blanca Commercial Bank and the Argentine National Stock Exchange.

Using the funds and loans from Balen Bank, the La Pampa Provincial Government invested in establishing hundreds of state-owned factories and companies in less than a year, solving the employment problem for more than 100,000 people and further enhancing and expanding the strength of Blanca City.

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Accompanying the rapid economic development of La Pampa Province was the increasing number of various crimes. A large prison was built on the outskirts of Blanca City, which was very crowded. Saint Hilaire specifically established an administrative memorandum with Ushuaia City in the Patagonia Administrative Region to restart the Ushuaia Prison.

Ushuaia has always been a place of exile for Argentine serious criminals since its establishment, until former President Peron closed it down. Now it can be put to use again.

Ushuaia will be re-designated as a place of exile for prisoners, especially serious criminals who do not warrant the death penalty.

Montevideo, Uruguay, only 900 kilometers away from Blanca City, has become a globally renowned money laundering center.

When Saint Hilaire was just an ordinary port councilor in Blanca, he successfully hooked up with Andresen, the number two figure in the Argentine military at the time and a Uruguayan army general, through the Thirty-Three Orientals Province iron ore project, and the two successfully established a deep friendship.

The friendship between the two was based on money. Saint Hilaire invested heavily in Andresen, making large political donations every month.

Through Rein Military Industries' cheap and easy-to-use light and heavy weapons, a large number of orders were obtained from the Uruguayan Ministry of Defense, opening up the Uruguayan arms market.

Later, rocket launchers, Argentine-made tanks, trucks, and other military supplies were sold at cost. Although no money was made, General Andresen took the opportunity to win over a large number of senior military personnel.

At the same time, the Cohen Consortium fully supported him in gaining the highest power in Uruguay.

After World War II, the Colorado Party, representing the interests of the industrial bourgeoisie, came to power in Uruguay and vigorously promoted the import substitution industrialization development strategy.

Between 1944 and 1955, Uruguay's industrial production increased by 6% annually, exceeding that of Argentina at one time. Montevideo's economy began to prosper, and the national living standards improved.

In 1956, Uruguay's per capita national income ranked first in Latin America.

Economic prosperity masked the serious structural problems in the political economy brought about by reforms and import substitution industrialization.

The main problems in the economy were that the reforms were only carried out in the cities, while in the vast rural areas of Uruguay, due to the lack of reforms, the land utilization rate and agricultural productivity were relatively low. Landlords and ranchers were not very interested in improving production technology. Import substitution industries needed to rely on foreign exchange and gold reserves earned from exports.

Uruguay relied on imports of fuel, equipment, and raw materials, which required a domestic market as a foundation, but Uruguay's domestic market was small, lacked funds, and lacked various raw materials.

There were also social welfare programs and the public sector were too large.

The reason why these problems did not cause an economic recession at that time was mainly because during the two world wars and for a period of time after the war, European agriculture and animal husbandry were damaged and it took time to recover. Uruguay's traditional exports, wool and beef, were needed for the war and the American invasion of Korea. The international market was in short supply, and exports showed prosperity.

The prosperity of exports provided funds for import substitution industries, subsidized the public sector, and allowed the Uruguayan government to implement large-scale social welfare programs, thereby expanding the domestic market.

However, as the war ended, Europe recovered, and the United States no longer needed Uruguay's beef and mutton, Uruguay followed in Argentina's footsteps after a few more years of prosperity, but Uruguay's problem was that Uruguay was weaker and the transformation was more difficult.

This year, the National Party won the election for the first time, but the National Party was unable to change the problems in the economy, and various economic crises soon began to emerge.

With the increasingly serious structural crisis in Uruguay's political economy and the civilian government's inability to solve it, the role of the military became particularly important, and Juan Andresen, as the number two in the military, seized the opportunity.

In February of this year, in the Uruguayan election, Andresen, with the support of the Cohen Consortium, Plarrie International, and New Cohen Heavy Industries, successfully seized power and launched a military coup, officially entering the era of military government in Uruguay, 15 years earlier than in history.

The Uruguayan military dissolved the parliament through the president, abolished the constitution, and established a military dictatorship.

The National Party is still the ruling party, but the Uruguayan military established a military regime through a coup and gained direct control over the highest decision-making body and the president, becoming the Latin American region.

Subsequently, Saint Hilaire moved the headquarters of Plarrie International from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, officially establishing a cooperative relationship with the new Uruguayan government on the surface.

Plarrie International can be said to be a smaller version of the Cohen Consortium, with a banking department and a financial department. It acquired a private bank in Uruguay and also established international trade channels in Brazil, Europe, Colombia, and Australia. Plarrie International also has more than a dozen companies under it and has built many factories in Brazil. This time, it acquired more than fifty state-owned factories of various sizes in Uruguay, and Uruguay's state-owned capital was acquired by Plarrie International in large quantities.

Plarrie International extensively underwrites excellent industrial products made in Argentina in Brazil, imports steel, exports iron ore, and sells Plarrie Food's soda, beer, and Andes Tobacco's various cigars.

Now Plarrie International has obtained a large number of Uruguayan contracting orders, and then subcontracts them to companies under the Cohen Consortium.

Saint Hilaire also returned the favor by establishing new mining companies, trading companies, and public opinion media companies in Uruguay. By supporting local comprador bureaucrats, he imported a large number of industrial finished products from Blanca City, which devastated Uruguay's local industry. Cheap Argentine manufacturing poured in here.

The Andresen government implemented an economic plan of the "neoliberal model."

Strictly control the budget for social services, control the growth of real wages, reduce employment in the public sector, sell and reduce state-owned enterprises, implement a unified exchange rate, abolish controls on banks and prices and subsidies on consumer goods, reduce tariffs, and encourage foreign capital to enter and other policies.

The success of this military coup in Uruguay is also related to the very small land area and small population of Uruguay. As long as the capital Montevideo is controlled, Uruguay is basically controlled.

Although Andresen is the leader of the Uruguayan military, no one with too high prestige has emerged. Therefore, the military does not rule as an individual, but as a whole. This is also the so-called collective rule.

Moreover, the military has a good reputation in public opinion. The local newspapers and radio stations in Uruguay are basically controlled, and the young soldiers in Uruguay also think so.

After the Uruguayan military came to power, it formulated a system of dividing people into three levels and promulgated the "Institutional Act," thereby amending the constitution, legalizing the dictatorship, ensuring that political and military power was in its own hands, and implementing cruel suppression measures.

The military regime declared political parties and progressive organizations such as the Communist Party, the Socialist Party, the trade union, and the University Students' Federation illegal, and extensively hunted down members of these organizations and progressive people from the Broad Front and the Colorado and National parties, depriving 10,000 to 15,000 Uruguayans of their political rights, including all party leaders who participated in the previous two elections and people who held official positions in the previous two governments.

To escape the * * * *, in the recent half-year, a large number of Uruguayans have fled abroad. The outflowing population accounts for 7% of the total population and 12% of the economically active population. The city of Blanca, which took the lead in overcoming the crisis, has become a good destination for Uruguayans. In addition to returning to Europe, most Uruguayans have been absorbed by the city of Blanca.

The passenger ships of Plarri International Shipping travel between the three places every day without interruption. Buenos Aires is also one of the destinations for Uruguayans.

This is also one of the reasons for the rapid increase in the population of Blanca this year.

Uruguayans can easily integrate into Blanca. The Eastern Shore Province itself was once a territory of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, but was forced to be separated with the support of the British and Brazilians.

San Jose welcomes Uruguayan immigrants with the greatest sincerity. At its peak, the number of new Uruguayan immigrants in Blanca reached 200,000, and it is still increasing, but later a lot of them were diverted to various parts of Argentina.

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With the support of President Andersen, in addition to ordinary Uruguayans, Brazilians entrenched in Montevideo were forced to withdraw from Uruguay in large numbers. Under the advocacy of various public opinions, a large part chose to go to Blanca, the source of sin, to seek opportunities.

However, San Jose has formulated the most comprehensive foreign entrepreneurship support policy in Blanca. Blanca is not short of people now, but lacks outstanding industrial and commercial talents.

There are more than 20,000 Brazilian-Uruguayans in Uruguay, who are all good at industry and commerce, but they cannot resist San Jose's dumping, after all, this is an unequal war.

Blanca quickly absorbed this group of Uruguayans and even provided loans. With this left-right maneuver, Blanca's commerce became more prosperous.

The Indian and Chinese residents of Blanca have new competitors. Brazilian immigrants from Montevideo have transferred to Buenos Aires and Blanca, adding new vitality to Blanca.

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After completing the monthly group wedding ceremony in Blanca, San Jose received a top-secret intelligence from the United States, which was bad news.

During his tenure in Blanca, San Jose formulated Argentina's first "Marriage Law" to solve the marriage problems of young men and women, which was formulated according to the framework of the Argentine Constitution.

Among them, birth promotion, subsidies, holding group weddings, and officially endorsed blind dates are all included in the bill, in order to reduce the pressure of marriage and childbirth on young people. Except for a few attendances, San Jose will basically be invited to participate in large group weddings.

Holding group weddings can save a lot of time and energy, greatly reduce the cost of marriage for young people, and there are many young people from outside and even foreign countries in Blanca.

On the day of the group wedding, the Civil Registry Department and the Civil Registry Office of La Pampa Province and Blanca are the busiest. One department is responsible for naturalization, and the other is responsible for marriage registration, so the scale of each group wedding is very large, and each district will have a branch hall in charge of the local government.

In this way, Blanca can add a new batch of immigrants every month, which is an important benefit for most young people who come to work in Blanca. Even 70% of the young people in Blanca are registered through group weddings.

Such an excellent system has also been promoted to other cities in La Pampa, which has a certain effect on the rapid acquisition of population and urban attraction in new cities.

Moreover, only outstanding church pastors certified by the city hall and the provincial hall can preside over weddings, which greatly promotes the secularization of churches in the La Pampa region. The churches in La Pampa have been reshuffled again, and only the outstanding ones that meet the sustainable development and population growth of Blanca have been retained, and one of the additional income channels of the church has also been cut off by the administrative region.

As urbanization deepens, Blanca has also formulated the first funeral law to regulate the funeral system, reduce funeral costs, establish a state-owned crematorium, and build a state-owned cemetery in the suburbs, once again reducing the role of the church. This is also one of the reasons why San Jose can gain the support of the people at the bottom of Blanca and La Pampa.

In the past, the bottom residents of Blanca were often emptied of their savings by birth, old age, sickness and death. A group of capitalists and church vampires monopolized marriage, funerals, medical care, and education. Now, with the entry of state-owned capital and the improvement of laws and regulations, the cost of living in Blanca has been decreasing, and it has continued to attract a large number of young people.

With the deepening of environmental pollution, the "Industrial Environmental Protection Law" has also begun to be formulated. New factories with particularly large pollution, such as paper mills, dyeing factories, and air-polluting thermal power plants and steel plants, are allowed to be established in the suburbs with convenient transportation, such as Medanos United Steel Company.

At the same time, factories and companies are encouraged to reduce emissions. Although the effect is not significant in the short term, it has also made many people see San Jose's efforts.

In San Jose's view, pollution must be治理, but that is under the premise of development. This is an effort regarding the dignity of a great power. At least in the short term, Argentina needs industrialization and the funds for industrialization, rather than being harvested by the Americans again and again in the future.

Argentina is destined to become a great power. Just like Russia, even if it is a dog for the Americans, no one will be at ease. They would rather see a divided Russia than a strong and united Russian Empire.

Obviously, the Americans think so.

The construction of large factories in Blanca is very slow now, but it can still increase a large number of jobs every month, which is a development idea that San Jose found from the three forms of import processing and compensation trade in later generations.

The three forms of import processing and compensation trade are not entirely correct. Argentina lacks foreign investment. San Jose mainly provides development support for Blanca's light industry based on compensation trade. The landlord's family has no surplus food either. After almost all the funds have been invested in heavy chemical industry, both the Cohen Consortium and the La Pampa Provincial Finance Department are poor.

Compensation trade refers to a trade method in which the buyer imports machines, equipment, technology, and certain raw materials from foreign manufacturers on the basis of credit, and agrees to repay them with products or labor within a certain period.

San Jose still has certain channels in Europe and the United States, and the expansion of Blanca is obvious to all. Except for a few cities such as Paris and London, many cities in Europe have not seen the emergence of super cities like Blanca, and the abundant labor force here has also given European banks confidence.

European banks also hope to enter a new market, not to mention a sure-profit business. Europe also needs cheap labor and cheap goods. The golden decade of post-war development in Western Europe has achieved great results.

This is also a huge benefit for Argentina. For countries that lack technology and foreign exchange, the use of this trade method can use European and American capital to buy advanced technology and equipment to accelerate the country's economic development and enhance export capacity.

Argentina is an immigrant country. Although there is not much relationship after two or three generations, in order to make money, everyone still tries to maintain European family relationships. This is also the retreat of many Argentines. When the national economy is in difficulty and life is difficult to continue, many Argentines return to Spain and Italy. This is the reason why Argentina lost a large number of people in the 1950s. The scale may be several million, which is more serious than Uruguay after the coup. True brothers in distress.

In fact, immigration comes and goes very normally, which is not a strange thing.

Now Argentina needs to earn some money through this channel, increase exports, and update equipment.

Blanca Bay is now full of docks and ports. Behind each dock and port is a huge industrial area. From the coastal industrial area to the South Bay industrial area, these, in addition to heavy chemical industry, are places with convenient transportation, where cheap raw materials can be obtained, and where trading companies are heavily concentrated.

With several deep-water ports, the foreign trade routes organized by San Jose can reach more than 100 ports in more than 30 countries and regions around the world, establishing extensive trade relations.

The overall depth of Blanca Bay is not enough, but fortunately, the era of 100,000-ton freighters is enough, and there is no need to dig deeper for the time being.