Rise of the Argentine Empire

Blanca City,

Baron Bank Financial Building,

47th floor,

The Pampas Intelligence Group and Saint Hesser's private intelligence department, Falcon Bureau, are working together.

This large-scale strike is obviously unusual. Even the National Southern University, Blanca University, and several vocational schools have participated. The church is not idle either, and even major newspapers are churning out a lot of public opinion.

Saint Hesser's idea is to let them make a fuss, otherwise the people behind the scenes will not be caught.

Baron Bank Building is one of the tallest commercial buildings in Blanca City, reaching 50 floors.

For Saint Hesser, who is used to seeing dozens of floors of residential buildings in later generations, this building is not even as good as a residential building. But for the entire Blanca City, this is simply a symbol of Blanca City's economic development.

Like factories everywhere that can create industrial development, the 28-story Argentine National Securities Building, the 22-story Southern Petroleum Building, the 32-story Blanca Financial Building, and the 36-story Blanca Commercial Bank Building are symbols of development. The West District is still the commercial and economic center of Blanca City, and the most prosperous place for commerce in Blanca City.

After the city hall of the West District moved to the Posca District, the economy did not decline, but developed more rapidly. A large number of financial institutions such as Baron Bank settled in, where the highest level of wages in Argentina can be issued. Each month, hundreds of thousands or even millions of pesos can be issued to super white-collar workers, which is much easier and more upscale than those hard-working mom-and-pop stores.

High-end talents from Buenos Aires are also attracted here. Relatively easy listing conditions allow some factories to obtain financing, expand their scale, and also prosper the stock market.

The wealth storm is spreading, and the financial bubble of making money by speculating in stocks is beginning to spread. Although there are risks, many qualified companies are able to purchase new equipment and improve production capacity.

Argentina's domestic market is small, while the international market is very large, so the Blanca City economy can be expanded tenfold, and it is completely able to accommodate it.

Although the West District does not have as many factories as other industrial districts, it has created amazing wealth and concentrated the wealthiest people in Argentina. Whenever the bell of the National Stock Exchange rings, it inevitably creates a lot of wealth.

More and more foreign companies are setting up regional headquarters or national headquarters here.

The 47th floor of the Baron Bank Building is the temporary headquarters of the Falcon Bureau, and the 46th floor is a branch of the Pampas Intelligence Group.

The two intelligence departments are collecting various strike and crime intelligence in Blanca City and La Pampa Province, and observing various data to provide to the Blanca Police Department.

With the grid connection of a large number of power plants, the night sky of the entire Blanca City is brightly lit. The lights in each district are like daytime. White Avenue is no longer so rare. Various song and dance troupes and cinemas appear in crowded places. Sanders Department Store extends its business hours to 24:00, promoting the nightlife consumption of the entire region.

The real extravagance and dissipation, the workers in the factory also need to vent. Night football fields, tango dances, barbecue restaurants, and bar streets are filled with a large number of people every night.

The Blanca Police Department is now one of the largest police departments in Argentina, and its scale has exceeded that of the Buenos Aires Police Department.

The Blanca Police Department now has nearly 11,000 police officers and 1,800 civilian personnel, with a jurisdiction area of 11,934 square kilometers and a management coverage of over 4 million people, which also makes it one of the largest law enforcement agencies in Argentina.

The police department is equipped with advanced light and heavy weapons, cars, motorcycles, and coast guard ships. The police department recruits a large number of outstanding veterans to participate in formal civil service examinations. The combat effectiveness and overall quality are quite good.

The La Pampa Defense Army and the police department's maritime police jointly formed the maritime defense force, which is another unit, and already has the meaning of a quasi-navy. A large number of personnel are concurrently serving in the Belgrano Navy.

Because Blanca City has a large floating population and a large number of new immigrants, management is very complicated. In addition, the police department does not have enough manpower, so the pressure is very high. It often needs to find foreign aid. The investigation team and the Falcon Bureau, which have excellent intelligence gathering capabilities, are responsible for intelligence assistance, and the defense army is mobilized to maintain order when necessary.

The Blanca Police Department headquarters is staffed with a director-general and 5 deputy director-generals all year round. The director-general of the police department is often concurrently the deputy mayor of Blanca City, nominated by the Blanca City Hall, and personally responsible for appointment by senior official Saint Hesser, with a very high status.

In general, the public security situation in Blanca City is getting worse and worse, which is still largely related to the influx of population. Despite a large number of evacuation efforts, the three coastal cities have taken in nearly 600,000 spillover populations, which is obviously far from enough for Blanca City, which actually has nearly 4 million residents.

However, Saint Hesser does not want to restrict the inflow of population. In addition to increasing construction investment in the three cities, the important thing is to improve the public security situation, develop the suburbs, and continue to develop industry.

Under the leadership of the new police chief Carlos Aleman, it has begun to develop towards specialization. The police department has begun to emphasize the importance of training, and at the same time, it has established a Radical Party leading group to improve military training and combat crime.

Carlos took over as the director of the original police department, Barton Heiston. Barton Heiston was promoted to the top leader of the La Pampa Police Department, which can better coordinate the cooperation between the defense army and the police department.

Carlos once served as the commander of the Second Regiment of the La Pampa Defense Army, with outstanding leadership skills. He graduated from the Argentine National Military Academy and is also an outstanding technical civil servant who can well implement Saint Hesser's will.

This strike is mainly concentrated in some large state-owned factories and large factories under the Cohen Consortium. It is obviously organized, which is a bit difficult for Saint Hesser to deal with and is not easy to come forward to solve.

If it is not handled well, it is easy to have a crisis of confidence, but it cannot be ignored. More importantly, the economic and industrial development of the entire La Pampa Province is now at a critical stage. If it is interrupted, it will miss the opportunity for development.

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After Baron Bank surpassed Galicia Bank, it became one of the most profitable banks in Argentina and obtained a large number of financial licenses, obtaining licenses for securities, insurance, and foreign exchange financial transactions.

Moreover, it has expanded very quickly, establishing branches in Asuncion, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Montevideo, Santiago, London, Paris, Santa Cruz, Lima, Mexico City, Sydney and other cities, becoming an international bank.

Baron Bank initially established overseas branches mainly to facilitate support for La Pampa Province's import and export business and to provide services to companies under the Baron Consortium. With the support of a large number of Latin American immigrants, its scale has expanded again.

Baron Bank is engaged in issuing various commercial organization and individual consumer loans, handling domestic and foreign currency settlement in Argentina, issuing various financial bonds, acting as an agent for issuing, acting as an agent for cashing, underwriting municipal and provincial government and Argentine national bonds, buying and selling, acting as an agent for buying and selling foreign exchange, and acting as an agent for collecting and paying various businesses.

In recent years, La Pampa Province has seen rapid progress in manufacturing. On one hand, manufacturing can accommodate more employment, and on the other hand, it alleviates inflation. Generally speaking, the more developed the manufacturing sector, the more things a country can produce independently, and the lower the inflation. This is also why La Pampa Province's inflation has been much lower than that of Buenos Aires and Cordoba in the past few years.

Apart from Blanca City, the population of other key cities has grown rapidly. Although some of these manufacturing and industrial sectors are somewhat crude due to technology and the foundation of traditional industries, they do have considerable competitiveness, allowing Blanca City to accommodate a large population.

With the influx of foreign capital and high-quality domestic companies, Blanca City's manufacturing industry is also slowly upgrading.

Baron Bank has benefited from the development of La Pampa Province's foreign trade and industry, extending its reach to more places, while the Cohen Consortium has also developed faster with the help of Baron Bank.

The Cohen Consortium is now also beginning to become a huge community of shared interests. Some peripheral companies are slowly integrating into the Cohen Consortium, indirectly becoming supporters of Saint Hesser.

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Looking at the surrounding countries, military governments are currently prevalent in Latin America. The Paraguayan military government, the Uruguayan National Assembly, and Brazil and Chile are all developing in this direction. Saint Hesser has to change his development path, otherwise La Pampa Province will eventually become a piece of fat meat.

In addition to participating in domestic affairs, Saint Hesser's Falcon Bureau has been re-internationalized, sending a large number of intelligence personnel to South America along with some companies under the Cohen Consortium, especially to Brazil.

This is an export market at the doorstep, a behemoth, a country with eighty or ninety million people.

Saint Hesser does not have a strong family to support him. His father-in-law's family has recently fallen into a trough. General Thompson is now struggling to protect himself, and the Cordoba faction has also changed its dynasty. He can only form his own faction to ensure the interests of a large group of his subordinates and confidants. They are all on the same rope now; if he falls, his subordinates will not have a good time either.

La Pampa Province has now become his independent kingdom. He promotes his relatives and cultivates talents, forming a huge interest group. Now someone wants to mix sand into it; his subordinates are responsible for taking action, and he is responsible for cleaning up the mess.

The most important thing now is to stabilize Belgrano and form a community of shared interests. Saint Hesser's power is now extremely huge. Externally, there is the Cohen Consortium; internally, there is the Radical Party. His approval rating in La Pampa Province has always been very high, and he controls a military force and a paramilitary force: the La Pampa Defense Force and the La Pampa Police Department. The Defense Force has its own army and air force squadron, and the Police Department has established a coast guard. Although the scale is not large, the overall combat effectiveness and military training are still good.

La Pampa Province has an efficient civil service team that can well support the expansion of the population. Of course, various problems have also emerged. This is the normal price La Pampa Province has paid for its rapid industrialization and is not unbearable.

Saint Hesser tentatively accelerated the path of expanding power and increasing strength. After all, Blanca City is just a small fight; Buenos Aires is the ultimate battlefield.

Now the Ministry of Defense is desperately poor, and the Presidential Palace is allocating less and less funds. As a military port, Belgrano Port can only pay the salaries of soldiers normally. The remaining naval equipment has not been updated for two years, and even the maintenance fees of the Blanca Shipyard are in arrears.

The Blanca Shipyard has transformed the maintenance shipyard that interfaces with the Navy into a warship factory. Although it has not been able to produce warships, its maintenance strength and modification results are indeed good.

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A steady stream of new immigrants from non-Latin American regions are attracted to and settle in Blanca City, gradually forming and enriching various communities, forming many distinctive districts, such as Chinatown and the Indian immigrant community.

Because of the chaos in the Nanyang region, the number of Chinese immigrants to Argentina has begun to increase significantly in the past six months. Saint Hesser welcomes all comers. Compared with immigrants from other countries, Saint Hesser has a great affection for Chinese immigrants. As long as the number does not form an absolute advantage, he is not worried that anyone will object. This is not a bad thing.

Of course, Saint Hesser still intends to screen immigrants with clean backgrounds. After all, even Chinese immigrants, who are known for their diligence, still have many "bad elements". The combat effectiveness and destructive power of Chinese gangs are no less than those of Italian gangs.

The infamous fraud gangs from Taiwan in later generations, to other fraud families, in addition to the protection of warlords, hometown scams are even more terrible, and their development in Myanmar, Thailand, and Dubai in Nanyang is stained with human blood and is even more terrible.

And the various crimes in Blanca City now are just child's play.

In recent years, due to Argentina's slow economic recovery and high unemployment and poverty rates, social security has deteriorated and crime rates have continued to rise. Malicious cases such as armed robbery and kidnapping for ransom have occurred from time to time. The proportion of theft cases against new immigrants or ordinary residents in Blanca City is also relatively high.

La Pampa Province has taken a series of measures to strengthen legislation, improve police equipment, increase security patrol police force, and expand the scope of police powers, and the security situation in the entire region has improved.

But as far as the entire Argentina is concerned, it is actually not bad, but the more troublesome thing is strikes and class boycotts, which is obviously a more serious problem.

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In Nanyang, since the end of last year, Indonesia has experienced a large-scale chaotic civil war. Chinese, native Indonesians, Malays, Acehnese, and Republicans have begun to take up arms and fight.

Saint Hesser has a share in this, and the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, France, and the Netherlands have also made a contribution.

Saint Hesser sold at least 100 million US dollars of arms in Indonesia, cleared a large number of military weapons inventories, and a large number of arms ships packaged as trade ships departed, including 280,000 MP40s, 1,689 109 rocket launchers, 700,000 pistols, 2,600 mortars, more than 600,000 imitation AK47s, more than 100 tanks, tens of thousands of motorcycles, and various modified fishing boats...

Civil wars broke out in Singapore, Malaya, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, and other countries. From independence to war, a large number of cheap Argentine arms entered the Nanyang region through smuggling channels, allowing the Cohen Consortium to earn a lot of money, successfully continuing its life, and stimulating Blanca City's exports.