Rise of the Argentine Empire

The affairs of the dynamite factory have come to a temporary close. I'll see if the entire production line can be fully operational tomorrow.

Mayor Cavo left beforehand. Saint Herse and Sean are eating.

"Boss, is this our next stage goal? This seems to be fireworks?" Sean asked, holding a piece of Saint Herse's paper with a puzzled look.

"That's right, this is the goal for the next stage of our factory. We'll allocate a portion of the production line on the other side specifically for producing fireworks," Saint Herse said with certainty.

This is also unavoidable. Saint Herse doesn't have the talent to work with mining companies or develop international trade yet, so he can only start with civilian fireworks for now.

The two were eating in the dynamite factory's small cafeteria, chatting as they ate. After some conversation, he discovered that Sean, despite being a bit introverted, was actually quite capable and had a high degree of talent and aptitude in gunpowder.

"Sean, the current difficulties are temporary. You'll temporarily hold the position of factory director. When the time comes, I'll take you to work on the big stuff. Wait for me, I'll go get the big treasure," Saint Herse said, wiping his mouth after finishing his meal, and walked towards the pickup truck.

Then, he found two people to help lift the wooden box from the pickup truck bed. Sean also finished his meal, watching Saint Herse's performance.

Saint Herse took a crowbar, opened the wooden box, and took out the "big treasure" he spoke of. Sean had no expression.

"Sean, this is what we're going to be working on in the future. I'll show it to you now."

He carefully took out various raw materials from a special container, disassembled the shell, filled it, and then sealed it.

He carefully brought two shells to Saint Herse. A group of workers had already gathered around, watching Sean's performance with great interest.

Saint Herse didn't know how to fire a mortar, so he first found the English manual and translated it to Sean sentence by sentence. Sean began to prepare the shells.

"Sean, find a test range and get a target."

"Yes, Boss!"

A group of people arrived at the test range. Saint Herse, based on his memories from television in his previous life, guided the adjustment of position and angle, then hid in the distance.

Sean placed the shell, covered his ears, and the shell traveled in a parabolic path, landing outside the target, then with a bang, a huge explosion. Hey, it really went off, but it didn't hit.

This kid Sean has some skill. The explosives he filled could actually fly out. Not bad, Saint Herse thought.

Sean suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground. Saint Herse quickly had someone rescue him. Fortunately, he was just a little tired, saying he was just a little dizzy and didn't control the shell's ratio well. He decided not to fire the other one for now.

He rushed back to the wooden box and gently disassembled the shell, re-mixing another one.

"Boss, this one should be fine." Then he fired another parabolic shot, perfectly hitting the target. The sound wasn't as loud as before, very accurate.

"Boss, what do you think of the power?" Sean ran to Saint Herse, looking for praise.

"Sean, have you fired this thing before?"

"Oh, Boss, I saw the information when I was a city guard, but I never actually used it."

"Good, not bad, not bad. Of course, we can only produce this thing after we have our own machine shop. For now, let's honestly make fireworks."

"Boss, fireworks are quite simple. We just need some other raw materials, paper tubes, etc. Yellow mud is easy to get."

"That's right, fireworks need copper, magnesium, potassium, and other metals to look good." Appearance is justice. New China is the expert in fireworks. The ancestors were amazing.

"Yo, Old Sean, you're something. Did you study chemistry?"

"Boss, I graduated from the Cordoba Vocational School. I know some people who work with these raw materials. I prefer physics, but I know a little chemistry."

"Good, can you go buy some raw materials tonight? I'll have the paper mill produce some hard paper tubes later and send them to the dynamite factory. How about we make a batch of samples tomorrow night?"

"No problem, but Boss, about buying things..." Sean rubbed his fingers.

"Hey, no big deal, how much do you need?"

"Buy more raw materials, buy a few hundred pounds of each, it'll cost at least 50,000 pesos."

Sean quickly said a number.

"Okay, wait a moment," Saint Herse took out 50,000 pesos from the car and gave it to Sean.

After finishing these things, Saint Herse didn't have much else to do, so he left the dynamite factory, planning to return to Maria Town and have the paper mill make some hard paper tubes to send to the dynamite factory. He was waiting to see the fireworks tomorrow night.

The production of firearms and ammunition requires more precise equipment and more parts to assemble, so it can't be done for the time being. Mortars are easier, but not too easy. He still needs to build a seamless steel pipe factory first. Taking out the M1 mortar today was just a whim.

A mold factory is essential. At least, he also needs a complete forging machine and other mechanical equipment. Saint Herse's containers happen to have them, but they haven't been debugged and assembled yet.

He has already recruited various senior skilled talents from outside, but there is not much good news. There is a lack of talent. Maria Town is good in every way, but there are too few talents.

The team sent by Saint Herse has already gone to Cordoba and the neighboring Rosario and Santa Fe to recruit mold talents with high salaries.

Saint Herse specially called Lucifer in Santa Fe Province and asked him to recruit some people to bring over. Santa Fe Province is currently the second largest province in Argentina, and Cordoba Province is the third largest. There are still relatively many talents.

The Parana River is Argentina's golden waterway, its position equivalent to the Yangtze River in New China. There are many industrial cities along the coast. Maria Town is a tributary of the Parana River. Saint Herse is very confident in expanding Maria Town into a huge industrial city.

In the past, funds were limited, otherwise Saint Hesser would have quickly opened freight and passenger routes to Rosario. Now that he has money, he has already asked people to find suitable passenger ships to attract and receive talent from other places.

Otherwise, with Saint Hesser's ambition, these machinery factories and future artillery factories would never be able to develop.

Although a sentence has been said to death, talent is indeed very important. Although Maria Town is relatively far from the political center, it is not conducive to attracting more talent. The railway has too much limitation, and it is not punctual every day, which is quite helpless.

In the early stage, some workers did not live in Maria Town, so that passenger bus and ship were very attractive, which was Saint Hesser's idea. The wharf is also being expanded rapidly.

Saint Hesser has already bought the wharf and port, and is preparing for a large-scale construction to transport more materials and export them. Especially with future expansion, the current railway is still not enough. River-land combined transportation and sea-land-river combined transportation are very urgent.

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Saint Hesser drove his pickup back to Maria Town. There seemed to be many more people in the town. Only after Saint Hesser inquired did he know that the talents had arrived.

These hundreds or thousands of people were all brought over by Lucifer from Santa Fe City. Some were needed by the beverage factory, and some were foreign workers needed by the mold factory.

Because the national treasury is currently turbulent, many new state-owned factories have been shut down except for Bu City, and strikes have occurred. Some people can go to Maria Town for a living, which makes Saint Hesser feel a little embarrassed.

Now the Biron government can no longer control the increasingly fierce trade unions, and the military is also very dissatisfied. Biron can still control the situation and suppress it, but the workers cannot be without wages.

Lucifer found more than a thousand workers from factories in Santa Fe Province, chartered a boat directly, and gave Saint Hesser a big surprise.

The new market developed by Lucien Miller has made Santa Fe Province the largest province in sales of soda besides the capital of Bu Province, and the establishment of a local distribution network has already made Saint Hesser very satisfied.

This time, Lucien personally led the team to report the work to Saint Hesser in person.

Saint Hesser also saw Mayor Cavo, next to whom was Lucifer Miller, who was very optimistic about Cross.

"Boss, this time I recruited workers from Santa Fe Province..., Mayor Cavo has arranged for people to divert them."

"Miller, you have done a very good job, very outstanding, I am very satisfied." Saint Hesser couldn't help but praise.

"The workshop of our machinery factory has been arranged to move in. You can arrange for people to debug the machines later and prepare for trial production."

"Okay, boss."

"Mayor Cavo, I'll go deal with it first, after all, they are somewhat familiar with me."

"Okay, go ahead and get busy."

Lucien quickly divided the workers into two parts. The new beverage factory has been completed, and the production line equipment transported from the wharf has also begun to be debugged. Cross and Lucifer cooperated and arranged things in place quickly.

The new factory director of the mold factory has also been selected. He is a middle-aged man in his thirties. He is well-dressed and burly. His name is Louis Philip. He is a relatively rare British descendant in Argentina, which also surprised Saint Hesser. Saint Hesser still trusts Lucifer's vision very much.

Philip, dressed elegantly, shook hands with Saint Hesser,

Smiling, he said,

"Dear boss, I am very happy to work for you in the future."

"You are really a rare gentleman. If there are no accidents, we will establish a long-term relationship." Saint Hesser replied with a smile.

"I hope so." He is really an elegant British descendant, although he speaks Spanish, which is a bit strange. Unless necessary, Saint Hesser generally does not easily speak Chinese and English now.

Well-organized and quite reasonable.

"Cohen, your subordinates are very powerful," Mayor Cavo secretly gave a thumbs up.

"Yes, it's time to raise their wages,"

"Hahahaha, that makes sense."

In Saint Hesser's industrial park, there are now 4 factory buildings and 3 dormitory buildings, which are the earliest completed petrochemical plastic factory, plastic bottle factory, soda factory, and the newly designed mold factory.

More than a thousand workers were quickly arranged. The soda factory has more than 800 people, specializing in the production of soda for export, and the mold factory has more than 100 people, carrying out the first step of debugging and production.

The two have been able to stand alone. Now Saint Hesser has a weaving and clothing factory in Ke City and the Plari main factory, as well as a beverage factory in Bu City that has not yet started production, in addition to the factory in Maria Town.

The main purpose of the mold factory is to prepare to produce its own simple production line, and at the same time, it is responsible for the reverse engineering of some parts, to prepare for the later stage. For this reason, Saint Hesser dismantled an American-imported production line and prepared to replicate it one-to-one. I don't know if it can be successful.

However, for the gunpowder factory, the first task is to arrange the production of firework bases.

As long as the beverage production line can be self-sufficient, the next step is a larger-scale mortar production line, food production line, and canned food production line. Even if the quality is a little worse in the early stage, as long as the price is cheap enough, it can also provide some experience and lessons for subsequent research and development.

The expansion of the food industry cannot satisfy Saint Hesser. Machinery manufacturing, the steel industry, the chemical industry, and even military weapons, must be able to produce their own alternative equipment in the future, so as not to be strangled by others. This is also the experience and lessons of Xinhua in later generations.

Of course, it is too far to say these now, it depends on whether the mold equipment factory can be started.

A group of people worked until the evening and finally completed the basic debugging. Saint Hesser announced three times the salary tonight and invited them to a big meal. They must thoroughly debug the equipment and have arranged accommodation.

The workers were also very excited. After all, they ran so far to work in other places, the higher the salary, the better.

Mayor Cavo organized the restaurants in Maria Town to cook for the suddenly increased number of workers.

Saint Hesser also realized that he had not considered carefully enough, but Mayor Cavo had considered it thoroughly.

It was not until 8 o'clock in the evening that all the machinery debugging was completed, and the roar of the machines sounded, and the workers cheered.

Specially made, slightly chilled salt soda, roast mutton, and various delicacies have also been arranged.

Saint Hesser, Lucien, Cross, and Mayor Cavo had a drink together in Mayor Cavo's house. Saint Hesser exceptionally drank a little.

Today is indeed a good day, but the fireworks could not be arranged in time, otherwise we could celebrate the opening of the new factory. It is also a bit suspenseful tomorrow, it should be in time the day after tomorrow, Saint Hesser thought as he washed up and lay on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.