Rise of the Argentine Empire

The next day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, a well-rested Saint-Hesse arrived fashionably late.

As soon as he arrived at the New Argentina newspaper office, the atmosphere was completely different from the dullness of yesterday.

Today, the newspaper office was filled with a festive atmosphere, and everyone's face was beaming with excitement.

"Boss, the number of people subscribing to our newspaper this morning has doubled compared to yesterday.

The feedback on yesterday's newspaper was also quite good," Rodriguez from the editorial department said excitedly as he ran over.

"We printed over 3,000 copies of the newspaper today.

Many of our old customers who had canceled their subscriptions are preparing to resubscribe.

We are currently looking for people from the paper mill to get the raw paper materials.

The newsstands and shops are selling like crazy.

The printing machine is about to break down, and old Cole is a bit tired.

We've printed an additional 2,000 copies, and the subscription data from the stores is still growing."

"For money matters, find Andrew.

He will be the president of our New Argentina newspaper," Saint-Hesse said.

He certainly couldn't keep an eye on the New Argentina newspaper at all times, so a reliable person was necessary.

Currently, only wealthy people have telephones to subscribe to the newspaper, and some people also use public telephones, but very few.

After all, it's just buying a newspaper, which you can buy downstairs.

Unless it's absolutely necessary, subscribing daily is relatively rare for most people.

Most of the sales come from retail at distribution stores and subscriptions, which account for a large portion.

We need to give them a commission.

You can also subscribe with the newspaper delivery postman.

There are many channels.

A one-day increase of one-fold is already a very remarkable number.

"Arrange more manpower to help old Cole.

Everyone who is free today should go to the printing department to help out.

There will be bonuses for everyone."

"The main thing is that news, the news of the American negotiation, we were the first to publish it.

Many newspapers are asking to reprint it.

There are also many who are urging us to publish the novel.

We haven't received any feedback from the advertising cooperation yet."

Saint-Hesse finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The next thing would be a natural progression.

As for advertising, that was just icing on the cake, given the insufficient circulation.

"Those who reprint only need to attach the name of our newspaper, no reprint fee is required."

This was also a way to expand the newspaper's influence.

As for the reprint fee, it wasn't worth much.

"Everyone worked hard yesterday.

These are today's newspaper documents, please process them in your editorial department."

"Oh, yes, there's one more thing, which is to expand the size of the editorial department immediately.

If you have suitable talents, recommend them quickly.

There will be no recommendation bonuses next month.

I plan to start publishing the 'New Argentine Evening News' next month."

"Temporarily stop sending tomorrow's newspaper printing volume.

Let the operations department increase the supply of newspapers to cooperative stores.

First develop free customers, and the pricing wholesale price must be unified.

If there is a high price, cancel the cooperation."

Saint-Hesse thought for a moment and said to him that many people subscribe to newspapers from stores, accounting for more than half.

This was distribution, while direct sales were directly subscribed from the newspaper office.

"Understood, boss!"

Hearing this, he acted quickly.

"Yes, very energetic, good, good."

He handed the news documents he had handwritten overnight to Rodriguez before slowly walking to the office.

Now the time was also relatively tight, and the Sword of Damocles was always hanging over Saint-Hesse's head.

Taking advantage of this wave, he would first set up the framework of the editorial department before considering the specific newspaper content, which he already had ideas about.

The editorial department also had an important task, serving as the proofreader for Saint-Hesse's plagiarized novels.

Saint-Hesse only described most of the content.

The quality could not be compared with the original version.

The plot was not so rich, which was something that could not be helped.

As long as the spiritual core existed, that was enough.

Saint-Hesse made the department plan and development plan for the entire newspaper office in the office, as well as the follow-up recruitment work.

He couldn't be idle these days either.

He had to prepare the articles and novels for the remaining two months, so that the newspaper office could publish a little bit every day, at least to attract many newspaper customers and increase the number of fans.

Creating a continuous heat, in terms of the news section,

He had to recruit several new people from the editorial department and start doing news according to Saint-Hesse's instructions, some headline party techniques, sensationalism, reversal, and so on, teaching them, but at the same time, he could not give up the professional ethics of journalists, and the absolute correctness of the first edition must be guaranteed.

The New Argentina newspaper was still very important in Saint-Hesse's future development plan.

This was a question of Argentine discourse power and propaganda, so Saint-Hesse was also working hard, both painful and happy.

The 'Clarín' newspaper relied on its strong propaganda and distribution capabilities to pull the 'La Nación' newspaper down from its top spot.

Now it can subtly influence many things.

Andrew's report showed that the 'Clarín' newspaper was likely to have investment and assistance from foreign capital such as the United States behind it, which is why it has developed so rapidly in recent years.

In other words, the 'Clarín' newspaper may be the biggest obstacle in the development process of the 'New Argentine Daily'.

Some basic information about the 'Clarín' newspaper has also been found out.

In addition to the flagship 'Clarín' newspaper, there are also five or six other newspapers of various sizes.

They have four main departments,

Which are further divided into dozens of small departments.

The total number of employees exceeds 500, which is 20 times that of the New Argentina newspaper.

It has reporters in major cities across the country, as well as branches in Brazil, the United States, and Paris, forming a huge news network, with excellent editors, reporters, and its own printing plant.

Even their editors have various categories, sports, finance, economy, science, women, society, and so on, with very detailed divisions of labor.

The talents of the New Argentina newspaper are not very easy to manage, which is also a kind of talent trouble, which is also a great thing.

If a few can be cultivated, it will greatly change Saint-Hesse's way of not having anyone available.

In order not to let the people of the New Argentina newspaper deviate from the main line too much, Saint-Hesse found Andrew, the intelligence chief of Bu City, and appointed him as the new president of the newspaper, responsible for controlling the specific direction of development, preventing infiltration by other forces, and he himself served as the nominal chairman and boss.

Andrew was still relatively capable.

He has done a good job in handling intelligence work in the past few months.

Saint-Hesse emotionally prefers Guerrero of the Potassium Triangle,

Moreover, the intelligence team can obtain a lot of faster information than most people in the current newspaper office.

There are now members of the Thunder Cross distributed in 4 important cities,

Namely Ke City, Bu City, Luo City, and Oran City in the Potassium Triangle.

Following Plari International, it is also preparing to arrange some intelligence team personnel, which can provide the newspaper office with a lot of timely news.

Part-time informants in the city can also provide some important information, keeping an eye on these departments at all times,

So that the news obtained by the newspaper office can be one step faster, which is conducive to the next step of development of the newspaper office.

The relationship between the original informant Natalie and Saint-Hesse has become better and better, and there has been further development.

He was also arranged to enter the newspaper office as Saint-Hesse's special assistant to handle some documents.

Responsible for keeping an eye on the situation of the newspaper office and summarizing it to Saint-Hesse at any time,

He has been performing well recently, and Saint-Hesse is happy to train her in terms of informant contact.

In this era, reading newspapers is one of the few entertainment activities for the public, especially now that the overall economy is showing a downward trend and inflation is occurring, newspapers are the cheapest media, and they are convenient and fast.

Especially now that students across the country are about to have winter vacations, newspaper novels have a unique attraction, everyone loves to read them, and sales will increase a lot.

The 'New Argentine Daily' also plans to set up a special section to attract female readers, such as dressing skills designed for women, money-saving culture, store promotions, social ballads, etc., to attract female users, with a lot of solid content, which is very popular.

Saint-Hesse also has an ambitious New Argentina Comics development plan, which is also limited to planning.

The development of newspaper comics in Argentina is not satisfactory, which is also related to talent.

In fact, newspaper comics have a large enough readership base.

Secondly, the comic world can almost satisfy the public's imagination of 'beauty' - comic characters are strong and wise, punishing evil and promoting good, turning the tide, and helping the people who are deeply mired in reality to gain spiritual satisfaction in virtual imagination.

American McCarthyism reached its climax in the early 1950s, and this movement had a huge impact on the United States.

Now the United States is in a low ebb of comic development.

Marvel is rising, and DC is in a period of temporary decline.

Whether comics can be internationalized is also related to national strength.

If Argentina can achieve economic rise, then Argentine comics will be able to go to the world like Japanese comics, or they will just entertain themselves and influence the country, without the strength to continue.

"These are still too far away, let's honestly make the current development plan of the newspaper office, at least it's not losing money now."

Operating the novel business is feasible, but the comics industry demands even more talent. Although Argentina has a small population, there could be many talented people submitting their work.

"Being too ambitious is not good; we need to take it one step at a time."

If he hadn't failed to discover any comic talent, Jose would have even considered learning from the Americans and later Japanese anime, to create some serialized comics.

At that time, he could create serialized youth comics full of passion, like "Dragon Ball" and "One Piece," which also possess huge potential. Of course, one prerequisite is to integrate the Argentine national spirit into them, to localize and re-create these novels from his past life, subtly influencing the Argentine people and carrying out Argentine-style modifications.

......

After being busy with the newspaper for a few days, the New Argentina Newspaper has basically gotten on the right track, and there are no problems with its short-term development.

After arranging the specifics of each task, it was time for the final exams.

Unlike the exams from his previous life, the final exams were relatively simple, and he solved the problems quickly.

By the time he finished all the test papers, the semester was over.

Winter break officially began, and this semester lasted less than four months.

First, he thanked Professor Pukins, and then chatted with Cicero, who was doing well in the research institute.

This winter break, Jose plans to return to Maria Town and then spend most of his time in the Potassium Triangle.

The development speed of Thunder Mining there is too fast, and he also needs to consolidate his power. Although he has confidence in the loyalty of his subordinates from Thunder Cross,

and Aragon is watching as his confidant, he cannot relax his vigilance, especially now that Guerrero is preparing to open new mines and tobacco markets. With such a speed of development,

if Guerrero's people become inflated, he will have to pull them back, and he may even have to clean house, hoping it won't be difficult for him.

Jose finally understood the situation of a leader arranging subordinates. Everyone's thoughts, demands, and aspects are different. The difficulty of integrating them from a scattered mess is too great, and the difficulty of giving them a goal and making them work towards it is even greater.

Since he will be joining those party groups with funding in the future, why not start organizing one now?

Forming a tight little organization first seems pretty good. He'll talk about it when he returns to school in the second half of the year.

Now, he still needs to pay more attention to the firearms research institute and strive to get an order from the Ministry of Defense.

After the unremitting efforts of the members of the Rhein Research Institute, the first batch of M1911A samples were officially released. Testing took a lot of time.

The problems with the samples are no longer significant, and safety can be guaranteed. It's just that the price is still a bit expensive. After many adjustments and optimizations, the cost can be 90% of that of the Maming Ge factory. Argentina's state-owned factories have some extra expenses due to employee benefits and research and development expenses, which is considered normal.

In order to solve the problem of manufacturing costs, Professor Dahn adopted some aggressive new technologies, which are generally not allowed in state-owned factories.

Fortunately, the adjustments in all aspects are quite good. After all, this is just imitation. As long as the problem is found, it can be solved quickly.

Without this experience, it might not be possible even after spending a few more years, which is normal. A wise old man in the family is a treasure.

The few new guns produced in Italy are still being surveyed and studied.

Jose has already had people prepare the factory buildings and move the production line from Maria Town to Bu City. After receiving the order from the Ministry of Defense, mass production can begin. Bu City will produce the parts, then assemble them, and finally produce the finished products.

......

After finishing his business, Jose, after spending a few days with Elena, hurried to take the train back to Maria Town, feeling quite eager to return home.

Having been away from Maria Town for more than four months, even though he receives various data and development reports from the committee every month, including various financial reports, it's still not as shocking as experiencing it in person.

As soon as he entered the edge of the town, he discovered that the entire Maria Town had undergone new major developments. Looking at the new houses rising from the ground, there were many more construction sites.

It's completely different now, with the appearance of an industrialized town, developing rapidly, with various new buildings and construction sites, and restaurants opening up.

The entire town is constantly expanding outwards, the river is already half-dried up, and the upstream hydroelectric power station has entered a rapid construction phase.

It's just that the speed is a bit slow, and it will take at least more than a year to complete.

The first thing he did was visit Mayor Cavo, who is Jose's pillar of support in Maria Town.

"Cohen, you're back from Bu City," Mayor Cavo looked at Jose with some surprise.

"We were just having dinner, come in quickly." He grabbed Jose's hand and entered the house. Sure enough, they were eating dinner. He ordered the servant to add a set of tableware, and the two sat down.

"It's really been too long since I've seen you. I also want to thank you for providing me with the campaign funds last time. I've already received the next nomination from the Radical Civic Union. Let's have a good drink. There's nothing going on this afternoon." Mayor Cavo was in a good mood and wanted to drink in the middle of the day.

"Haha, these are all small things, then let's have a drink, just some beer will do," To be honest, Jose is not particularly optimistic. The new mayor has only been in office for less than a year, and the next election is still three years away.

"Hey, that's a pity. The Zhuyecun brand grain liquor produced by your winery is very popular. I had a hard time buying it." Cavo shook his head, saying with regret.

"Zhuyecun? Oh, oh, I remember it, it's produced by the brewery, right? Then let's try it."

Only then did Jose remember that he hired Liu Jiukang from Chinatown four months ago to brew wine. Some of the newer grain liquors were only produced this month and need to be cellared for a period of time, so the quantity is not large.

Most of the time, they mainly sell alcoholic beverages, with Western whiskey, brandy, and vodka being the most popular, and grain liquor is mostly sold as some high-end products, going through high-end channels.

"Well, let me pour you some,"

"Well, it's indeed better than tequila. It's really good." Jose took a small sip, the taste was soft, fresh, and full-bodied, with a unique fragrance that tequila doesn't have. It's really good.

Liu Jiukang is indeed from a brewing family. Because of cost issues during home brewing,

the original raw materials were relatively ordinary, and the taste was still good. Now that it's industrialized, the raw materials are definitely guaranteed, and the taste is even better than what he drank in Chinatown. He always had a headache the day after drinking tequila, so he gradually quit.

The two chatted for a while, and Cavo suddenly said,

"Brother Cohen, I plan to have my youngest son, Little Cavo, participate in the next round of mayoral elections in Maria Town. What do you think? I've already planned to have him return to work in Maria Town."

The mayoral elections in Argentina, except for major cities, are mostly relatively casual, and the divisions are also relatively strange. Some village-level cities have less than 1,000 people and still have a mayor.

Cavo plans to have his youngest son, who just turned adult this year, take over the position of mayor of Maria Town,

so that he can fully respond to the next round of election qualifications, but according to common sense, Maria Town belongs to a town-level city, and its status is only slightly higher than some village-level cities. The difficulty of running for mayor of Cordoba is at least ten times greater than the difficulty of his son's election.

"I will seriously consider this," Jose cautiously replied, not giving a specific attitude.

Supporting the old man is fine, but a little brat who is only 17 years old now, managing a medium-sized city that is expected to develop to at least 200,000 people in three years, isn't that a joke?

The importance of Maria Town in Jose's heart is very high, and he won't let people mess around.

If Cavo really plans to have his youngest son, who is currently underage, participate in the election in three years, then Jose really needs to carefully consider the relationship between the two of them.

A mayor in his early 20s, the Argentine election policy stipulates that as long as you are an adult and have lived continuously in the area for 3 years, you can participate in the election, provided that no one competes with you. If he really supports it, it could become a stain on his future.

He chatted with Mayor Cavo for a long time. The development speed in the town is very fast, and the entire town has quickly surpassed other cities in the province. This year, it is likely to become the second largest industrial city in Cordoba Province,

Mayor Cavo is also full of gratitude to him, not expecting that in less than a year, the entire Maria Town has already had five or six small and medium-sized factories, and the amount of tax paid far exceeds last year.

This probably made Cavo a little carried away, wanting to make such a foolish idea.