Rise of the Argentine Empire

The weather in North America is much harsher than in South America. October marks the beginning of autumn, and before the long winter arrives, Boston offers a brief glimpse of fall.

Completely different from Argentina, autumn here is filled with golden leaves everywhere. Even Saint-Hesse couldn't resist admiring the beautiful scenery. He enjoys autumn because it's not as hot as summer or as cold as winter, and the cool breeze is quite comfortable.

A great place to enjoy autumn is the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University. Saint-Hesse invited his friends from Harvard, forgetting some unpleasant things. Autumn is the season of harvest.

He is quite popular at Harvard Law School and has even published several academic papers under the name Tom Cruise.

The brief autumn quickly passed, ushering in winter in Boston.

Saint-Hesse witnessed the arrival of a heavy snow. The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the roof of the old house instantly transformed into a fairy-tale world.

Boston has a continental climate, which is much colder and more bone-chilling than the winters in Buenos Aires. A lot of snow fell.

Initially, Saint-Hesse was quite interested in building a snowman, but he almost froze his fingers off. He quickly lit a fire in the manor, which helped a lot. The temperature at night dropped to at least -10 degrees Celsius, which was incredibly dreadful weather.

Argentina's politics in the second half of the year have remained basically stable, but now no one dares to challenge Perón at his peak. Even the Radical Civic Union and the military have become much more low-key. Only the Republican Party is acting erratically.

Or perhaps it's not that Perón is at his peak, but rather that he feels like a trapped beast fighting to the death. Everyone is afraid of being crushed to death by Perón's claws. He has the strength, and the backlash before his death would be enormous. Moreover, Perón has not yet disbanded the armed military forces of the General Confederation of Labor. If a military civil war were to break out in the country, the consequences would be unbearable for anyone.

Now, whoever makes the first move dies first. No one wants to be the first sucker to benefit others. Judging by Mrs. Perón's funeral, the people are still on Perón's side.

October in Argentina is already a season of spring blossoms. Argentina's economic performance this year has not been very ideal. Fortunately, due to the reduction of export tariffs, some domestic companies have recovered a lot of vitality, but agricultural development is still stagnant, although it has increased slightly compared to last year.

The sluggish domestic economy also meant that the goals set by Saint-Hesse at the beginning of the year for the company's factories were not achieved. He was too optimistic.

Now that it's almost the end of the year, Rheinmetall Arms is estimated to be unable to complete the established goals for the beginning of the year. Currently, sales are less than $20 million, far short of Saint-Hesse's optimistic $70 million.

The market size for light weapons has already expanded to its limit, and the domestic potential has been exhausted.

It is also necessary to explore new categories. The improvement work on the STG45 has been completed, and 1,000 units have been mass-produced, but the sales bidding situation is not good, due to the resistance from the Rosario Domingo Arms Factory. Their STG-44 has also been developed in advance, and the Ministry of Defense is somewhat hesitant, as both are valuable.

On the domestic export side, Prall International's food exports to Europe have been blocked by companies such as Nestlé and Coca-Cola. Prall's products lack brand awareness, and it doesn't have its own factories in Western Europe. Perhaps it needs to build local factories. The situation in South America is good, and it can be described as invincible.

The situation for Blue Cloud Shoes and Clothing is better. This year's investment in the textile industry has greatly increased Blue Cloud's strength, and the establishment of a new factory in Buenos Aires has greatly enhanced Blue Cloud's development potential.

In Southeast Asia, France has failed to reverse the offensive in Vietnam. Prall International's fleet can only turn to poorer countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaya, and even India to do business. Fortunately, the MP40 is very popular and doesn't worry about sales. Moreover, Southeast Asia is very short of various foods, making Prall Food's products very popular here, especially instant noodles and Miranda soda.

In the end, if Argentina's population problem is not solved, the market will only be so large, and strong companies cannot be cultivated domestically. He must strive to develop the international market, which in fact is very likely to require sufficient military backing as a guarantee.

"I don't know if the future agricultural estates will work, whether they can increase the population. Industrialization and population growth are naturally opposed, which is really difficult. Now the population growth rate in the United States is not very good, and it can only rely on immigrants from other countries."

"When I return to China this time, I must seriously focus on the industrial agricultural estates, encourage childbirth, let employees have babies, and contribute to Argentina's population growth."

Saint-Hesse checked the recent twenty years of U.S. population data, and their local birth rate is also slowly declining, mainly relying on foreign immigrants to increase the population.

Currently, Argentina's population is only one-eighth of the United States and one-quarter of Japan. What does this represent behind it? It goes without saying.

The task is arduous and the road is long. Making an Argentine family have six or seven children is the only way to allow Argentina to develop and grow healthily. Otherwise, even if domestic development is strong, it will be a wedding dress for others, and an economic blockade will collapse.

In this way, after two generations, Argentina will have at least 70-80 million people, or even more, enough to rival a unified Germany. Adding immigrants from other countries, this is almost a population of 100 million, and at least there is no problem in becoming a medium-sized power.

With a sufficiently large educated population, there will be a fully competitive market. Even relying on involution inertia, it will be enough to allow Argentina to continue to be strong. It seems that some measures have to be taken.

Perón still hasn't seen the essence of national development clearly. Only a sufficient population can guarantee the steady advancement of industrialization, while Perón is still stifling Argentina's population potential, destroying Argentina's countryside.

The Argentina Northern Development Plan must also be improved. Argentina does not have enough agricultural talent, but the United States does. Establishing several agricultural population research companies is more than enough. Relying solely on domestic talent in Argentina is far from enough.

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While Saint-Hesse was busy studying at Harvard University, the Falcon Bureau and Little Nix's team from Brazil, mobilized from Argentina, had successively arrived in the United States.

With his own intelligence team and helpers, he had finally emerged from a state of blindness. Previously, he had underestimated the difficulty of doing things in the United States.

"Without my own intelligence system, everything is troublesome and very unaccustomed."

In a place like the United States, it is far less smooth to do things than in Argentina, and Sain can't provide much help.

He brought too few people with him to the United States this time, and he needs to do many things himself, and he also needs to keep a low profile, otherwise he will capsize if he is not careful.

The big consortiums in the northeastern United States are not vegetarians. Here, there are the most and most powerful consortiums in the United States. It is the political, economic, and industrial center, and the base camp of American capital. Although the western and southern consortiums in the United States have also developed very strongly, they are still far inferior to here. After all, they don't have Wall Street.

The northeastern United States is divided into the Rockefeller, Morgan, Boston, Mellon, and Chicago consortiums, each of which is richer than a country, in addition to the First Citibank consortium that is about to be established.

Among them, the Boston Consortium is one that Saint Hesser understands relatively deeply. This consortium has a very large influence in Boston.

The Lowell, Lawrence, Adams, and Lodge families, along with the emerging Kennedy family, jointly formed the Boston Consortium. MIT, Harvard, and Boston University all belong to them.

These families initially invested huge sums of money accumulated from overseas colonial plunder into commercial banks, insurance businesses, and investment companies. Relying on these financial institutions for funding, they operated light textile industries such as textiles, leather, shoemaking, clothing, food, and chemicals.

This is much more scientifically advanced than Saint Hesser's current development, prioritizing finance before industry.

Due to the rapid development of light textile industries, by the early 20th century, these families in Boston, who had been intermarrying for generations, formed the Boston Consortium with the First National Bank of Boston as its core.

The current Boston Consortium is already one of the six strongest consortia in the United States. During World War II, it developed the military industry, obtained large orders, and thus its ambitions expanded. Kennedy is a representative of their political power.

The Boston Consortium is now beginning to unite with the Rockefeller Consortium.

The Rockefeller Consortium firmly controls the world's most powerful oil company cluster, as well as Chase Manhattan Bank. They are doing what Saint Hesser plans to do: investing in emerging industry companies. The Rockefeller Consortium and the Mellon Consortium have always jointly controlled Lockheed Martin and Westinghouse Electric, two major arms dealers.

The current strongest Morgan Consortium is in its prime. In the Truman administration, three Secretaries of State in succession had connections with the Morgan Consortium.

The Morgan Consortium firmly controlled the government in the first half of the 20th century, enabling it to receive various economic protections and obtain a continuous stream of government orders, thereby reaping huge profits.

Citibank intends to merge with First National Bank of New York, and they will challenge * * * * Bank. This also reflects the intentions of the Rockefeller Consortium, which supports a new president, while the Morgan Consortium is also very optimistic about Eisenhower.

Morgan is currently at its strongest stage. Saint Hesser has acquired shares in many of their companies. General Motors, General Electric, IBM, and U.S. Steel are all theirs.

Earning a little money is not easy. Blackwater Company is only used to protect Sequoia Capital. Saint Hesser's planned futures trading will depend on the Chicago Consortium's approval. Causing trouble under their noses is also full of risks.

Saint Hesser is facing the Chicago Consortium in this futures speculation. They started from agriculture and animal husbandry, and their current strength can be said to be very strong, but they did not obtain too many benefits from World War II and have begun to decline. They are being targeted by several Eastern consortia. Wall Street has more powerful financial capital, and the futures market is not very prosperous now.

Moreover, there are several onion growers causing trouble now, so Saint Hesser dares to take action. He is also seriously learning from these American consortia. In Maria City, he has established competitive factories through the establishment of committees, financial centers, and other means, but he does not have his own bank, and lacking a financial core is not enough to be called a consortium.

The Chicago Consortium is one of the top ten consortia in the United States today. It was formed in the early 20th century by the McCormick family, the Wood family, and the emerging Crown family, and is named after its activity center in the Chicago area. Sears Department Store is theirs.

Now, acquiring onion contracts, onions are actually not a particularly large category, far less than futures like meat, cotton, and wheat, so they receive less attention, giving Saint Hesser an investment opportunity.

Next year will be the first American economic crisis after the war, which will recover quickly, and onion futures are a small reason for the outbreak of the economic crisis. This American crisis will not last long (about a year) for Saint Hesser, but it is crucial for him to earn enough money.

The truly useful people are still his own people. Fortunately, the American intelligence agencies are not omnipotent and have many loopholes.

Moreover, this period happens to be the American election and a change of government, so the situation in the United States is relatively chaotic and complex, and the timing is just right.

Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to send his confidants to the United States even with a hundred guts.

Even so, he is doing things cautiously.

This time, a complete intelligence team led by Guerrero is going to the United States, entering several major cities in the northeastern United States, such as New York, Chicago, and Boston, in several time periods to set up some intelligence liaison stations, while joining several newly established companies as cover identities. He cannot do it too meticulously now, and he cannot recruit so many talents.

Sain has helped him register more than 30 shell companies to acquire some precision instruments, employees, and make some preliminary preparations. Opportunity favors the prepared mind.

They have different identities, each with their own false identity and code name, mainly infiltrating the United States as company employees.

They enter the country with passports from Uruguay, Brazil, and Argentina, and basically all are proficient in languages such as English, Spanish, and German, bringing out all the elites.

This is also to ensure safety as much as possible.

He is not here to fight or anything, but to make money.

October 18th, a small manor in Boston,

This suburban manor is not large, but its security is not bad, and transportation is relatively convenient.

"Guerrero, this is your intelligence target. For the time being, help me collect some intelligence to prepare for the next step."

The targets given by Saint Hesser are the Chicago Consortium, the Rockefeller Consortium, and the Boston Consortium, with the focus still on the currently targeted Chicago Consortium. At the same time, he gave him a bunch of company lists.

Many of these company lists cannot be seen on the surface as belonging to anyone. Saint Hesser doesn't want to offend any big consortium one day without knowing it.

Judging from the information on the surface, most well-known large companies basically need various major consortia's technology, except for emerging industries.

"Yes, boss."

Guerrero carefully memorized this information in his mind and then threw it into the fireplace to burn it.

"Be careful of intelligence agencies such as the FBI and the CIA. Keep a low profile as much as possible. Our purpose is very clear, just to make money. We don't care about anything else. Be as careful and low-key as possible. Don't probe for information about anything other than the economy."

Domestically in the United States, the main thing is to deal with domestic intelligence agencies such as the FBI. This is also a brand new challenge facing the Falcon Bureau. The Falcon Bureau has always been mainly focused on domestic affairs. The American intelligence agencies are not comparable to the Argentine National Intelligence Service, and there is also the disadvantage of away operations, and it is impossible to mobilize the help of brother units of Delta Force and Thunder Cross.

"Okay, I will try my best."

This time, letting the Falcon Bureau enter the United States is not a temporary idea of Saint Hesser, but has three considerations.

1. Coming to the United States this time is just right to set up some conventional intelligence agencies to obtain stable intelligence from the United States in the long term to deal with the challenges of the CIA.

2. This is also a training for the Falcon Bureau. The level of the Falcon Bureau is still too poor and must improve and improve.

3. Help him make money in the United States, especially to figure out the relationship between the Chicago Consortium and the large onion growers, otherwise it will be troublesome to be pushed back.

Since its establishment last year, the Falcon Bureau has always had an international intelligence department. In more than a year, except for Brazil and Uruguay, it has achieved almost no results. This time, if it can be successfully stationed in the United States, it will be a major development for the international intelligence department.

Bester, the minister of the international department, has limited ability and is now mainly responsible for intelligence in Uruguay. The international intelligence department has always been developing very backward.

The complex consortium relationship in the United States also needs someone to help him sort it out, which is also his learning goal.