Rise of the Argentine Empire

Chubut Province was later incorporated into Argentina and has fewer autonomous municipalities, only 16. Compared to Buenos Aires Province, which was developed earlier and has more than 130 autonomous municipalities, it is indeed sparsely populated.

Of course, many of the autonomous municipalities in Buenos Aires Province have only a few hundred or a few thousand people, which is why the city of Blanca can merge with neighboring towns.

Exploration costs are quite expensive, but fortunately, some work can be outsourced. There are also many Chileans in Navy General City participating in field exploration work. Currently, Argentina is more developed than Chile.

San Jose didn't want to take the train back, so he had the "Otto" arrive in Navy General City in advance.

The "Otto" has been more completely renovated and is docked in the port, attracting a lot of attention in Navy General City.

The mayor of Navy General City, Dario Damian, also met with San Jose to discuss some preliminary cooperation matters in detail, and both host and guest were happy.

Dario Damian is a member of the Justicialist Party, but this does not hinder cooperation between the two. Many autonomous municipalities in the south can be regarded as frontier officials, and the development of Blanca City in the past year has been widely circulated in the Patagonia region under the promotion of newspapers.

In particular, the cooperation regulations with Viedma and Santa Rosa have made many more backward cities want to supply Blanca City, but the second phase of cooperation has not yet started. Blanca City also tries to avoid the method of spreading the pie too thin. It is enough to support the surrounding area.

"Oil has closely connected me and Mr. San Jose, which is a cooperation regulation that the provincial capital, Rawson, does not have."

Later, people gradually learned that Mayor Dario's two children went to Harvard University in the United States in September to study, avoiding the national student strike, which was personally presided over by Sean of Sequoia Capital. He also bought a high-end residence in Buenos Aires and a luxury Mercedes-Benz car.

After that, the speed of oil exploitation in the south was rapidly promoted, and good news came every month.

The Southern Radical Party led by San Jose also rapidly expanded its influence here.

Under the introduction of Mayor Dario, San Jose also had a detailed talk with Navy Major General Marcos Andres, who was stationed here, for more than two hours, and exchanged gifts with each other.

Only then did San Jose end his vacation early and take a boat north.

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Rome,

Juan, as a big financier and head of the main delegation, is also responsible for negotiations in other military trade fields. Horst, the president of Rheinmetall, went to Turin as his deputy to negotiate cooperation.

This military negotiation has entered the final stage and is coming to an end.

The Rheinmetall team has obtained a large amount of basic military technology, which is of great significance for the modification of warships, the optimization of the Arrow 2 fighter jet at the San Martin Aircraft Factory, and the development of new firearms.

Horst has also completely become the official representative of the Argentine military industry. A German, and also a former Nazi Argentine representative, was publicized to Israel by those with ulterior motives.

The Jews who heard the news also launched several assassinations, trying to kill Horst and several others.

In particular, the Jewish intelligence agents of Israel had fierce battles with the top security personnel of the Falcon Bureau, but ultimately failed, but lost several elite security personnel.

The reason for the failure was that it was relatively sudden, and the Mossad was in the early stage of development, and the level of special warfare was relatively average, which prevented Horst from being assassinated successfully.

Juan also sent the assassination intelligence to Argentina for emergency help.

In order to protect these experts and meet the personnel, San Jose once again sent a group of elite security guards and arranged special ships to meet them.

Go to Italy for protection. Rheinmetall has many elite experts coming. If something happens, it will be a big loss.

This is also something that San Jose did not anticipate in advance. Damn Israelis, San Jose also hated Israel in his heart.

Israel is now in a relatively peaceful stage. With the help of the Americans, it is also close to Italy, which allows them to take advantage of the loopholes. Fortunately, Enrique and others quickly responded and sent the local city hall to send the police to ensure safety. At least Italy has no problems at this stage.

San Jose was a little helpless when he learned about the assassination of Israeli agents, and he also reminded himself that these arrogant Israeli agents seemed to have assassinated and tried many former Nazi personnel in Argentina in later generations.

This is a provocation to Argentina's sovereignty. It seems that the experts from Rheinmetall and the San Martin Aircraft Factory should be kept low-key.

In fact, this is also something that cannot be helped. Even if he knows that Israel will continue to expand, even occupy the Sinai Peninsula and attack Egypt, the Middle East is a shit stirrer, he cannot remind Nasser or the like. The inertia of history and San Jose's own limited influence are not enough to deal with the situation in the Middle East.

However, it is possible to cause trouble for them and sell and smuggle some practical military fire to Israel's opponents through French channels.

San Jose can smuggle military fire in many areas of Southeast Asia and North Africa, which is also approved by the French.

San Jose has also been wanting to find a major country as a partner, and the French are a relatively good partner. At least the conflict between Britain and France is still very large.

France and the Soviet Union are both naturally suitable for Argentina to cooperate with, but in terms of reliability, the most reliable is the Soviet Union. The betrayal of France and the United States in the Falklands War in later generations are all manifestations of their unreliability.

Especially the United States and Britain, they are basically in an enemy relationship with Argentina.

However, in international relations, strength is the first priority. The relationship with major countries is more delicate. At present, it is more suitable to develop in a low-key manner and increase strength.

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In this cooperation, besides Southern Oil, the most successful is the acquisition of the Fiat 600 car production line, which is even more meaningful than the cooperation of Rheinmetall.

Italy is one of the few countries in the world with a complete automobile industry.

In the field of automobile manufacturing, the Italian automobile manufacturing industry, represented by Fiat, is already at an advanced world level in vehicle and engine design and manufacturing, research and development capabilities and level, and manufacturing processes and technology.

Fiat is headquartered in Turin, Italy, and received assistance from Ford in the 1930s to establish the most advanced assembly line at the time.

Currently, the Fiat Group has 80,000 employees and has begun to make a profit again.

It is far more powerful than Saint Hesser imagined.

During World War II, it produced Italy's first light tank and the BR.20 bomber, which is enough to show that Fiat has a very strong technical foundation.

The current Fiat is, strictly speaking, a state-owned enterprise. Although it belongs to the Agnelli family, it supported Mussolini during the war and was deprived of ownership of the group by the National Committee. At the same time, Fiat is also Italy's largest military industry enterprise, capable of producing ship engines, airplanes, sports cars, tractors, trucks, forklifts, bulldozers, and other all-round industrial products.

Fiat's quasi-state-owned status makes Juan's negotiations more convenient. Enrique, as the head of Italy's largest state-owned enterprise ENI, has a good relationship with Vittorio Valletta, the current president of Fiat, the second largest state-owned enterprise.

In Juan's initial report, Saint Hesser discovered something new, which was the Fiat 600 model car. This was exactly what he wanted, and Fiat was preparing to launch it on the market.

Saint Hesser had wanted to find some substitutes for vans, but they simply didn't exist in the world at the time.

But there was another new product, which was a microcar, but cooperation with Volkswagen Beetle in Germany was not going smoothly and the price was expensive.

The cars produced by the British MINI Motor Company were even more expensive and did not meet his needs, and the attitude of the British made him very unhappy.

The United States simply did not have the concept of microcars. There was no cooperation established with Japanese companies such as Toyota, and Suzuki's technology was not strong enough.

The negotiations with Fiat were held in Turin. In order to reach a cooperation, Enrique also helped to go there, forming a large-scale cooperation team.

"Mr. Vittorio Valletta, our team hopes that you can help us build a complete Fiat 600 production line to help us build our own car factory."

"Will it be sold under the name of Fiat or under the name of your company? How will the price be calculated?"

Vittorio nodded. Enrique introduced the project, and Italy and Argentina have always had a lot of cooperation. He asked a core question: business is business, and friendship is friendship.

"We offer two options. The first is that we provide all the funds to purchase the car production line from you and then change it to our brand. We can provide all the funds."

"The second is to establish a joint venture automobile company, with profits and assets being split equally."

Juan proposed two options. One is to establish an Argentine private automobile company, and the other is a joint venture automobile company. The former is more expensive and the effect is slower. Once successful, it will be an independent brand. The latter is faster and the quality is expected to be better, but it is less helpful to the development of an independent automobile industry.

In the end, Vittorio agreed to sell the entire Fiat 600 production line and authorize the production of the model.

The entire Fiat company currently lacks confidence in the Fiat 600, because this is a car that is only scheduled to be launched next year. If there is more funding, they can further optimize and improve this model.

In other words, Saint Hesser caught a good time. No one knows whether the Fiat 600 will work or not, so it is better to sell the production line directly. Fiat has to support 80,000 people, and the automobile department has a heavy responsibility. Moreover, the price offered by the Argentines is too high for them to refuse.

Including the engine production line, welding, stamping, painting, powertrain, etc., the contract price is 22 million US dollars, with the first year's payment to be paid within 1 month, and the balance to be paid within 3 years. It also includes a series of technical cooperation such as the modification of automobile raw materials, tire production lines, cast iron engines, gearboxes, and car bodies, as well as a large number of industrial machine tool cooperation.

"Happy cooperation!"

Vittorio and Juan hugged each other tightly. Both sides were very satisfied.

Juan took a photo on behalf of the automobile production team to commemorate the occasion.

The group visited the Turin automobile factory again and saw the prototype car and the small-scale production line.

The Fiat 600 is 3.22 meters long and is Fiat's first rear-wheel drive model.

In addition, the Fiat 600 also has the Fiat ipla production line, or a micro-van. This Fiat 600M is narrow but can seat 6 people.

Of course, it is very uncomfortable to sit in.

The appearance of this car is very rounded overall, somewhat like an egg.

There are two sets of circular lamps on the left and right sides of the front of the car, plus a rounded front grille, which makes the whole car look a bit cute. A luggage rack can be optionally installed on the roof to increase luggage storage space.

The side of the car body adopts ordinary front-opening doors.

In terms of power, the Fiat ipla is equipped with a 0.77L naturally aspirated four-cylinder engine, matched with a 4-speed manual transmission.

Although the horsepower is only 32 horsepower, it wins in its light weight. The curb weight of this car is only 580kg, and the maximum total weight is only 900kg.

Before microcars appeared in Japan, Fiat was the most fuel-efficient car.

And this is also the direction of future development: fuel efficiency.

Juan and others also test drove in the factory area and expressed their satisfaction.

Argentines need cheap and easy-to-use cars.

This cooperation mainly involves two cars, namely the 5-seater Fiat 600 car and the Fiat 600M passenger car.

In fact, Saint Hesser also intended to introduce Fiat's truck project to help the Rein Tank Factory transform, but the Fiat truck factory is independent, and their truck production line is very expensive, so he simply gave up.

After visiting these factories, Juan and others basically completed the task, and the next step is formal cooperation.

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