Rise of the Argentine Empire

With the support of the Blanca City Hall, Cohen Heavy Industries has adjusted, utilized, and renovated 80,000 square meters of factory buildings, and is expected to build 50,000 square meters of new factory buildings.

Supported by several large mechanical equipment factories under Philip Industries, such as Rennes Machine Tool Factory and Rennes Machinery Factory, Cohen Heavy Industries manufactured its own light and heavy weapons production instruments and equipment, restored the bullet production line, and ensured the bullet supply for its original customers.

Moreover, Saint Hesser's weapon warehouses are mostly distributed in various places, such as Oran City and San Martin City, which have not been sealed up. Only 5 million US dollars of inventory was lost, and 3 million US dollars of goods are still retained.

After all, he was able to develop some arms dealers and distributors. Even if their orders are not large, they cannot be easily abandoned. Moreover, international arms trade smuggling has nothing to do with Rennes Military Industry. Rennes Military Industry is essentially a "very clean" military enterprise.

Argentina initially broke through the monopoly of British and American arms companies and exported so much "Made in Argentina". It is indeed a pity to abandon such trade channels, especially since the African independence year and the wars in the world's oil centers are coming in a few years, and a lot of weapons and ammunition will be needed. Such a rich income must be cherished.

In terms of raw material supply, Thunder Mining's Pachón Copper Smelting Plant, La Plata Steel Plant, and Maya Chemical Plastics Plant unconditionally supported Cohen Heavy Industries with the various raw materials it needed, so it could continue production and research and development.

Anyway, the patents for these firearms and equipment are actually in Saint Hesser's hands, and there are backups of the drawings. Now is the perfect time to develop more advanced improved versions of weapons.

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March 9th, the autumn harvest began, and the people in the agricultural reclamation area were filled with smiles of harvest.

Agricultural reclamation groups, led by Blanca City Agricultural Reclamation Development Co., Ltd. and Future Agriculture Agricultural Reclamation Co., as well as major agricultural development cooperatives, are about to usher in the autumn harvest exam. The autumn harvest is also the time when Blanca City University and major primary and secondary schools and vocational schools start.

Because of the large number of students, Saint Hesser notified a temporary expansion of enrollment. Nearly 8,000 new students from 7 professional schools, including two universities, began to enroll, and the number of students in primary and secondary schools was also close to 40,000.

Blanca City's population has grown rapidly in the past three or four months, and the population is now close to 500,000, including 17,000 foreign laborers, which has supplemented the embarrassing situation of insufficient labor in Blanca City. Behind so many people is a constantly expanding city.

The growing scale of Blanca City has brought new challenges to Saint Hesser, such as accelerating the construction of residential buildings and developing new districts. He has to continue to accelerate the construction of the suburbs of Blanca City.

For example, the population of Alta District in the east of the East District has reached 80,000, and the separate Lingang Industrial Zone has 90,000 people. The population of the core five districts of Blanca City has even gradually overflowed to the newly merged districts. For example, the Ahriqi District, where the new provincial government is located, has attracted 20,000 people to live there. Most of them are employees of large companies who have enough savings and loans to buy commercial housing.

The comprehensive agricultural development agreement brought about a surge in Argentina's cotton production this year. The cooperatives participating in the agricultural agreement harvested more than 100,000 tons of cotton, which strongly guaranteed the development of Blanca City's cotton textile and garment industries.

In the Gran Chaco Plain, the three provinces of Corrientes, Formosa, and Chaco have 27 large cotton production cooperatives, which have planted a large number of long-staple cotton and Indian cotton varieties introduced by Future Agriculture from Egypt.

They have all achieved very considerable development, and now cotton is in short supply. Blanca City alone is expected to consume 60,000 tons of cotton this year. Originally, Blue Cloud Textile had to import cotton from Brazil, but now it can basically meet the needs, which has also strongly stimulated the expansion of cotton planting area.

Cotton has become a good way for poor border provinces in Argentina to get rich, and has become the "white gold" in the mouths of border farmers, and it has also strongly stimulated the export of clothing from Blanca City.

The Andes Cigarette Factory has also joined this development agreement, recruiting more tobacco growers and tobacco agricultural cooperatives. More tobacco exports will also bring more income to Saint Hesser.

In addition to cash crops, soybeans, cotton, wheat, and rice, which have joined the Blanca City agricultural agreement, have also achieved good income expectations, filling the large granaries built in Blanca City with grain, ensuring the food supply for the people of Blanca City for the next two years.

This year, 30,000 square kilometers of newly reclaimed agricultural cultivation areas in the south are used for the planting of some new crops, and the degree of mechanized implementation is very high.

Saint Hesser specifically held an agricultural conference to win this battle of harvest.

This also indirectly made Saint Hesser the third-in-command of La Pampa Province. The main problem is age. Otherwise, he has the confidence to run for the position of La Pampa high-ranking official. After all, the Radical Party has the most status and personnel in La Pampa Province. Almost 1/3 of the provincial government civil servants have joined the Radical Party, and Saint Hesser is the highest person in charge of the La Pampa Radical Party.

It is no wonder that Blanca City manages a population of nearly twice that of the rest of La Pampa Province, which makes Blanca City appear more强势. If it were not too exaggerated to concurrently serve as a high-ranking official, the La Pampa high-ranking official would have wanted to appoint Saint Hesser as a high-ranking official. The La Pampa high-ranking official is the most unambitious provincial leader Saint Hesser has ever seen.

Many officials have been shocked by the efficiency of the Blanca City City Hall, and the scale of the new provincial government building office area can even be vaguely compared with the Presidential Palace, and even newer and larger.

Among them, the most eye-catching building in the new district is the new provincial government building office area.

Most of the new provincial government building in La Pampa has 4 floors, and the construction and decoration time is less than half a year. It mainly adopts the Spanish Moorish architectural style, and the main body is a reinforced concrete structure.

The exterior is all white marble, and there are multiple groups of spires on the roof. The main building has 6 floors and is the location of the La Pampa Provincial Government Hall. The building area is more than 50,000 square meters, and it also integrates Art Nouveau and Gothic styles.

It adopts the most advanced construction methods in Argentina. The architectural designers are all from the Department of Architecture of the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Cordoba. The main contractor is Cohen Construction Company, and the decoration company is Blanca City Aisaide Decoration Company.

The provincial government building office area is divided into the West Wing, the Central District, and the East Wing, of which the Central District is the location of the provincial government building.

There is also a circle of important buildings in La Pampa Province on the east and west wings of the provincial government building, which are the newly established La Pampa Provincial Customs Building, as well as the La Pampa Provincial High Court, the La Pampa Provincial Assembly Building, the La Pampa Provincial Finance Building, the La Pampa Provincial Radical Party Headquarters, the La Pampa Provincial Defense Building, the La Pampa TV Tower, and a large number of new and old institutional buildings of the La Pampa Provincial Government Hall, such as the La Pampa Bank.

In addition, the most important building in the West Wing is the district government of Ahriqi District, which manages this new urban area.

With the large increase in the population of Blanca City, Saint Hesser gradually turned the district government from an external institution into a regular institution, which can have its own courts, police stations and other permanent institutions, and is still under the leadership of Blanca City.

Otherwise, he would be too busy. Now each district manages a lot of people.

The door of the La Pampa Provincial Government Office Area faces the Harvest Goddess Square, also known as Ceres Square. This is a large square with an area of 160,000 square meters, which can accommodate 200,000 people at the same time.

The Harvest Goddess is much larger than the May Square in Buenos Aires, and far exceeds the Harvest Goddess Square in Madrid.

In the center of the square, a large statue of the Goddess of Harvest is being erected. The main body of the statue is 72 meters high, with a base of 108 meters, taller than the American Statue of Liberty and also taller than the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

Saint-Hesse originally planned to build it to a height of 144 meters, symbolizing the 144th anniversary of Argentina's founding next year, but due to the high cost and technical reasons, he gave up and chose a height of 108 meters.

The Harvest Goddess statue will be the tallest building in Blanca City for the next few years, and it is expected to be completed by the end of next year. Next year will be the 72nd anniversary of the establishment of the La Pampa administrative region. The statue is expected to cost up to 1.43 million US dollars. The construction funds all come from fundraising and municipal government allocations, with a main reinforced concrete structure, plus other materials such as copper and steel.

The Harvest Goddess Ceres wears a wreath of grain, holding a bundle of wheat in her left hand and a crescent sickle in her right, silently watching the entire Pampas grassland.

Ceres is the goddess of agriculture and harvest in ancient Roman mythology, one of the twelve main Roman gods. Ceres is Jupiter's sister and one of the most popular gods in the West.

She taught humans how to cultivate, giving life to the earth. She has boundless magic power, which can make the land fertile, plants lush, and crops abundant. She can also make the earth wither, all things wither, and no grass grow. She can give people inexhaustible wealth, and she can also make people poor and destitute.

East of the Provincial Government Building is Otto Commercial Avenue. Sixty-four eight-story commercial buildings have been built on both sides of the commercial avenue, all neatly uniform, personally named by Saint-Hesse.

These commercial buildings are all equipped with elevators, and many large local and foreign companies have moved in. For example, Blanca City Commercial Bank has purchased a building as its headquarters, and Barron Bank has also established its southern headquarters here. Southern Oil just didn't have a decent headquarters, so they simply moved the headquarters here. In addition, a number of companies such as Southern Energy and Blanca City Power Company have moved here, making it much more lively.

And some people with a keen sense of smell simply bought a building, renovated it, and rented it out, making a lot of profit.

To the west is General San Martin Avenue, where four Sanchez Supermarkets have been built, each with a shopping complex covering 10,000 to 20,000 square meters. Basically, one commercial supermarket can cover the shopping needs of 10,000 to 20,000 people.

In addition, there are also 5 commercial trade cities here, which can meet the procurement needs of most people.

These are all built according to the scale of serving 100,000 people, and the population of Santa Rosa City is only 50,000 people, which means that Saint-Hesse has almost built a new city in the Ahriche district.

In order to ensure the life and work needs of the provincial government officials and the new city staff, Saint-Hesse planned to build 40 residential areas around, with every 10 residential areas forming a large area. These residential areas are mostly located around the commercial area.

These large residential areas are built by 17 construction companies. Each residential area basically has 10 to 18 buildings. Each building has 6 floors, and each floor can accommodate 4 households. If fully occupied, it can basically meet the housing needs of 80,000 people.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the education needs of the children of officials, 10 primary schools, 5 junior high schools, and 2 senior high schools have also been built between the residential areas.

In addition, 2 large libraries have been built here, just waiting for the funds to be in place to fill them with books.

A batch of research institutes and some technologically advanced factories have also been planned in the Ahriche district. Saint-Hesse has built several large industrial parks around the residential area according to high standards, opening up new investment promotion work, mainly focusing on electronic factories, pharmaceutical companies, electrical appliance factories, and other companies with higher technological content.

In addition to the huge Provincial Government Building, the future La Pampa University of Technology, La Pampa Normal University, and La Pampa University of Science and Technology are also under preparation one by one. The Ahriche district will be planned as a university town in the future, second only to the current National Southern University area, and may even surpass it.

This is also inevitable. According to Saint-Hesse's ideas and plans, Blanca City now has a large amount of fiscal revenue. In addition to fiscal transfers to Santa Rosa City, the rest must be converted into useful things, and even more future money must be spent.

Especially Leidun Motors, Maya Chemical, and Southern Oil, these companies with large talent demands have a huge thirst for talent. In addition, the future development of high-end third industrial revolution medicine and aerospace technology will inevitably require more excellent talents.

And it is very necessary to build more universities in advance now. Moreover, the development of the Blanca City construction industry is now at its peak. Coupled with work-for-relief, the number of registered construction workers alone is almost 29,000, which can also drive huge demand.

Also, the larger the scale, the cheaper it is. Under the stimulation of orders, a group of excellent manufacturers have emerged in cement, steel bars, sand, gravel, red bricks, and tiles. Market competition is fierce, and prices are quite affordable.

The construction industry in Blanca City has long surpassed San Martin City. Not only that, Blanca City has also cultivated 7 extra-large construction companies with a construction scale of more than 1,000 people. Among them, Blanca City State-owned First Construction Company and Second Construction Company rank first and second in scale. The First Construction Company was only established last year, and now it is the largest construction contractor in Blanca City, even surpassing Cohen Construction Company, which Saint-Hesse has developed for several years.

And Isaac Trump, the person in charge of the First Construction Company, is also one of the civil servants most valued by Saint-Hesse. At only 37 years old, he has already shown strong business management capabilities. He went out from the Blanca City State-owned Assets Committee to be responsible for the management of the First Construction Company. The person in charge of the Second Construction Company is also a civil servant under 40 years old. The main business of the First Construction Company includes road construction, construction contracting, and residential building construction. The business of the Second Construction Company is also quite extensive. Ports, factories, and residences can all be built.

Moreover, the treatment of the First Construction Company and the Second Construction Company is also good, and the accident rate is low. They are the two construction companies with the lowest accident rate in the Blanca City Construction Association.

In the future, Blanca City Aviation School, Agricultural School, and Petroleum School will have the opportunity to be upgraded to universities. Then, with the National Southern University as the center, a university town will also be built. Saint-Hesse has planned a large enough land for them to expand.

It is impossible for a large city with millions of people in the future to have only two universities. Other people will have to go to Buenos Aires, Cordoba, and La Plata to go to university.

Moreover, Blanca City has gradually developed into the second highest city in Argentina in terms of fiscal revenue. With the blessing of the free port and customs duties, the fiscal revenue in January this year exceeded that of La Plata. The import and export trade volume in January has exceeded 10 million US dollars, which is very close to Buenos Aires.

I have to say that doing trade as a transshipment port is profitable. All of Saint-Hesse's companies now almost all conduct export trade through Blanca City. Argentina's well-connected railways make the export and import of Blanca City very convenient.

The Blanca City Hall is temporarily still in the western district of Blanca City.

This relocation is actually mainly for personnel and various materials, and the newly established La Pampa Provincial Defense Department was set up in January to ensure safe delivery. Saint-Hesse certainly would not be polite. This is a regular army, and it is funded and established by La Pampa Province.

Saint-Hesse first established a regiment, directly disbanding half of the Blanca City Armed Police on the spot and stuffing them into the La Pampa Provincial Defense Army. The Defense Army now has 300 people.

Saint-Hesse immediately launched the conscription office, extensively publicized it around Blanca City, encouraged young people with lofty ideals in La Pampa Province to join the army, and synchronously established the La Pampa Military Academy, selecting retired officers to serve as teachers and directly starting enrollment.

Many young people in Argentina failed to get into university this year. In the past, most of them would enter society. Now it's good, they can join the army, and they can also take the military academy exam, and the treatment is not bad.

One of Saint-Hesse's regiments was quickly filled, and the Military Academy also quickly completed enrollment.

The barracks are located in the suburbs east of the Rich district. They are drilled every day according to Saint-Hesse's instructions, and the military quality is improving very quickly.