Rise of the Argentine Empire

With the rapid increase in the population of Blanca City, the number of council members in the Blanca City Council also increased, from 13 members the year before last to 55 members, an average of one council member for every 8,000 people, to ensure the needs and interests of the citizens.

Saint-Jose conducted a series of reforms in Blanca City to ensure that Blanca City could continue to develop smoothly in the future even without him.

Blanca City has gradually formed a triangular structure of Mayor - Council - City Hall, forming a new balance that can develop relatively well.

However, it still has not broken away from the scope of the dual core, after all, the City Hall is still led by the Mayor.

Now the Mayor is responsible for research and decision-making, formulating urban development guidelines, the City Hall is responsible for administrative affairs, mainly implementing the decisions of the Mayor of Blanca City; the Council is responsible for discussing major resolutions and questioning the decisions of the City Hall and the Mayor, and the Standing Committee of the Blanca City Council usually serves as the intelligent body.

The powers of the Mayor and the Council of Blanca City are basically equivalent and very large. Both the Mayor and the Council members are elected. The Mayor and the Council check and balance each other and cooperate to promote the management of the city.

Of course, the Mayor of Blanca City has greater authority. He can directly appoint many officials, and even a powerful mayor like Saint-Jose can directly appoint the Director of the Police Department, but the Council also has the right to raise such questions.

In addition, according to the principle of separation of powers, the Blanca City Court, like the Council, also has the function of supervising the Blanca City Hall, but due to the overall nature of Argentina, the influence of the court is quite weak.

The Radical Party members of the Blanca City Council still have the largest number, with 40 members currently being members of the Radical Party. Saint-Jose exerts influence over the Blanca City Council through the reorganized Blanca City Radical Party.

The Blanca City Radical Party holds regular meetings, and outstanding members can participate in study and training at party schools.

In terms of the Blanca City Hall, Saint-Jose has appointed a total of 5 Deputy Mayors. In addition to the First Deputy Mayor in charge of the Council, there are also Deputy Mayors in charge of other departments, which also reduces the pressure on Saint-Jose.

Now the size of the civil service team in Blanca City continues to expand. At the end of December last year, Blanca City organized another civil service examination, attracting a batch of fresh blood. Blanca City has done a very good job in terms of rejuvenating the civil service.

With the support of the civil servants, Blanca City began to use economic development as an assessment criterion. Each district has also gradually been filled with permanent institutions, giving the civil servants of Blanca City greater room for promotion. Saint-Jose does not engage in any election system for civil servants at the district level.

The promotion of most civil servants will eventually be gathered on Saint-Jose's desk for his approval.

Now the East District of Blanca City ranks first in population, with a full 160,000 people living in the East District. The West District also has 120,000 people. These two districts are often regarded as the central urban area, but the fastest developing area is the Alta District, with the population rapidly increasing from less than 10,000 to 80,000. The population of the Bosca District, where Southern Petroleum and Maya Chemical are located, has also increased from 6,000 to 40,000, and the Macrollo District has increased to 30,000 people.

The temporary agency, Blanca County, began to split into some new districts, the most famous of which is the Achiriqi District, whose population has grown to 40,000, injecting strong impetus into the development of Blanca City.

The Achiriqi District is still continuing to build and improve various infrastructures, and is building 4 highways to connect with the West District and Bosca District of Blanca City.

The preferential policies of the Achiriqi District have attracted Mason Pharmaceuticals, the best pharmaceutical company in the country. They plan to produce antibiotics and some important drugs here.

Saint-Jose provides land, factory buildings, and worker training, and a large number of enterprises are granted tax exemption for 3 years and a 50% tax reduction for 6 years.

Mason Pharmaceuticals belongs to the Mason family and is headquartered on Avenida Libertador in Merlo, Buenos Aires. At that time, Italian journalist Attilio Mason decided to settle in Argentina. He initially established a trading company to import and sell Italian medicines. In the 1930s, his son founded the Mason Medical Laboratory, and in the 1940s, it transformed into a pharmaceutical company.

Mason Pharmaceuticals has obtained the most advanced pharmaceutical technology in Europe. In Blanca City, it has received funding and a lot of help from the City Hall, and has equipped production, research and development laboratories and pharmaceutical industrial plants, becoming one of the first 7 factories to start construction in the Achiriqi District. The Blanca City branch of Mason Pharmaceuticals covers an area of 80 acres, has 4 factory buildings, and currently has 600 employees, and is continuing to expand overall.

Mason Pharmaceuticals is now one of the 3 largest companies in the Argentine pharmaceutical industry. It is also one of the largest exporters of therapeutic products in Latin America, and its products are exported to many countries. Mason Pharmaceuticals produces 79 drugs under the name "Mason", mainly for export or licensing in Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico and Mexico, and Cuba.

The development of the pharmaceutical industry, in addition to economic development reasons, is also because the population of Blanca City has increased dramatically, and medical resources have become scarce. The Blanca City Public Health Bureau is under great pressure.

Blanca City now has 13 hospitals, 8 of which were newly built last year. Even with high salaries, the doctors and nurses here are not fully staffed.

Moreover, the quantity still cannot meet the sufficient demand. The National University of the South alone has opened 3 affiliated hospitals, and the medical school has become the most popular department of the University of the South.

He does not want the channels for Argentinians to rise to be controlled by powerful tycoons and landlords, so he does not stick to one pattern in recruiting talents, and adopts the method of civil service examination + performance assessment to select outstanding talents to fill Blanca City.

The nearby town of Medanos near the Achiriqi District has also been changed to a district. Saint-Jose sent an elite civil servant team to comprehensively manage the Medanos District. Here, preparations will begin to dig an artificial canal to introduce water resources from the Colorado River tributary to meet industrial water and domestic water supply needs.

Blanca City is thriving, and the only shortcoming is the serious shortage of other professional talents, such as teachers and doctors.

Teachers are okay. Many universities in Argentina have graduates who are unemployed as soon as they graduate. The newly established schools in Blanca City recruit from many universities, which can basically meet the needs.

But doctors are very scarce. Doctors have a high status and are respected by people, so it is not easy to poach them. Fortunately, the National University of the South is sitting here, so it is not so ugly on the surface.

Saint-Jose began to focus on foreign countries and began to introduce some skilled immigrants from foreign countries, such as doctors and professional technicians.

After Ibanez del Campo was elected President of Chile in 1952, there was not much progress. Chile is still an agricultural country, and due to the control of American capital, industrial development is very slow, and agriculture is also very backward, with most of the land in the hands of large landowners.

The population of Blanca City exceeded 500,000 in May, reaching 508,000.

On May 20, the Hans Steel Plant was put into operation, and the number of employees exceeded 9,000, becoming one of the factories with the most employees in Blanca City.

On May 22, the Maya Chemical Blanca City Fertilizer Plant was put into operation, with a demand for more than 6,000 employees, currently only 3,000.

On May 28, the Southern Energy Blanca City Third Thermal Power Plant was put into operation, with a demand for 2,800 employees.

The commissioning of these three major factories has made the demand for workers in Blanca City even worse.

Saint-Jose had to increase the number of Chilean immigrants and laborers introduced.

He even had to start some industry-university cooperation and organize school students for internships.

Last year, the number of births in Blanca City reached 21,000. With 230,000 women of childbearing age, Blanca City's birth rate ranked first among all cities in the country, which also exacerbated the labor shortage in the textile and garment industry. Saint-Jose's response was to continue to encourage and support childbirth and continue to attract more foreign population.

Among the long coastline and coastline obtained by La Pampa Province last year, in addition to Blanca City, several trade towns can also be built along the coast. In order not to waste the advantages of establishing ports along the coast, Saint-Jose, as the Mayor of Blanca City, submitted a proposal to set up new cities, which was directly approved by the Provincial Council.

Saint-Jose has influence in New La Pampa Province, also because the La Pampa Provincial Council is also set up according to the population ratio. The Provincial Council has been reshuffled, and the councilors from Blanca City account for 2/3.

In his plan, he planned 3 new coastal cities, from north to south, they are Otto City, Bratovici City, and Colorado Port City, all located on the coast. Among them, Bratovici City, located in the middle, is promising because it is based on Bratovici Bay, and Colorado City is a river-sea port, the estuary of the Colorado River, and its potential is also good.

The three port cities have chosen ice-free and silt-free seaports, and a coastal expressway will be built in the future to connect the coastline.

With these three younger brother port cities, Blanca City can also replicate its development measures, and the effect is not bad.

Dorrego City in Buenos Aires Province is also learning from and imitating Blanca City and has embarked on the road of competition, but it is too small and the population is only 30,000.

The South is becoming lively.

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La Pampa Military Academy,

Saint-Jose personally trains the La Pampa Provincial Defense Forces and serves as the President of the La Pampa Military Academy. This is also the first time that Saint-Jose has served as the President of a regular military university.

He referred to the systems of some of the world's best military academies, such as the Frunze Military Academy, the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, and the Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, to manage and train the school, while learning from the Soviets to increase the sense of patriotic mission.