Rise of the Argentine Empire

Through a series of maneuvers by San Jose, many within the city hall who opposed the relocation were purged, leading to a significant turnover of civil servants.

The blood was refreshed, and the city hall civil servants were also rejuvenated, allowing for better implementation of San Jose's development ideas.

He had a grand development plan in mind, but there were many constraints within the original Blanca City Hall, which hindered the smooth operation of the entire civil service system, leading to buck-passing, unclear responsibilities, and opposition for the sake of opposition.

If he were to successfully run for the top position in the provincial government, then Blanca City would have to develop the Greater Blanca Metropolitan Area and the La Pampa-Rio Negro River urban cluster to achieve the initial industrialization of the Southern Province on a larger scale.

Blanca City is still too small and is just an ordinary autonomous city. Although it is already a provincial capital in terms of administrative level, its status is far behind cities like Cordoba, La Plata, Rosario, and Santa Fe.

Time is still needed. San Jose felt that what Argentina lacked most was time. Whether it was population growth or industrialization, it required time. Argentina's size was far from enough to achieve this goal, so it could only be a slow starter.

The world economy is developing too fast now. Before the world oil crisis arrives in this super golden age after World War II, a developmental transformation must be completed to have a chance to face countries with large populations like Britain, Brazil, and the United States.

Even if Argentina were to compete with Great Britain, it would not reach that economic level without a population of sixty to seventy million, unless it had three times the average productivity of Great Britain. However, no one in the world has yet been born who can exceed the old productivity of Great Britain by three times. Even Japan at its peak could not reach this level, unless Britain disintegrated into four small countries, perhaps then it would be possible.

Population is not just a market, but also wealth. Brazil only needs to reach 1/4 of Argentina's average productivity to easily surpass Argentina, not to mention population superpowers like New China and India.

As a city, it is difficult to exert too much influence. For example, it is not qualified to participate in the Argentine Congress, and it is not qualified to participate in some important foreign trade conferences, and it cannot formulate favorable development policies.

But as a province, it is different. Even if it is poor, it can still make its voice heard in the Argentine Congress and strive for greater benefits, including amending the provincial constitution, improving customs system construction, and developing foreign trade. It is also easier to be valued at the level.

Just like New China's 'going to the sea' at the beginning, working as a civil servant in the city hall now might not be as good as going out and taking a chance.

In the current Blanca City, there are really many opportunities for development. People are making huge profits from it every day, whether it is trade, production, export, or even being a commercial broker, helping people build relationships, they can all get very high returns.

Many factories are opening every day. The Blanca City Commercial Bureau has specially established a commercial registration department, and each district has a dispatched agency to help these companies and factories quickly register and establish.

By the end of 1955, the number of company and factory entities in Blanca City exceeded 6,000, ranking second in Argentina, second only to Buenos Aires City. Among them, the East District and the Alta District ranked first and second, with 2,700 and 1,900 respectively. Most of them are small and medium-sized factories with fewer than 10 employees.

At the end of November, San Jose conducted a special population area census. The survey showed that the total population of Blanca City directly exceeded 1.27 million, which was more than San Jose had imagined. He originally thought that 1 million would be good.

Such a number already ranks second in Argentina, and it is estimated that the entire La Pampa province has a population of more than 1.9 million.

Most of them were desperate for Argentina's economy and future.

Immigrating to the United States, Britain, Italy, France, or even Brazil was originally their choice, but now it has been changed.

In the 1950s and 1960s, at least 1.5 million people historically immigrated from Argentina to other countries. The United States and their former motherland were good places for them, which made Argentina's already scarce population worse.

This situation is improving.

These 1.5 million people actually represent a potential population of 8 million to 10 million in the next fifty years.

The reason is Argentina's terrible economy and messy coups.

Most of these people are young people and also the hope for Argentina's development.

The development of Blanca City has given them a new choice.

Although some people come and some people go, at least there is a choice.

If life is not really difficult, who would be willing to leave their hometown and travel across the ocean.

In 1954 and 1955, Argentina's huge development in emerging cities such as Blanca City, San Martin City, Oran City, and La Plata City changed the forced emigration choices of many people.

Even because of the amazing operations of cities like Blanca City, Argentina has once again become a country of immigration. In 1955, at least 200,000 people immigrated to Argentina from Southeast Asia and Latin America. Most of them migrated to Blanca City and became the emerging force of Blanca City.

Joey Hessy, formerly a legal secretary at a British company in Buenos Aires, has English and half Scottish ancestry. Her husband, Andreas Osuna, is a famous Argentine opera and tango singer. Due to the economic crisis and turmoil, the couple both lost their jobs. They have two children, 4-year-old Olivia Hessy and 2-year-old Andrew Osuna.

The couple originally planned to immigrate to England to join their father's family, but the Blanca City branch of Plarri International recruited Joey Hessy with a high salary, and the newly established Blanca City Grand Theater also issued an invitation to Andreas with a salary higher than in Buenos Aires.

They also plan to have 2-3 more children. In fact, the Osuna couple likes children very much, but the heavy economic pressure and despair for future development have even reached the point of divorce.

Their experience in Blanca City has restored the relationship between the couple. Blanca City provides a large number of birth subsidies and housing subsidies to local citizens. The housing prices themselves are also very cheap. The Osuna couple has given up the idea of immigration and bought a high-end house on mortgage from Barron Bank.

Andreas has also become one of the most popular opera and singers in Blanca City. Many song and dance troupes invite him to participate in performances, and his monthly income has increased several times.

He has also received many newspaper interviews, and his popularity in Argentina has greatly increased.

Little Hessy and Little Andrew were also sent to a high-end kindergarten.

Although it is high-end, the price is not expensive, which reduces the parenting pressure of many couples.

The large number of schools and nurseries built by San Jose have come in handy, and these schools alone can solve a large number of jobs.

This is a virtuous circle. Why are big cities good? In addition to a large number of secondary industries, the tertiary industry, which is the service industry, can also generate a large number of jobs.

The release is very amazing.

The vigorous development of the secondary industry has attracted a large number of people, which itself is a huge market.

There is a great demand for eating, drinking, sleeping, and raising children.

The experience of the Osuna couple is not unique in Blanca City.

Many outstanding talents from Buenos Aires have poured into Blanca City and have achieved great development.

Even though Blanca City now has 1.27 million people, there are still plenty of job opportunities, especially the employment generated by factories.

And the wage level has reached the average level of Buenos Aires, and it also has a low price index.

Due to the devaluation of the peso, labor costs were actually not high, while other production costs were much lower, which made many factories willing to relocate to the city of Blanca for development. Many factories and companies even experienced a revival and achieved tremendous growth as a result.

This also led many people planning to immigrate to come to Blanca for development, and it also generated many new wealthy individuals.

Most people rekindled their hope for the future of Argentina.

According to statistics from 11 hospitals that underwent large-scale construction, the number of newborns in Blanca in 1955 exceeded 44,000, ranking first among major cities in Argentina. Many couples, for the sake of Blanca's welfare benefits, came to Blanca with their pregnant bellies to give birth, resulting in an astonishing birth rate of 37.6 per thousand, while the fertility rate of women of childbearing age also remained at around 10%.

Such a birth rate could not be matched even in Buenos Aires, which has a population of over 2 million. The newborn birth rate was also very high in the areas surrounding Blanca, as well as in areas like the Sunny Agriculture Future Farm and the Argentine border provinces of Salta and Jujuy.

At a time when unemployment rates were soaring in Argentina, this place was filled with a large number of job opportunities, and transportation was also very convenient. Argentina's extensive railway transportation system made Blanca, a transportation hub, a powerful tool for attracting population.

"Unemployed? Go to Blanca, there are plenty of jobs there."

"The cost of living is too high? Go to Blanca, where prices are the lowest in all of Argentina!"

"Can't afford a house? Go to Blanca, where rent is cheap and you can buy a house after working for three years."

"Children are disobedient, and university is too expensive? Blanca has six universities for you to choose from. As long as you pass the exam, tuition is reduced or waived, and you can work while studying to reduce the burden and pressure."

Quantitative change finally triggered qualitative change. In December alone, 150,000 people poured in.

Blanca must also accelerate the pace of development, otherwise it will not be able to accommodate such a large population increase, and it will lose this opportunity to significantly increase its strength.

The wages and benefits of many factories and companies were also good.

In addition, a large number of American and British companies moved in, offering many salaries denominated in US dollars, and the income was indeed one or two times higher than that of the city hall.

Most civil servants who left the city hall were indeed able to achieve good development. Most of those selected by Saint-Jose during the civil servant examination had some level of competence.

And the old-timers who have been able to sit here steadily since the Otto era must also be capable.

Those who really want to slack off cannot be driven away, and they are not really doing nothing. Saint-Jose insisted on implementing the Blanca City Hall civil servant assessment system and did not care if some old-timers really did nothing.

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January 1, 1956, the beginning of the New Year,

Saint-Jose Cohen, the mayor of Blanca, announced at the City Hall that the Blanca City Hall was preparing to move to 1 Blanca Citizen Avenue, Posca District.

A large city hall was planned in the Posca District, and six dedicated bus lines were opened to solve the commuting problem in the short term.

Saint-Jose had already selected the site in advance and started construction as early as October.

He carried out new construction around the City Hall, the scale of which could be compared with the Provincial Government.

In fact, the original scale of the Blanca City Hall was indeed too small, and it could not meet the needs even after several repairs.

Many City Hall departments had to work outside the City Hall.

The population of Blanca increased from 100,000 to a million.

These are completely different concepts.

The difficulty of urban governance has increased exponentially.

Many people also felt that a new city hall should be built because the office environment was too deteriorated. A small office used to have only 2 departments, but now it was stuffed with more than 50 people, and the building was also very old and quite dangerous.

It was only because the distance was too far that they thought about objecting, after all, it was indeed a bit far.

But since the great Mayor has planned everything, then just follow behind and do things.

The City Hall relocation team announced the complete plan, including which department, how to move, follow-up matters, residence, supporting facilities, all of which were announced one by one.

The new Blanca City Hall is less than 5 kilometers away from the Provincial Government, which is very close, much closer than the original 20 kilometers, but not too close.

Large residential areas, parks, schools, and supermarkets are built around the City Hall.

The Argerich District itself has also undergone large-scale construction and is now quite prosperous.

It's just that Saint-Jose originally developed westward, and now the Posca District is on the east side, which is a large open space.

The new City Hall is located on the west side of the Posca District.

It can also effectively use the land for the next step of industrial expansion.

The two districts themselves are neighboring districts and are very close.

At that time, Saint-Jose had considered directly setting up the new City Hall in the Argerich District.

But if that were the case, the opposition would probably increase by another order of magnitude.

Besides, to develop the Posca District, resources cannot be moved to the Argerich District again.

That would not be in line with Saint-Jose's development plan.

In this way, the urban area of Blanca officially expanded from the original 1274 square kilometers to 2100 square kilometers, and the basic framework of the metropolitan area can be completed, and it will not feel too crowded even if several million more people are stuffed in.

With the East District, West District, Posca District, Argerich District, Makro District, and Alta District as the main urban areas of Blanca, the East District and West District are the old urban areas, and this time they will also be appropriately expanded in area and scale. The other four districts will serve as the new main urban areas.

The adjustment of the other 8 outer towns and districts has also been completed, and development plans are being made as suburban satellite towns, completing the basic development ideas for the next 30 years.

Focus on improving the development level, comprehensive competitiveness, and industrialization level of Blanca's main urban area, promote the transformation of urban development from outward expansion to internal integration and improvement, lead development from point to area, achieve balanced development, and form an integrated metropolitan area with the towns surrounding Blanca.

Subsequent adjustments can be made within the large framework. Blanca's total jurisdiction area of 6924 square kilometers, a total of 14 districts and towns, can also basically ensure that Blanca has sufficient reserve land in future development.

There are also 5 autonomous municipalities on the periphery of Blanca. These cities and counties were originally incorporated from the Province of Buenos Aires, but do not belong to the scope of the three small coastal cities of La Pampa Province. The area is as large as 5,000 square kilometers. Currently, they exist independently as part of the Greater Blanca metropolitan area. The population is not large, but it is also more than 80,000.

It can also be incorporated into Blanca when necessary.

Saint-Jose also plans to improve the district government, a dispatched institution, during his term. The current district governments and town governments, in order to ensure control and flexible adaptation, are dispatched institutions. Most departments are dispatched as extensions of the city government, rather than independent, and cannot be independently accounted for. The police department and others are also dispatched institutions.

However, the actual managed population of Alta District has already reached 340,000, and the East and West urban areas are 410,000 and 250,000 respectively. They are already the size of a large city. If everything has to be reported to the city government, there will be too many problems.

Especially now that the new city hall has moved to a farther place, this will lead to chaos and major problems.

This matter must also be carried out simultaneously.

Saint-Jose also officially launched the District Government Act, submitted it to the La Pampa Provincial Assembly for approval, and established 14 district and town governments. The town governments will have greater independence in development and a lower level of development. They belong to the city government and will be upgraded to district governments when necessary.

The district governments have a higher degree of urbanization and are mainly led by the city government. The financial revenue and taxation are uniformly planned by the city government.

The civil servants of the district governments are uniformly responsible by the city government, but have more independence. As formal subordinate institutions of the civil servants, they have formal establishment and departments. The first person in charge of the district government is the district chief and the town chief, who are not directly elected, but appointed by the city government.

There are also deputy district chiefs, ministers, and other department institutions. Except for major resolutions, the city government does not need to be consulted for other matters.