Rise of the Argentine Empire

The Argentina National Securities Exchange is undergoing intense preparations in Bahía Blanca. The management and supervisory personnel of the securities exchange, aside from the majority coming from the Bahía Blanca City Hall and various major banks, also include half the personnel from the Central Bank of Argentina, the Ministry of Finance, the Argentina Securities Commission, and other locations.

Twenty-seven companies in Bahía Blanca have formally applied to list on the new exchange, and each needs to be inspected to ensure that compliant companies are listed on the new exchange.

Other aspects, such as the Argentina National Securities Building and the various equipment and materials needed for the securities exchange, are all being prepared one by one.

The Securities Building is projected to be 28 stories high. It was originally intended to be built as a commercial building and is currently the tallest building in Bahía Blanca, surpassing many 18-story and 20-story buildings, and is nearing completion.

Possible names include the Bahía Blanca International Financial Center and the Argentina Financial Building. Some banks and securities firms will also move in, serving as regional headquarters, along with some regulatory departments of the Bahía Blanca City Hall.

San Jose attended the completion ceremony of the Securities Building, and the opening of the exchange is entering the countdown phase.

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Under San Jose's requirements and the proactive preparations of the heads of various districts and counties.

The various districts and counties of Bahía Blanca, as well as the towns under their jurisdiction, replicated the practice of the Bahía Blanca State-Owned Enterprise Committee. After becoming formal administrative regions, they established their respective economic development companies to carry out industrial investment and industrial zone construction.

After three discussions in the City Hall meeting, San Jose officially standardized the renaming of districts, counties, and towns within the Bahía Blanca area to cope with increasingly complex affairs and to unify the government orders of Bahía Blanca, ensuring the standardization of future development.

The previous round of adjustments basically determined the jurisdictional scope of each district, county, and town, but Bahía Blanca simultaneously had a large number of parallel administrative regions such as towns, counties, and districts, which could easily cause confusion.

The current administrative divisions in Argentina are a headache, with a jumble of village-level cities, town-level cities, and autonomous cities, which is also not conducive to economic construction.

Cities, autonomous cities, and village-level cities can vary in size by hundreds of times.

The results of this City Hall and City Council meeting were also announced, sparking a great discussion among the citizens. Most out-of-towners expressed their approval, and the majority of local residents also agreed, believing that renaming was necessary.

A new map of Bahía Blanca is also being prepared for updating.

After issuing meeting notices, many districts and counties have begun preparing to make replacement signs. The City Hall is responsible for renaming the next level of districts and counties, while the districts and counties are responsible for renaming towns and streets, and the towns and streets are responsible for renaming villages and communities. At the same time, public facilities such as bus stops, regional hospitals, and schools are also being renamed.

The rural county and city areas surrounding Bahía Blanca are completely incorporated into the unified jurisdiction of the City Hall, which can fully leverage the economic driving role of Bahía Blanca as a central city, gradually forming an economic zone relying on Greater Bahía Blanca, so that the scope of the economic region is basically consistent with the administrative division, and also reducing the resistance of the surrounding counties and districts to the City Hall.

More resources can be obtained from the City Hall. Médanos County Economic Development Company, Médanos County Construction Company, Aquatic Products Company, Broadcasting Company, and Bus Company have been established successively, leading the construction of 7 large industrial zones and export processing zones, and carrying out water supply, power supply, communication, and port, bridge, railway, highway, and other infrastructure construction, improving the industrial development environment.

Directly attracting investment in the urban area of Bahía Blanca is very attractive to some leather factories, shoe factories, power plants, and breeding farms that require large land areas and may have relatively large noise pollution, and the economy has therefore developed. It is now the fastest-growing county in the suburbs.

Electrification is transforming the urban environment of Bahía Blanca. The huge thermal power plant and power grid in the suburbs have turned the urban area of Bahía Blanca into a city that never sleeps, and the night economy has also enlivened the entire market.

Cheap electricity and sufficient power supply, and a large-scale hydropower station is being built upstream of the Colorado River. The short river energy resources in the Andes Mountains are abundant and can be fully utilized.

Southern Power Company is also preparing to impact the listed company, raising funds to continue building larger-scale power plants to meet the expanding population of Bahía Blanca.

People always admire and praise their mayor, Mr. San Jose, for his vision and foresight. When the population was less than 200,000, he had already begun to consider the power supply system for 2 million people, and introduced electrical and electrical companies to produce equipment, seeking localization, reducing costs, and creating a large number of jobs.

In the past, Argentina could only import various power supply equipment from General Electric of the United States at high prices, and even screws had to be imported, and the prices were expensive.

Led by the Bahía Blanca City Hall, Southern Power and German Siemens Electric, American Westinghouse Electric, and Emerson Electric have connected, which has well met the needs, and built power generation equipment factories, light bulb factories, cable factories, wire factories, and other power and electrical supporting factories in Bahía Blanca.

Buno Electronics, Southern Power, and Philips Industries were selected as partners with foreign electrical companies, and respectively established joint ventures with Siemens Electric, Westinghouse Electric, and Emerson Electric to build their own electrical companies in Argentina in the future.

With the help of American Cohen Electric and the investment of San Jose's funds, Buno Electronics Factory has undergone great changes. Now it can produce more useful electronic appliances, such as fans, radios, light bulbs, wires, and other products. The number of employees has also exceeded 2,000, making it one of the large factories in Bahía Blanca.

In addition, the three major companies will also build refrigerator factories, washing machine factories, television factories, and other electrical appliance factories in the future.

Although Argentina does not have a huge market, the influence still exists. It is also possible to enter Bolivia and Paraguay from here. Moreover, in the 1950s, a city with a population of one million still has a good scale effect. What's more, the Bahía Blanca City Hall is also willing to spend money to establish in-depth cooperation with these medium-sized electrical companies.

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After World War II, the Auto Union Company's automobile manufacturing plant in Saxony was confiscated and dismantled by the Soviet occupation forces and basically sent to the Soviet Union.

Auto Union went directly from the second largest automobile company in Germany to a pauper.

The senior personnel of Auto Union went to the neighboring state of Bavaria to carry out reconstruction work. In 1949, Auto Union GmbH was established in Ingolstadt.

Inheriting the tradition of the old Auto Union, it uses four interlocking rings as a symbol, which is also the famous Audi car in later generations.

Ingolstadt is located in the center of Bavaria and has convenient transportation. Although it is not as prosperous and well-known as Munich, it is a transportation hub, which is also the reason why Auto Union used to regard it as a spare parts supply center.

Statistics from Ingolstadt show that the establishment of the spare parts supply center has boosted local employment, fostering very friendly relations between the government and businesses. The convenient transportation also allows for full utilization of Bavaria's abundant labor resources.

Of course, the most important reason for rebuilding the Auto Union in Ingolstadt is to preserve the well-maintained military town's century-old military "heritage": vast land, countless barracks, garages, and turrets.

This is invaluable to the Auto Union, which lacks the funds to build new factories.

With the help of the Ingolstadt City Hall, starting from the headquarters of the military supply station on Schloßlände Street, the Auto Union took over a batch of buildings such as the new armory, sheriff's office, vehicle hall, arsenal, riding training hall, and parade ground, and began reconstruction.

However, the progress is quite slow, incomparable to other automobile manufacturers.

The Auto Union's facilities are scattered throughout the city, making daily and rational production almost impossible, and the workers ridicule the company as a "small shop."

The Auto Union's management overcame numerous difficulties, starting with simple motorcycle production, selling motorcycle engines, and outsourcing auto parts, engaging in any industry related to motorcycles and automobiles.

Now, they are preparing to enter the auto-outsourcing industry, with Volkswagen, the manufacturer of the Beetle, expected to be the outsourcing target. However, Auto Union has not given up its dream of developing its own cars, but it has been unable to implement it due to existing conditions.

Bavaria is located in the southern part of the new Federal Republic of Germany, with Munich as its capital. It covers an area of 70,550 square kilometers and is the largest state in the new Federal Republic of Germany. It also has a large population of 8 million, comparable to four or five La Pampa provinces. It is also the only state whose territory remained intact after the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945.

After the war, the Bavarian government took active measures to attract various talents, new technology companies, and scientific research institutions to settle in Bavaria, initially realizing the transformation of the economic structure from agriculture and animal husbandry to an industrial state. In less than 10 years, Bavaria has become a state with a good economic foundation, basically complete infrastructure, and a reasonable economic structure.

Bavaria has made rapid progress in electronics, machinery, automobiles, and other fields, and now the financial industry is also beginning to develop.

Many well-known companies of later generations, such as Siemens, BMW, MAN, Adidas, financial and insurance companies such as Allianz Insurance, Munich Reinsurance, HypoVereinsbank, and scientific research institutions such as the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer Institute, all have their headquarters in Bavaria.

BMW, or Bavarian Motor Works, headquartered in Munich, has been recovering and developing very smoothly with the help of American capital.

Auto Union is also very envious, but now it can only do OEM and parts business, as well as motorcycle production.

The current Auto Union has still not been able to develop on the right track. 1954 was the first year that Auto Union was profitable, with a profit of about 400,000 Deutsche Marks, which is a huge gap compared to BMW in Munich, and also far less than Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, and Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, a neighboring state. The annual profits of these three automobile manufacturers are now basically on the scale of tens of millions of marks, which is really not worth mentioning.

On August 9, 1954, a major strike broke out in the Bavarian metal processing industry.

This was one of the earliest large-scale industrial disputes in the young Federal Republic of Germany, and metal processing companies called it the "most significant event after the war."

At that time, the new Auto Union company already had 5,000 employees. As one of the largest manufacturers in Ingolstadt, many employees also threw down their production tools.

The workers demanded shorter working hours, increased wages, and improved working and living conditions. The strike lasted until August 31, 1954.

Through arbitration, labor and management reached an agreement, and the Bavarian general strike ended.

The result of the strike was that workers' wages increased by a little more than 4%.

The new Auto Union company spent an extra 920,000 Deutsche Marks due to the Bavarian general strike, which is one of the reasons for Auto Union's tight funds. Auto Union needs partners or strong new shareholders.

Philipp Industries - Reuden Auto Company intervened after this, solving the urgent need and bringing in a large amount of capital.

Philipp Industries registered Philipp Industries Germany in Hamburg in 1953 and hired a group of German management personnel in the machinery and automobile industries to be used for the acquisition of various technologies, including but not limited to machining, automobiles, motorcycles, tractors, trucks, and other technologies.

At the end of 1954, Philipp Industries Germany registered Reuden Auto Company in Munich, with automobile-related technology as the main acquisition target. The two companies only connected at this time.

Reuden Auto General Manager Philipp, in the name of Reuden Auto Company Germany, successively invested 8 million US dollars to acquire 70% of the equity of Auto Union AG, including the equity from other companies that had already purchased Auto Union, as well as investment in purchasing production equipment and renovating factory buildings.

Auto Union is a piece of fat, and many companies and families have set their sights on this company without a leader. Although the original senior executives re-established Auto Union, the new company lacks strength and is very fragmented.

Philipp also has his own advantages. During the long-term process of purchasing German technology, he met a group of German bankers and partners. Philipp often went to the Federal Republic of Germany to "hunt for goods" and established a network of contacts, defeating those companies and families that coveted the German Auto Union.

The German Auto Union company is not a company that is of great concern to large consortia and the United States, so the acquisition work went quite smoothly. People are more concerned about BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen, these large automobile companies. Auto Union, with a profit of only 450,000 marks, did not suffer too much opposition.

The United States gave the new Federal Republic of Germany a large amount of economic aid to counter the Soviet Union's expansion in Europe. As the Federal Republic of Germany's economy recovered, it was not watching so closely, but there were still a large number of secret agent organizations distributed.

Philipp also realized that this automobile manufacturer would need partners with a large amount of capital for future development, so he also brought in Bahrens Bank Hamburg Branch and Hamburg City Commercial Bank to provide low-interest industrial loans to the German Auto Union after the divorce.

Hamburg is now the largest city in the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as Germany's most important seaport and largest foreign trade center. It is also Germany's second financial center, second only to Frankfurt, and has many financial institutions.

In the past few years, the products produced in Ingolstadt were only two-stroke DKW motorcycles and automobiles.

Now, after the German Auto Union Company was acquired by German Reuden, it was officially renamed Audi Auto Union GmbH, and a new large-scale factory building was built in the suburbs of Ingolstadt. The scale of workers has increased from 5,000 to more than 10,000, the production and sales of parts factories have expanded several times, and a large number of advanced machine tools have been purchased, and development has been very rapid.

Through patent technology licensing and other methods, Audi increased the technology research and development capabilities of Reuden Argentina, and Reuden Argentina also secretly provided German Audi with a lot of technical data of Fiat cars. This is the world's most advanced small car technology, which is exactly what German Audi needs.

German Audi has a fairly high degree of autonomy in development, a wealth of contacts, and great advantages.

With the help of German Audi, the Fiat 600 was successfully mass-produced, and New Khorn Heavy Industries benefited a lot. The speed of research and development of Reuden Argentina has accelerated. Based on the Fiat 600, Reuden developed a Reuden 800 model. The internal structure and appearance are completely different, the technology optimization is more complete, and the QQ price is lower, and it is ready to invest funds for mass production.

German Audi is now a talent pool for Reuden Argentina. A large number of excellent parts talents join Reuden Argentina through labor dispatch.

The strength of German Audi, located in the mainland, has not weakened. Now Germany has abundant talents, and the automobile industry and precision machine tool industry are developing very rapidly, which has also increased Audi's strength, and it plans to launch independently developed models.

Reuden Argentina's new car Reuden 800 is a micro-car, with good cost performance and appearance. It has been creating momentum and publicity in the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and France. The first production line will be established in the German Audi factory.

Also because many of the technologies of the Reuden 800 are also from German Audi, and some Fiat technologies are integrated, Argentines may not need the Reuden 800 very much, and plan to take the form of export to domestic sales.

Reuden Argentina is currently still mainly producing Fiat 600s to make quick money, and the overall research and development strength is still not as good as German Audi's, which requires time to accumulate.