Rise of the Argentine Empire

The security of this manor is excellent; it can be described as an underground bunker, equipped with the world's most advanced civilian technology, with many appliances from the American Cohen Electric.

Thanks to the air conditioning and air exchange system, even in the late summer approaching autumn in Blanca City, the indoor environment is quite refreshing.

Encore Electric, headquartered in New York, USA, is preparing to establish an appliance branch in Blanca City, introducing various production lines to manufacture various household appliances such as televisions, refrigerators, and washing machines.

Encore Electric's core secret now is working on centrifuges and nuclear fuel enrichment, etc. To outsiders, it already looks like a very Americanized home appliance company.

Backed by the large tree of Sequoia Investment Bank, it is also the only foreign affairs enterprise of the Falcon Bureau.

Only the most elite agents can go to the United States to be responsible for secret nuclear industry departments, requiring not only a clean background and high loyalty but also proficiency in languages such as English and Spanish, and outstanding work ability. In terms of salary, it is also very high in the United States. Saint Hynes has always been generous with money, but equally ruthless to traitors.

Under Saint Hynes's deliberate control, on the surface, the asset growth rate of American Sequoia Investment Bank is not too fast, lagging behind several major Wall Street investment banks. Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers, and Lehman Brothers are all developing at an astonishing rate. Sequoia Investment Bank, through its secret allies such as Blackstone and Blue Origin, still earns astonishing wealth.

To consolidate control over Sequoia, Sean of Sequoia and Martin of Blackstone Investment have also become American citizens, but they are both very low-key.

The operations of Sequoia and Blackstone have become extremely complex, making it difficult for ordinary senior executives to see too much. Only with the help of establishing an internal intelligence system can one control this complex wealth empire.

Sean always wears his old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses, and his daily attire is basically a black suit and white shirt. He is not prominent at all in the crowd on Wall Street. People often overlook his existence, and he doesn't have many special hobbies, except for regular gatherings with allies such as the Johnson family of Fidelity Capital and Bear Stearns. He rarely participates in other upper-class activities.

Of course, due to Sequoia's outstanding performance in the stock market, he is much more conspicuous on Wall Street.

Although he doesn't look like a person who breaks the rules at all, lacking the leadership qualities and extraordinary energy of a big-name CEO, Sequoia Investment Bank's marketing strategy is unusual. Fast, accurate, and ruthless have almost become Wall Street's impressions of Sequoia.

Sequoia and Blackstone, through the massive wealth earned in the stock and futures markets, invest in countries such as Brazil, West Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, France, and Spain through transnational platforms, sharing the fruits of development while avoiding risks. Although Argentina has also received a large amount of investment, the overall investment-to-output ratio is relatively poor. But after all, it is an investment, and the results are good and bad, and profit and loss are normal. There is no truly guaranteed business.

It's just that many Sequoia employees don't understand why the shrewd chairman insists on investing in Argentina. Many people can only attribute it to his Argentine origin. While investing in Argentina, he never contacts the local Argentine dignitaries, but goes to Japan and Europe more often. This kind of sensible new immigrant has also made the CIA gradually reduce its surveillance of Sean.

To increase the degree of concealment, after Encore Electric's successful production of tape radios, it actually acquired several home appliance factories that were about to go bankrupt, purchased a lot of second-hand home appliance production lines, and also established large-scale production factories and research laboratories in California, where labor is cheap and the strength of the American CIA and FBI is relatively weak.

When the United States encountered strong economic growth and national income soared, several newly designed household appliances of Encore Electric, after advertising, directly exploded in business, and a huge amount of money entered Cohen Electric. This money could not be used directly, so it had to be spent elsewhere.

Cohen Electric continued to increase the salaries of scientific researchers and expand the scientific research team, increased research and development efforts, advertised in major American media, optimized production lines, and improved product quality. As a result, it embarked on a path of virtuous development.

Now it is doing pretty well. Last year's annual sales easily broke through 60 million US dollars, which can very well hide the secret work of nuclear equipment development in the United States and Canada.

Compared with the difficult expansion and development of Argentine companies, under the 300 billion US dollar gross national product in the United States, the difficulty of an American company achieving 50 million US dollars in annual sales has been greatly reduced. Now there are many large companies in the United States with annual sales of 1 billion or even 2 billion US dollars, and the largest American General Motors has sales exceeding 5 billion US dollars, truly being rich enough to rival a country.

Among the people participating in the meeting this time, there are many familiar old faces. These are also the most trusted group of people by Saint Hynes. Some have been with Saint Hynes for five or six years, while others have joined in the past two years.

The 12 confidants in front of him are all elites who can stand alone, and they are all cultivated and brought out by him, and are completely trustworthy people.

This is not the entirety of his team, but it is the core staff team he is participating in the election this time.

Chief of Staff Aisen Carlo, Campaign Manager Kip Marcel, Head of the Falcon Bureau Dante Reser, Little Brother Dirut Aragon, Head of the Security Team Achille Cooper, Logistics Manager Nora Mesanders, Head of the Blanca City Radical Party Office Eddie Luco…

Since Saint Hynes took office as the mayor of Blanca City, he has come into contact with elites, if not a thousand, then eight hundred, but when it comes to trust, these people are still reliable.

In Blanca City, he is already extremely powerful, and every day people try to get something from him. There are smart people, there are stupid people, and there are stupid people who think they are smart.

After all, a large city with a population of 1.6 million now has enough interests passing through its hands every day to make people's eyes red.

Sitting on the left is Little Brother Aragon. After Blue Delta Security was officially commercialized, Dirut Aragon withdrew from the management of Blue Delta, handed the company over to his deputy, and came to Blanca City with his family. He is Saint Hynes's deputy in the defense army and is also responsible for training elite agents.

After four or five years of experience, Aragon has shed the youthfulness and naivety of the past. Now he is experienced, has a deep mind, and his fighting skills are also at their peak. He is ruthless and cruel, has done a lot of dirty work for Saint Hynes, and is one of the people he trusts the most.

Chief of Staff Aisen, Saint Hynes's shadow, his skills and abilities are top-notch. Aisen is a native of La Pampa Province, from a poor family. He is 28 years old this year. At the age of 17, he was admitted to the National University of Santa Rosa but dropped out because he couldn't afford the tuition.

Aisen is 1.78 meters tall and has an ordinary appearance. It can be said that he has no characteristics. If you put him in a crowd, you will lose sight of him in the blink of an eye. He is a natural talent for an agent. He did train in the Falcon Bureau for a period of time and was also responsible for handling intelligence for the Falcon Bureau.

The overall economic strength of La Pampa Province has slowly caught up with Cordoba Province and is approaching Santa Fe Province, but the overall situation is still poverty, which cannot be quickly resolved in the short term.

The issue of education is also very important. Apart from Blanca City, other cities in La Pampa, except for Santa Rosa, basically have few schools, or they are dilapidated. This requires overall planning and good solutions.

Many people in La Pampa Province have not enjoyed the fruits of Blanca City's economic development very well, but have become poorer. It is a small group of people who have achieved rapid wealth growth.

This is also a problem that many people have not considered. Anyway, the world is like this. Even the powerful United States has many poor people, let alone those new countries that have been independent for a few years, the former colonies and semi-colonies.

What San Jose needs to do is let the people of La Pampa Province know that only he can drive the development of La Pampa Province.

And developing the economy, investing in education, expanding production, and providing employment are exactly what San Jose is good at.

La Pampa Province, which has accumulated a certain amount of initial capital, already has the potential to achieve leapfrog development.

Now, a new senior official is needed to stimulate this potential.

"Another very important issue is that we must at least persuade the old La Pampa residents, led by Santa Rosa. Although these people are not large in number, they also have a great influence."

As voters in La Pampa Province, they must have lived in La Pampa Province for more than 2 years, have Argentine citizenship, and be over 18 years old.

In other words, unless the provincial constitution is amended, the obstacles to San Jose's election are still very large.

Although more than 1.5 million people now live in Blanca City, at most only 200,000 people are eligible to vote.

San Jose still needs to persuade 150,000 people to vote for him, which is still quite difficult.

In addition to San Jose, the team has identified several other candidates nominated by other parties, most of whom have rich experience, at least on the surface, and most of them work in the provincial government.

"Boss, should we..."

Aragon gestured with his hand across his neck.

"There is no need."

San Jose shook his head.

"Actually, everyone doesn't need to worry too much about this election. Just do a good job of preparation."

San Jose's expression was natural, and he exuded a strong sense of confidence. From the leader of the municipal government to the leader of the provincial government, he was determined to win.

"The three coastal cities are now the territory of the Radical Party, and organizations have also been established in the inland areas."

The Radical Party is the core of this election. There is another team of San Jose there. The job assigned to the confidant team this time is to be responsible for controlling and eliminating unnecessary risks.

As a formal and legal Argentine political party, the Radical Party has penetrated the entire La Pampa Province and is the source of San Jose's confidence in the election.

He has transformed the Radical Party in Blanca City into a modern political party. In terms of organizational capabilities, the Socialist Party and the Republican Party in the several provinces near La Pampa are not as good as the Radical Party.

However, the Radical Party cannot blatantly control the military team. This is not allowed. San Jose can control the defense army in another capacity, not as the head of the Radical Party in Blanca City. The situation here is extremely complicated.

As long as the La Pampa Defense Army is in hand, even if he is not elected, San Jose will have the opportunity to control a province.

It's just that the name is not justified, and he doesn't like the name of the military government very much, and he doesn't have a military rank now, which may evolve into other military conflicts.

That would just be a repeat of Cordoba Province 50 years ago, which is not conducive to future presidential elections or obtaining supreme power. At least in Argentina, this is not a good choice.

San Jose hopes to build La Pampa Province into a vote bank, a vote bank for future presidential elections.

Through this election, a certain connection will be established in the hearts of the people of La Pampa Province.

The Radical Party can also officially become the ruling party of La Pampa Province. The current senior official of Lata was originally a member of the Justicialist Party. His ability to sit firmly in Diaoyutai during the Peron's downfall shows his strength.

His rapid retreat also has the meaning of avoiding risks.

Now, throughout Argentina, the ruling party of La Pampa Province is still the Justicialist Party.

The Justicialist Party is suffering the biggest failure since its establishment.

And his choice to cooperate with San Jose also has the meaning of handing over power.

Including the establishment of the La Pampa Defense Army and the relocation of the provincial government, these actions all show that this fifty-year-old "senior official" is not as simple as he seems on the surface.

But San Jose also accepted the olive branch of the senior official of Lata.

He needs a province as a base, and he will help the senior official of Lata at the appropriate time in the future for his open conspiracy and sincerity.

For example, running for senator is also possible.

At this Securities Exchange founding meeting, in addition to San Jose's various relationships and the consent of the new president's cabinet, the senior official of Lata also contributed a lot, operating his network of relationships and bringing in many bigwigs. This also meant paving the way for San Jose, and also vaguely won over the Director of the General Administration of Customs and the Minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the cabinet for San Jose.

Otherwise, it is estimated that there would be fewer people who would pay attention to San Jose. A self-governing city, even La Pampa Province, which is still at the forefront, is still regarded by many as the rural port of Blanca, which is not so attractive.

And the son of the senior official of Lata is now participating in training in the investment promotion department of the Blanca City Government. He was nominated by San Jose as the deputy director of the newly established Customs Department, which is also a small reward.

For San Jose, the more friends the better.

After the staff meeting, San Jose talked to each person separately about many precautions before letting them leave one after another.

San Jose and Nora spent the night at the manor before returning home.

Yilena and her daughter had not yet gotten up, so San Jose drove to the city hall again to arrange work.

At the same time, prepare for all tasks.

Even if the election is successful, Blanca City must be firmly in his hands.

Without this super engine, the development of La Pampa Province would be almost impossible to continue.

And the future development of Blanca City also needs the strong support of the La Pampa Provincial Government.

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On April 1, San Jose was officially nominated by the Radical Party as the candidate for the first leader of the provincial government. The candidate for senior official was also designated by San Jose. He chose Juan Paso, a 36-year-old subordinate of the Radical Party.

Juan Paso is the current head of the Alta District. He is very effective in execution and has rich experience in the investment promotion department, Blanca City First Construction, and department stores.

The current first deputy mayor, Rostek, is his envisioned next mayor of Blanca City.

This time, there will be a month-long campaign for senior officials.

The senior official of Lata and the high-ranking officials have also expressed their affirmation and support for San Jose's work, and other parties have also launched their own candidates.

The battle for the election of senior officials has officially begun.