Rise of the Argentine Empire

With American Sequoia Capital and Blackstone investments being infiltrated by Wall Street's vampires, San Jose was already considering paying to avoid trouble, as the strength of the current US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency is very formidable.

In the early days of Sequoia Capital's founding, San Jose had intentionally established a US branch of the Falcon Bureau to counter the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency, although it ultimately failed to achieve its goal.

San Jose knew the true face of America in his previous life, from the Watergate scandal to the Patriot Act, from the famous writer Hemingway being monitored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Trump incident.

Even the FBI of later generations became the famous 'Fubolei' (likely a humorous term), while the CIA was adept at overthrowing small countries.

Therefore, there is a saying that goes, 'When an enemy scolds you or even tries to eliminate you, it means you are on the right path and doing the right thing.'

San Jose could only temporarily put aside his hatred and continue to be patient. Argentina was still too weak to guarantee the interests of the Argentine people.

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On the road to the rise of great powers, many countries have had peak moments of national fortune, but Argentina still needs to be patient and strive to quickly achieve heavy industrialization. San Jose must also take Brazil seriously, as the potential of the Brazilian market is huge, but the United States' 'defense' of its backyard is also real.

The development of the military industry can also be steadily promoted. Argentina's Encor Electrical has established a complete set of factories using American equipment, which is also the factory with the highest technical content in Argentina. It has now been reorganized into Pampa Electrical Company, which can produce radios and various household appliances. The quality is actually not bad, although strictly speaking, it is only a processing plant.

San Jose also hopes to exchange the large amount of grain currently stockpiled for the military industrial technology that Argentina needs.

The various military factories of Cohen Heavy Industries are mainly based on improved versions of old German equipment, which is strictly speaking, seriously behind world standards. Argentina is unable to connect with the Soviets, so development is very slow. There have been no major achievements in various forward-looking research and development, and San Jose is not satisfied with anything from tanks to mortars to rocket launchers, as they are far from combat-ready.

Starting early but arriving late, Argentina's industrial base is not enough to support Cohen Heavy Industries' military research and development. Talent, technology, and processing equipment are all major problems.

Now, New China is an important channel. San Jose initially established trade routes in the Nanyang region, importing minerals and grain from the Nanyang region and exporting munitions.

Now, he has connected with the famous Hong Kong United Import and Export Company. The first transaction was the trade of 500,000 tons of rice for Type 56-1 assault rifles and more than a dozen other blueprints and production equipment. San Jose also hopes to hire military factory consultants through trade to assist, which is currently under negotiation.

United Import and Export Company is a well-known trader in Hong Kong and one of the Hong Kong consortiums, and they are very honest in doing business.

In the past year, shell companies such as Bangkok Reign Trading, Singapore Lease Trading, Jakarta Wind God Trading, and Kuala Lumpur Thor Trading have continuously made moves, purchasing rice in the Nanyang region and India. Approximately 2.7 million tons of rice have been stored in warehouses throughout Nanyang, becoming one of the most famous grain traders in the Nanyang region.

It's not that Cohen Heavy Industries is weak, but that it truly lacks the help of a major power. Independent research and development is too difficult for industrially backward Argentina. European countries will not randomly sell various blueprints and production equipment.

New China and Yugoslavia are both good channels, but it is better to have a good relationship with New China. Doing business with the Chinese will not result in losses, and New China's military blueprints and equipment are indeed developing well, which is a win-win situation. However, Argentina will not establish diplomatic relations with New China for more than a decade.

Pulari International has established separate import and export trading companies in Singapore, Manila in the Philippines, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Jakarta in Indonesia, Bangkok in Thailand, and Yangon in Myanmar, supporting mainly locals, and conducting import and export trade with Argentina and other countries.

In the past year, a huge amount of Argentine light and heavy weapons have been frantically dumped into the Nanyang region, including at least a million light weapons, which has triggered many armed uprisings, but this has little to do with San Jose, he is just a smuggler.

In the new year, San Jose routinely conducted large-scale inspections and talks in La Pampa Province. A bunch of positions were vacated in the La Pampa Provincial Government, and after the new administrative division, there were also many more positions in the local municipal governments.

Rapid economic development is accompanied by huge economic benefits. Many civil servants could not resist the temptation, and therefore withdrew from the La Pampa Province officialdom, and some went to the Ushuaia prison to receive re-education.

At this time, the La Pampa Provincial Government also began to deploy personnel arrangements, in order to establish a good communication mechanism between superiors and subordinates with the most optimized configuration, especially this year's $300 million construction arrangement. The entire provincial government cannot eat it all. Blanca City, the three coastal cities, Santa Rosa City, and other ordinary municipal governments must be allocated some, which involves a large number of personnel arrangements.

Of course, the current personnel selection and promotion mechanism of the La Pampa Provincial Government is not particularly perfect. San Jose hopes to establish a good selection system to gather more outstanding talents. The major state-owned companies and factories alone need more than one hundred top leaders, and the top leaders and deputies of the municipal governments also need outstanding talents.

Moreover, with the improvement of the various municipal governments, in addition to the main persons in charge of the parliament and the municipal governments, San Jose is increasingly less involved in the personnel arrangements of departments below the city level.

However, San Jose insists on one point, that is, if you want to serve as a senior civil servant, or want to be promoted, then you must have grassroots work experience, and only if you do well can you be considered, even if you are a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires, or even his old classmates or old subordinates, they are all treated equally.

Alta District had to connect with Blanca City, and also had to deal with various emergencies. After the split, San Jose also transferred Williams Carron, the district chief of Alta District, and promoted him to the first deputy mayor in charge of Blanca City, and concurrently served as the district chief of Aharichi District.

Williams is also an old subordinate of San Jose. He has been serving as the district chief of Alta District and has made great contributions to the development of Blanca City. Alta District was originally a suburb with a population of only a few thousand. In less than 5 years, it directly expanded to a million scale. The public security was once extremely poor due to the expansion, but now the public security is very good, and Williams is one of the pillars of Blanca City.

He has always implemented San Jose's various policies very well, and is also one of the candidates for the mayor of Blanca City. San Jose originally wanted to send Williams to the three coastal cities to serve as a powerful official, but Williams declined. After the split, he can also be placed by his side.

Aharichi District is currently the core area of Blanca City and the future of Blanca City. The appointment also needs to be approved by San Jose himself. Aharichi District also has a population of more than 300,000, and it concentrates a batch of advanced industries.

There were also the 19 campaign teams that were dispatched in the beginning. Some successfully completed their tasks and played a huge role in San Jose's integration of La Pampa Province, while others could not adapt to the grassroots and eventually left sadly.

In fact, why San Jose insists on this principle is because of a simple historical truth. Argentina itself is an immigrant country, and its historical foundation is not deep enough. San Jose's many governing ideas and ideas come from New China, and many have been proven to be very practical. Grassroots experience is actually just saying, can you deal with the people? Using an ancient Chinese saying, it is that the prime minister must rise from the state department, and the fierce general must be sent from the ranks of soldiers. Therefore, grassroots work experience, in his opinion, is necessary.

Why are many of Argentina's current policies so poor? Just take Frondizi as an example. He does not have much experience serving in provinces. At first, he was just a lawyer, and later he served as a teacher. After resigning as a teacher, he ran for senator of the National Congress. He is now promoting the partial privatization of state-owned enterprises, developing basic industries, and opening up to foreign investment, mainly to the United States. His methods are still not strong enough, or rather, he does not have a group of local followers.

Frondizi's biggest problem right now is pinning his hopes on multinational corporations to develop the national industry, instead of focusing on Argentina-led industrialization. His insistence on opening up the oil sector, which directly contradicts his famous speech opposing Perón's collusion with American oil colonialism, damages his national image as a defender of Argentina's economy. This is related to the immense pressure he faces from the military, forcing him to seek breakthroughs externally, but it easily leads to a loss of trust from the Argentine people.

Four years ago, Frondizi delivered his most famous political speech at Belgrano Radio Station, which had a significant impact on public opinion regarding Perón's downfall. It also won him the recognition of the Argentine people, laying the foundation for winning the election. However, he then abandoned his stance, cooperated with the Americans, and created a huge conflict with the military.

Besides the three major departments directly managed – Taxation, the State-Owned Assets Committee, and Finance – the rest involves managing newly established departments. The most detailed work lies within the companies and factories affiliated with the State-Owned Assets Committee. San José believes he still has a relatively strong voice in the operational construction and management of these companies.

In 1958, La Pampa Province experienced rapid economic progress, with fiscal tax revenue more than doubling. Consequently, the treatment of civil servants also improved significantly. After paying off debts and reinvesting, the salaries and benefits of civil servants have reached the top level in Argentina.

The establishment of numerous state-owned companies has driven large-scale employment. San José has cultivated a stable base of supporters who come from outside the Cohen Consortium and the Radical Party, naturally safeguarding the interests of the entire La Pampa Province.

San José can now confidently say that he is not fighting alone; a group of great people supports him, and La Pampa Province is getting better every day.

“In the new year, the difficulties facing our province remain enormous, but the future development is still bright. Building on the foundation of 1958, we will continue to insist on developing industry and establishing a strong heavy chemical industry, automotive industry, and energy and power industry belonging to our province. Prioritizing the development of heavy chemical industry is the most crucial and important aspect. Only by developing the heavy chemical industry can other light industries be better developed, further expanding trade with other provinces and foreign countries, especially striving for the transfer of processing trade from Western Europe and the United States. Our Argentine human resources are very cheap, land prices are not expensive, and there are so many excellent construction companies that can quickly build industrial plants.

From textiles to machinery processing, we should strive for greater development. To this end, civil servants and government offices at all levels should prioritize youthfulness, trust and value young people, and select more outstanding talents. After collective meetings of all civil servants in the La Pampa Province government and discussions at the La Pampa Intransigent Radical Party, the following personnel adjustments will be made…”

The La Pampa Province government will undergo another reorganization, establishing five new departments: Petrochemical Industry Department, Steel Industry Department, Mechanical and Automotive Industry Department, Energy and Power Industry Department, and Foreign Trade Department. Five ministers and fifteen deputy ministers will be appointed to focus on deploying and developing the scale of state-owned and important private companies within La Pampa Province.

The next step is to continue importing complete sets of industrial equipment and support the expansion and construction of new factories by private companies. Throughout 1959, we will support the establishment of 30 new state-owned factories and companies under the departments, coordinating with the La Pampa State-Owned Assets Committee and the Blanca City State-Owned Assets Committee.

As the five-year development plan enters its second year, many factories and assembly plants have been opened in La Pampa Province. In terms of foreign relations, we have also chosen to reconcile with the Americans. Although the American old men are jackals, Argentina is not yet ready for harvesting, so the timing is right, and it is time for Argentina to make up for its shortcomings.

Regarding existing departments, 11 departments, including the Education Department, Health and Medical Department, Taxation Department, Finance Department, Blanca Customs, Transportation Department, and Agriculture Department, will be upgraded and will be centrally located in Plaza de la Victoria to improve administrative communication efficiency. Efforts will also be made to open three new universities and vocational schools in the province.

Military training lasting 10 days will be implemented in all universities and high schools in La Pampa Province. From now on, every new student will undergo military training, which will be arranged by instructors dispatched by the local police department or military units. Five new hospitals will be completed and opened, and customs and taxation will be reorganized, with the list of personnel appointments being publicized.

Comprehensive reorganization will be carried out in the lower-level municipal and county governments. The administrative divisions of 13 cities will be further optimized, and the most important goal of the municipal governments will be to fully develop the economy, cooperate with the industrialization deployment of the La Pampa Province government, achieve economic development achievements in 1959, and complete partial personnel adjustments with the provincial government. The degree of centralization will be fully improved, and the ability to mobilize resources will be enhanced.

The five cities of Blanca City, Otto City, Bucato City, Puerto Colorado City, and Santa Rosa City are the key cities for district adjustment, key cities for civil servant exchange, and key cities for reform. Among them, the three coastal cities will aim to break through a population of 500,000 to establish coastal trade and industrial cities. Santa Rosa City will be the first inland city in La Pampa, establishing key trade and industrial and mining resource channels with surrounding provinces, with a population target of 500,000 to establish large industrial and mining factories.

Regarding population growth, La Pampa Province still aims to increase the province's population as its primary goal. San José gave a special speech,

“Many civil servant colleagues and people in La Pampa believe that our personnel policies to encourage childbirth are too exaggerated. This is absolutely wrong. We must know that population is the primary productive force. Only when La Pampa Province has enough population can industrialization, the economy, and living standards have room for improvement. We should aim for Buenos Aires Province to establish a large province with a population of 10 million, attracting more domestic and foreign population and encouraging more new births. This is a policy that should be adhered to for a long time…”

Finally, let me briefly explain why population is the primary productive force in Argentina. According to last year's statistics, the Greater Buenos Aires area has 4 million people, which is equivalent to our La Pampa Province, but its economic scale is about twice as high as La Pampa Province. This is still good; the previous gap was about 40 times. The population of our Blanca City is rapidly approaching that of Buenos Aires City, but our main urban area is far inferior to Buenos Aires City. This requires continued efforts in urban construction planning.

Internationally, there are two super cities worth learning from. Last year, New York City had a population of 7.782 million, and the Greater New York area had a population of 12 million. The annual throughput of the Port of New York exceeded 50 million tons. The economic scale of the entire United States is 534.4 billion US dollars, while the economic scale of the Greater New York area is about 50 billion US dollars, which is 50 times that of La Pampa Province and more than 4 times that of Argentina.

The population of the Greater London area is 8.615 million, and the population of London, England, is approximately 5.002 million. Its economic scale is 20 times that of La Pampa Province, accounting for more than one-third of the UK, approximately 21 billion US dollars. Apart from external factors, a large population is also the reason why New York City and London can accommodate such a scale of economy. As for other external reasons, I will not analyze them one by one.”

With the current qualifications of La Pampa Province, it is of course impossible to compare with Little Japan and South Korea. The population alone cannot compare, but this does not prevent domestic and foreign capital and population from pouring into Blanca City. Capital naturally seeks profit, and neighboring countries also hope to increase income and support their families through work.

Although the city of Blanca has a clear plan and looks quite new, and the roads are quite spacious, the city does not look beautiful enough, and there are not many high-rise buildings.

It seems that there are industrial areas and tenement buildings everywhere. There is no other reason, because these buildings can not only develop the economy quickly, but also save money, and the scale of construction is super fast.

Blanca City can simultaneously start construction of 100-200 tenement buildings without any pressure. The construction period can be compressed to within half a year or even shorter. Renovating houses is also very fast, and laying water and electricity takes only one month to complete. The quality can also be fully guaranteed, while also reserving profits for construction companies.

These tenement buildings do not need elevators and are sturdy and durable. They only need simple replication. More than 10 companies have mastered this construction speed, which is very practical.

As for the Finance Department, the La Pampa State-Owned Assets Committee, and the Blanca City State-Owned Assets Committee, these three most important state-owned asset supervision and management departments in La Pampa Province, San José reorganized them with the greatest effort, focusing on managing the 143 state-owned companies in La Pampa Province. Those with still poor efficiency will be reorganized and merged in 1959 to establish large-scale state-owned company groups and enhance market competitiveness.

The scale of the Argentina National Stock Exchange and the number of listed companies need to be further expanded, especially the financing of large state-owned companies, which needs to be further increased, promoting the listing of at least 10 state-owned companies to reduce the economic pressure on the La Pampa Province government.

In terms of military development, support the development of the La Pampa Military Industry Company, compete with the private Cohen Heavy Industry, and introduce Soviet weapons.

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