The Ministry of Finance of the City Hall finally approved the two special loans for the Bilon Plan. The Ministry of Production and Development provided advice and necessary help and gave three alternative towns to choose from, namely Dolores Town in the west of Cologne and Dolores Town in the north. of the town of d'Antones, and of the town of María to the southeast.
Most of the three towns are located within 150 kilometers of the city center. At first glance, the town of María was chosen. It will be one of the larger towns in Cordoba Province in the future.
However, in order to appear official, he also visited other towns to save face and received a "warm" reception.
The last town to be investigated was the town of Maria, which was the main target of St. Jose.
When the National Bank was approving the loan, Aragorn went to a car rental company in the city to rent a large pickup truck. He took a note in advance and asked for leave to go to a town outside the city. Cross arranged the work for the day.
In fact, you can also take a train there, but trains in Argentina are prone to delays and are slow, and the train station is located outside the town of St. Mary, making transfers quite troublesome. It is not as convenient as driving yourself.
Maria Town is about 130 kilometers away from the city center. There is a small station and a wharf in the downwind direction. It exports wool, beef, etc. The transportation is relatively convenient. It is a traditional farming and animal husbandry town.
This is also the third time that San Jose has left the city of Cordoba. The first two times were to inspect two other towns.
The town of Dolones is located in the western highlands. Although the climate conditions are better, the land price is the cheapest, and there are abundant labor resources, the transportation is not very convenient, there are no rivers and railways, and the altitude is more than 1,000 meters, making Cordoba 500 Meter altitude, it is very difficult to increase the altitude.
D'Anfunes Town is a satellite town of Science and Technology City. It has the most convenient transportation, the largest number of outsiders, a mixed population, underground gangs, and a railway. It was almost destroyed by the well-mannered townspeople and gangsters, but the economy of that town is still there. It's okay, it's the second alternative town.
In order to be on the safe side this time, the mayor didn’t seem to welcome it as he did last time. He heard that it was a new type of foreign gangster called “The Byrd Brothers, who would behead his son.
When we went to Maria Town, we all brought a revolver and ammunition, and we all wore body armor, which was somewhat of a comfort.
Aragorn can't drive and doesn't have a driver's license. This pickup truck is still a big guy.
Although San Jose had a driver's license in his previous life, Cross only knows how to drive a bicycle. This pickup truck is relatively primitive, with a manual transmission. San Jose, who is used to driving automatic transmissions, is afraid of getting into trouble, so it is in tatters for his own safety. For this reason, I simply hired an experienced driver.
The driver was an uncle in his forties, a typical Italian descendant. St. Jose called him Old Bill. He looked very talkative. I heard he had been a mafia, bragging to Aragon, and showing a large tattoo on his arm. It almost made Saint Jose think he had entered a den of thieves again.
Saint-Jesse sat in the passenger seat, while Aragorn and Cross sat in the back seat. Saint-Jesse looked at the surrounding scenery with interest. All four of them wore wide-brimmed hats. Saint-Jesse fastened his safety belt, looking out the window.
The pickup truck wasn't going very fast, only about twenty yards.
It also has something to do with the cement road here, which is roughly equivalent to a provincial road, somewhat dilapidated, with two-way lanes and not many vehicles on the road.
With the rumbling sound of the pickup truck and the smoke coming out, it left the city, then the suburbs, and finally reached the grassland. It had a grassland-style feel. The windows were open, there were no people, and the vast grassland stretched as far as the eye could see.
This is the legendary Pampas, the "treeless grassland". In the past, Saint Jose also rode a horse and galloped freely on the prairie.
The sun was gray in the sky, and we walked for more than three hours. Aragorn chatted with the driver, and Saint Jose occasionally interjected, making a little joke from time to time, saying whether the distance was close or far.
The trip was uneventful, and security in Argentina is basically okay.
Leaving the main road, you are greeted by a Spanish-style town. It is said that the local farmers are all pure Spanish descendants.
The ranch workers are of Italian descent and other white descendants, such as Persians, Turkish descendants, etc. The entire Maria town has a total area of only six or seven square kilometers. The population in the center of the town is only about 40,000, and the suburbs are about 1 Never mind,
St. Jose made a comparison. The area was twice the size of the university in its previous life, and the population was about the same as the students at his university. However, the land outside this town was very large, which was what St. Jose valued.
The overall scale is relatively large, and the economy is mainly based on trade and agriculture.
There are quite a lot of facilities in the town, with four streets running to the southeast and three streets running to the northwest.
The town government is located in the center of the town, with a post office, a police station, a commercial street, a supermarket, a river running through it, and a small dock.
Apart from bars, there are no other entertainment facilities. There are several community clinics or hospitals, three Catholic churches, libraries, and some small parks.
There is also a day-to-day teaching school. For middle school, you have to go to Juanse Middle School on the outskirts of Cordoba. Because there are not many children left in the town, there are not enough to form two classes, so the original St. Mary's Middle School was replaced. Revoked.
There are also some military fortress buildings left over from the colonial period. The planning is much better than the previous two towns. They are stylish and well-organized despite being small.
The rest are basically breeding farms and some small factories, such as flour mills and slaughterhouses. Most of them are in business and look pretty good. Except for the residents in the town, the residents live relatively scattered, mostly in single-family houses. It is also relatively large, but San Jose saw a wooden house that looked a bit old and not as safe as reinforced concrete.
Of course, why it is so depressed now is also related to the First Five-Year Plan currently implemented in Argentina. In order to develop industry, many local farmers and herdsmen left small towns and went to work in big cities.
When they arrived at an open space, several people were already waiting there, including the mayor of Maria Town, the approving officer of Cordoba City, and the government officials of the city government who had already arrived.
The mayor of the town, Cavo Balmond, was a tall and burly man in his fifties with a gray beard. He came over and shook hands with Saint Jose.
The city administrator is a young man, about 27 or 28 years old, who looks very elegant and wears a formal suit.
Juan Carlos and his deputy Corina Bellamy are young girls who have just graduated.
A few people exchanged brief greetings and started chatting. The mayor of the town, Bamonde, whose ancestors had been a Spanish colonial expeditionary force, although he was restless, was very patient in chatting with Saint Jose.
Balmond was very enthusiastic and kept introducing the advantages of the town. After all, the town was almost bankrupt and urgently needed new financial and taxation resources, otherwise the entire town would probably be cancelled.
Carlos and Bemila are responsible for supervising the financial supervision of the plastic bottle factory to prevent bank loans from being used for other purposes.
The budget for the construction of the factory this time is more than one million US dollars, half of which is foreign exchange quota. Many equipment need to be imported from abroad. The local town mayor provides site selection services for the factory land. The group chatted while walking.
Argentina now has sufficient foreign exchange and can import equipment needed for plastic bottle factories from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Looking at it, the town is not very big. The town was established only more than 80 years ago. The terrain is flat and the altitude is less than 200 meters. Most of the pedestrians walking on the street are elderly people, and most young people go to the urban areas to make a living. , there are some carriages on the road in the town, and the most cars are pickup trucks, motorcycles and other new gadgets, and occasionally there are some vehicles similar to jeeps.
It seems that local farmers, like Americans, like big things like pickup trucks, but there are no gas stations or the like in the town, and the supporting facilities are indeed poor after all.
The construction of the factory this time is different from the Prali Cannery, which renovated an old breeding farm. Instead, it plans to build a new chemical plant supporting facilities. Of course, the initial investment, including factory construction, water and electricity supply, is not a small amount.
Argentina has developed railway transportation, and this is a small station. It is also very convenient to transport raw materials such as ethylene. The chemical plant of the National Petroleum Company is located in the coastal city of La Plata. It only takes a day and a half for the transshipment country to arrive, after the bottles are manufactured. It also needs to be transported to the city, which is also troublesome.
According to some memories, this town has the best transportation among the three towns and is one of the small cities with the best development in the future. It is also very suitable for the establishment of Saint Jose.
For this reason, San Jose has already made plans to acquire a thousand acres of land in the early stage to develop a large industrial park. At that time, the soda plant may also be moved here, which can save a lot of transportation costs, but the employees here are not good. Recruitment and the like.
However, this is also part of the large-scale vision of San Jose. Although the original cannery is located in a semi-suburban area, the cost is high, the space is small, and the land is leased. If the housing is increased or repossessed one day, it will be troublesome. , and if you want to buy it there, it is not suitable. It is quite expensive. It is better to build a whole set of industrial bases here.
The land price in this place is only one-fifth of that in the suburbs of Cordoba. It also has preferential policies, which are very impressive. And the most important thing is that it is currently in a relatively primitive development period, but it has great potential for future development.
Saint-Jesse plans to directly follow the industrial zone planning of Guan-Shenzhen City in the memory of later generations. It will be very convenient to build a few factories. Moreover, it is also a railway station for convenient transportation to all parts of the country. There is also a river called the Salado River. The tributaries can lead directly to the Atlantic coast, and water and land transportation are very convenient, which is very conducive to subsequent expansion.
Saint Hesse became more and more satisfied with this place, but of course he didn't show it on his face.
"Dear Mr. Carlos, this place is far away from the market and the transportation is not very convenient. It is not conducive to the subsequent development of our factory. The train station is also quite old and the town is not big. It is not conducive to the daily life of our factory employees. There is nothing There are no entertainment activities, not even movie theaters or places to relax,” St. Jose said with a frown.
"Moreover, this place is desolate, and a lot of money has to be spent to build factories. Investment is also a big problem."
"Mr. Saint Jose, the traffic in our town is actually pretty good. This river can handle ships of three thousand tons..."
"Our town can provide special funds to help you build a factory. As long as you come to our town to set up a factory, we will try our best to help..." The mayor's voice became smaller and smaller, and he also knew that Santa Maria Town got this plastic bottle. Not much chance.
"How much money can the town provide to help us build a factory?"
"Also, the factory we are building may be relatively large. How much land can you provide? We need at least this much." St. Jose held out a finger.
"Ah... we can provide about 5 million pesos in help and support. As long as the total tax payment exceeds 5 million pesos within three years, we can provide 1,000 acres of land for your factory." The mayor seemed a little unconvinced. He said quickly.
"If it's not enough, we can provide another 500 acres of land. All we need to do is demolish a small pasture." As expected, he is a rich man. A small pasture covers an area of 500 acres.
"Okay, our plastic bottle factory should be set up here. If we need land in the future, we will find it in the town." Saint Jose finally made the decision.
According to the urine characteristics of Argentina, it is estimated that it will take a lot of time to build a factory, which can be used to purchase the required equipment.
The three people from St. Jose went to the mayor's house as guests, had a meal of grilled lamb chops, and drank a cup of yerba mate.
Santa Maria Town is a traditional agricultural and animal husbandry town with a strong foundation, but not many factories are willing to set up factories here.
Moreover, the First Five-Year Plan caused many farmers and herdsmen to leave the towns and go to the capital and provincial capitals. The towns were also relatively depressed. There were still two to three hundred households in the northeastern towns that were originally planned to be allocated to plastic bottle factories. Now there are fewer More than half of it, after all, the best city is in the capital, otherwise it would be better to save the capital.
The township began to decline within the first two years, although St. Mary's Township maintained its land price strategy.
Then came the signing, but when signing the contract, I found that they used acres. 1,000 acres is equivalent to about 6,000 acres. Saint Jose read it several times to make sure he was right, and signed his name.
San Jose has also inspected the other two towns. Either they are crowded but have inconvenient transportation, or they are relatively wealthy and not so eager to increase tax revenue.
St. Mary's Town basically meets most of St. Jose's needs and can be subsidized with cheaper funds, which makes St. Jose quite satisfied. .
This time we need to choose someone to supervise here. Theoretically speaking, Cross is the most suitable person. Director Cross is rigorous and methodical, and he can make some changes, but the cannery still needs him to be in charge of the current factory.
Aragon is quite loyal and one of the few trustworthy people in Saint Hesse. But now that he has a military position, after much thought, only Li Qingyun from the production department is more suitable. Old man Chen speaks highly of Li Qingyun, and even Cross also thinks highly of Li Qingyun. He is quite satisfied with his work, and he is alert and tactful in his work.
With him watching, the result should be pretty good.
Of course, if there are more suitable personnel, you can also find them to work as supervisors, but now most factories are more flexible, and the sales department still needs to continue to promote products.
A brief meeting was held with the mayor Carlos and the municipal civil servant Bamonde to finalize the specific details and decided to start construction as soon as possible to meet production needs.
We need to contact the cement factory for cement, sand and gravel, steel bars, brick factories, etc. Fortunately, the Cordoba Municipal Construction Company, a subsidiary of the Municipal Housing Department, provided a construction engineering team to be responsible for the construction and decoration of the new factory. , land leveling and the like, Saint Jose only needs to send people to keep an eye on the progress of the project.
This was the first time to build a factory by myself, and many planning details were finalized. The mayor even celebrated with the residents of the town that day.
As for the cooperation in the chemical laboratory, Cross has already contacted a newly established laboratory at the University of Science and Technology, fully sponsored by Prali Company. Several young junior students in the chemical engineering department,
And a student who just graduated from the University of Chicago with a master's degree in chemistry, serves as a part-time teacher in the chemistry department, and takes the lead in establishing the project. All the property rights of the plastic bottle process are owned by Prali Company. St. Hesse provides a high financial sponsorship. After the students graduate, You can also directly join a plastics chemical factory.
