Because it was already evening after unloading, and it felt unsafe to drive in the middle of the night, Saint Jose settled in the town of Maria and was warmly received by the mayor's uncle.
The first two times I came here, I didn’t think much of it. In fact, this town is quite large for Argentina. It even has a small airport. It is also far from the center of Cordoba Province and the local population is not large. Coupled with the decline of the original town, it is very suitable for causing trouble.
In addition to the flour mill, there are actually several small factories in the town, such as cement factories. There seems to be an explosives factory and a cannery outside the town.
Among them, the cannery interested St. Jose a little bit. After all, this can was his first step in accumulating original capital, although the sales volume of cans is now far less than that of the soda factory.
When the mayor of Cavo took him on a tour, he found that it was a small workshop, mainly producing canned meat. The scale was not as large as the first production line in San Jose. The total number of employees was only seventeen or eighty, which was not very interesting and interesting. Dull.
The Maria Chemical Factory and Plastic Bottle Factory, which cost more than one million US dollars to build, have increased their output very rapidly. The combined number of employees in the two factories has exceeded 800, making it the largest factory in the town. It creates a large number of jobs every month. It can be said that a big factory drives the development of a town.
We did not have our own mold factory at the time, so debugging at that time required St. Jose to do it himself. The bottle molds currently produced were debugged and designed by St. Jose himself. Well, drawings were provided. These injection molding machines were purchased from General Electric and Deutsche Siemens. They jointly customized the production equipment and then shipped it back to adjust the parameters themselves. It took more than half a year to successfully put it into production.
The innovative use of brand-new, custom-made 'two-step' bottle blowing equipment in the production of plastic bottles has allowed the output of plastic bottles to increase rapidly, while the unit price of production has dropped rapidly. Moreover, the price of oil is now low, so the cost of plastic bottles has been far lower than Glass bottles purchased from outside.
The salesmen in San Jose opened up the market by wooing local forces. Of course, the domestic market in Argentina was still very small. After all, it was not even comparable to a city in New China in later generations.
The current soda has begun to be exported to Paraguay, two neighboring countries of Uruguay. Brazil will be the next important market. Little Knicks in the capital is doing well, and Cross's nephew Lucifer has done a great job in opening up the local market.
Give them profits, set up a local joint company, and transfer the funds to the bank as soon as possible after receiving the payment, convert them into US dollars and foreign exchange, and then invest in the U.S. stock market, or purchase a large amount of various production equipment in the United States and transport it to the country for international operations. , at least for now, it’s doing pretty well.
The production efficiency and process waste of the Sean Glass State-owned Factory are relatively high, so the cost is relatively high, which will affect the profit output. Saint-Jesse is already considering whether to acquire this glass factory.
Looking at the injection molding machines, more than 50 of them, producing plastic bottles day and night, Saint Jose was filled with excitement. This is the charm of industrialization, and these factories are all profitable. Each one of them is Pay taxes on time every month.
In the warehouse at María Terminal, one hundred containers contain the mechanical processing equipment that Saint-Jesse plans to develop next. In the future, there is no need to spend a lot of money to purchase other people’s machines. Instead, they will produce their own machinery and equipment, paving the way for future independent development.
In order to cultivate talents, Saint-Jesse even wanted to build an industrial college to cultivate talents. Now that there is not much money on hand, the investment in building a university is too high, so it can only give up temporarily. Now it is a small matter.
Saint Jose followed Mayor Cavo around the town all day long, eating and drinking at the mayor's house. He also met the mayor's wife, who was in her 40s, holding a little girl, who was probably only three or four years old. It's quite big, a two-story building with its own courtyard.
After dinner, the two went back to the office in the town government hall, and their relationship became increasingly close.
"Brother Saint Jose, the development of our town of Maria is getting better and better, thanks to you," Mayor Cavo said with emotion after walking around in a circle.
The city originally selected three towns to support the new chemical plant with the loan. The town of Maria is located the farthest away, and the land is not the cheapest. There are not even many workers. I don’t know why St. Jose chose Mary. Ya Town, at that time he was not sure that San Jose would choose a town 140 kilometers away instead of the satellite town of Kecheng or the plateau mountain town with a cooler climate.
Maria Town was already an aging small city at that time. Those who were closer to the town mostly went to Cordoba, and those who were further away went to Putrajaya. It was already in decline visible to the naked eye, but Maria After the arrival of the plastic chemical plant.
Think about that year, when we first took over Maria Town, there were only seven or eight factories in the town, and there were only less than 200 workers. There were no mechanical equipment, new docks, or main roads.
When I went to the province for a meeting, I asked senior officials to ask the Finance Bureau for funding. After all, I am also the town mayor elected by the people, so I can't not even get funding! To improve the facilities in the town, guess what the senior officials said, money is not available, the treasury is very empty, and there is a lifeline, but no matter what, there is no money.
As a result, San Jose came with a loan and a million US dollars. In less than 300 days, the town of Maria had everything, a big road, a new port, a beautiful big factory, and a new factory was to be built. Woke up,
The number of workers in the town has been increasing rapidly, their pockets have become stronger, taxes have increased, there are more people in the town, and their family wealth has become stronger. Mayor Cavo feels that his waist has become stronger. Without this My family, I dare to compete face to face with the mayor of San Francisco, Crewe, at the end of this year. Just dream.
"Brother Cavo, you are so polite. This is a win-win situation. Our factory has also received a lot of help from the town, and it is right for us to repay the town."
Saint Jose truly felt that he had only done a trivial thing, without any benefit, and that the future of Maria Town was quite bright.
There is a cement factory in the town of Maria, and San Jose will definitely give priority to using it. There is river sand in the Tercero River, and the river can be dredged, which has supported the town's sand brick factory, quarry and other declining industries.
If there was no steel plant in the town of Maria, San Jose would not have used steel bars shipped from outside. The construction of the Maria Petrochemical Plastics Plant drove the development of the entire town.
This year, due to the drought in Argentina, wheat production has been greatly reduced, and there are also many fewer cattle. Wheat has to be imported from Brazil. Forage has suffered a major blow, and many farmers have lost their jobs. If it were not for the construction of the petrochemical plant and the large number of people recruited after the construction, Maria Town Absolutely bankrupt. I heard that many small towns in Cordoba province are bankrupt.
I have to say that the chemical and plastics factory that arrived this year has created employment for thousands of people. Saint-Jesse is also preparing for a new soda plant, a machinery and equipment factory, renovating docks, and building and renovating roads. Local people will be given priority, Maria. The large-scale infrastructure construction in the town has indeed effectively promoted the development of Maria Town.
Problems such as food, medical care, and education for the children of migrant workers have also given local hotels, hospitals, and schools a new lease of life.
The tertiary industry in the town has also developed, such as restaurants and the like. Moreover, San Jose has been adding factories to the industrial park, and construction has not stopped. The unemployment rate in the town has dropped to a new low level. .
Mayor Cavo is indeed very grateful to San Jose. Mayor Cavo knows that his abilities are relatively average. Now that the town of María can take the lead in the 51 years when the overall development of the province of Cordoba has declined, Saint Jose owes a lot to it. without.
In the past two months when the chemical plant was put into operation, the tax revenue from the chemical plant each month exceeded the commercial tax for the whole of last year, which made the town mayor's public approval rate exceed 80%, which is quite emotional.
The two of them were drinking tea and chatting in the mayor's office. Mayor Cavo basically obeyed Saint Jesus now. As long as Saint Jesus asked, he would try his best to comply with it. Who dares to talk to Saint Jesus? If you can't get through it, you can't get along with him, Cavo!
This is the God of Wealth in Maria Town, and he must pay for it, and Saint Jose has no intention of interfering with the town's official affairs.
If the mayor had not only given birth to three sons and his daughter was only three years old, he would have even wanted Saint Jose to be his son-in-law so as to win over him.
The mayor of Cavo became more and more satisfied with St. Jose. From time to time, St. Jose also boasted about some views on urban development, which made the mayor extremely admired for St. Jose's knowledge and ability.
"Little brother San Jose, I wonder if you are interested in taking over the explosives factory in our town," Mayor Cavo hesitated again and again, but finally said it. This was an opportunity that was finally seized.
"The explosives factory, the kind that makes explosives?" Saint Jose was a little surprised. It seemed that this explosives factory was developing well and would not lose money at all.
"Yes, the director of Rennes Explosives Factory resigned for more than a month. The factory is now in a state of chaos. I don't have the energy and time to manage this factory. Moreover, the equipment of this factory is relatively old. If you are willing to take over, you can Two-year tax exemption...This is the information and reports of the explosives factory. You can take a look," Saint Jose hesitated, took it, and looked through it casually.
Saint Jose knew nothing about explosives factories, so he felt that he was not very interested, so he took a look and found that there were currently 13 workers in this explosives factory, most of whom were in their fifties or sixties.
This small factory mainly produces civilian explosives, with two products: TNT explosives and TNT black explosives.
If you don't lose money every year, you can't make much money. Last year, the whole factory's turnover was 8 million pesos, about 160,000 US dollars, and the profit was 10,000 US dollars, which is actually quite considerable. However, due to equipment and other problems, it is no longer able to purchase new ones. The equipment is gone, and the town's finances cannot allow the explosives factory to continue to expand. The market and talents are scarce, making it useless.
This is also the reason why the mayor wants to sell the dynamite factory or transfer it to Saint Jose at a low price. Saint Jose has money, people, and connections. As long as the dynamite factory is still in the town of Maria, it will only be in Saint Jose. It develops better in the hands of Jese.
In fact, he had little interest in developing an explosives factory, but when he saw that this explosives factory had the qualifications to produce military products, he immediately planned to buy the explosives factory.
What St. Jose likes is the production line of small arms, artillery, shoulder-fired rockets, and even tank production lines.
But I didn't know how to start, so I could only import it from abroad. I didn't have a R&D team myself, so I purchased a lot of mechanical processing equipment from the United States. This company was called Wren Explosives Factory. It happened that Doze had sent me pillows, so I had to take them down.
Saint Jose said in embarrassment, "Mr. Mayor, this explosives factory seems to have many problems..." He used honorifics, which shocked Cavo.
"As long as our town can help, we will definitely help everyone. Within my ability, I will definitely help," Mayor Cavo quickly added when he saw something was going on.
The Rennes Explosives Factory is not in the town, but in a valley outside the town, fifteen kilometers away from the town. Commuting to and from get off work every day is quite troublesome for the workers. There used to be its own saltpeter mine, but the mine was very small. Now we need to purchase raw materials from other places. This is one of the reasons why the previous factory director ran away. It is quite desolate and empty. You can only go home on weekends. The salary is not good, and explosives are dangerous goods.
"Let's do this, Mr. Mayor, I need to take down all the land around Ren's dynamite. Then I will expand and renovate it. If it doesn't work, I'll forget it. After all, it's thankless." He pretended to complain, but he was actually very excited, but he didn't. Show it.
"Absolutely no problem, as long as you can keep all the workers, I will coordinate other things."
"Okay, then I agree, I will take over this factory," St. Jose said pretending to be reluctant.
"Thank you so much. I should give you the medal and certificate of honorary citizen. I will announce the good news to the citizens of Maria Town tomorrow..., little brother of St. Jose," Mayor of Cabo I was quite excited and moved, and became brothers with Saint Jose.
Mayor Cabo's family was actually a small and powerful landowner family in Argentina. Now the family has been in decline for a long time, and the power in Cordoba Province is complicated and mysterious. Saint Jose, who has taken over, has also begun to transfer the power of the factory. Away from the center of the turmoil, in a few years the Bilon government would step down, the country's finances would go bankrupt, and Kecheng would be one of the important forces behind the change of military government. Saint Jose also began to prepare for its future and make a big move.
This time he was able to win over the mayor of Cabo. In addition to the fact that Saint Jose is now one of the representatives of the newly powerful factory consortium in Science and Technology City, he received the last national loan from the Bilon government and was able to grow and develop.
It is also related to the fact that Saint Jose is a spokesperson for Commander Tomps Jr., who withstood the pressure of the Ministry of Defense to save Saint Jose during the siege of the Byrd Brotherhood, and also showed great strength.
This success has completely taken root in Maria Town. The next step is to start preparing funds to transform and upgrade the Rennes Explosives Factory into a small arms arsenal. The destination is to consider going to Europe, the United States, or the Soviet Union to buy several small arms production lines for science and technology. The City Defense Force provides firearms, weapons and ammunition.
