San Jose followed Mayor Cavo and drove to the location of the explosives factory, passing by another road from Maria Town.
Mayor Cavo drives a large American pickup truck and wears a cowboy hat.
Sanjesé followed closely behind in a rented pickup truck, wearing a steel helmet.
This road is not a cement road, just an ordinary dirt road with some bumps and dust. It is similar to the dirt road at the training ground of the Falcon team.
After driving slowly along the mountain road for about half an hour, we finally came to a huge valley. From a distance, we saw a row of one-story bungalows in front of us and a small mine in the back. We parked the vehicle.
Mayor Cavo first went to the factory area to find someone and asked Saint Jose to stay still. Saint Jose came down to get some air. There was a smell of sulfur in the air. The mountains here were bare and most of the trees had been cut down. .
Ten minutes later, Mayor Cavo came out, followed by someone.
"Hello, Sean Tad, you are now a technical engineer and production supervisor at the Maria Explosives Factory." He stretched out his left hand and shook St. Jose's hand.
"Hello, St. Jose Cohen, starting today you are the owner of the Maria Renne Explosives Factory."
In front of him is a white middle-aged man with a ponytail, a slightly fat belly, a wedding ring on his rough left hand, a country hairstyle, a pair of thick glasses, an unshaven beard, and heavy dark circles under his eyes, and he seems to exude an aura The smell of saltpeter.
"Hello, Cohen, let me introduce our factory. Our factory covers an area of 100 acres, with 200 acres of sulfur minerals behind it, and the other 500 acres surrounding it. Our factory currently has 37 workers, most of whom People live in the town of Maria, and currently they mainly use mixed explosives made with Swedish technology.”
Sean's voice was a little hoarse, and he seemed to be struggling to say these words. He didn't seem to be very good at communication.
The two of them were led by Sean to a factory workshop.
San Jose saw a group of workers, mostly middle-aged aunts and uncles, wearing a variety of clothes.
He was sitting quietly on the assembly line in the workshop, producing explosives flexibly. The atmosphere was somewhat dull, the air was not circulating very much, and the fan was not even turned on, but there was only some natural wind occasionally.
"Cohen, this is the assembly workshop of our factory."
"The explosives produced by our factory are mainly cooperated with domestic mines, such as the Zecia mine in San Juan Province... However, we have not been paid for more than two months. Each person is paid 4,000 pesos, which is close to Salary expenses of 160,000 pesos." Sean paused for a long time, his Adam's apple was choked and his eyes were a little red, but he finally said it.
"Many of our veteran workers were owed about 300,000 pesos in wages. They switched jobs to the Maria Plastic Chemical Factory. Their salary was 5,500 pesos a month, and they would never be in arrears. In fact, I wanted to go there, but I didn't. Suitable position, failed interview...",
St. Jesus did not answer, and Sean calmed down. His chat box suddenly opened up, and he dared to say anything.
It's strange that he passed the interview like this. He spoke so hard and straightforward. Saint Jose couldn't bear to tell him that he was the boss of the plastic factory. He was a good guy. He was poaching himself, but he was not a bad person.
"That's no problem. The salary arrears will be made up immediately today, and then starting from next month, everyone's salary will be increased by 500." Saint Jose nodded, thought for a while and said it.
The 400,000 US dollars have been spent, and the salary expenditure of 20,000 US dollars does not matter. In fact, the explosives factory is not that valuable, but the ore on this hilltop is valuable, and it can make a profit of 10%.
"Boss, you won't lie to us or fool the children. My salary is 6,000 pesos a month!" Sean had some doubts on his face. He looked at Mayor Cabo and nodded behind him before confirming the news.
The mayor of Cobo had already mentioned this situation before he came. St. Hessett prepared 400,000 pesos in cash, but he didn't expect it to be enough.
It turned out that he was one of the masterminds behind the collapse of the explosives factory, Saint Jose thought speechlessly.
"Why did I lie to you? Shouldn't I be excited when I pay you a salary~" Saint Jose was a little speechless. Did he think he was a liar because he was young?
"Call everyone over. I will make an announcement later. First, we will pay the wages of the factory workers. The old employees will be notified of getting off work tonight." Saint Jose looked at the production line, then turned to Sean and said.
"Yes, boss!" Sean didn't care and immediately ran to the production line.
"The new boss has paid his salary, go over now and pay attention to the safety of the shutdown," he shouted loudly. The production line that was originally calm suddenly felt like a frying pan. Fortunately, it was not a real explosion.
With a loud bang, the workers stopped what they were doing and stood up, ready to come over. When Sean saw something was wrong, he immediately yelled.
"Safety first, safety first, if the machine is turned off, are you seeking death, Horn Trevor! What about you?"
Saint Jose was also a little startled. These people were too excited and would be in trouble if they were blown up later. His small body could not withstand these powerful explosives.
Dozens of people lined up in a chaotic line in front of St. Jose.
"Hello everyone, I am your new boss. Today I will pay the arrears of wages. Sean, go get the wage bill and check it before issuing it."
The employees whispered among themselves, some looking like they couldn't believe it. This new boss is incredible.
Sean hurriedly moved a table, and Saint Jose took out two large suitcases filled with banknotes.
"Okay, those whose names are called below should come to the front of me one by one to collect their money, and line up one by one. Don't be anxious. Sister, don't jump in line."
"Alyssa Ackerman, two and a half months' salary of 11,400 pesos," Sean took out a notebook from somewhere and now stood behind Saint Jose and read out.
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After less than half an hour, the wages were counted one by one, and the whole factory was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
San Jose asked them to work safely, and soon after Mayor Cavo, Sean left the production workshop.
"Boss, actually none of our skilled workers are running away, only young people are running away," Sean's condition is no longer as decadent as before, his face is rosy, as if he has taken a tonic.
In addition to the production workshop, San Jose also participated in the ammonia synthesis workshop, but the scale was small and it mainly synthesized some raw materials.
"Boss, this is our warehouse. It covers an area of 6,000 square meters. This is the detonator area..." Sean never stopped...
The three of them walked and came to a huge underground warehouse. The door of the warehouse was not closed. As soon as they entered the warehouse, the temperature dropped a few degrees.
Boxes of blasted explosives, detonators, etc. were scattered on the ground. St. Jose was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. Fortunately, there was no explosion, otherwise it would have been too dangerous to go to heaven.
"Boss, this is our output for about half a year, which is 474 tons. The current price of one ton of explosives in our factory is 9,000 pesos, which is probably worth more than 4 million pesos...",
Good guy, Saint Jose did some calculations, and the explosives in stock here alone are worth more than 80,000 US dollars, making a lot of money.
"Are there any other difficulties in the factory at the moment?" Saint Jose could only interrupt...
"Currently we need a factory director as a manager, and our inventory cannot be sold." Sean tilted his head and thought for a long time, slapped his head hard, and finally thought of an idea.
"Is there no suitable candidate in the factory?"
"Yes, they are not suitable. They don't even know how to sell these things. Our original factory director originally intended to use these products to offset wages... But unfortunately, everyone doesn't like these, even the potatoes grown in the factory They are all better than them..." These words almost scared Saint Jose.
Sean took Saint Jose to these parts of the laboratory, which were already covered with spider webs.
Sean scratched his head, a little embarrassed.
"Now I am the only chemical engineer in the factory. The others have already run away and left this sad place." Sean continued bluntly.
"Okay, I will send the factory director over then. Please cooperate with me. Our laboratory needs to be reactivated. You can come back as the laboratory director then,"
"Really?" Sean actually likes to do matching, invention research, and production. He feels like he has lost a lot of weight.
"It's true. I will give you an additional salary of 500 pesos every month, and I will introduce you to suitable people. I want to develop other new products." Sanjesé added.
"Boss, you are so awesome. I will work hard in the future!" Sean was very excited and flattered him hard.
There is a huge market for things like fireworks and firecrackers. St. Jesus kept communicating with Sean, and Sean finally understood.
Maria Town has its own paper mill, which makes those fireworks straight tubes very convenient for holding fireworks and firecrackers.
Then we can buy the raw materials for paper and build a machine to produce it. As for the yellow mud problem, it can be easily solved.
St. Jose also visited the mine. The mine had been shut down for several months. St. Jose looked at the raw material warehouse. Huge amounts of ore could be seen everywhere, making it self-sufficient.
Saint Hesse has a new type of weapon, and Saint Hesse has planned to conduct reverse engineering. However, it does not have the right manpower yet. It is best to go to the weapons factory to find people to poach or something.
After a visit. These hundreds of thousands of dollars are well spent. All we need to do is dispatch a new factory director and a few people who are good at clinging to relationships, and then we can open up the situation.
Fireworks and firecrackers are directly supplied to the civilian market, which should be enough for gunpowder factories to continue to survive.
What is left is to develop the mining market. Argentina is currently not good at mining. Countries such as Brazil, Australia, and South Africa are currently developing large-scale projects. Either they can mine themselves, which requires cooperation with local forces or international exports. , let dynamite bloom in Tu'ao, South Africa, and Brazil.
In fact, Bolivia also has a lot of mineral deposits, and the people there are relatively poor. If you have the opportunity, you must go there to mine. Brazil is still relatively strong. After they moved the capital, the development of the Brazilian plateau has been accelerated, and it is now also a window area.
Saint Hesse has some understanding of the mineral deposits developed by Vale. After all, this name can often be seen in the news in future generations. New China is the first country in the Blue Star and the only country in human history to produce more than 1 billion tons of steel.
Argentina lacks at least two important minerals for the development of its steel industry. One is industrial grain and coal, and the second is iron ore. This is a serious problem that must be overcome in the future. Whether to import coke or develop it in neighboring countries is a question. Questions that require careful consideration.
South Africa is still a colony of the British. Most of Africa as a whole is still a colonial country. The Soviet Union and the United States are preparing to completely dismember the old colonial countries. The independence of India in the past few years has dealt a heavy blow to the British Empire.
France, under the leadership of de Gaulle, regained its power and tried to deepen its rule in Vietnam, and is still fighting in Vietnam.
Turkey and Australia are still working hard to integrate the country, but Brazil is now beginning to embark on the path of booming great power.
In the newspaper news, San Jose has seen that Brazil has successively established large state-owned enterprises such as Vale, Redonda Steel Plant, and Petrobras.
On the road to centralization, Brazil far surpassed Argentina in this regard, especially when the capital was moved to Brasilia. The move of the capital to Brasilia seemed to have happened in the 1960s and 1970s.
This is the only major country that moved its capital after World War II. Now that I think about it, Brazilians do have some talent. That big airplane is still impressive to me. Brazil’s aircraft industry has begun to take off.
Saint Jose has long forgotten the specific time when Brazil moved its capital. The current capital is still Rio de Janeiro. There is no news about moving the capital in Brazilian newspapers. I wonder if history has changed.
Like Brazil, I am keenly aware that Argentina now has a huge window for development. It depends on whether Saint Jose can grasp it, but it is still very short of money.
The good news is that there is news from Thain that the U.S. stock market, in which St. Hesse has invested heavily, has begun to skyrocket. According to the image of large American companies in later generations, St. Hesse also has military industry in troubled times, and gold is bound to rise in investment. idea.
Not only did they invest in General Motors, they also invested in a large number of military industries such as Boeing, and US dollar gold futures and stock assets. Driven by the war, they began to rise wildly, and they could not hold on to those that did not rise.
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After solving the problem of developing mineral deposits, Saint Jose turned his attention to the explosives factory.
Saint Hesse also has greater ambitions to develop its own light weapons, but it lacks people.
At present, Argentina's Domingo-Mart Small Arms Factory has not mass-produced many of its own fully automatic rifles, and this will be a good opportunity.
The last time Cross opened a plastic bottle conference in the United States, he had some contact with people from the Soviet KGB, which was an important breakthrough.
Saint Jose has been coveting the AK47 fully automatic rifle for a long time. If it can be produced before the Matt Small Arms Factory, it will be in 1954.
Introducing mass production of this world-famous gun to Argentina, and mass-producing it at the same time, even under the leadership of Commander Thomas Jr., can also gain important political capital for Saint Jose.
Of course, as a civilian explosives factory, the Maria Factory made Saint Jose very interested in another civilian product, fireworks and firecrackers. Civilian blasting is not very practical, and it is more used in the mining industry, but fireworks and the like Toy, at least it can break some games.
Saint Jose has already made a plan in his mind. This time, he will divide the explosives factory into two parts. One part will research the mass production of military equipment, and the other part will research civilian use. However, for light weapons and military equipment, the factory cannot be located in this valley, Maria. This side of town is better.
