"It's Senior Delia, and I'm Cohen."
St. Jesus turned around and saw the beautiful senior sister he met during the entrance exam in February, and his eyes lit up.
"It turns out it's really you. I thought you didn't come to BU to study."
Delia was "pretty impressed" with Cohen.
"I'm taking classes in the law department, and I've recently become a little interested in the history of our country's economic development. I came here to look at the information in the special library."
The Department of Law and the Department of Economics are on opposite sides of the school. The University of Buenos Aires is an open campus, so it is normal not to encounter them. Last semester in Saint-Jesse, they were all three points and one line.
"So that's what it is. This is what I'm good at. I ranked second in the economics department last semester. Maybe I can tell you about it."
Delia said with a smile.
"Is that so? Senior sister is really amazing, great. I don't really like dealing with teachers from the Economics Department, mainly because I don't know them."
I have inquired with Professor Pukins in the morning and planned to visit and get to know the teacher in the Economics Department. Now there is a beautiful senior classmate giving a lecture, so I can go to his Economics Department teacher. It’s not impossible to go there tomorrow. Anyway, I haven’t made a formal appointment yet.
"Let's go to the woods outside. You can't talk too loudly in the library."
"Okay..." Saint Jose followed Delia obediently.
The two of them were sitting on a long chair,
"In fact, when talking about capitalist economy, it is better to talk about the United States today. Our country has learned various systems from the United States, but the Germans also said that the economic base determines the superstructure. The essence of our country is still a colonial economy. What has developed has not undergone thorough changes, but has only been covered with a capitalist skin.”
"The power of American capital can already influence the political situation in the United States. Although many trust groups have disintegrated, they have become even more terrifying, such as United Fruit in Central America."
"I know United Fruit, a combination of capital and warlords, controls the country and does all kinds of bad things."
"Our country used to be similar. It was very similar to United Fruit. Power was not delegated to the city, and the province ignored you. So our country was originally fragmented. Even after decades of unification wars, most of the country's land was destroyed. It’s in the hands of these landed aristocrats.”
"Is this the reason why our country's population is growing slowly?"
"Is it a population problem? I haven't thought about this. Maybe I can ask my teacher, but industrialization is essentially just consuming and transferring population. This is what my teacher told me."
"Is industrialization... consuming and transferring the population?"
Saint Hesse chewed on this sentence over and over again. It seemed like this. After entering the city, no one was willing to have children. There was too much pressure and the working hours were long. I guess this teacher also talked about urbanization. He did have some unique insights. .
"By the way, senior, have you also studied the American economic system?"
St. Jose was a little surprised that the students of the University of Buenos Aires are so good now.
"Yes, a large part of our country has been blocked by the US economy in the past two years. This is what my teacher told us. Nowadays, except for smuggling, it is basically impossible to obtain US industrial equipment from the official level, especially It started in February this year and became more serious.”
“In July 1944, in order to take over the monetary hegemony from the British Empire, the United States established three world systems promoted by Roosevelt, one was the political system-the United Nations; the other was the trade system-General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade; and the other was monetary and financial system, that is, the Bretton Woods system.”
"These are the foundation of today's world. It is obvious that the Soviet Union cannot compete with the United States economically. Today, through the Marshall Plan and the support of Japan, the United States has controlled 90% of the world's economic powers, and the United States itself still occupies With almost half the size of the world's economy, it's the most powerful economic empire ever created."
Delia did some popular science about Saint Jose, which he knew only a little bit about. She talked about the world situation to the economic crisis for more than ten minutes, and finally talked about Argentina.
"If one percent of the people in Argentina have your understanding, why worry about our country not becoming stronger."
St. Jose finally said with emotion, and finally the two of them went to visit Professor Colindas, whose full name is Colindas Addison.
A well-known teacher in the Department of Economics, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, a master's degree from Princeton University, and a doctorate from Harvard University. His resume is amazing.
…
In the afternoon, the two of them met and went to Professor Colindas's house.
St. Hesse was visited by a disciple of Professor Epkins, and with Delia's personal recommendation, he was finally able to go to Professor Colindas's home.
After the door opened, Saint Jose saw a middle-aged man with messy hair. He was estimated to be in his 30s and less than 40 years old. He was a little surprised. He must be a real boss.
Ke San Jose explained the purpose of his visit, and Professor Lindas nodded repeatedly.
"Nowadays, very few young people are interested in the Department of Economics. Most of them go to study law and medicine. This trend is very bad. I think these two types of people will be imprisoned in the future. Lawyers can save them. Argentina? Can doctors save Argentina? No."
St. Jose was a little embarrassed for a moment. After all, he seemed to be studying law.
"Let me tell you, if our country wants to succeed, it must adopt a revolutionary line and learn from the Soviets. Their Tsarist Russia was about to collapse. In just over thirty years, it has become the world's second largest economic power."
Saint Jose listened carefully and said that I was a good boy, and he agreed with this point of view. However, there were so few people in Argentina. If chaos continued for a few years, many people would probably die. From Saint Jose's point of view, these are precious human resources. ah.
"Our country is seriously lagging behind the world now. We do not have our own industrial system and only rely on the export of agricultural products.
It cannot be a big country. It can be said that the current President Bilong himself does not know much about economics. "
Colindas unceremoniously criticized President Qi Bilong.
Saint Jose nodded wildly in agreement, and asked the president and cabinet to formulate various economic development plans, even the first and second five-year plans, which are a bit childish. They are anticlimactic, provide welfare before getting rich, and do not develop the core steel, chemical, and electrical industries. , making these useless fantasies about fake large-space nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs,
This has greatly damaged the competitiveness of the Argentine company's factories. After all, Argentina has limited strength and limited funds. Its steel output is only 300,000 tons, while Belgium has 3 million tons. It has almost no chemical industry and relies on imported electricity.
"Rome was not built in a day, and a country cannot become an industrialized country overnight. It requires the efforts of generations. It is a pity that Bilong is out of his mind and has offended the Americans. He does not look at how much Argentina is. Last year, the United States was 100% There is no economic scale at all.”
Obviously, Professor Colindas has a lot of resentment towards Bilong, and he seems to have some hatred.
"Moreover, beef still accounts for the majority of our country's exports. These former Caudillos still occupy most of Argentina's land. At least two-thirds of our country's farmland is abandoned!"
Colindas once again said a shocking figure. Two-thirds of Argentina's farmland has been abandoned. Is the situation serious enough?
"Our country's economy is probably hopeless. Even our teachers are only paid 60% of their salary. My father, a cabinet official, is only paid 80% of his salary, at least for now." Kolindas finally said. Come to a conclusion.
The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the salaries of Argentine civil servants and teachers. It seems that the treasury really has a problem.
"The book you have in your hand was actually written by me. He also wrote many books criticizing our country's economic policies. Most of them were suppressed by the presidential office, and only some were left in the Department of Economics."
"Actually, this problem is very serious, and I don't know how President Bilong can solve it."
How else to solve the problem is to surrender to the Americans and then betray the national interests. This is what Bilong did and was driven out.
Sanjesé thought of the potassium triangle. In the past two months, Sanjesé has truly gained a new understanding of Argentina's bottom class.
"Land reform, and only land reform, can increase Argentina's population. Industrial and urban development are contraceptives. Now everyone has gone to the slums of Buenos Aires."
"Professor, why do you think there are so few Argentines? Brazil's population is three times larger than ours, and its growth rate is faster than ours."
"It's the landed aristocrats who are too rampant. Everyone has lost their land, leaving those landed aristocrats to farm. Only agriculture can increase the population to the maximum extent.
Industrialization and urbanization are just consuming our population. Even if our country can develop, it will ultimately only rely on immigrants, not the growth of our Argentine nationals.
This is what causes slow growth for us Argentines! "
Professor Colindas slapped the table, startling St. Jose. Delia smiled apologetically at St. Jose.
"Let's talk about it. In fact, our industry in Argentina cannot develop, and there is inertia in agriculture and animal husbandry. But to a greater extent, there is a problem at the level of the presidential office, which has not designed a good agricultural development system.
The concentration of our land is too high. Do you know how that land came from? It was rented by them at a low price from our country, and then it became theirs. And now our farmers have to lease their land in turn. , they can live a good life by collecting land rent. "
"Our country relies on farmers to cultivate the land by hand, instead of tractors and harvesters. Most of them don't have them. Doesn't this mean that we have become slaves of the landed aristocracy?
That’s why we ran to the slums desperately. At least we wouldn’t be deprived by the landed aristocracy. And you know, our land doesn’t use chemical fertilizers, so the yield is low. The famine has been very serious in the past two years because of the decline in land fertility and drought. "
"I think the Soviet collective farms are very good. They rely on the strength of the entire collective to purchase agricultural production materials and then cultivate them together, instead of all the profits going to the landed aristocrats. They have also done a good job in population recovery. Too many people have died. .”
No wonder the mechanization level in Argentina is so low. Why should these nobles invest in new equipment when they can just win?
The Sequoia Fertilizer Plant turned into a pig organic fertilizer plant, probably because of insufficient technology. Doesn’t that mean that the Rennes Fertilizer Plant is the first fertilizer plant in Argentina? This is a bit interesting.
"It seems that the cigarette factory needs to speed up the acquisition of land. It would be better to use it to grow tobacco than to abandon it.
Every one of these big land nobles in the north would catch nine out of ten and shoot them. It is estimated that some fish would slip through the net. "
Saint Hesse thought for a moment along the professor's train of thought. At present, he could not carry out any national reforms, and he did not have such great influence.
But they can set up collective farms, get a few of them out, and conduct experiments. In 18 years, there will be a generation of four or five children per family, and they will be provided with various medical insurances.
This can create a large population. You can try it in the north of Argentina. The population issue is the first issue that must be taken seriously.
Bankrupt several local families in Oran and Salta province, then acquire their land, open an agricultural company, and then open collective farms...
It seems feasible. It happens that the people in Thunder Cross are very free and work as bodyguards for rich people. It is better to kill a few of those land nobles. Of course, civilized people must use civilized methods to bankrupt the family and send them to prison. That’s fine, start with a small family first.
If this method is correct, then it can be extended to the whole country in the future, and then these landed aristocrats will really be swept into the garbage heap of history.
As for the factory, it definitely needs to be developed, so we can’t recruit too many workers from our own country. We can just recruit them from places like Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Brazil. This was an idea that suddenly came to Saint Jose after hearing this sentence. Some Childish, but not impossible.
The more St. Hesse thought about it, the more excited he became, and he almost said, No, his thoughts seemed to have been led astray by this professor... Sheng Hesse relaxed his mood and once again put the immature thoughts in his heart.
"Professor, why do you think our country does not have its own industrial system?"
"That's a lot to say. It's a matter left over from history."
"During the second industrial revolution, that is, the electrical revolution, we in Argentina ignored the prospects of industrial development and focused exclusively on beef trading, and missed the reforms that would enhance the country's status. This is the first reason."
"In the 2029 global economic crisis, my country's exports fell by 40%, investment stagnated, unemployment surged, and the cattle industry was unable to drag the country out of the quagmire."
The prosperity gained from the cow's back eventually rolled off the cow's back.
"Actually, I voted in favor of Bilong coming to power. However, none of the things he did after coming to power were successful. The more disappointment he accumulated, the more he became desperate. He valued his own interests too much and did not truly It breaks my heart to think about our country.”
"Logically speaking, now is a good opportunity to develop industry, but why he wants to offend the Americans, I can't figure it out, and I couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for three days and three nights."
"As for the nationalization of railways and telephones, these can only be said to be superficial reasons. People who don't understand are happy.
But the root cause has not been solved. We even need to import locomotives and cannot produce a few rails. Now we have to import telephone lines from American telephone companies at high prices.
But this kind of nationalization is really a waste of money and offends the British. The British used to be the world's hegemon. Now looking at it, the whole world seems to be our enemy, and the trade union issue is too serious. How can we develop if this continues? "
The professor's voice became a little frustrated, not living up to the excitement just now.
"Cohen, tell me, if this continues, will our country still have a future?"
"Professor, I believe it will happen." Saint Hesse said firmly, his eyes full of confidence in the future.
"Well, I'm a little tired. You can take these books and read them."
"Thank you, teacher, your words today are very useful. I believe that Argentina will become a great country in the future." St. Jose bowed deeply.
This Q&A lasted for more than two hours, and contained many profound theories. Saint Jose could only forcefully keep them in his mind, and he was even considering whether he should take a second degree.
Walking out of Professor Colindas' house with Delia, St. Jose held a box of books, and the two chatted and laughed for a while.
"Senior Delia, thank you very much for today. This lesson is very important."
Saint Jose thanked him.
"Today I saw the teacher a little sad for the first time. In the past, he would scold the UK after scolding the president, and then scold the president after scolding the United States. Goodbye."
After the two said goodbye, Saint Jose returned to his home.
San Jose’s understanding of Argentina’s economy has always been somewhat one-sided.
I originally believed that as long as we focus on saving the country through industry and then slowly seize power, we can build Argentina into a great country.
But from Professor Colindas's easy-to-understand language, coupled with the slums and rural areas in northern Argentina that I walked through, I felt more and more that my knowledge was shallow.
"Industrialization alone is not enough. Agricultural reform must be carried out. Walking on two legs can make the road wider. Obviously, the scale of the Eagle Cigarette Factory needs to be expanded. Maybe it really needs to be an agricultural company."
"Friends have many enemies, enemies have few enemies. This is also true in national development. Even if the relationship between countries is mostly based on interests, we must promote the relationship well."
"Sure enough, there are hidden dragons and crouching tigers in Buddhism. We need to get to know more talents. There is also the matter of joining a political party. I have to make a decision soon."
"In order to make more money, we can prepare to open more clothing factories, shoe factories, etc. in Putrajaya, and then expand the beverage factory. We need to use more labor so that we can have money to buy industrial equipment."
"Maybe we can really try collective farms. If it works, it will be a big thing for Argentina."
St. Hesse wrote a summary on a piece of white paper. This is also the direction of the next stage of efforts and his ambition. To create a small group of his own and unite some people, the fastest way is to join a political party.
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