Saint Jose and Elena returned to their home in the college area. They didn't speak on the way, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
This reminded him of the time management master in his previous life, but it seemed that he was not that material.
So Saint Jose went to cook for Elena. In the past two months, he bought some American General Electric TV sets and a Whirlpool refrigerator at home. The prices were outrageous.
Moreover, there are not many TV programs in Argentina these days. They are quite boring and just for show. The refrigerator is of great use.
Take two cups of rice from the rice bucket, wash it in a pressure cooker, and then put it on the natural gas stove. Rice was cultivated in Argentina two or three centuries ago.
The variety is not very good, and the taste is average. This time, Saint-Jesse specially asked the Prali fleet to buy a few tons of Saigon or Thai rice back. At least the taste is much better.
Rice cultivation needs to be carefully managed, and the increase in yield is related to chemical fertilizers, improved seeds, and water conservancy facilities. Currently, the area planted with rice in Argentina is very small, and most of them are wheat and corn. Rice cultivation is not cost-effective.
Saint Jose took out some cabbage, beef, bell peppers, lean meat, pork chops, and cilantro from the refrigerator, and took potatoes and onions from the storage room, planning to simply stir-fry a few vegetables and make soup.
"To be honest, we in Argentina have too few types of vegetables. In fact, we should eat more green vegetables. Eating too much cabbage and the like is really not good."
Saint Jose tied up his apron and then turned back to Elena.
"I've been growing up like this. Lettuce is green, but most people still like to eat meat."
He was careless. Lettuce is indeed green, but not dark green. It is still delicious, such as kale, sweet potato leaves, and lettuce. Logically speaking, Argentina should have lettuce and lettuce, but he has never seen it in the market, only pumpkins. Potatoes and tomatoes are the most common and have a lot of meat.
"Elena, why didn't you grow taller when you ate so much meat when you were a child?"
"Go to hell~", the two of them argued for a while.
St. Jose washed and cut the cabbage, blanched it, sliced the pork, rolled it in some corn starch, heated oil in a pan, added minced garlic and green onions, and soon a dish of fried pork with cabbage was freshly baked and brought to the dinner table.
"You try it first, and then I'll do the other things."
"Cohen, your cooking skills seem to have improved a lot. It's much better than when you were in Cocheng."
"Well, I don't know. I feel a little tired of eating barbecue and noodles all the time. I still prefer rice."
The water in the pot boiled, and Sheng He put in the lean meat, chopped the ribs, added them in, and cooked the pork soup.
While the soup is cooking, make the fried eggs with bell peppers, beef with onions, and shredded hot and sour potatoes. Just a few simple dishes are ready.
The rice was cooked and the soup was just right. Saint Jose took off his apron and the two of them officially started eating.
"Elena, why are you looking for me tonight?"
"It's been so long since I've seen you, I miss you a little."
"It's my fault. We just had summer vacation, and there were meetings between the Radical Party and the company. There were too many things going on."
The two had a pleasant dinner, and Elena really didn't plan to leave tonight.
Saint Jose had no choice but to take a shower, change his clothes, and looked at Elena sitting on the sofa, feeling a little sleepy.
"Elena, you can sleep in the guest room tonight. I have packed it specially for you."
"Well, that's fine. I've been a little tired recently. Projects in the lab have been canceled and I don't know what to do. It's so boring."
The German scammer was probably identified and the project was cancelled.
St. Jose walked to the sofa and brushed Elena's hair. Seeing that she was about to fall asleep, he carried her into the guest room.
"Cohen, don't leave, just talk to me."
"okay."
"Jelena, what are your plans? How about traveling to Mar del Plata in the south this summer vacation?"
The summer vacation has only been over ten days, and the horse market is a tourist attraction in Argentina.
"Forget it. I've been there a few times when I was a kid, but I didn't like it very much."
Elena hugged Saint Jose's neck and said without interest.
"I'm going to do something these days, why don't you come with me."
Since we can't go to the hotel, we might as well take Elena with us. St. Hesse plans to find someone to support him and unite companies with export needs in Putrajaya. Elena should be quite familiar with him in Putrajaya.
"Cohen, what are you going to do?"
Elena asked a little strangely. To be honest, she didn't know much about Saint Jose.
"I plan to set up an import and export alliance or association or something to lobby all parties and influence the country's import and export trade policy."
"I need to find at least a few professors to support my company. I have to do something, otherwise Argentina's economy will definitely miss a lot."
"Cohen, I'm very interested. I'll be your secretary."
"Well, that's fine. I plan to organize a few gatherings and then invite some import and export companies to lobby the presidential palace together."
"Wow, Cohen, you are so awesome."
"It's okay. I just did something I could do. You have a good rest tonight and I'll go to the study to read."
"Well, okay, remember to call me tomorrow morning, good night."
Saint Jose kissed Elena on the forehead and left the room.
Without going out again, let Rosa's pigeons fly. The situation is urgent now, and something needs to be done. It is too risky to step forward personally. Moreover, I am relatively young and my words are not strong enough, but I can do a rehearsal to have a good impression of my ability. Rehearse to see how far you can go.
This was his initial idea that the Radical Party, the newspaper, the military, the import and export company, and the Presidential Palace would use their strength to join forces to arouse pressure from public opinion and then force the Presidential Palace to change existing policies.
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The next day, Saint Jose woke up Elena and made breakfast for her. Today she needed to make some preparations, let the Intelligence Bureau collect information about companies in the city, and then hold some banquets and the like.
This is the first step. At the same time, what can be done is to find some economics professors for endorsement. Saint Jose only knows one person, Senior Delia’s economics teacher, Professor Colindas.
Saint-Jesse visited Professor Colindas with formal courtesy and sincerely hired him as the chief economist of Prairie International, taking several of his students with him.
"Professor, thank you very much for supporting us. Our goal is to promote and improve legislation, protect our country's infant industries, carry out trade protection, and develop an export-oriented economy, rather than guarding one-third of the agricultural land."
There is definitely no way to simply make people come out, but if there are some novel views and theories, coupled with national security and some simple examples of future economic development, he finally succeeded in convincing him.
The first step is the theory of infant industry. The Argentine industry is in its infancy stage. The production scale, performance, quality and production cost of the company's products are very weak compared with the products of similar companies in the European and American industrial countries that have already entered the mature stage. Industrial sector.
The second step is to throw out the export-oriented economy, especially using the European Coal and Steel Community as an example, and to assist with some ideas.
Following the two wars, demand from the military industry greatly stimulated the development of the steel industry in the first half of the 20th century.
After the end of World War II, the European economic recovery led to rapid development of the steel industry. Europe lacked large-scale coking coal and iron mines, and the steel industry relied heavily on overseas imports of raw materials. In order to cope with the fierce competition in the market, steel plants in Europe began to cooperate. Through the process of connecting horizontally, the coal and steel community was established.
As for the third one, it is the theory of the third industrial revolution, which tells that the world’s third industrial revolution has arrived, and Argentina has an opportunity to overtake in a corner.
"I didn't expect you, Cohen, to have such a profound understanding of economic development. It's a pity that you don't study economics. I will help you find more experts to throw these theories away."
"Thank you, Professor Colindas, you will make an important contribution to the development of our Argentina."
Sanjesé plans to use public opinion to bombard the presidential palace, and he certainly cannot let these old professors take the lead. But when public opinion reaches a certain level, it is time for economic experts to take action, which can be regarded as pointing out the future development direction of Argentina.
The current development of Argentina has indeed confused many people. Is it true that Argentina cannot develop?
Obviously not. There is no country that cannot develop and progress. Japan in later generations only had more than 380,000 square kilometers, and South Korea only had 100,000 square kilometers. There were no colonies. They still seized opportunities and rose.
Of course, St. Hesse's example is Italy, not Japan. Italy does not have many colonies, and it has not even been unified for a long time. It is developing very well now.
There are also countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, which are not even one-fiftieth the size of Argentina. They are still big steel countries in Europe and can still develop industry. So why can’t Argentina? It’s simply ridiculous.
Saint-Jesse refuted the doubts of these economic experts and pointed out implicitly that Argentina could definitely rise again, which gave them great confidence. Along the lines of Saint-Jesse's research, they began to study and improve these theories.
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Once the theoretical support is obtained, this is just the beginning. Public opinion must also have interest groups.
Therefore, a large-scale banquet led by Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and sponsored by Prali International will be held in Putrajaya, inviting companies from all over the country.
Anyone who is willing to import and export can attend this banquet. Bankrupt and bankrupt companies are also invited. Basically, they come from Putrajaya, Luo Cheng, La Plata, Blanca and other coastal port cities along the river.
The purpose of this banquet is very simple, which is to attract a large number of people to form interest groups and get the presidential office to change policies. The goal is to reduce export tax rates, protect domestic companies, and improve export competitiveness.
These bosses must have great grievances, but they have no choice but to do so. They are relatively weak. In recent years, Argentina’s export scale has been getting lower year by year, and the domestic market is also highly fragmented. With high welfare, bankruptcies are happening one after another. Can't stop it.
Argentina's export companies mainly focus on agricultural products. This group of people is the strongest, and they are also the hardest hit. They earn less and have many things to do. Most of these people are the original Caudillos, and they are actually supporters of the Radical Party. .
The second type is those like Saint Jose, which exports various processed products and is also a target that needs to be united.
If it was just scattered one by one, there would really be no competitiveness. But now that Prali International is taking the lead, the momentum has basically been built up.
The export scale of Prali International is basically one of the top two now, and these meat processing plants are often scattered, but if added up, it is far more than Prali International. Argentina’s current beef exports are worth 100 million U.S. dollars. computational,
Prairie International has less than 100 million US dollars at best, but it has its own fleet and is developing very fast.
Moreover, he has the best relationship with the Ministry of Foreign Trade and is a major contributor to the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Therefore, more than 100 companies participated in the banquet event. They were all companies that were once all-powerful, but now almost all of them are in the red.
Normal exports, even to Brazil, which is relatively close, require very high tariffs, plus shipping costs, and you are likely to lose money.
On February 28, Argentina's first import and export trade conference was held. The title of the conference was "Are High Taxes on Export Trade Really Reasonable?" 》
Saint Jesé gave a speech in the name of the boss of Prairie International.
He wore formal attire and took the stage to speak.
"Hello everyone, I am Saint Jose Cohen, the owner of Prali International. I am very happy to meet you this time. Our companies come from all over the country for a common goal of making money."
"I believe that after reading some of the information on the table, everyone should know how outrageous it is to have high export tariffs. If import tariffs are simply high, it doesn't matter, right,"
There were very few people in the audience who agreed, so St. Jose's shills began to heighten the atmosphere, and St. Jose's began to make up some excuses to arouse the atmosphere.
"Everyone should know that even Brazil is trying to protect its own industrial enterprises as much as possible. The presidential office has gone too far. The number of companies with export capabilities in our country has dropped from 676 in 1946 to 74 now. 9 times, and most of the remaining ones are very difficult, no, very difficult.”
"Could it be that our Argentinian companies are inherently worse than others? Just think about it and you know it's impossible, right?"
"We must unite to get the presidential office to change its policies, and this requires everyone's joint efforts to bring the country's tax revenue back to its original position. If our production cost of 500 meters of cotton cloth in Argentina is 12 US dollars,
Then our cost of exporting to Europe will be 26 US dollars, including 9 US dollars in customs tax, 2 US dollars in shipping costs, and the French tax of 2 US dollars. Then our cost of exporting to France will be staggering.
The production cost of the French is 16 US dollars, and the quality is pretty good. I believe everyone can figure out how outrageous this is...
As for the Netherlands, there were more than 1,600 export companies last year, how can we compare with others..."
As the speech continued, St. Jose spoke in plain and straightforward language, and the atmosphere became more and more heated. St. Jose gave examples.
San Jose also slowly targeted the presidential palace.
The speech ended with a round of applause. There was only one thought left in everyone's mind, how miserable it would be to open a company in Argentina!
If you want to resist, the Presidential Palace really has a grudge against the export, but should everyone be confused or confused? The seeds of change have been sown.
Saint Jose's solution is also very simple. Organize these people, but the people responsible for firing are not from here.
People attending the meeting are objects of solidarity, but not objects suitable for shooting.
This position is very suitable for the Radical Party. Many people attending the meeting are actually members of the Radical Party, but they have no direction to work towards.
It would be amazing if there was an organization to unite them all.
The meeting soon moved into the second part, free time, that is, only when everyone works together can we have the ability to change future history and national policies.
What Saint Jose said in his speech was not false, but had a theoretical basis. This also made many people get to know this young company boss.
There is still something that can be done next, that is, the Ministry of Foreign Trade plans to take the lead in establishing the Argentine Import and Export Association, which requires more preparations.
Especially in Argentina's agricultural exports, people with conflicts of interest have begun to reflect on whether there is a need to publicize the presidential palace.
San Jose, start to get to know the bosses attending the meeting more. It will be useful now and in the future. These people are already the only fire left in Argentina's industrial development.
"Hello, Mr. St. Jose, nice to meet you. I am the owner of Andepest Garment Factory. I think what you said makes sense." A voice came from behind St. Jose.
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