After participating in the military parade, Saint-Jesse also began to prepare for the election of the Porto Blanca parliament in October, and planned to directly take over the local Radical Party branch.
Starting from June, Sanjesé began to have good luck. Argentina's economy had declined to a certain extent, and many Argentine factories were bankrupt. He could no longer sustain it, and he could finally carry out bargain hunting unscrupulously.
According to statistics from the Socialist Party newspaper "La Vanguardia", prices in Argentina have doubled in the past year, but wages have not increased at all. If you extend it over a period of time, from 1943 to 1953, prices in Argentina have increased by five times, but wages have only increased. 2 times, inflation is very serious.
Argentina's economic crisis prompted the Bilon government to capitulate. Congress was preparing to pass a foreign investment bill that would allow foreign capital to transfer 8% of profits abroad. In June, the government's internal debt exceeded 65 billion pesos, and its external debt also reached 1.2 billion pesos. The national foreign exchange reserves There is less than US$400 million left.
A large number of farms in the Pampas have been sold off, and San Jose, which has sufficient funds, can buy the bottom. In June this year, bankrupt farmers in Buenos Aires sold more than 100 farms. Sunshine Agriculture acquired more than 20 of them, and others were also purchased by large-scale companies. The farm area of Future Agriculture will be tripled by dividing it among the Dilo Company.
Maya Chemical has also expanded its industrial scale amid frequent strikes. Starting from April, sales have increased by 50% every month, with no signs of recession from January to March, making Saint-Jesse confident again.
The agricultural decline in Argentina has benefited the Eagle Cigarette Factory. Anyway, it just ignores what is going on outside the window and concentrates on farming.
The country's external environment is also very harsh. As we all know, Argentina has no coal mines and oil cannot be mined. Therefore, Argentina has to import coal mines and oil from the United Kingdom. The so-called beef is exchanged for oil and coal.
The selling price of the British is 70% higher than the market price. Fortunately, Thunder Mining is about to transport cheap coal from Australia. The oil problem cannot be solved for the time being. The depreciation of the pound has caused Argentina to lose a large amount of foreign exchange resources, especially the price ratio of selling beef. The contract price was more than a hundred pounds a ton cheaper, which led to a deadlock in Arab-British relations and gave the Americans an opportunity.
When Saint Jesé conducted research in the Port of Blanca, he found that agricultural products stored in warehouses were piling up and could not be sold, while domestic agricultural production was decreasing.
The crisis of Argentina's economic recession had little impact on Sanjesé. He was finally able to frantically expand the production scale of his factories and acquire bankrupt factories. In industries such as the textile industry, he acquired two large textile factories in August and completed the project. The evolution of Lanyun Textile is basically two extremes, the so-called two worlds of ice and fire.
The reason is also quite simple. Saint Jose has a steady stream of US dollars transfused from Wall Street, which allows it to hunt for economic dips and even go to Europe to hunt for dips.
On August 5, Argentina signed a trade payment agreement with the Soviet Union to export surplus agricultural products in exchange for some heavy industrial equipment. Argentina finally began trade relations with the Soviets and restored Argentina's production to a large extent.
On August 21, the Argentine Congress passed the Foreign Investment Bill to show goodwill to the Americans.
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San Jose also met several people from the Mexican consulate during this military parade and had an in-depth and pleasant conversation. This was something he had never had before. In the past, he rarely interacted with people from foreign consulates in order to keep a low profile, but now the reality is He was forced to start speaking out loud.
Originally, I only had a preliminary understanding of Mexico through the United States, but it has become more prosperous. The ambassadors in the Mexican consulates are also quite talkative, and they seem to be of Indian descent. The Indians in Mexico have been completely integrated into the Mexican nation. middle.
For him, among the major Latin American countries, only Mexico currently has the fastest natural population growth rate, with a population of 25.76 million in the 50-year census.
The population is now increasing by almost 1 million every year, and it is getting faster and faster. It is likely to reach more than 37 million people by 60 years, and the number of Mexican immigrants is far less than that of Argentina, with an average of several thousand people per year.
This interests San Jose. Currently, Mexican agriculture is building water conservancy, developing modern agriculture, and irrigation through several large committees. At the same time, the agrarian revolution has accelerated population growth. This is also an experience that Argentina can learn from. Argentina has too many provinces. This often results in each province having a sparse population and lack of finances, making it impossible to develop local industries.
Mexico can be divided into four regions, the south, the north, the west, and the core region. Currently, Mexico has achieved unprecedented unity and centralization has reached a high degree of development. This can be seen from the presidential power.
Moreover, Mexico's land reform can be said to be very successful, federal fiscal revenue has also grown rapidly, and government budget expenditures have also been large, which is in sharp contrast to Argentina. Moreover, Mexico is more fortunate than Argentina and Brazil in that it has both coal mines and iron ore. The strength of the country ultimately depends on the production of steel.
Fortunately, San Jose has sufficient reserve funds. Not only tobacco, which bucked the trend, but also major factories have finally begun to develop by leaps and bounds, changing the decline that began in the second half of last year. A large amount of external funds, plus Barron's Bank The establishment of the company has made the factories in St. Jose in an invincible position. Many newly established and acquired factories have even been regarded as models of work-for-relief and have been commended by President Bilon. It must be said that it is a huge irony.
Argentina now imports about 1.5 million tons of coal every year, mainly from the United Kingdom. Thunder Mining has begun negotiations with the Presidential Palace to kick out British coal and replace it with Australian coal. Thunder Mining has purchased a potential reserve near Brisbane. A mine of more than 1 billion tons only cost less than 1 million US dollars.
In order to expand the scale of transportation faster, Prali Fleet not only purchased ships from Spanish shipyards, but also began leasing ships. Once the steel plant is completed, the annual demand for coal at the level of tens of millions of tons can maximize the strength of Thunder Mining.
As long as they can successfully take root in Port Blanca, it will not be far to go to the south to mine oil and establish an oil company. St. Jose is best at grabbing meat.
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This time around the Argentine aviation industry crisis, he also needed to conduct thorough research and sent a team of experts to negotiate with the Cordoba municipal government and provincial government. If something was impossible or the resistance was too great, he would have to give up.
As a result, I had a conversation with General Thompson and found that this matter seemed very promising. General Thompson and the Cordoba military are currently having some trouble dealing with each other. The main reason is that Thompson has been transferred to the Ministry of Defense, and Cordoba and re-elected their leaders,
Now there is a guy in Cordoba named General Lonardi who accuses Tomps of messing around, defecting to the presidential palace, and secretly re-establishing the Cordoba Defense Force as the Cordoba Garrison, which is quite arrogant.
The garrison is usually called the garrison only when it comes to the capital. In the past, Cordoba was mostly the city guard. Bilon didn't even dare to offend these local warlords and turned a blind eye.
So the opportunity for St. Hesse has come, and it is not impossible to even swallow up the aircraft manufacturing factory. Anyway, the aircraft factory is now regarded by many people as a huge gold-devouring beast, a gold-devouring beast with no output.
It can be said that the Argentine aviation industry has now entered a countdown to death. Time is very urgent, and the same is true for San Jose. He has to run for city councilor again, but he is not willing to let the Argentine aviation industry fail completely.
The aircraft aviation manufacturing industry is an industry with a relatively large industrial chain, involving materials, engines, mechanical processing and other aspects.
The metal smelting industry currently involved in San Jose is the La Plata Coal and Steel Complex, and the mechanical processing is the machine tool factory of Leighton Industries. However, the basic equipment and talents are mainly provided by the help of the Germans and Japanese, and Rennes Military Industry It also involves machine tools.
The La Plata Steel Plant is about to produce its first batch of molten iron. Recently, the steel plant has made great efforts to establish a metal research institute to study metal smelting technology. Rennes Industries has also begun to study machine tool technology. There are also aluminum alloys that are currently extremely scarce in Argentina. Machine tools are just right for cooperation with aircraft manufacturers.
Thunder Mining has invested more than 10 million US dollars in Australia. It has begun to mine iron ore, coal mines, and a large amount of bauxite, which can develop the aluminum alloy industry. There are many rivers in the provinces surrounding Port Blanca, most of which originate in the Andes. Mountains can be used to generate electricity, and electrolytic aluminum has a huge demand for electricity.
The Five Eyes Alliance has been established for a long time now. Fortunately, Argentina is no longer a weakling. Investment in Australia is also in the interest of the current Australian government. In addition, Western Australia has not completely surrendered to the Australian government.
So there is not much opposition, but it may change in a few years. Another important importing country for coal and steel is South Africa, and the cost will be much higher than Australia, mainly because South Africa's coal and iron mines are not coastal.
The power problem is indeed a big issue that needs to be worried about. Nowadays, power is generated nearby, and there is no such thing as a long-distance power grid. To develop Blanca's industry, a large amount of power demand must be solved.
The one-time investment in hydropower is large. For example, the Maria Hydropower Plant has been under construction for two years. The No. 1 unit has already generated enough power to meet the needs. It will not be completely completed until the end of next year. Once the hydropower plant fully generates electricity, then Maria City will be the province's power generator. The city with the largest population far exceeds Cordoba, and the economy can also develop further.
The operating period of hydropower can be as long as 50 years or even a hundred years, and its operating costs are low. It has the longest life span of all power stations.
In comparison, the construction cost of thermal power plants is lower and can quickly meet demand. This is the way San Jose has thought of to quickly expand the power generation capacity of Port Blanca in the short term, because the coal mine transportation volume is relatively small.
Starting next month, 10 ships will load coal every month from Brisbane in eastern Australia, pass through the Strait of Magellan in the Pacific, and then transport north to the city of La Plata, for the nearly completed La Plata project. The thermal power plant warehouse is stored.
These coal transport ships are specially modified American cargo ships. The coal transport ships have to be specially modified, and their load capacity basically does not exceed 12,000 tons. They can only transport about 120,000 tons of coal at a time, and the coal transport is actually relatively small. Troublesome, safety cannot be guaranteed, and it is more troublesome than transporting iron ore.
So now Thunder Mining has also placed an order with a Spanish shipyard to design and produce five 50,000-ton maritime ore ships. The premise is that Sanhai Shipyard must be a supporting unit and will be authorized to produce in the future.
By then, such giant freighters can be produced in Argentina, and even 100,000-ton freighters will need to be designed in the future. Otherwise, the raw materials that produce millions of tons of steel a year will not be able to be transported.
The aviation industry in the future will be large in scale and have obvious driving effects. It is an industry with a high degree of concentration of technology, talents, and capital, and can effectively promote the rapid development of social economy.
Military aviation and civil aviation are also related. If these laid-off technical personnel can be temporarily gathered together again and turned to the design and production of civil aviation such as helicopters and regional aircraft, that is also possible. It would be a pity to give up directly.
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St. Jose obtained a confidential document. The current head of the Argentine Arrow II project is Kurt Tank. During World War II, he led the design and manufacture of Germany's famous Fokker and Wolff FW-190 fighter jets.
At the end of 1944, he and the Focke-Wulff Design Bureau simultaneously developed a second-generation jet for the Third Luftwaffe - the Ta-183 Raven.
The Argentine government at the time found Tank and commissioned him to design a better fighter for the Air Force than the Arrow-I.
Now Argentina is actually at the forefront of the world's aviation field. In fact, just after World War II, the presidential palace began to implement a plan to expand its air force strength. With the support of Bilon, the military aircraft factory sought help from abroad to develop jets. Fighter aircraft, soon in 1947, Argentina successfully developed Latin America's first jet aircraft.
In 1946, Tank smuggled himself to Argentina, where he and other German technicians carried out short-term repairs. He immediately invested in the development of the Argentine version of the Ta-183-.33 "Arrow" II.
Kurt Tank used the Nien-II centrifugal jet engine from the British Rolls-Royce Company. The Nien turbojet engine has greater output power than the HeS-011A, but uses a centrifuge instead of an axial compressor. The size was larger and longer, requiring an entirely new body to accommodate it.
This determines Tank's working procedure - designing the fuselage around the engine, and then designing the entire aircraft with the fuselage as the core.
The Arrow-II is designed as a fighter aircraft, so it is very powerful in armament. It is planned to install four 20mm aerial cannons on the nose with a gyroscopic aiming device.
The Arrow series jet fighter is Argentina's impact on the jet field. It almost has the opportunity to bring the Argentine industry into a new era.
Some preliminary intelligence reports show that this jet engine project is an industrial investment involving 200 million U.S. dollars, which is more than the hydrogen bomb plan abandoned last year. It can indeed be said to be a loss for Argentina. Argentina’s current one-year The fiscal revenue is less than 500 million US dollars.
Taxation is an important issue that plagued the Bilon era. Although centralization has been carried out, the tax source has not been expanded, and the tax amount has basically remained at the scale of 300-500 million US dollars.
The first economic crisis after the war hit Argentina, causing the Ministry of National Defense to greatly slow down the updating process of weapons and equipment. Many projects were urgently suspended, and the costly Arrow-II project was also suspended.
Due to flaws in the Arrow-II design and Argentina's manufacturing process, the plan for this type of aircraft was completely canceled. Tank and other German technicians were fired by the Argentine government this year and were already planning to leave Argentina.
The aircraft manufacturing plant was disbanded and stalled as a result of the project, and Tank is currently in Buenos Aires.
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Under the recommendation of General Thomas,
St. Jose made an appointment with Tank, and the two briefly shook hands.
"Hello, Dr. Tank, I am St. Hessecorn, the general manager of the St. Martin Aircraft Manufacturing Factory."
