District 5, Puerto Blanca City, Lingang Industrial Zone, Outer Beach,
There is an ordinary three-story building sitting alone here. It was originally a seaside holiday villa, but it has long been abandoned. The overall structure is in good condition. After being expropriated by the Port Blanca City Hall, it belongs to the Investment Promotion Department.
It has been renovated and can be used again. The exterior walls are painted with white lime, the inner floor has also been painted, and the floor has been replaced with new wooden boards.
In the distance outside the window is a large construction site that is being leveled. Dust is flying. Some excavation machines are working, exposing the soil under the vegetation.
Lingang Industrial Zone is eight or nine kilometers away from the center of District 5, which is inconvenient for office work. It is also five or six kilometers away from the nearest town. For the purpose of commuting,
The Investment Promotion Department has laid a simple cement road here and purchased three second-hand buses in the name of the city hall, which can carry buses to and from the city so that workers and Investment Promotion Department staff can go back and forth.
The third floor of the Investment Promotion Department,
The energetic Saint Jose drove here from the Fifth District at around seven in the morning. He was wearing a blue and black suit and sitting on a chair. He held a cup of coffee in his left hand and a pen in his right hand. He listened carefully to Pusey. Reporting work, now he is trying to build the Investment Promotion Department into a department with real power, a third party independent of the municipal government and institutions outside the parliament.
Behind the chair is a huge industrial park planning map, with building plans drawn in black lines. The green ones represent some lawns and trees, as well as roads, new ports, docks and other buildings.
The Lingang Industrial Zone is close to the coast, but it is a barren coast that has not been developed by humans. Argentina, which is vast and sparsely populated, has too much such land, including the Pampas in the north. Especially after the farmers went bankrupt, these There are more wastelands, and the cut reeds and shrubs are placed aside and piled up into mountains, ready to be dried and burned. After all, it costs a lot to transport them out.
The entire Port of Blanca is relatively short of supplies. There is not even a regular cement factory. Cement bricks need to be transported from abroad, and the factory's electricity is not enough.
Pusai Kimar is a talent he tapped from the team packaged by the municipal government. He currently holds an assistant position and is relatively reliable in his work. Young people like Pusai work on the first and second floors to build an industrial zone. It is also a training for these subordinates,
There are many frustrated young people in the municipal government. They are young and energetic when they first enter the society, but there is no room for them to perform. Port Blanca itself is a bit dull, and the power is basically monopolized by the older generation.
The newly established Investment Promotion Department is a good place for these young people. The economic crisis has caused the Argentine bureaucracy to continue to expand, and the size of the civil servants has expanded a lot. One of the reasons is that they are afraid that these energetic young people will cause trouble.
"Mr. Congressman, this is a further plan for the industrial park. Recently, several local families have tried to get involved and share some interests. They also have cement plants.
Construction companies, etc., have started to set up wires at the power plant in District 5, and it is expected that power will be available in 10 days. At the same time, construction of an initial five factories has started. The pressure is still very high, and there is also port construction. "
Pousse is a local. He graduated from the University of Rosario the year before last, but he has been doing odd jobs in the municipal government. This time the mayor packed up a bunch of young people and brought them to the Investment Promotion Department, letting San Jose pick up the slack. He just needed it. A large number of people go to implement the operation of industrial zones, and people within the system are more suitable than people outside the system.
"Very good. The power problem must be solved as soon as possible. It will also be convenient to do some night operations in the future. The details will be reviewed according to the conditions. Don't worry too much. In the early stage of building a canteen, dormitory building, warehouse, etc., first meet the needs of the workers and the office staff of the Investment Promotion Department. Yes, the port must be built as soon as possible, otherwise the transportation cost of various materials will be too expensive and the construction speed will not be fast.”
Most of the hundreds of workers on the construction site ate in an abandoned village outside the construction site, holding pots and cooking. It was indeed quite hard. The investment department was better, with a small building. If it weren't for the high wages,
It is estimated that many workers are not willing to come here, so improving living and dining is the first priority. Moreover, after the construction of the industrial zone actually begins, the number of construction workers will be in the tens of thousands. Going back and forth to the city is too hard, and it is not convenient. Conducive to rotation and accelerated construction progress.
Now more than a dozen trucks are used to transport the excess mounds back and forth. The excavated earth is directly dumped into the shallows of the sea for reclamation operations to build the port. When the port is built, many of the materials needed in the initial stage can be transported by sea from Bu City and Luo. Salio and Maria were transported here to speed up construction.
With the recent signing of a series of factory contracts, Saint-Jesse has become a rising "agent" of new industries in Port Blanca and a powerful parliamentarian with great power.
The only difference between him and other local capital is that he acts as his "agent" in a relatively hidden way.
Argentina's capitalist development naturally has some flaws, which are left over from the Spanish colonial era. The Pampas itself was a famous "barbaric land" in the era of agricultural civilization. Until Europe's advanced production methods and various brand-new agriculture Technology was transferred over, and today’s “South American granary” was created.
Local capitalists have relatively limited ways of influencing the government and parliament. They either have to go to court personally or find their own "agent" to speak on their behalf. Education is the exclusive domain of the church, and they cannot get involved in the media industry.
The complexity of St. Hesse is rather confusing. His capital has become a "mixed system". The capital power he originally controlled has become somewhat complicated with the brutal expansion.
Careerists also began to emerge, and as the company expanded, the company's various systems became somewhat difficult to adapt to the localization of Argentina.
Fortunately, after the establishment of Barron's Bank, it slowly began to stabilize and get back on track. He began to build a system, such as the rotation of general managers, which will be fully implemented by the end of this year.
In his view, if these companies want to truly achieve self-development, they must establish various systems and start building a talent system. Otherwise, they will not be able to cope with the invasion of transnational capital, especially British and American capital. Rotation is One of the ways to suppress the ambitions of these general managers is to pave the way for the future professional manager system.
The signing of various cooperation contracts in the Port of Blanca this time is also part of the implementation of his ideas for restructuring the company, and it is also his balance between being a capitalist and a junior politician.
The trade union problem is somewhat apparent. The current fighting method of the Argentine Republican Party is very low-level. They do not have the fighting capacity of the Soviet Republicans at all.
"We need to arrange the construction of cement plants and power plant brick factories as soon as possible. Don't worry about the construction engineering team. I will speed up the construction progress of these factories."
For Saint Jose, which has planned the construction of two cities, he has accumulated a group of experienced and well-trained engineering and construction teams. Various building materials that were lacking in the early stage can also be transported back from outside.
The most important thing is localized production, and there is no shortage of lime mines nearby. The teams of Thunder Mining and Seediq Cement Factory are also very active. They only need to have enough production equipment, a leadership team, and recruit miners for training. Mining business.
"Yes, Mr. Congressman."
Saint Jose watched Pousse leave, stood up and stood in front of the window. The weather was not very cold today. He glanced at it and saw that it was 15 degrees Celsius, which was very suitable for outdoor work.
The climate conditions in Puerto Blanca are indeed not bad, because it is close to the ocean and the temperature difference is not very big.
In addition to reading these reports today, he also has to arrange some new construction site office and factory construction plans, and arrange foundation and factory construction. He plans to construct them at the same time, otherwise he will not be able to keep up.
Simple cement roads also need to be re-paved, and the La Plata Steel Plant will produce steel before the end of the month. By then, cheap steel bars will be available, which can greatly reduce construction costs.
The new cement factory and brick factory are not located on the seaside, but in a more remote town.
Fortunately, there are railways that can transport it over. The establishment of a cement plant and brick factory with an annual output of one million tons is enough to meet the needs of urban construction in Port Blanca. With the experience of building a cement plant in the past, it can be accelerated a lot.
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In order to protect its numerous islands and long coastline, the Argentine Presidential Palace has always focused on naval construction. Currently, the Argentine Navy is one of the two largest navies in South America, comparable to the Brazilian Navy.
The Port of Belgrano near the Port of Blanca is the largest naval base, and it is also known as the two major naval bases along with the Buenos Aires base.
The Colorado River south of Puerto Blanca is rich in water resources. It is actually very suitable for building various hydropower stations. The transmission is conducive to the development of various high-energy-consuming industrial sectors. However, the investment is huge. The initial investment of a hydropower station is basically tens of millions of dollars. , requiring large-scale financing.
And he also made another discovery that was not a discovery. The area near Puerto Blanca is actually quite suitable for growing rice. As the southern edge of the Pampas, lightning here is not as dense as in the north. This is also a small surprise for him. I plan to try out the development of sunshine agriculture. The rice yield per unit area is very high.
It can feed a large population as long as there is enough fertilizer and the weather conditions in Port Blanca are good. It is a pity that all the surrounding areas are used to develop livestock industry, especially the great plain between the Colorado River and the Negro River, which has huge agricultural potential.
According to estimates by Pietro Eysenck, the chief agricultural expert of Sunshine Agriculture, there are at least 50,000 square kilometers of land on the plains in the south where rice can be grown, which is 5 million hectares. The yield is 3 to 4 million based on 1 million hectares. Estimated tons of rice,
There is a potential of 15 million tons or even 20 million tons of rice here, which is much more than the annual output of the Philippines last year. It is enough to feed the entire Argentina. It is extremely important for population growth. This requires the media to change customs. It can even be exported as food diplomacy.
Of course, to be able to turn all of it into farmland would require huge investments. He could make some preliminary attempts. As the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, you won't panic.
The conditions in the south of Argentina are actually worse than those in the north. If we develop intensive farming and have two seasons a year, there is no problem.
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Eva Bilon City (formerly La Plata City),
Inside the La Plata Steel Plant,
Crewe of the Belgian Steel Plant, Jellinek of the Austrian United Steel Plant, and Ian of the La Plata Steel Plant looked excited. They were witnessing the birth of Argentina's first single-unit steel plant with more than one million tons.
With the large-scale capital injection into San Jose, Europeans sent many more technical personnel to provide technical assistance to the La Plata Steel Plant during the economic crisis last year and the first half of this year, and the construction speed accelerated.
In particular, the technicians at the Austrian Steelworks Plant are known for their hard work due to financial difficulties. Ian has lived up to the expectations of St. Hesse. He has room and board at the construction site. He is everywhere in the construction of the steel plant, and he has trained a large number of people. Qualified steel plant workers were put under paramilitary management.
Under the temptation of high wages and huge sums of money, La Plata Steel Plant has the most militant worker group in Argentina. It is also the first factory in San Jose to be built with militarization and standardization. The wages are more than 50% higher than other Argentine factories. And there are various benefits.
The construction of the steel plant area is getting faster and faster. The No. 1 blast furnace has come to an end and the basic construction of the 120-ton converter has been completed, which took a year and a half.
After the construction is completed, it will basically be able to produce about 1.5 million tons of iron and 1.5 million tons of steel annually.
Directly turning Argentina into a medium-sized steel country has basically met the initial needs of St. Jose. Now it is also necessary to start fully transporting reserve iron ore and coal mines.
Thunder Mining has also reached cooperation with the British South African Coal and Iron Mining Company, and transportation is relatively fast. Thunder Australia’s early iron ore has not yet been mined.
"Ian, this cooperation is very pleasant." Crewe has planned to return to China at the end of the year. Belgium has gradually emerged from the economic crisis and has begun a new round of economic construction.
The cooperation with La Plata Steel Plant has basically ended. The remaining two batches of construction work are basically handed over to La Plata Steel Plant. In addition to the converter, Voestalpine also needs to cooperate.
"Cru, the steel plant was able to be built so quickly this time only because of your help. Our plant will continue to cooperate in the future."
As the second largest among the three low-lying countries of the Benelux, Belgium is not in deep economic crisis, and has joined the Coal and Steel Community. The steel industry continues to develop, and domestic construction is now very strong.
"It's really sad that Jelinek is leaving too, but I will always remember the help the Austrians and Belgians gave the Argentines."
Ian has thoroughly regarded himself as an Argentinian, humble and polite.
"Yes, now Europe is gradually emerging from the economic crisis, and Germany is also developing very rapidly. We have to work hard."
After the post-war economic recovery in Western Europe, a real golden age has begun. Federal Germany, France, the Three Low Countries, and Italy have all developed rapidly. Argentina is no longer their immigration destination, and its decline seems inevitable.
"Ian, you are actually very capable. If you can, I will invite you to work in Belgium. The salary will be high but not low."
Crewe is very optimistic about Ian, and they have been very happy getting along with him for more than a year.
"We haven't considered this yet."
"That's really a pity. Speaking of which, Argentina does not have its own iron ore and coal mines. It will be quite troublesome to develop the steel industry in the future, especially since it has to be imported from far away places. The cost is too high."
Jelinek also said.
"Yes, but things are being resolved. If we in Argentina do not build our own steel industry, the future will be even more miserable."
Ian agrees very much with St. Hesse's industrial arguments, and the benefits provided by St. Hesse are not just the seemingly good salary. His ability to draw cakes is also getting stronger and stronger, and he also has hidden benefits. The income is not that good when I go back to Europe to work.
"I hope so."
After sending the two people away, Ian looked at the towering blast furnace in the distance and the thermal power plant further away. The ground was covered with a layer of soot, and he suddenly coughed.
"The dust pollution is a bit serious."
Ian frowned. Because of technical problems, the thermal power plant was working on it, but it had not been solved yet.
I heard that citizens are protesting against pollution and environmental issues. However, the electricity brought by this thermal power plant has also made the economy of the entire Aiva Bilon City boom. Some factories with large electricity demand have great demand for cheap thermal power and have relocated from Bu City. Many people have come here, and it has become one of the cities with the highest employment rate in Argentina.
"I hope the boss can solve it."
It's a bit tricky, as the city council is considering whether to limit the amount of electricity generated by coal-fired power plants.
The pollution problem is somewhat serious, especially in the processing of some coal. If the furnace is opened to make iron, the pollution will be even more serious.
“Although it’s far away from the city, it’s definitely a problem.”
At the beginning, San Jose was considering the pollution problem from the steel plant and thermal power plant. The La Plata Steel Plant is actually quite far from the city, but it cannot tolerate some people with ulterior motives, and it is true that for some reasons, the dust is now a bit serious. .
