When San Jose returned to Argentina, the first important thing was not to visit Commander Tomps and Professor Pukins. Instead, he went to the La Plata Steel Plant to see the construction and operation of the steel plant.
After the completion of the steel plant, most ordinary steel products can be basically solved, such as rebar for concrete pouring. Saint Jose is also very satisfied. With steel, many things will be easier to handle.
As soon as I entered the factory, I saw the black iron ore transported by trucks, passing through the assembly line to the crusher for crushing, grinding, and rough processing. Walking forward with Ian, there are coking coal plants scattered here.
Coal also needs to be preprocessed. The third location is the iron-making blast furnace. A steady stream of raw materials are sent here. What is produced now is not a large blast furnace, but a medium blast furnace. The 1580 cubic meter blast furnace is still under construction. Currently, the molten iron is produced It is a medium blast furnace with a small output and is prepared for first production.
"Boss, the output of the first phase of our steel plant is not large. Now we can produce enough steel every month. Several small steel plants in the north are also producing as scheduled. Steel is still in short supply."
"The steel rolling mill is also operating at full capacity."
Sheng He stuffed himself into the blast furnace and saw furnaces of golden molten iron pouring out.
"Boss, these iron ores produced in Brazil are rich ores without many unusable impurities. The molten iron produced can be used directly after simple processing. After being transported to the converter, it can be made into steel, or directly cast or rolled. The factory handles it..."
Ian excitedly introduced that the construction of the steel plant is making great progress.
"The only troublesome thing is that we don't have a good ratio of ferroalloy raw materials. Most of the products we produce are carbon steel, cooked steel and pig iron, which are just for simple production and life. We can't produce many special steels."
Ian said with some regret.
Saint Jose did not say anything. He saw several workers in gray clothes holding instruments and extracting the components of a furnace of molten iron, intending to send it to the laboratory for testing to ensure stable production quality. The temperature of the molten iron workshop is very high, even if it is far away It was far away, almost 40 degrees Celsius, and the steel workers were working hard.
"Try to find a way to solve this problem. We also need more types of steel. Just come to me for funds."
St. Hesse cannot be said to know anything about steel materials. They only know about manganese steel and stainless steel. They don't know the proportions at all. They can only rely on themselves. If low-price steel is available, it will be better. of steel products.
The technical level of the La Plata Steel Plant can reach the world's average level. The most powerful technology is the converter technology, which comes from Austria. However, it has no foundation at all in terms of various materials and steel ratios. And like many processes, it is not the same as that of European steel plants. It will not be spread to outsiders.
Argentina has no talents in this field at all, and it is impossible to recruit people. Those steel plants in Europe are very tight, and Sanjesé has no good solution at the moment. He thinks about it in his heart, and first builds up the framework of the Materials Research Institute, and then talks about talents. Just go to the University of Buenos Aires. Maybe they will have a solution. It cannot be said that there are no such subjects as materials science, but most talents need a long time to cultivate, mainly in enterprises.
He also thought of the four major tiankeng majors in "biochemical environmental materials" in his previous life. Not to mention biotechnology, Maya Chemical Industry lacked chemical talents and materials. In fact, they were all in short supply. Now that rice was available, they were in urgent need of skilled women.
"Hey, there's nothing we can do about it. If we don't have enough people, we won't have talent."
Saint Jesé is not surprised at all. Argentina’s population base is still low in comparison. After exceeding 20 million this year, it seems to be a little faster than the world from afar. For some unknown reason, Saint Jesé’s idea is to do as much as possible. to promote population growth in several cities and rural areas,
Encouraging women of childbearing age to have children at home and providing some subsidies has been approved in the remote border city of Oran City and the countryside to attract the poor people in the slums to return. The next step is the countryside of Maria City, and there are some such things as more children and more blessings. Ideas also began to spread through some public opinions and experiments were carried out.
The current problem in Argentina is that it blindly urbanizes and modernizes, and fails to really take care of the interests of the people at the bottom. Bilon has caused farmers who have lost their land to enter slums early. The countryside continues to lose blood and lose the support of the people.
Cities cannot provide enough jobs at all. When cities are not fully developed, only rural areas can accommodate a large enough population and produce more people.
Most nations that blindly accept the experience of Western powers gradually fail. This is what is happening throughout Latin America, and Argentina is no exception.
Speaking of Germany, one of the important reasons why the Germans were so powerful back then was that Germany was the second most populous country in Europe and had a large number of industrial talents.
It's a pity that today's Germany has been dismembered for two years. Because of the greed of the Soviets or the chauvinism of the great powers, East Germany has been weakened too much.
After World War I and World War II, almost all of the territory Germany lost was in the east of East Germany. Even the core areas of Silesia and East Prussia were lost. The Soviets invaded eastern Poland and ceded the territory in eastern East Germany to the Poles. East Germany only There are more than 10 million people left, the territory is 100,000 square kilometers, the population is half, and the territory is almost only one-third of West Germany. Compared with West Germany, East Germany is too weak.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the socialist camp is inferior to the American capitalist camp. Regardless of the original intention and giving up its own advantages, simply looking at the comparison of national strength, the Americans' allies or younger brothers and the market are still too big. .
Saint Jose thought that the Soviets in the previous life were too arrogant, engaged in great power chauvinism, and pushed away all their most capable allies, including East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, etc. There is now a new China that has become a great power. Except for East Germany, basically every one of them is at war with each other. It is really asking for death.
In particular, East Germany cannot compete with West Germany. It is entirely because the Soviets were greedy and demolished East Germany too harshly. If East Germany could retain its 30 million people and 220,000 square kilometers of land, East Germany would not be inferior to the West at all. Germany, even so, Little East Germany is one of the best developed socialist countries.
If East Germany is strong enough and the Soviets have more cards, the core areas of Ukraine and Belarus will not be separated from Germany later, and the pressure on national defense can be reduced a lot. As a result, there are no Germans in places like Silesia and East Prussia anymore. It can only be said that it is a pity. The East Germans are not happy, and the Poles are probably uncomfortable too. In the final analysis, the genes of the Tsarist Russia era are at play.
"The Germans lost a lot twice, but the Soviets still only had territory, territory, territory in their minds."
If East Germany was strong enough in the future, it might not be possible for it to be annexed by West Germany. Moreover, Czechoslovakia was also very strong, and it ended up being semi-crippled. It was a pity that the Hungarians and Poles themselves were almost at the same level, let alone that. .
"Don't worry, no matter how difficult it is, we will work hard to solve it, and we will establish a metal research institute tomorrow."
St. Jose gave Ian reassurance and drew a big picture, and Ian slowly relaxed. For example, the pollution problem of the steel plant and thermal power plant has been solved by St. Jose's several remarks and publicity. Basically solved.
"Everyone should also pay attention to the production safety issues in steel plants. If you have suitable ideas, you can send them to the research institute. If the experience absorbed is suitable, I hope we can master most of the principles of steel smelting as soon as possible. Our next step is to repair our We have our own steel plant and don’t import too much from abroad.”
After leaving the steel factory, Saint-Jesse inspected a soda factory, a brewery, a textile factory, a sock factory, and a clothing factory. The basic situation was pretty good. Because of some export competition pressure, the new products developed and produced were all good. It is competitive and will not be as shoddy as other factories in Argentina.
Especially in the textile industry of Lanyun shoes and clothing, most of the workers are female workers, which is very unfavorable to population growth. Saint Jose has considered several times whether to move these production factories to southern Brazil. Anyway, the textile, clothing, shoes and clothing are only for making money.
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In the afternoon, Saint-Jesse went to inspect the Rennes military industry
Rennes-Fleitz factory, headquarters,
As a result, the director of the Rennes Military Industry came to complain. It was the same for the Rennes Artillery Factory and the Tank Factory.
"Boss, our artillery and research and development are not good. Since the United States restricted it, we can't get suitable steel pipes, and the ones we develop ourselves can't meet the requirements at all. We need real seamless steel pipes."
Seamless steel pipes are known as the "blood vessels" of industry and an important raw material for national industrial construction and national defense construction.
At that time, the Flats Factory had developed gun barrels, but unfortunately they were based on imports from other countries.
"We in Argentina are so miserable. We have to import even the production of seamless steel pipes. The steel produced by the La Plata Steel Plant is not good, and now the Germans will not export it."
It turns out that the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany embargoed artillery shell steel and gun barrel steel. Now the production and research and development of artillery factories and tank factories have been stopped.
Gu heard that New China has now produced seamless steel pipes. Currently, there are not many countries in the world that can produce seamless steel pipes for artillery shells. Most of them are imported from the United States and Germany.
"The most important thing for producing seamless steel pipes is equipment, and we should continue to work hard at the moment."
St. Hesse simply established a seamless steel pipe factory and a metal materials research institute together with the Materials Research Institute. It was quite low-key, a process from scratch.
So the name of a company called Argentina Seamless Steel Pipe Factory appeared on the desk of the Ministry of Trade. The next step was to purchase hot-rolling and cold-rolling equipment for the production of seamless steel pipes. The personnel said it was better than other places, but there was no Core Technology.
As for raw materials, we can only come step by step.
Things are not complicated, because you don’t need to do research and development by yourself. If you can’t afford food, you don’t care about it.
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After finishing the factory affairs, St. Hesse went to the Xin'a newspaper office again and saw Natalie, who had not been seen for a long time. She was in the room from 5 pm to 12 o'clock the next day. She never left the room and seemed to be planning to go. A baby.
I went to Barron's Bank the next day and met Rosa. The development of Barron's Bank continued to accelerate. It had opened branches in major large and medium-sized cities across the country and was very popular.
Rosa had not changed at all, and her temperament was very good, but she complained a little that Saint Jose had not seen her for a long time, and Saint Jose had to compensate her. After all, he was his chief financial officer.
The two little guys also came to the capital to go to school. They called them uncle sweetly, and Saint Jose took them around the streets, one in each hand.
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After finishing all the work, it happened to be Sunday. St. Jose went to visit Professor Pukins. Professor Pukins held a higher position in the Ministry of Education, and the two chatted casually.
"Cohen, how are you doing in Puerto Blanca?"
Professor Pukins was wearing glasses, lying on a rocking chair, and reading a book. When he saw Saint Jose coming to visit, he asked quickly, obviously also concerned.
"Mr. Professor, it's actually been pretty good lately. I became a member of Parliament in Port Blanca, and I also arranged for the development of the Lingang Industrial Zone. The Radical Party branch is also developing well."
Saint Jose answered directly without being too modest.
"Well, it's not bad. After a year or so, you can become a provincial councilor or run for mayor. I think it's all fine."
Professor Pukins said that this is something that many Argentines have gone through, and it has to be said that it is not too bad. Unfortunately, Bilong did not have much time, and his preparation was not sufficient.
“The main thing I’m focusing on right now is urban development, and I don’t dare to think too much about other things.”
St. Hesse didn't talk much about this aspect with Professor Pukins. He occasionally talked about the Ministry of Education.
"By the way, professor, do you know anything about Southern University?".
"I know this school. It has been planned for several years, but it has not been completed yet. Maybe it is because we are poor. The Ministry of Education has no money, and the Ministry of Finance has no money. We can only look at ourselves."
Professor Pukins doesn’t know much about these either.
"Professor, what do you think about this conflict between the Pope and the Presidential Palace?"
"It can only be said that Bilong still has old ideas and always looks down on other things. He is too arrogant."
Professor Pukins saw what was behind Bilon in his own way.
Unfortunately times have changed.
St. Jose said something when he came out of Professor Pukins' house.
"I don't have much time left. I really need to think about how to seek greater benefits."
Then he went to Commander Thomas Jr.’s house,
"Cohen, it seems that you are doing quite well. I heard that the navy members in Port Blanca reported it to me."
Little Thomas took a serious look at St. Hesse and found that his physical fitness was still the same as before, and there was not much change.
"That's a lot of praise. I just did what was necessary."
Saint Jose waved his hand, not taking credit.
"General, are there any big changes in the Ministry of National Defense recently?"
"There are still quite a few. For example, some local troops have been downsized? Bilong also plans to remove several military generals. It can be said to be very abnormal."
If they only withdraw their military leaders without changing their thinking on grassroots military power, they are probably thinking of overthrowing Bilong.
"It's not a secret. Our country's military strength and strength are pretty good now, but the rift with Bilong is getting bigger and bigger.
The young officers who originally supported Bilong also began to oppose him. The retirement plan he launched will definitely offend a large number of people. "
Saint Jose nodded in agreement. The young general was in his prime in his fifties. He should retire now or go to jail and everyone would be in danger.
Besides, if the army is not restructured and restructured, it will not work just to remove its leaders.
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