Chapter 211 Cooperation with the Italians

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Economic cooperation matters are progressing well, and Saint Hesse is also trying to let go so that his subordinates can get more training.

He established a unified leadership group in the old fifth district and merged the border area between the new third district and the old fifth district to expand the territory of the old fifth district.

The New Third District has also established three leading groups to be responsible for connecting with these factories. The Lingang Industrial Zone has a separate leading group. In this way, St. Jose has dispatched five leading groups to serve as an extension of the city hall to conduct inspections in these places. manage.

Talents and cheap labor from the cooperation zones have joined the economic organization of Blanca City in an orderly manner under the arrangements of these city halls.

The labor shortage has been alleviated, and urban factories and housing have slowly expanded to the New Third District.

Jelena's body recovered very quickly after giving birth, and I have to say that St. Hesse lamented that there is still a huge gap in physical fitness between people.

San Jose took a few days off from his busy schedule, and his colleagues in the city hall congratulated him one after another. Everyone was very excited about the birth of the mayor's daughter.

The mayor's ability to lead by example has also infected the civil servants in the city hall.

And with the deliberate publicity and guidance of Saint Jose, it is expected that it will once again lead to a wave of births in Blanca City.

After all, the mayor personally promoted the birth and set a good example. The Argentine people here are quite simple, and their enthusiasm for making babies was aroused.

Blanca City took the opportunity to introduce some maternity protection policies, vacation systems, medical subsidies, and financial subsidy support to fully promote the enthusiasm for having babies in Blanca City.

The relationship between him and Elena has warmed up. Their daughter Britney is taken care of by an experienced nanny, but Saint Jose often takes care of the baby, allowing Elena to have a good rest.

Britney often cried at night, and Saint-Jesse often went to class with dark circles under her eyes.

The two people who had completed their tasks moved out of this special villa and moved to a place near the city hall, which was also convenient for commuting to and from get off work.

After leaving early and returning early, after a busy few days, Saint Jose had to return to work again.

After having a daughter, Saint-Jesse felt that he had good luck again, and this time his breakthrough was oil.

He wants to occupy a position in the Argentine oil industry before American oil companies fully invade Argentina.

In addition to Venezuela, the Americans have always wanted to capture the last two oil-producing countries in South America, Brazil and Argentina.

Since the Brazilian government announced the nationalization of the oil industry in October last year, stipulating that oil resources are owned by the state, American oil companies have completely failed in Brazil.

Brazil, with its national fortunes on the rise, can say no to the Americans.

Contrary to Brazil, Argentina's oil itself was successfully nationalized, but the money-strapped Bilon government decided to open oil exploration rights to American oil in order to obtain American loans.

A big departure.

San Jose has always wanted to establish its own oil exploration company, and recently finally received support from Argentina's National Petroleum Company.

On April 22, Argentina’s Southern Petroleum Company obtained an oil exploration license and obtained oil exploration rights in Nequenwu.

He had been preparing for this day for months, but without critical support, negotiations between the presidential palace and the two major U.S. oil companies became the last straw for Argentina's national oil.

The headquarters of Southern Petroleum Company is located in Blanca City, abbreviated as CPDS. The company address is not far from the city hall, which facilitates his communication. He has purchased a building as the headquarters building and has already stamped the company name on the outer wall.

San Jose personally hired a vice president from Petronas, and Juan Nelson became the general manager of the new company. There were not many oil talents in Argentina, but Juan was considered experienced and had cooperated with several companies.

Currently, Argentina's only oil supplier is Petronas, which is a complete monopoly.

This situation is about to be broken. Two American oil companies have already negotiated with the Bilon government. Although the progress is slow, they are indeed ready to fully open up the oil industry.

Oil is becoming more and more important, and Argentina happens to have this resource. However, the presidential office has reached the end of power, so it simply sells the mining rights at a cheap price to obtain financial support from the Americans.

This also became a loosening point in Argentina's national policy, giving Saint Jose the opportunity to get involved.

The cooperation between San Jose and Petronas began at the Maria Plastics Factory. The successful negotiation this time was due to the help of many people behind the scenes.

In fact, the relationship is not bad. Argentina’s domestic oil demand cannot be said to be large, and its exports are almost non-existent.

Maya Chemical is already one of the largest customers of Petronas, and Prali International’s fleet is also one of its important customers.

Many people in the country are extremely dissatisfied with the opening of the presidential palace to oil, but they lack the motivation to engage in the oil exploration industry. Only Saint Jose has the strength to establish an oil company in the country.

The Southern Petroleum team's slogan was "Establishing the Argentine National Petroleum Company" and lobbied Congress, gaining support from many people.

The National Petroleum Corporation lacks motivation to develop and exploit oil and lacks money to upgrade equipment. It cannot even support its own territory. It only has a few small refineries and its annual smelting and processing capacity can barely meet its needs.

There are currently not many companies in the world that can fight against the British and American oil hegemony. Only the Soviet Union and the Italians can do so. France is stuck in the quagmire of war, Spain is economically weak, and the Federal Republic of Germany has no independent oil company and is basically controlled by the United States.

Others are countries like New China, Persia, Japan, and Brazil, which have not yet shown huge influence.

In 1951, the United Kingdom and the United States jointly launched economic sanctions against the nationalization of Persian oil. Now Persia can only be said to be an agricultural country, or even a feudal country.

Unable to withstand this two-year wave of economic sanctions, oil export revenue has changed from the nationalized US$400 million to US$2 million.

The Mossadegh government in Persia fell in August last year and was replaced by the pro-American King Pahlavi.

The CIA also played an important role in this wave of coups.

Persia had to wait until World War II to transform and truly become one of the two strongest powers in the Middle East. At that time, the Americans could not do anything to Persia. After all, Persia had already established its own industrial system at that time, and there were still people behind it. There are two Wuchangs.

Little attention has been paid to the important role of oil in the postwar European recovery plan known as the Marshall Plan.

Starting in 1947, the largest single expenditure of Marshall Plan recipient countries was the use of aid dollars to purchase oil. About 10% of the dollars in Marshall aid returned to the hands of the Americans because of the purchase of oil.

There are five major oil giants in the United States: Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon), Mobil Oil, Standard Oil of California, Texaco and Gulf Oil.

Last year, half of Western Europe's oil was supplied by five American oil companies. Now this number is continuing to decrease. Federal Germany, Spain, France, and Italy are trying to establish their own oil industry system.

Among them, Italy has the most potential and is also the target that Saint Jose is currently in contact with. The Germans are semi-crippled in oil, and Spain's economic recovery is much slower than Italy's.

The Italians are challenging the British and American oil hegemony, and there are signs of success. Italy's geographical location for developing its oil industry is indeed very good. It is very close to the origin, the Middle East, and the Soviet Union.

This oil company is Italy's Energia Energia Holding (EMI), and its actual controller is Enrique Mattei.

He was arguably the person who made the greatest contribution to Italian industry in the period after World War II.

This man is an important founder of Italy's post-war economic miracle, and his own experience is also a legend.

In February 1953, Mattei successfully lobbied the Italian Congress to pass a new bill, according to which a semi-autonomous national energy holding company (ENI) was established with Mattei as president, with jurisdiction over the oil and gas refining subsidiary. (AGIP) and pipeline subsidiary (SNAM), the company soon established a fleet of oil tankers and a network of filling stations throughout Italy.

Using the same model as AGIP, Mattei invested in refineries, giant chemical companies, synthetic rubber plants that use ENI's natural gas as raw materials, and heavy engineering construction companies that specialize in building ENI's refineries and related facilities. The company also acquired A fleet of oil tankers was created to help ENI transport oil from overseas, breaking the monopoly of the British and American fleets.

In addition to Italian local oil, ENI led by Mattei has also established cooperation with the Moscow government, the Persian government, and the Nasser government in Egypt that has come to power. These countries all have oil.

Saint Jesé himself was unable to go to Rome, but he asked Southern Petroleum to send a team, hoping to establish a cooperative relationship with Mattei and help him exploit Argentine oil.

There was even an almost conflict with the Italian Navy some time ago, but this was Bilon's matter after all and had little to do with the people in the Falcon Bureau.

town Hall,

St. Jose gathered the Southern Oil team to give them a farewell.

"Juan, you are taking your team to Rome this time. We must reach cooperation as soon as possible. I will ask someone to cooperate with you."

Juan is actually in his early 30s. He is a talent with a background in national petroleum technology. He is dressed simply and wears a pair of glasses.

People who don't know think he is a scholar and professor.

In the eyes of St. Jose, Juan is a very reliable person, and he is a technical person with a keen sense of businessman.

It is quite remarkable to be the vice president of Argentina's rigid state-owned enterprise, but now the country's oil industry is bloated and huge, and there is no way out.

And San Jose, a guy who combines government and business, is an alternative. It only took him half an hour to convince Juan, and the two hit it off immediately.

San Jose can provide him with a huge platform, and Juan only needs to pay his loyalty and passion for the oil industry.

This time I went to Italy to purchase ENI's refining equipment and mining equipment, as well as the oil company's construction plan.

Sanjesé also staffed the Southern Petroleum team with personnel from Prairie International to take as much money off the negotiating table as possible.

International financial support includes Barron's Bank and Sequoia Investment Bank.

Not only that, in order to increase cooperation, Saint-Jesse also sent teams from the Rennes Military Industry and Steel Plant.

I hope to get some military-industrial cooperation orders from Italy.

Now that the hole in the German military industry has been completely blocked, it is difficult to pick up any more leaks.

No other Western European country has access to the new technology but Italy.

The Italian arms industry is also relatively developed. It retains a complete military production system, which is much stronger than Argentina's current scrap metal. It covers the production of tanks, warships, and a large number of military weapons from cannons to light machine guns.

The rocket launchers, naval guns, submachine guns, pistols, and new firearms produced by Rennes Military Industry would be great if they could be exchanged for some new technologies and equipment.

If Thunder Shield Industries hadn't already found a potential partner for automobiles and trucks, San Jose would probably have sent people from Thunder Shield Industries.

Now that Italy's economy is recovering quickly, it is also in urgent need of expanding its foreign markets. There are many Italian descendants in Argentina, and they can even be related to them through their ancestors.

This huge cooperation team has quite a few Italians.

"We hope we can successfully achieve our negotiating goals."

Saint Jose personally escorted the group onto the ship. Just returned to the city hall.

This leap from other industries to the oil industry is also a huge challenge for Saint Jose.

Now Prali International's fleet consumes countless amounts of diesel every month, and he doesn't want to buy all his oil from the Yankees at high prices in the future.

Especially since the oil is produced locally in Argentina.

The oil industry can completely become a cash cow industry. Thunder Shield tractor factory, motorcycle factory, and automobile factory all need enough oil and natural gas.

The market is huge, and like Italy’s experience, it can definitely promote the development of industry.

Even if oil cannot be extracted in the end, it is basically impossible.

With the escort of the Beijun Port Navy, Saint Jose's backbone is not ordinary tough.

Only after establishing a stable cooperative relationship with General Jose did San Jose dare to fully enter the oil industry.

No matter how dilapidated the warships are, or even if the ship protection and maintenance is at a loss, he will still be on the line with this navy.

In the south of Argentina, no one dares to go against the Argentine Navy, and no one dares to challenge San Jose.

He has no control over foreign affairs. He has organized an exploration team for his own country's oil and believes that the oil will be dug out soon.

With the wings of capital, oil will be extremely powerful.



St. Jose has not forgotten the Hans Steel Works. He is serious about cultivating the private economy.

Steel is an industry with large inputs and large outputs, which has been verified in the city of La Plata.

With Sanjesé's persuasion, Hans quickly agreed to expand the steel project.

Directly turning the 300,000-ton ironmaking project into a 1.8 million-ton ironmaking project requires only the construction of two large blast furnaces.

Hans was deeply impressed by the idea of ​​San Jose's huge steel industry. After all, he successfully built the largest steel plant in Argentina.

In order to provide Hansi Steel Plant with enough funds, the city hall will help build a deep-water dock and super-large storage warehouse free of charge for the iron plant to transport iron ore and coal.

The State Assets Commission bought a 20% stake in the Hans Steel Plant with deep-water terminals and warehouses, and the steel plant will receive 1,000 acres of land for construction.

In order to strengthen the technology of Hans Steel Plant, La Plata Steel Plant helped Hans Steel Plant construct blast furnaces and cultivate technical talents.

Argentina's steel industry has made very rapid progress in the past two or three years.

The Lund Steel Plant in the north of Buenos Aires has an output of more than 1 million tons and a scale of 1.2 million tons. It is a combination of two steel plants. This is almost the limit of domestic investment.

This was one of the seven steel plants produced by Saint Jose's underwriting of steel bonds. The Lund Steel Plant also merged with another steel plant and expanded it.

Lund is also the second largest steel plant in Argentina. There are also several private steel plants with scales of 300,000 tons and 500,000 tons. They have already left the three major steel plants in Argentina behind.

Rosario Belleville Steel Plant, after simple expansion, now has an annual output of 280,000 tons.

The Argentine state-owned steel plant and the Buenos Aires steel plant merged and expanded, and now have an annual output of 400,000 tons, which is no longer important.

As a result, La Plata Steel Plant acquired 20% of the shares of Hans Steel Plant, and built a 1.5 million-ton steelmaking plant and a hot-rolled steel plant next to Hans Steel Plant, which will also provide coke.

With the guarantee of the city hall and the technical support of La Plata Steel Plant.

This time, Hans Steel Plant received another US$5 million in first-step construction funds from Barron's Bank. In addition to the original US$1.2 million, it already has US$6.2 million.

Building a steel plant is now much cheaper than in previous years, mainly because La Plata has acquired many key construction technologies.

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