Snow falls in the winter moon, and the temperature drops sharply in the southern part of the Pampas.
It has already dropped below freezing, and all outdoor construction has been suspended.
It has been snowing heavily for two days, and it is already more than 10 centimeters thick outside. Some naughty children are building snowmen and having snowball fights on the wide road.
Isaac Tory was a former ranch worker on the outskirts of the city. He had three children and now lives in the East End.
In April this year, I applied for a job as a construction worker in Blanca City. Yesterday when it started snowing, I was informed by my boss that I was on holiday.
Fortunately, the city's construction projects will also pay basic wages during holidays, which is much better than those of small engineering teams.
At home, he was wearing a cotton-padded jacket, cursing and closing the door opened by his own gangster. He would definitely beat him up when he came back.
Then he complained that his mother-in-law didn't know how to educate her children. She would go out to play in the snow when it snowed, and what to do if she got frozen.
But when I thought about how hard it was for her to still be pregnant with the baby, my heart softened.
The house had newly made briquettes made by my wife a few days ago, and it didn't smell very good.
It can be used for heating and cooking, which is much better than in previous years, and much better than just burning coal.
The house we are renting now is newly renovated, only painted with white plaster and the floor is paved.
The rent is not very expensive, and my salary is more than enough. Even if there are several people in the family, I can't save much money.
Now that my wife is pregnant again, she can receive a monthly subsidy, and it is said that under the new policy, children can buy milk powder at a discounted price before the child is 1 year old, so he did not secretly go to a doctor to abort the baby. Abortion is illegal in Argentina.
He put a new briquette in the stove, and the house became warm again.
"Since the new mayor took office, the conditions at home have improved a lot."
He said to himself.
Beep beep, neighbor Thomas knocked on the door and came to visit. Isaac quickly took out the mate tea at home and prepared to entertain the guests.
Thomas is a small person in charge of the Radical Party and is responsible for the winter heating issues of residents in this residential area.
"Isaac, you need to repair your chimney as soon as possible to prevent gas poisoning, or provide more ventilation. I have emphasized this to you several times. The materials are very cheap. This is no joke."
"Thomas, you know I'm too busy, and..."
Isaac spread his hands and said with a playful smile.
"You said the same thing two days ago. By then it will be too late for something to happen."
Thomas frowned and his tone became more serious. This guy is not lazy even if he says he is lazy, he just likes to procrastinate.
The materials are all readily available, but no attention is paid to them.
"Then I'll get them done later."
Isaac saw that Thomas was a little angry and quickly promised.
"Well, let me find a few people to help you later. Your house is the only one in the entire community that does not have ventilation facilities. This is very dangerous."
Thomas thought that this guy might have been procrastinating and not finishing it at night, so he said.
"That would be great."
Thomas brought a few people to help, and finally the ventilation facilities were fixed together. The air in the house was much better.
In the evening, the family enjoyed themselves, eating fried steak and mashed potatoes.
"Dad, you are so awesome."
Little Isaac looked at him with admiration, which made him feel very satisfied.
"Thanks to Mr. Mayor, otherwise our family would probably have to spend the winter in the farm shed."
Isaac's wife corrected him.
"Yes, thank you Mr. Mayor, otherwise my cattle herding salary would not be able to support so many children."
The mass-produced briquettes have been put to great use, and grassroots workers of the Radical Party in Blanca City have also guided these people to pay attention to the safety of briquettes.
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On Monday morning, around 7 o'clock, my daughter woke up early and woke him up.
St. Jose was wearing single clothes. The room was very warm and the home was heated. He held his daughter in front of the window and looked at the snow. Several dwarf chestnut trees outside the window were covered with snowflakes, which was very beautiful.
The chairs in the yard are also covered with a layer of snowflakes, and the vegetable garden greenhouse in the distance has long been repaired.
Elena also got up early and read and studied in front of the study. After Elena recovered, she planned to go to the Blanca Institute of Physics to find something to do.
The cook Anna is preparing breakfast,
Britney was quiet, and Saint Jose ate while reading the newspaper. After finishing breakfast, he handed his daughter over to the nanny Mina.
Mina Langton is her daughter's full-time nanny and has extensive experience in raising children.
Saint Jose changed his coat and kissed Elena goodbye. Buston and others were already waiting in the garage, and they were probably going to be busy today.
At the city hall, St. Jose continued to handle official business and continued to arrange various livelihood issues for the citizens during the winter.
Blanca City, which had prepared emergency plans, did not receive any impact.
The armed police force established by the National Police Agency has been put to great use. A group of police officers with high skills in riding motorcycles can quickly respond to various emergencies and appear in every corner of the city quickly.
Saint Jose trained these armed police officers in the same way as special soldiers and continued to equip them with the most powerful firepower equipment.
The current leadership team of the city hall includes not only the leader of the radical radical party Saint-Jesse, but also talents from the original Justice Party. Socialists and Republicans can work in the city hall. Saint-Jesse is really hungry for talents.
Saint-Jesse has developed a more reasonable performance evaluation system than Saint-Martin City, and will organize the first civil service examination on July 1 to recruit a new batch of affairs officers.
Expand the management of Blanca City.
In Saint Hesse's view, expanding production is the most necessary thing. Although currency devaluation can expand exports, these are the exports of agricultural products, not industrial products. Saint Hesse hopes to establish the Southern United Export Association to expand exports. Existing production.
The green agricultural revolution brought about by chemical fertilizers, irrigation facilities, and improved seeds will continue to expand agricultural production in the south. Although Argentina is a major agricultural country, its production system is very primitive.
As for tractors, mechanization is indeed a must now. There is a shortage of people in the south of Argentina, and industrialization is required. Mechanization is far from meeting production needs.
One of the most important pieces of equipment for agricultural mechanization is the tractor.
At present, only large farms in Argentina use tractors, and tractors are mainly imported from Germany and the United Kingdom, such as the Bulldog wheeled tractor produced by the German Lanz company.
There are only 20,000 tractors in the country, of which Thunder Shield tractors account for 25%, half of which are purchased by Future Agriculture and Andes Cigarette Factory. They are mainly used for land reclamation and are basically distributed in northern Argentina.
The existing imitation K-52 crawler tractor produced by Thunder Shield Tractor Factory is a modified American Stuart light tank type tractor. It uses a tank crawler chassis and has smaller tracks. It consumes more fuel and is noisier. It uses It's gasoline, and the power is quite high, almost 300 horsepower. It's very powerful for clearing wasteland and farming.
Compared with imported tractors, Thunder Shield tractors are indeed quite cheap because they are all obsolete tank production lines imported from the United States. The production cost of a modified tractor is only 1,000 US dollars, and the selling price is 1,200 US dollars. Nearly 5,500 units have been produced. It is currently the tractor with the highest production and sales in Argentina. A batch has also been exported to Uruguay and Brazil, with about 500 units. Around the stage.
Thunder Shield Tractor continues to expand production, optimize production processes, and produce more high-quality and low-priced Argentine tractors. It is now ready to produce T-54 wheeled tractors and T-54C crawler-type full-function tractors.
Among them, the T-54 wheeled tractor has an appearance designed by San Jose himself. It has a cockpit and a tempered windshield. It has a simple version and a high-end version.
Kubota of Japan fully cooperates with the research and development and introduces engine technology from many countries. The appearance is red and the body is relatively square, which is convenient for stamping by the mold factory.
The T-54 is a large tractor. It uses an 80-horsepower engine, which is much less powerful than the Sherman tank. It is independently developed by the Argentine Diesel Engine Factory. It is a completely domestically produced diesel engine with low fuel consumption, high horsepower, fast speed, and relatively low noise. Etc. .
The raw materials for the engine are provided by special steel plants, and the manufacturing process is relatively sophisticated. A complete assembly line has been designed, which can completely replace the original T-52 tractor, which looked silly, big, black and thick.
Loaded with a large 200-liter fuel tank, the battery life is also relatively long. It is not a problem to work continuously for 8 hours, and different agricultural tools can be installed.
When he saw the prototype in San Jose, he decisively reduced the output of the T-52 production line and made every effort to prepare for the mass production of the 54 series tractors. The emperor has paid off, and now this wheeled tractor has officially rolled off the production line.
Of course, the price of the two newly built tractors will be much more expensive than the Type 52 tractor, and only wealthy farmers can afford it. However, they are also much cheaper than the bulldogs imported from Germany, and can even be exported in large quantities. Saint Jose is full of confidence. , increased investment in new factories.
In addition to the two basic tractors, the T-54 series tractors can also be modified into various models such as excavators, forklifts, harvesters, and planters.
San Jose is confident of facing the coming imported tractor war.
More tractor styles will be produced in the future.
This tractor has fully reached the international advanced level. San Jose estimates that the entire south of Argentina needs 200,000 tractors. This is a huge market, and with the expansion of all aspects of the production line, it has developed into a factory supporting tractor parts. , costs can continue to fall.
It can even be sent to international exhibitions to expand exports and serve as a foreign exchange-earning product.
Saint-Jesse has already planned to support a number of parts production factories to prepare for the subsequent production of vans.
Before the Thunder Shield automobile production line was completed, this tractor factory was already one of the most advanced factories in Argentina's industrial system.
The only regret is that the San Martin Aircraft Factory has not made much progress.
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As Barron's Bank raised deposit rates on a large scale across the country, it attracted a large amount of private deposits in Argentina.
Many Argentines are attracted by Barron's high interest rates and store their pesos at Barron's to protect against inflation.
Barron's Bank was already among the top 20 banks in the country when it was acquired from San Jose. In less than a year, it has developed into the largest private bank in Argentina, directly surpassing Banco Garcia and ranking second only to the four state-owned banks in the country. The 5th largest bank.
The number of people opening accounts at Barron's increased from 200,000 to 1.9 million, an increase of 14.5 times, and is still increasing.
Domestic bank deposits have increased from 5.6 billion pesos to 32 billion pesos, and the loan scale has exceeded 23 billion pesos. Profit expectations are very strong, and profits are expected to exceed 500 million pesos this year.
The latest exchange rate of the Argentine peso to the U.S. dollar has changed from 1:50 in 1950 to 1:130 now. It is even lower on the black market. It has devalued by nearly 2 times in less than five years. It is very shocking and the inflation is also outrageous. , this made the people of Argentina boil with dissatisfaction. The economy has not developed much, but the money has become less, and wages only seem to have increased.
The number of bank employees has increased from 1,800 to more than 9,000, branches have been established in major cities across the country, and international branches have been established in Montevideo, Uruguay and Sao Paulo.
Barron's has become St. Jose's most important financial instrument.
It's just that the value of the peso is actually limited now. It can neither buy foreign equipment nor exchange for anything. It is constantly depreciating. It can be said to be a useless thing. Now Argentine people are more willing to save hard currencies such as US dollars, pounds, and gold. , but there are also a large number of pesos among the people, and Bilon printed a lot of banknotes.
Argentines are short of U.S. dollars, but San Jose exports a lot through the Bank of the United States. It has a lot of U.S. dollars in foreign exchange and can buy foreign industrial equipment. When Saint Jose turns the U.S. dollars into industrial equipment, it invests in domestic production and exports it abroad. You can convert pesos into dollars.
This operation is also the reason why San Jose can continue to invest and build in the country. Argentina has a lot of resources, and turning them into industrial products for export abroad is what he is doing.
Of course, the operation is far more complicated than imagined. After all, selling these goods is a very difficult and complicated task.
Thunder Mining in St. Hesse uses the abundant funds of Barron's Bank to mine minerals across the country and around the world, sells them to Rennes Military Industry, Thunder Shield Industries produces various machinery, equipment and arms, and then sells them in exchange for U.S. dollars, francs and other The gold is deposited back into Barron's Bank, forming a virtuous cycle.
Southern Energy, Southern Petroleum, Blue Cloud Textile, La Plata Steel Plant, Maya Chemicals, Sanhai Shipbuilding, and Prali Foods are all doing this now. They can develop rapidly and expand exports in a short period of time.
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