In August, the direct angle of the sun slowly moves toward the Tropic of Capricorn, indicating that winter in Argentina is about to go away and spring is coming.
The temperature in Blanca City is also rising slowly, blown by the warm Atlantic breeze.
San Jose represents the major industry associations in the city of Blanca, as well as 11 municipalities in the provinces of Buenos Aires, 4 municipalities in the province of La Pampa, 5 municipalities in the provinces of Río Negro, and Formosa. Representatives from 3 municipalities in the province, 4 municipalities in Salta province, 2 municipalities in Jujuy province, and the city of San Martín in Cordoba province signed a comprehensive agricultural development agreement.
The agreements include an agreement to provide underwriting soybeans for the Blanca City State-owned Feed Factory and Prali Food, a wheat purchase agreement for the Blanca Grain Reserve Company, and an agreement for rice reclamation and promotion, etc.
Agricultural production involving 70,000 square kilometers of newly reclaimed agricultural farming area and approximately 7 million hectares of land shows the huge influence of Blanca City.
The cooperation includes Sunshine Agricultural Seed Company of Blanca City providing improved seeds, Maya Chemicals providing fertilizers, Philip Industries providing tractors and agricultural tricycles, and Barron's Bank providing agricultural loans for joint and unified development and helping to establish professional agricultural cooperatives.
Under the influence of San Jose, Blanca officials also hope to achieve greater benefits and be based on the long term, not just banking and finance, but all enterprises can make longer-term decisions for future generations. Build a stronger economy.
On August 28, the Blanca Commercial Bank initiated by the Blanca Municipal Finance Ministry was established. 12 companies participated in the subscription and obtained a total of 28% of the shares. Barron's Bank obtained 10% of the shares. The Blanca Municipal Finance Bureau 62% of the shares and operating rights of the company.
Three of the 12 participating companies are the three established families, as well as Hans Steel, Maya Chemicals, Thunder Shield Automobile, Sunshine Agriculture, Lanyun Textile, and some emerging companies.
The main purpose of establishing a commercial bank is to absorb deposits, provide various development loans to more places, and also add a booster to the development of Blanca City.
Saint-Jesse also hopes that Barron's Bank can develop more internationalization and at the same time add a little more pressure to Barron's Bank.
This state-owned bank is also endorsed by credibility.
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With the assistance of a large number of engineers from the Fiat Group, Thunder Shield Automobile's assembly production line has also entered a stage of rapid development.
Over the past 50 years, railways have made Argentina a unified market, and the future will be the era of roads.
Besides cars, Sanjesé still has an obsession with trucks.
After contacting a number of European truck companies, Saint-Jesse finally gave up the idea of acquiring a truck production line. The Rennes tank factory was technically up to Argentina's advanced technology level. Horst himself was also impressed by the Rennes military industry. Special emphasis is placed on development.
The tank factory can produce tank chassis, and even has tank chassis production line engineers. The technical strength is quite strong, and it can even volunteer for the Thunder Shield Tractor Factory. However, because of the continuous lack of output, Saint Hesse is also a little anxious. Continuing to invest is a bottomless pit. We must find ways to generate income for the tank factory and accumulate more funds.
Moreover, now the firearms factory and the artillery factory can no longer get orders. In less than half a year, Rennes Military Industry has fallen into development difficulties.
Things are changing and the world is changing too fast.
Compared with the booming prosperity of its brother enterprises, the Tractor Factory and the Motorcycle Factory, even the newly established Thunder Shield Automobile has better development expectations than Rennes Military Industry.
The tank factory has a large number of designers and engineers.
The diesel engine factory is also developing well. It also produces diesel engines in large quantities and supplies them to shipyards and tractor factories. It generates more revenue every month and absorbs foreign technology in research and development.
The tank factory has engineers and other experts, as well as its own machine tools and casting workshops for the production of artillery barrels. Horst has inspected many Italian arms companies and now has a very strong sense of crisis.
The tank factory has assembled a group of the best designers and engineers from Rennes Military Industry, but due to the current processing and material problems in Argentina, they have not been fully utilized. Moreover, he is not sure whether future tanks can be sold. Doubts are great.
When he was in Italy, he visited the tank factory. The technical level was much better than that of the Rennes tank, but it could not be continued. The Italian Defense Forces no longer purchased tanks, and a large amount of production capacity was idle.
For Horst, switching production is actually a difficult decision. It is also a question of the future development of Rennes Military Industry. The research and development and explosion of firearms will face huge losses unless new growth points are found.
In particular, the international market is dominated by better Soviet light and heavy weapons and American weapons. Although one of the five good men is still working hard to implement the first five-year plan, and one is still messily suppressing the "uprising" in Algeria, the British , Soviet Union, and American arms have flooded every corner of the world.
In fact, in the past two or three years, the development of Rennes Military Industry has been more about resting on its laurels. Without state endorsement, Rennes Military Industry has been severely suppressed, and smuggling routes have also been cracked down, resulting in heavy losses.
Many of the arms orders won by these big countries are purchased on a national basis. Argentina's weapons can only be drank in soup and smuggled.
It is very likely that I will not be able to afford soup in the future.
Cruel facts prove that even the current African warlords dare not purchase these Argentine weapons of unknown origin. Now that the Southeast Asia market is shrinking, the Indians have caught up with the Soviets. In the blink of an eye, these old German-made weapons in Argentina have been At the end of life.
Moreover, several major firearms are more about resting on their laurels, and the newly developed rocket launchers have no clue.
Moreover, Rennes Military Industry has not received new orders for two months, and the current orders are all old orders.
Without the support of the Argentine state, Rennes Military Industry will not be able to pay the wages of these more than 300 engineers and more than 3,000 workers in a few months.
Even though this negotiation has resulted in a batch of advanced military technology from Italy, including gun barrel technology, tank site design, precision instrument manufacturing, pistols, naval guns, artillery, torpedoes, aircraft engine technology, pistol production materials, shipbuilding, etc. , established a secret cooperation with Beretta Company and Beretta family.
But there are still no new military orders, and the inventory of firearms has been piled up in two large warehouses, including 60,000 mg-52 assault rifles, 120,000 mp40 submachine guns, and 100,000 m51 pistols.
These three big hits alone have taken up almost 12 million US dollars in inventory of Rennes Military Industry. In other words, if new orders cannot be obtained, these firearms and gun production lines will have to press the stop button.
St. Hesse's five-year plan was completely unable to adapt to the development of Rennes' military industry. He was too optimistic, and there was no country strong enough behind him to allow him to obtain military orders.
The mg-53 rifle, mp-53 submachine gun, mp-53 pistol, and rpg-53 shoulder-resistant rocket launcher produced by the Storm Rifle Design Bureau already have some research and development plans, but in Saint Jose's view, these sample tests are not worth it at all. 5 million dollars spent last year.
It is not enough to have forward-thinking ideas alone. It also requires a certain research and development foundation and processing capabilities. Fortunately, 5 million US dollars has also improved the processing capabilities. Now Rennes Military Industry has many high-precision machine tools.
It's just that the research and development of the new generation of weapons is not very smooth, and it is only about half the way. There are many development ideas for rifle development, and Saint Jose can at best show them some superficial ideas.
But the development of small-caliber rifles is indeed on the right track.
It's just that this path is a bit narrow. Another special institution, the Institute of Atomic Energy in Blanca, has developed somewhat quickly. With the help of Enco Electric from the United States, uranium extraction has made certain progress, and the number of personnel has increased a lot.
Horst is also eyeing the development of other brother companies, that is, helping Leidun Automobile produce and process parts.
"Boss, what I mean is that the production capacity of our Rennes Military Industry has dropped, but the production capacity of these machine tools and foundry workshops cannot be wasted, so let's see if we can give some parts to our Rennes Military Industry. Our military The factory’s mechanical processing level is basically first-rate.”
Horst was unwilling to let these workers go. These old employees who had saved up for three years had all worked hard to save their money. However, if they continued to develop into military manufacturing, they would be dead ends.
This military-industrial group has developed from the Flats Bicycle Factory into the de facto largest military factory in the country, and it has spent countless efforts.
It’s just that facts have proven that without the backing of a powerful country, even if it incorporates advanced German technology and engineers, it will be difficult to grab orders.
Argentina is not Germany, nor France, nor Italy or Spain. It cannot get more orders, and it cannot even keep the current ones.
"Boss, our Rennes Military Industry is facing huge difficulties. We must find a new way out. See if we can produce parts for Thunder Shield cars, Thunder Shield tractors and Thunder Shield motorcycles?"
"Oh? Tell me specifically."
Saint-Jesse was troubled by the problem of Rennes Military Industry. He considered buying a truck production line for Rennes Military Industry, but the capital flow was insufficient and it was indeed very expensive. Even the cheapest Austrian Steyr truck was no more expensive than Fiat Automobiles. The prices are almost the same.
Such a price is very uneconomical.
"Boss, this is what I think. I know about the Fiat Automobile project and have been involved in negotiations. There are hundreds of auto suppliers in the Turin area. This is the essence of Fiat Automobile's development."
"Well, keep talking."
Saint Jose straightened his body, watched Horst pause, and continued.
"Even if we get the production line now, many parts will have to be imported from Italy, which will make the price much more expensive."
"That's what gives me a headache."
Saint Jose nodded.
"Our Rennes firearms factory, artillery factory, and tank factory have many advanced machine tools that can help process parts. Moreover, we have assembly line production experience and have produced so many firearms, so the quality can be guaranteed."
"Moreover, if our automobile production line wants to expand production, we must increase the supply of parts. In addition to automobile chassis, engines, and gearboxes, everything else requires the cooperation of other factories."
"It makes sense. In fact, I also have a headache about this matter."
It is too difficult to develop a complete automobile company from scratch.
Although Fiat promised to help solve the parts problem, it only handed over the production of some key parts to Fiat suppliers.
San Jose himself is not willing to import all parts from Italy. That would be too risky, but there are not many domestic factories capable of undertaking these parts.
That's why St. Hesse asked Sean Glass and Lanyun Textile to organize personnel to set up a professional parts factory. But in this way, the cost of Fiat's 600 directly went up to the sky.
Moreover, the technical conditions are not up to standard. Saint Hesse does not have that much money to purchase machine tools, and extreme cash flow is not so fun.
American Sequoia cannot limit the support of an Argentinian company in purchasing European machine tools.
With so many companies, they also need a certain amount of cash flow to ensure their operations. The main reason is that the money spent on these two projects is indeed a bit too much. They don't have the energy to take care of Rennes Military Industry. It's better not to get money from Rennes Military Industry.
"Then you guys give it a try. If you can sell this inventory, I won't take it. I will also support your Rennes Military Industry to produce parts for these three companies. In the future, your Rennes Military Industry will develop independently. I will not Taking too much profit.”
Saint-Jesse was talking about the weapons worth more than 12 million US dollars that were piled up in the Rennes military warehouse. It was not easy to find buyers for them.
The profits he drew from Rennes Military Industry were also very large. Now that Rennes Military Industry can have its own ideas and solve the problem of military orders, it is not impossible to consider them.
"OEM? Oh okay, thank you boss. By the way, boss, can we go to Germany to collect talent for parts? Maybe we need to pay some money in advance. About 5 million US dollars is enough. I want to go to Germany to buy some auto parts. Company shares.”
Even if Horst has confidence in the development of Rennes Military Industry, auto parts are still very different after all.
Transformation is not that simple.
"Okay, go ahead and be safe, I'll have someone handle it with you."
Saint Jose also knew that he could not trap the wolf if he was reluctant to give up his children.
Horst also confirmed his thoughts. Rennes' military industry must achieve self-development. Peace is the mainstream of world development. It is true, both military and civilian use must go.
He could see from the vigorous development of various factories in San Jose that the boss had big ambitions. It was just like installing naval guns on the warships of the Ministry of the Navy. The entire order was only 1.5 million US dollars, and the cost was 1 million US dollars. It was not even Including the money to buy Italian technology, it is a one-time deal.
For example, the production of parts for automobile factories can be done every month, which is enough to ensure that the factory continues to operate.
"The goal now is to live well."
Life is not easy for several arsenals in Argentina, unless there is a war. Now even the most powerful arsenal in the United States is not having a good time. They are scrambling for orders from all over the world. This is one of the reasons why Rennes military industry cannot be sold. one.
In his opinion, it is not a big problem to use up the inventory. After all, the quality of these weapons is pretty good, but it is difficult to ensure profits like before, that is, to earn some processing fees.
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