After sorting out the development issues of Barron's Bank, Saint-Jesse cleaned out some of the bugs within the bank and turned it over to the judicial authorities.
Barron's Bank carried out new development reforms, established a retail banking department, and increased the strategic positioning of Barron's retail banking.
New services are for the general public and small and medium-sized enterprises in Argentina, building more branches, absorbing deposits from the public, and expanding current consumer loan services.
Barron's Bank has actually started piloting consumer loans such as installment payments, which are not large in scale. Now it is adding housing loans, car loans, tractor loans, and motorcycle loans, which can not only increase consumption, but also expand the market.
Barron's Bank has also begun a path of slow transformation and development. Originally, Barron's Bank mainly served Saint-Jesse's companies, developed international business, and financed the municipal government of Blanca. It also helped him hold the company's equity on his behalf.
Originally, it was more positioned as wholesale banking, international investment, etc., and the deposits it received came mostly from funds from more than a dozen large enterprises. The number of individual users did not increase rapidly, and it was limited to more than a dozen big cities. This is also a common problem of many banks in Argentina. Not willing to be more individual users, the cost is too high.
To make tractors and cars affordable to everyone, the role of banks is indispensable. Especially tractors, as the main force in agricultural mechanization, are still very expensive and farmers have to spend a lot of money to purchase them.
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Saint Jose sent a note to the Radical Party, but there was still not much news, and he was preparing to return to Blanca.
Merger and spin-off is an idea that San Jose has always had.
There are many reasons why San Jose wants to merge with the province of La Pampa. For Blanca City to realize such a huge development plan, in addition to various population reasons, it also needs the construction of electricity, food, and water conservancy facilities.
It cannot develop by relying on one city.
Of course, the most important thing is that the population of Blanca City is too small. If Blanca City wants to spread such a large stall and complete certain industries, it must have a province as a backing, and Blanca City’s status cannot be compared. For Buenos Aires and La Plata, this is a natural disadvantage.
If there is a province with the city of Blanca as its core behind it, it can have the impact of larger-scale policies, which is to develop the population and increase immigration.
The province of Buenos Aires + the city of Buenos Aires only has a population of 10 million. If a new province cannot be opened, this development will be over sooner or later.
Moreover, the Province of Buenos Aires is very unfriendly to Blanca City. It imposes restrictions on Blanca City in remote areas. The provincial government even said many times that Blanca City violated provincial laws. On the contrary, La Pampa Province and The support of these two fellow sufferers from the Río Negro Province to Blanca City is really great.
Moreover, Blanca City cannot affect the overall development strategy of Buenos Aires Province at all, and now it has had a counterproductive effect on the development of Blanca City.
In San Jose's view, the only way to save Argentina now is industrialization. Only by exporting a large amount of industrial products can the poor exchange rate be stabilized. Otherwise, inflation will continue. Exporting resources alone will only continue to drag down Argentina's economy. economy.
Because now all material exports are priced in dollars or pounds. It is a complete buyer's market, and the pricing power is in the hands of the British and Americans. Once the price of bulk goods and resources drops, Argentina will be doomed. printing more money and falling into an endless loop.
Overly dependent on the primary product sector for export trade, and the country generally lacks pricing power, once commodity prices fall, Argentina's fiscal revenue will shrink significantly.
The gross national product supported by the primary industry selling raw materials and the tertiary industry selling services is completely different from the industries supported by industrialization. The gold content is completely different. Moreover, with unrealistic welfare policies, Argentina will slowly be dragged into abyss.
In addition, Argentina’s party system, military clans, and local forces are all problems. In the past, we relied on the province of Buenos Aires, but now it is time to change. We need a new and more powerful provincial check and balance department. Military forces in the province of Erdoba.
Industrialization is completely opposite to the sparse population growth of Blanca City. Some time ago, Buenos Aires even issued a decree to prevent the migration of people in the province and investigated the illegal merger of Blanca City.
Saint Jesé simply did nothing and separated the city of Blanca from Buenos Aires, and Bilon's resignation was a good opportunity.
He even formulated a specific plan to merge provinces and cities. This administrative division adjustment involves three provinces, namely Buenos Aires, La Pampa and Rio Negro.
Buenos Aires has cut out 40,000 square kilometers of land south of Blanca City, of which 25,000 square kilometers belong to La Pampa Province and belong to 17 municipalities.
The other 15,000 square kilometers belong to the province of Rio Negro, which will be merged with Viedma, the northern provincial capital of Rio Negro Province, to form a group of new towns. This will simultaneously expand the strength of the two southern provinces and weaken Buendma. The province of Enos Aires is the largest province in Argentina.
The area of Buenos Aires Province has dropped from 308,000 square kilometers to 268,000 square kilometers. The population has not changed much, and there are still 9 million people.
The area of La Pampa Province has expanded from 143,000 square kilometers to 168,000 square kilometers, and it has its own wide outlet to the sea. Blanca City can also build a provincial canal, and the population has increased from 200,000 to 490,000.
The area of the Rio Negro province increased from 203,000 square kilometers to 218,000 square kilometers, and the population increased from 410,000 to 430,000.
Although these two southern provinces are somewhat different from Cordoba and Santa Fe, two "populous provinces" with a population of 1.5 million, their development potential is not bad.
The provinces of Santa Fe and Cordoba that can rebel and cause trouble in Argentina now are actually the provinces of Buenos Aires. On the contrary, the province of Buenos Aires is the basic base of the Argentine central government, which ensures the crushing strength, but it is still not enough. If it cannot To achieve balanced development, such a coup will happen every few years.
As long as there are new industrial provinces as catfish, Argentina's development will get better and better. After the expansion of La Pampa and Rinegro River provinces, the potential will be greatly enhanced. The two provinces will develop jointly and absorb immigrants. Encourage childbirth and develop into a province with a population of 5 to 10 million. The basic problem is not big.
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Radical Party Headquarters,
The note delivered by San Jose attracted the attention of Arturo, the leader of the Radical Party.
He is very interested in breaking up the province of Buenos Aires, and he also strongly approves of the offshore oil development in Saint Jose and the oil exploration in the south.
Today he came here specifically to tell us his plan.
"The ocean is a new resource space for the development of human society in the 20th century. It is a precious asset that supports the sustainable development of Argentines. The ocean economy will become a new pillar of world economic development in the 20th century. Blanca City is the hope for the development of the ocean economy in southern Argentina. .”
San Jose's familiar nonsense focuses on the maritime economy and international trade, and describes the importance of Blanca's status.
“You must know that the global estimated reserves of offshore oil and natural gas are 1.4 trillion tons, which is much more than on land. The vast ocean sedimentary basins store more than 150 billion tons of oil, accounting for more than 70% of the world’s total reserves, and 14 billion cubic meters of natural gas. The ocean floor is also rich in a large number of terrestrial strategic alternative minerals such as polymetallic nodules, cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts, and hydrothermal sulfides.”
Saint Jose described the vast resources of the ocean, and Arturo kept nodding as he listened.
"According to statistics, more than 60% of the world's population is concentrated in areas within 100 kilometers of the ocean. The same is true for countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and Japan."
"There are about 10 million people in our country around the coast, mainly in the capital and Buenos Aires, and there are very few other provinces."
“But we in Argentina now only have 6 coastal provinces, which is completely inconsistent with our country’s 5,000 kilometers of coastline. Mexico has 17 coastal states, Brazilians have 16 coastal states, and the United States also has 14 coastal states. This is very unfavorable. Our country develops maritime economy and foreign trade, and our coastline is more perfect than theirs..."
From the perspective of economy, we look abroad, especially Brazil, Argentina’s enemy, and many states are coastal states.
Speaking of Brazil, Arturo couldn't help but sit up straight. Brazil has developed so well in recent years, but Argentina is indeed a mess.
This is something that many people cannot understand.
"Also, the coastline of Buenos Aires Province is very long but cannot be effectively used. La Pampa Province is obviously close to the ocean, but it does not even have an outlet to the sea."
Sanjesé didn’t have an answer.
“In fact, further south in the province of Rio Negro, it is no longer suitable for economic development, and we do not have a reasonable development plan. I think it is necessary to separate the city of Blanca to expand Lapan. The strength of the provinces of Pasadena and Rio de Janeiro.”
St. Joseph's talk is all over the place, from national justice to economic development to scattered examples. There is a certain truth to it, but his butt is very crooked.
"The province of Buenos Aires is too big, and if it continues to develop like this, there will be many problems. Their energy is all in the capital, and they have no ability to develop the south."
Even in Bilon's First Five-Year Plan, all projects are basically arranged in Putrajaya, which has seriously widened the regional gap in Argentina.
This is actually inevitable. Population will naturally gather in big cities. Even if the population is sparse, everyone has the right and freedom to pursue a happy life.
"My idea is to cut off the southern end of Buenos Aires, especially south of the city of Blanca."
The coastline division of Buenos Aires is very rogue. Almost 1/3 of the coastline in the country belongs to her. This is a problem left over from history.
"The time has come when things have to change."
Sanjesé added.
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