The issue of army construction is a big problem. This is probably the only headache for Saint Hesse in the near future. The Ministry of National Defense will soon send people to cooperate with him in reorganizing the defense force.
He recently led people to run around the military camp, and also personally solved various problems. Judging from the information and intelligence of the troops that the Falcon Bureau has, the situation is relatively optimistic.
On August 6th, there was light rain in the sky and the cold wind was biting.
San Jose organized a live-fire training at the military camp of the Third Regiment of the Second Division of the La Pampa Defense Force. The Third Regiment of the Second Division was adapted from the Blue Delta Company security force and already belongs to the three divisions of the La Pampa Defense Force. A relatively strong group.
"Mr. Commander, you are welcome to come for inspection."
Sanjesé was dressed in a military uniform and wore the rank of colonel newly issued by the Ministry of National Defense. He looked at a group of somewhat uneven-looking La Pampa Defense Force soldiers, who were wearing dark green military uniforms, and felt a little emotional in his heart.
The military rank was issued by the Ministry of Defense when he took office as the commander of the La Pampa Defense Forces. It is both a virtual title and a real title.
The La Pampa Defense Force has been officially recognized by the Ministry of Defense as a local force and is included in the Argentine Defense Forces. It also needs to be reorganized.
This is one of the conditions that San Jose negotiated with the Ministry of Defense on behalf of the La Pampa Defense Force. Many conditions were discussed, including the issue of military establishment.
Currently, the La Pampa Defense Force, including the logistics force, has almost 24,000 people, which is even thousands more than the neighboring Paraguay Defense Force. This is the result of the massive expansion of San Jose's troops, of which almost 15,000 are from other provinces.
The composition of the Defense Force is also quite complex. There are not only white people, Indians, but also Gauchos, indigenous people, peasants and indigenous people, and even many foreign immigrants. It is very chaotic.
Even multiple reorganization trainings are quite problematic, and the internal factions are also complex. There are security groups in Santa Rosa City, urban police in Blanca City, and group training in the countryside. There are even small gangs who can't survive and join the army as a whole. , which is also the reason why the number of defense forces has increased so rapidly.
If there were normal military expansion in Argentina, the number of people would not be able to expand so fast.
In terms of the age of the soldiers, they ranged from 16 to over 40 years old. The original recruitment standards were very simple. Those who could carry a gun and could run 5 kilometers in half an hour were required. In other words, they were basically men. No big problem is needed.
Judging from the composition of the arms, they are basically infantry, using light weapons, there are not even artillery units, and there are only a few tanks. The newly expanded regiment is estimated to have no more than 30 training rounds per month.
There are very few young people serving as soldiers in the La Pampa Defense Force, and all of them are not recruited from normal recruitment. It is easy to imagine such combat effectiveness.
When he took office as a senior official, the three regiments transferred were basically his true direct relatives and had the background of the two major security companies. Even so, they were screened.
His strategic goal of forming the La Pampa Defense Force last year has been achieved.
Now that he has become the real leader of La Pampa, it is also time to downsize and carry out real professional development.
Blanca City and the three coastal cities are also about to carry out the next stage of economic construction, releasing a strong labor force of 10,000 to 20,000 people, which is enough to maintain more than ten or twenty medium- and large-scale factories. Now the economic construction is lacking people. Woolen cloth.
He has also been paying attention to the problem of illiteracy and low culture in the army. His insistence on implementing literacy in the army and realizing basic militarized management is still somewhat useful.
After these soldiers retire, they can also receive a subsidy and obtain employment training, which is also beneficial to them.
After disarmament, artillery units and tank units will be established at the same time. In terms of weapons, tanks and armored vehicles will be added, as well as light and heavy weapons. In terms of training, basic infantry-tank coordination and other training will be carried out.
In terms of weapons, New Cohen Heavy Industry has produced a batch of new tanks. They are truly Argentinian tanks. Their appearance is somewhat similar to the New China's Type 59 tanks. They are mainly derived from the Soviet T54a tank. They also use a lot of weapon technology and have better combat effectiveness than The original American WWII tanks have been greatly increased.
The armor materials have been upgraded and were developed with the assistance of Blanca Special Steel Factory, Blanca Engineering Ceramics Factory and other units.
Others include rocket launchers, howitzers, cannons, mortars, and light and heavy machine guns, all of which have basically made new progress. In terms of platform, there are also self-propelled tractors modified by the New Cohen Truck Factory, which can be flexibly changed.
The research and development progress of several research institutes established by Rennes Military Industry has not fallen behind. After the nationalization of Rennes Military Industry, they were directly hollowed out by New Cohen Heavy Industry and moved to Blanca City.
Due to national strength and order reasons, the San Martin Aircraft Factory has not made much progress. There has not been much progress in high-precision aviation weapons and fighter jets. Now it is only continuing to modify prototypes.
Ordinary army equipment such as tanks, rocket launchers, light weapons and the like are developing well under the guidance of Saint Jose.
In the future, the La Pampa Defense Force will establish regiments and brigades with artillery and rocket launchers as basic equipment. These new arms for ground fire assault missions can be used to support the combat operations of infantry and tank troops, and coordinate operations with other arms and services. They can also Independent fire combat will truly strengthen the combat effectiveness of the La Pampa Defense Force.
Rocket launchers are the focus of the development of New Korn Artillery Factory and Research Institute. Rocket launchers have fast firing speed, fierce firepower, good surprise and strong maneuverability. They can launch a large number of rockets in a very short time, and the manufacturing price will be lower than that of cannons and cannons. Howitzer, ideal for the artillery of the Defense Forces.
The production and manufacturing of suppressed artillery such as howitzers and cannons have also developed, but they are mainly imitations of American ones, and the production technology has made great progress.
As the saying goes, kindness does not control soldiers, justice does not control wealth, Saint Jose realized that his biggest shortcoming was that he was too soft-hearted, and he did not know much about military organization and construction.
Although he served as a soldier in the Cordoba City Guards for three years, he only served as a staff officer for a short period of time. He never even led a regiment. He never went to the military school system for further training. He could only be said to be a monk halfway through.
Now the La Pampa Defense Force seems to be huge in scale, but it is just a miscellaneous force. After a short-term large-scale expansion, it does not have much foundation, and its combat effectiveness is estimated to be only slightly higher than that of the African chiefs.
He still uses the old methods of training the army, mercenary-style training, or security company training methods, which can only deal with gangsters, bandits, and small warlords.
The level of these military academy students who are less than a year old is also relatively limited. Even if a dozen professional officers are crammed in, it will be difficult to handle these veteran officers.
The city of Blanca was also struggling with financial supplies, so it finally came up with the idea of disarmament. It happened that the Ministry of National Defense was very afraid of this huge local defense force.
For now, disarmament is inevitable.
The army of almost 30,000 (La Pampa Defense Force officially claims that it includes some logistics and police forces) has been reduced to about 10,000, shrinking from three divisions to one division, and it can also get some benefits from the Ministry of National Defense.
Military reform is also inevitable, and now he can only regret that he does not have a few truly outstanding officers under his command.
At the same time, many unnecessary light and heavy weapons can be sold to Africa, saving military expenditures and creating a lot of income.
After assessing the suitable ones and screening the personnel, the combat effectiveness can be slightly improved.
The Military Academy of La Pampa has been operating for some time as a university directly affiliated with the La Pampa Defense Force.
In terms of military deployment in the future, it is actually just a matter of arranging it around Blanca City. There is no need to arrange garrison in Santa Rosa City.
Moreover, the combat effectiveness of one division and three regiments cannot be underestimated when they are actually trained. Although it is difficult to attack Buenos Aires and stage a military coup, it is enough to maintain local security and protect the security of La Pampa Province. It is necessary. It’s okay to go to Qinwang when you’re here.
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In addition to the difficult problem of military construction, the Colorado Canal Integrated Hub Project in La Pampa Province.
As the de facto military and political leader of La Pampa Province, it is Saint Jose's responsibility to set the direction, take care of the overall situation, recognize and manage people well.
San Jose does not need to do specific things now. All he has to do is formulate good policies and put the right people in the right positions.
However, he is the first person in charge of canal construction, and mobilizing necessary resources is his main job.
Preliminary preparations for field exploration have been completed, and the new canal can connect the Salado River, Colorado tributaries and Blanca Bay. If fully constructed, the length of the canal will be almost 390.4 kilometers. Later maintenance will mainly adopt the artesian mode.
Even so, the construction cost is sky-high. The US$80 million in provincial debt issued is actually far from enough. At most, it only covers the cost of the first phase. The river and engineering team estimate that at least US$240 million is needed, with an average cost of US$60,000 per kilometer.
In fact, Saint-Jesse was a little too anxious to build the canal, but he also wanted to renovate the canal to attract more people from other provinces and fill the population.
To develop industrialization, we must have enough people. There are few people in Argentina. If we can use this canal construction to bring another 70,000 to 80,000 workers to La Pampa, it will not occupy the province's labor force, and the construction of large projects will definitely be able to attract more workers. economic development.
Saint Jose had to lament again that if there were 10 million people in La Pampa Province now, he would be able to fight to Buenos Aires next month.
The famous Suez Canal is 175 kilometers long, with an average width of 135 meters and an average depth of 13 meters, almost equivalent to a medium-sized river.
The same is true for the Panama Canal, which has a total length of 81.3 kilometers, water depths ranging from 13 to 15 meters, and river widths from 150 to 304 meters.
Originally named the Colorado Canal, it is now officially named the La Pampa Grand Canal Project. The length is longer than the original, and the width of the river is expected to be about 15 meters to 20 meters.
It is expected that at least 1,500 excavation construction machinery and forklifts, as well as a large number of tractors and trucks, will be used, more than half of which will be Argentine-made construction machinery, all jointly provided by Thunder Shield Automobile and New Cohen Heavy Industry.
But now there are only a few people in La Pampa province who can drive excavators and forklifts, and they need to be recruited and trained.
The La Pampa Defense Force has enough people. Before they retire from the army, they recruit excavator and construction machinery drivers and provide free training. Enough people are recruited in one fell swoop.
The La Pampa Defense Force abolished two regiments in the first wave. The La Pampa Provincial State Assets Commission established the La Pampa Engineering Machinery Company in Blanca City and purchased 1,000 construction machinery from New Cohen Heavy Industry through loan installments. , to support the construction of the La Pampa Canal.
The initial exploration progress of the canal will take a long time, and the tractor factory, truck factory and construction machinery factory are currently being expanded.
Thunder Shield Automobile made a lot of profits by selling Fiat cars, but the sales of Philip Tractor Factory and New Korn Heavy Industries' truck factory were not satisfactory, with average quality and high prices, which formed a vicious circle.
The Grand Canal project in Saint-Jesse also had the intention of bringing these factories along with it, which could be regarded as killing multiple birds with one stone.
The general construction corporation responsible for the construction of the canal is organized by the La Pampa Provincial Office and is officially named the La Pampa Canal Integrated Management Authority. It is responsible for diverting water from the Salado River Basin and extending it further south to divert water to the Colorado River. amount of water.
The Colorado River originates in southern South America. It is the boundary river between La Pampa and Rinegro Provinces. It originates in the Andes Mountains. The river is only over 900 kilometers long, but its flow is more than twice that of the Colorado River in Texas, USA. And the Colorado River is sparsely populated.
In this way, the diversion of water from the Colorado River to the Salado River-La Pampa Canal will have less impact, and it is also very suitable for supplying natural water to the future Blanca Bay economic zone. Although the precipitation in the middle and upper reaches is not counted It is abundant, with average annual precipitation ranging from 200 mm to 500 mm, but in the middle and lower reaches of the canal, the precipitation can reach 1,000 mm, which is a good supplement to the river water.
The middle and lower reaches can build large reservoirs to store the canal water without affecting the original Colorado River channel too much.
The land in the Colorado River Basin can also be developed and utilized to a certain extent, allowing the relatively water-scarce La Pampa Province to obtain more water resources.
The rest of the construction machinery gap in construction has also been taken over by some gray forces that need to transform with the introduction of various preferential policies. This is their specialty. Others, such as battlefields and soil transfers, have also been taken over in large numbers.
These come from the underground gray and black forces in Blanca City, and they also need some ways to survive. This is also a waste utilization.
The La Pampa Provincial Power Generation Company, a joint venture between the State Property Commission of La Pampa and the Southern Electric Company of Blanca, has been established in Blanca and is responsible for the construction of hydropower stations on the upper reaches of the Colorado River and the construction of dams along the canal.
Other related construction is contracted in sections by seven professional road and bridge construction companies, including the Second Construction Company of Blanca City, to speed up the construction.
The canal construction project officially started on August 8.
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In terms of investment in the United States, good things have been happening recently. Sequoia Investment Bank bet on the U.S. stock market through a large number of diversified investments. First, it successfully bought many companies at low prices, and then encountered the gold stock market, making two or three times the amount of money at once. It was impossible for these funds to be transferred directly to Argentina. Instead, part of it was invested in San Jose's only industrial company in the United States, Enco Electric. The rest of the money was also heavily invested in semiconductor laboratories and some emerging companies.
Enke Electric, headquartered in New York, could only be said to be a third- or fourth-rate electrical appliance company. After spending a lot of money at Sequoia Investment Bank, it acquired a number of professional electrical appliance companies in the industry.
Enke recruited a group of talented R&D personnel, promoted and trained professional management, acquired a number of new invention patents and technologies, established various industrial laboratories, and had some advanced development plans, embarking on a rapid development Opportunity.
Except for the initial transistor radio project, which was not very profitable, the washing machine, refrigerator, color TV, rice cooker, and microwave oven projects he invested in and acquired were all great successes.
Among them, the washing machines and refrigerators launched by Enke are of excellent quality and very beautiful in appearance. In addition, they have money to place a large number of advertisements on TV stations, radio magazines, and quickly become popular in the United States. Exports have increased significantly. Europe, Canada, South America, and Japan have all gained great popularity. less sales.
The transistor color TV represents the scientific research strength of Enke Electric. Because the investment does not count the cost, and it also pioneered the resolution of color TVs, it is regarded as a symbol of the development of American science and technology.
Due to the development of several electrical appliances, Enke Electric has grown from a small and well-known electrical appliance company in the eastern United States to the largest electrical appliance company on the east coast of the United States.
The main reason why color TVs have not been sold much is that the concept is advanced and the appearance needs to be improved. Color TVs are expensive and only a small number of wealthy people can afford them. Black and white TVs are more popular now.
In the end, 700 core components of centrifuges were dispersed and smuggled to the potassium triangle border, and then transported to Neuquen and La Pampa provinces for uranium enrichment, providing a large amount of high-quality raw materials for nuclear physics and nuclear weapons research and development.
These secret smuggling also attracted the attention of some intelligence agencies, but under the cover of the Falcon Bureau, they did not receive much attention. They mainly focused on the Argentine Atomic Energy Agency. Few people would think that a private organization could develop an atomic bomb.
But it is true that without the intervention of national power, Saint Hesse's nuclear weapons program has progressed very slowly, far from being successful. At most, it is equivalent to a reserve of technology and talents.
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Blanca's textile and clothing industry has made rapid progress and is now comparable to Buenos Aires, with exports growing rapidly every month.
It has also established cotton textile supply bases abroad, especially in Paraguay, which has greatly supplemented the problem of insufficient domestic cotton production and supply in Argentina.
After the military coup in 1954, Paraguay established the Stroessner military government. The army and the Red Party were the two pillars of the military government. The city of Oran in the Potassium Triangle region and the city of Formosa in Formosa Province were the Thunder Cross , Thunder Mining, Blue Cloud Textile, Future Agriculture, and an important area for Andean tobacco. It is also a "smuggling base" for export to Paraguay and has established good economic and political relations with the Paraguayan military government.
San Jose did not personally take action, but it had good relations with Paraguay, Bolivia, and Uruguay, three important neighboring countries in the greater La Plata region. Among them, Uruguay passed through the iron ore in Thirty-three Provinces, and Pulau The cooperation established by Lari International Trade. These three countries mainly export raw materials and minerals, and now they are also in urgent need of an important trade channel. The Cohen Group has high-quality and low-cost Argentine manufacturing. The complementary relationship is very obvious and can also promote employment.
As one of the most important subordinates of Saint Jose, Bill Bird of Oran City controls the most important non-governmental military force in the Potassium Triangle, the weakened but officially registered Thunder Cross Security Company, and owns part of Thunder Mining. Control is already the most powerful group of people in the Potassium Triangle.
The one who established relations with Paraguay was the first director of the Falcon Bureau, Guerrero. Although he was not suitable for an intelligence agency, he was very good as a political broker. Paraguay was originally a weak link of the Cohen consortium, but now it is developing faster than Bolivia. More and more, the resources of the Cohen Consortium in northeastern Argentina have also been utilized. Tobacco, cotton, farms, import and export trade, and smuggling channels have all developed rapidly.
The northeastern region of Argentina, like the northwest region, is quite poor and backward, but there are advantages, that is, in poor and backward places, local snakes are generally not very powerful, and the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, which is also conducive to the development of the underground forces of the St. Jose Group.
But on the surface, these underground forces have nothing to do with Saint Jose.
Guerrero and Bill are also the link between San Jose and Bolivia and Paraguay.
Brazil and Uruguay are handled by Prali International's team. Thunder Mining and various export factories also export industrial products to Uruguay.
Uruguay adopted an import substitution industrialization strategy and built a large number of state-owned enterprises. However, around 1955, the economy was limited by the size and population of the country. The development of the manufacturing industry was slow and competitiveness was getting worse. There was already a trend of a military government coming to power.
The deterioration of economic development has weakened the status of the ruling Red Party. After careful analysis, the Saint-Jesse Think Tank planned to bet on the White Party in order to obtain more benefits. For this reason, he also sent a group of men to Mondeville. of sub-operations.
Brazil is currently the fastest growing economy in South America, and the Cohen Consortium has established some branches in big cities in Brazil to share the results of development.
The progress in Chile and Peru is relatively slow, and they are not the focus of development in San Jose. Appropriate greed is okay, but being too greedy can easily lead to collapse.
The population of La Pampa Province now exceeds that of Uruguay and is on its way to 3 million.
La Pampa is luckier than Uruguay because Argentina has certain advantages in terms of population size, which can form a stable domestic market. Although the population size does not seem to be of any use to exports, it can indeed form a group of more competitive companies. company.
Uruguay's population growth rate increased to 1.4 million in the 1930s and then declined year by year. It has remained between 1.2-1.5% and is now less than 2 million. Due to stagnant economic development, Uruguay is even losing its population every year, most of which The majority of them are young people, which has exacerbated the deterioration of Uruguay’s economic situation.
Under the instructions of San Jose, the province of La Pampa set up an immigration agency in Uruguay to attract young immigrants from Uruguay. In the past few months, it has attracted thousands of young immigrants to the bustling city of Blanca and received Easy to integrate, similar cultural background and language, and no discrimination.
Under the publicity of the immigration agency, Blanca has become a younger, more vibrant, and prosperous new city full of opportunities than Montevideo. There are many job opportunities here and very preferential treatment for immigrants.
Such immigration agencies have also been established in Paraguay, Bolivia, and Peru, but they are not as obvious as in Uruguay. They are more of an extension of the former Cohen Brothers consulting firm and focus on black immigrants.
Bolivia is poorer than Uruguay, and Paraguay is due to the military government. The liquidation work has caused many rich people to flee Asuncion and go to foreign countries. Argentina is not far away from home, and it is more suitable than the United States and Brazil. The same language and similar ethnic groups. It is the place that attracts them, and the bustling city of Blanca is the trump card in San Jose's hands.
Many wealthy immigrants are also willing to come to Blanca City, which has more development opportunities, instead of Buenos Aires, which is occupied. This is also inseparable from the powerful propaganda machine. Buenos Aires Sri Lanka is too old, and lacks job opportunities. Frequent strikes, poor public security, dirty living environment, and high cost of living have discouraged many new immigrants.
Blanca City in La Pampa Province is different. San Jose has promulgated a new provincial constitution. As long as you live and work in La Pampa Province for more than 5 years and are legally registered, you will automatically obtain the right to vote at the provincial level. You can obtain most of the rights of normal citizens in two years, which has attracted many people to join. However, if you are to elect a president, the next generation of newborns will still have to be 16 years old before they can do it. This cannot be changed.
The birth rate of La Pampa Province is the highest in Argentina due to certain human intervention. Most of them come from Blanca City. Now the policy has been extended to the entire La Pampa Province.
A large number of newborns were born this year, and many pregnant women from other provinces even went to La Pampa just to enjoy Argentina's most unique maternity preferential policy. Families with five children can even receive tax exemptions and employment and education subsidies.
Saint Jose and Elena's second child is about to be born, and there are already four or five illegitimate children, all of whom will be well nurtured.
These bills to encourage childbearing were introduced under tremendous pressure, and have even led to a decline in St. Jose's support. They were also accompanied by huge financial expenditures, but they have not shaken St. Jose's determination at all.
Because San Jose knows that with rapid industrialization and urbanization, the door to population growth is about to close. Having a few more children now is also responsible for Argentina's future development.
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