Since mid-June, Saint-Jesse has continued to increase its efforts in the development of the military industry.
In addition to New Cohen Heavy Industry, three companies have been established: the state-owned Pampas Shipbuilding Industry, the state-owned Southern Defense Industries Company, and the Blanca Firearms Company. They are responsible for the R&D and manufacturing of warships, spacecraft, submarines, radar technology, and firearms and artillery.
They also dispatched the best management teams of state-owned companies to take charge of operations. They also recruited people from New Cohen Heavy Industry and laboratories, and established direct cooperation with related companies.
For example, Pampas Shipbuilding Industry cooperates with La Plata Shipyard to develop small surface ships, and Blanca Steel Plant provides various experimental raw materials.
The reason for establishing the state-run military factory was not only to avoid wasting military expenditures on establishing major laboratories, but also to accelerate the development of the military industry. Now New Cohen Heavy Industry is on the right track and has made positive profits, which shows that the military industry was actually in the process before the end of the Cold War. It has great development potential and can also make money.
It turned out that San Jose relied on various imitation firearms to make popular products without much R&D capabilities. It gradually suffered losses after it became difficult to obtain orders due to restricted channels.
Now that we have sufficient capital investment, some of the new gadgets we have developed have proven to be very marketable products and we are starting to make a profit.
San Jose has also established a Military Industry Bureau in the La Pampa Provincial Hall, specifically to support the development of the military industry. It has introduced various policies to ease the capital flow pressure of new enterprises, promote the normal development of the military industry, and encourage small defense contractors to contract Businessmen entered the La Pampa military industry sequence.
At present, it is difficult to count on the Argentine Ministry of Defense for the time being, but the world's military industry is developing rapidly, and the cause of colonial independence is progressing rapidly, which is of great help to the civilian industry, and the research and development of various materials is extremely important.
Moreover, the development of the military industry can promote the development of avionics, directed energy, electric propulsion, supersonics, quantum physics and other fields. Even a little bit is enough and can also create a large number of jobs.
In addition to increasing the research and development of fighter jets, San Jose has also established a Falcon helicopter manufacturing laboratory to develop helicopters. Currently, it still uses imitations of American products and then uses them for improvement.
The prototype of the Falcon Laboratory is the H-13 helicopter, which is a helicopter developed by the American Bell Aircraft Company. San Jose used his connections in the United States to smuggle 5 old and scrapped models for reverse improvement.
H-13 is not a high-tech product, and St. Jose's smuggling routes have not been scrapped, but have been strengthened a lot. From the original various World War II tanks and firearms to the current helicopters, St. Jose has been optimizing and perfecting international smuggling. Channel, starting from the Colombian line, a reverse smuggling channel was also developed.
The aerodynamic layout is a single rotor, the flight speed reaches subsonic speed, and the number of engines is single.
For St. Hesse, it already has a preliminary industrial foundation, making it easier to develop and imitate foreign products.
For a long time, the geographical distribution of the world's military industry has been unbalanced. Most scientific research institutions and powerful enterprises are concentrated in a few industrially developed military powers in North America and Europe, especially in the two superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union.
The technology source of St. Jose's military factory has always been mainly from the United States. Argentina's domestic environment does not allow him to have anything to do with the Soviets unless he can become the president of Argentina.
The United States is now the largest military power in the world. It is also the most important origin of high-tech defense technologies and weapons and equipment, representing the highest level and strongest comprehensive capabilities of the current military industry. This is inseparable from the strong economy of the United States.
The U.S. military-industrial complex has initially emerged, consisting of a huge interest group composed of military departments, military-industrial enterprises, some members of Congress, and defense research institutions.
Since the military-industrial complex involves not only the military, but also defense companies, and even Congress, its impact on the United States is extremely profound.
The Soviets have established the most powerful defense industry system in history and have the second largest military industry in the world today. The military industry in the Soviet Union has not yet reached its peak. The Soviet Union’s military industry is far more important than that of the United States. Various famous The design bureau connects the huge military-industrial complex.
In the past, Argentina mainly established a limited-scale military industry through technology introduction, imitating and producing a number of weapons and equipment, and had no independent research and development capabilities.
Of course, Argentina has not had much pressure on national defense since it integrated the country and completed its basic reunification. Brazil, its biggest rival, is not prepared to fight Argentina. Chile is not a military power now, and the British are still not something Argentina can mess with. Affordable.
Whether the military industry can develop or not depends solely on the domestic market. It is good to establish international trade channels.
In later generations, small countries like Sweden, Singapore, and Israel can establish powerful military companies, which shows that there is no problem at all. Apart from the five gangsters, there is still a very huge market.
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In addition to taking a small step towards connecting with France in the oil industry, Saint-Jesse also sent his business delegation, hoping to establish more cooperation with France. For example, the French automobile industry is also quite developed, and Thunder Shield Automobile It also requires some real pressure and cooperation.
The three major French car companies are also very powerful. Peugeot, Citroën and Renault are now overshadowing the three German giants. Opel, owned by Renault and General Motors, has surpassed a bunch of British car companies to become Europe's top three. Two major automotive giants.
The three major German car companies in the future, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen, are now fairly well-known, but their sales are still slowly starting and will take time to accumulate.
Sanjesé hopes to activate the Argentinian automobile market by establishing a joint venture. Thunder Shield Automobile is thriving. Last year, it earned US$18 million from just one Fiat car, making it profitable for the first time.
On average, a car earns 400 US dollars, but through various agreements, it is allocated to other parts factories, and in the end only 6 million US dollars is left. Although they are all brother factories, the accounts are still calculated clearly.
Last year, Leidun Automobile sold more than 45,000 vehicles and exported 17,000 vehicles, which has exceeded the originally planned output by almost 1.5 times.
45,000 vehicles is already a great number, although it is still far from the ideal number of 60,000 vehicles. This number has exceeded many countries, and it comes from two versions of the same model. One is a van-like shell. One is the sedan version.
Fiat's car project has paid off.
The Argentine market share of Thunder Shield's Fiat Automobile 600 has also reached a very high level. This is caused by special market conditions. Argentina is very strict on imported cars, but very relaxed on exports.
Most cars in Argentina are smuggled, but how many can be smuggled in a year? Less than 3,000. Although Argentina is not rich as a whole, there are still many rich people. Owning a car is a symbol of dignity and status.
Although Leidun Automobile does not produce many models, it has dozens of paint colors and many modification kits. This is the advantage of having many parts factories. In order to make money and make the car look a little different, buy one Fiat 600, then modification became an important thing for them.
It has given rise to a very hot modification market, and Leidun Motors also provides various types of shells and improved models, although the cores inside are similar.
After all, technology is based on changing shells.
But this can only be said to be a trick on the Fiat 600, and the things inside are still Fiat 600.
But when it comes to new car research and development, progress is still quite slow.
Copying and pasting on the production line is not a big problem for Leidun Automobile, but there is still a considerable lack of talent to actually develop a usable car engine.
After all, the cooperation between Thunder Shield Automobile and Fiat is limited to one or two models, and most of them are produced. However, in terms of automobile design and development, it can still only be said to be a small manufacturer, and it also needs to establish certain cooperation or introduce the automobile industry.
The two major automobile industry bases planned by the Argentine Presidential Palace are Buenos Aires and Cordoba, with Cordoba being a top priority. American automobile companies generally choose to build factories here.
It is not easy to convince French car companies to build a factory in Blanca. They prefer to build a car factory in Cordoba in the center.
Blanca City has now established a basic mechanical processing industry of a certain scale, and has been able to imitate some ordinary mechanical products, but advanced ones still need to be imported.
The core of Leidun Automobile's automobile production line is the engine production line. Unlike later generations, this can only be dedicated, not universal. This is a factory that can only produce a single product.
It is not easy to transform such a production line because there is a lack of sufficient talent and technical resources.
The development of Argentina's Thunder Shield is still quite slow. Compared with the rapid development of Germany's Audi, it is simply lagging behind.
In urgent need of factory upgrades, Saint-Jesse's first idea was to move a car manufacturing production line over, but this could not change Thunder Shield's backward research and development.
Thunder Shield Automobile still cannot fully understand the technology of Fiat 600, which is quite difficult for Thunder Shield Automobile, even with the help of the Germans.
Argentina, just like the newly independent New China, has no automobile industry foundation at all, if the automobile factory in Cordoba is not included.
Such a car, or sedan, is not a simple factory production line. Strictly speaking, it is a replica or assembled car, and most of the accessories are not universal.
Even if San Jose has initiated a project to develop a new car a long time ago, the time and money required are not a small amount.
A fuel vehicle requires almost 30,000 parts. Designing a new vehicle means that it needs to be modified and upgraded.
Saint-Jesse has equipped a total of 57 parts factories for the Fiat 600 project, most of which come from companies under the Saint-Jesse Group, such as New Cohen Heavy Industries, Maya Chemicals, Sean Glass, Philip Industries, Blue Cloud Group, etc.
Among them, 23 parts factories are newly established, including spark plug factories, gear factories, and seat factories. There are also 14 parts factories from New Cohen Heavy Industries, which contribute the most, and 8 from Maya Chemicals, which produce tires and plastics. Components, as well as the five parts factories of Philip Industries, have barely reached the achievement of 45,000 units. The current monthly output has reached the limit of Thunder Shield Motors.
Thunder Shield Automobile produced 7 prototype cars for the new project, all of which had various problems. With the help of German Audi engineers, a barely usable laboratory was established.
Blanca City does not have as developed an automobile industry as Turin, and San Jose does not want to completely attribute all auto parts factories to Thunder Shield Automobile. Such an investment would be too huge and could easily lead to rigidity.
This is San Jose's vision for the automobile industry, to cultivate 1-2 large-scale automobile manufacturing companies, and at the same time establish a certain competitive automobile parts factory.
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Speaking of cars, we have to mention Saint Jose’s only foreign car industry, which is Audi.
In 1956, Saint-Jesse spent US$8 million to acquire 70% of Auto Union's shares. According to the official exchange rate of 4.2 German marks, it was about less than 33 million marks, a very cheap price.
Thunder Shield Auto promises complete autonomous management and an investment of more than 30 million US dollars, and allows Auto Alliance companies to return to the automotive industry.
Only then did he successfully defeat other buyers and buy most of the shares of Auto Alliance.
At that time, Auto Alliance was not at a complete low point.
The Automobile Alliance, which has undergone financial transformation, has entered the battle lightly and has demonstrated its development potential.
This year, Thunder Shield successfully defeated Daimler-Benz's acquisition plan and spent another US$6 million to acquire the remaining shares of Auto Alliance. The shares of Audi, which have been developed for two years, are even more valuable, but this is still It's a very cheap price, only 25 million marks.
As the controlling shareholder, German Leiden Automobile also officially changed its name to German Audi Automobile Group AG. The headquarters moved from Hamburg to Munich, and it fully controlled Auto Alliance. The Auto Alliance also changed its name to German Audi Automobile AG.
Last year, San Jose invested $12 million from Sequoia in production line renovation and vehicle research and development, expanding the scale of its Ingolstadt factory.
San Jose also brought the appearance concept of the Audi A6 to Audi, completely conquering the Audi management and R&D team, and quickly started the design work.
Audi continues to poach many engineers from other car companies and once again strengthens its research and development capabilities.
The Audi team, which has been fully supported by San Jose, returned to the automotive industry and developed very rapidly. It not only built a new production line but also established an automotive research and development laboratory.
This fall, Audi's motorcycle factory will completely cease production and sell all its production lines to an Argentinian motorcycle company.
At the beginning of this year, Audi received a strategic investment of US$12 million from Sequoia Investment Bank, which gave Sequoia an 8% stake.
After receiving this funding, Audi built a real new car factory in Ingolstadt.
At the same time, Audi also received a US$5 million loan from the state of Bavaria, and the remaining US$10 million of the Marshall Plan loan has also been received, and its financial book level exceeds that of many peers.
After many operations, Audi has completely overcome its financial crisis and officially returned to the automotive industry.
Ingolstadt is a small city located in Bavaria in southern Germany, 60 kilometers away from Munich, the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, and adjacent to the Danube River. It is an industrial city rich in tradition and historical significance.
The conditions here are quite good, just like a satellite city in Buenos Aires, and it is easy to recruit more talents needed by the automobile industry. More German engineers are in big cities.
This new factory will become one of the most advanced automobile manufacturing plants in Europe and will be Audi's second automobile factory after the Dusseldorf factory.
And Audi has completely become a complete automobile company.
With sufficient financial support, Audi has hired many engineers and managers from Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, BMW, Opel, and Porsche to form a strong automotive research and development team.
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"There is a saying that is true, that is, walking a hundred kilometers, even if you walk 90 kilometers, it is only equivalent to walking half."
Saint Jose did not forget to warn these administrative officials who could not help but raise the corners of their mouths at the meeting.
In the past six months, the industrial output value of La Pampa Province has increased by 36.7% compared with last year. Five cities have achieved the goal of doubling the growth, and the agricultural output value has more than tripled.
The total has exceeded the 30% growth target set by St. Jose at the beginning of the year. This means that they will not only receive twice the year-end bonus, but also receive an promotion to the official level. This is the rule set by St. Jose. Everything is based on Guided by the speed of economic development, rough economic development is still better than slow refined development.
Blanca City has officially become Argentina's second largest port and a major trade import and export port. It has 14 port areas in urban and suburban areas, with a port area of 92 square kilometers. Blanca City has established Blanca Port Company to manage it. Last year's annual trade import and export volume exceeded 58 million tons, mainly bulk cargoes iron ore and coal mines.
The three port cities in the south, when discussed together, have an economic scale of over 100 million US dollars and have established 34 medium and large factories. They have made rapid progress in port development and are completely integrated with the southern part of the Blanca Blanca through railways and roads.
The three port cities have now built 8 wharves and 14 berths, and have utilized 7.5 kilometers of coastline. Among them, there are 3 wharves with a capacity of over 50,000 tons, with an annual design throughput of 19.88 million tons. Most of the investment comes from Blanca Blanca city.
In the first half of the year, the three major ports completed a cargo throughput of 11.46 million tons, still dominated by bulk cargo, mainly imported minerals.
"Our industrial system in La Pampa Province is not perfect enough, but Brazil's industrial development scale is much larger than ours. Moreover, the development of cities like Santa Rosa is still relatively lacking, and the development of some free cities is also relatively backward."
"Our development goal in the second half of the year is still to accelerate development and incorporate coastal highways into the construction plan and build specialized highways based on coastal highways."
San Jose is very satisfied with the development of La Pampa Province in the first half of the year. Several important industrial projects have been put into operation and a large amount of domestic investment has been received.
The coastal highway can connect the most prosperous coastal areas in La Pampa Province. When the railway cannot create greater transportation benefits, the construction of the highway has become more urgent.
San Jose has had enough of the backward Argentine railways. The railways in La Pampa Province are also managed by the Argentine National Railway Company. Strikes occur every few days, which seriously affects the economic development of La Pampa Province.
"We need to build a higher-level highway that is different from the coastal highway and enter closed management, which can more conveniently transport goods and people, so that the Colorado Port in the south can also quickly travel to Blanca City."
Making the coastal highway the economic artery of La Pampa, replacing the sluggish railway, would allow truck and car sales to boom and the city's population to evacuate to the suburbs.
“Imagine the economic benefits that will be created if it only takes 30 minutes to get from Alta District to Boska District.”
"It now takes two hours to get from Alta District to Boska District. Too much time is wasted on the road."
Although Blanca City has built a large number of roads now, these roads are more integrated into the streets. Various traffic accidents are prone to occur when the speed exceeds 30 kilometers per hour. The speed of the expressway can reach more than 60 kilometers per hour, which can be used for rapid transportation. transportation.
“We support the construction of coastal highways.”
Most people were persuaded by San Jose that the congested city of Blanca would be improved and the suburbs could be better developed to relieve the pressure on the urban area.
The meeting went very smoothly and a series of proposals were passed.
After the meeting, this information was sent to all parts of the country. The investment estimated at this meeting was as high as 570 million US dollars, involving 17 key projects, which will produce huge benefits.
Some heavyweight ancient families have also set their sights on the city of Blanca, which they still habitually call Puerto Blanca.
San Jose welcomes all investments and provides them with a lot of conveniences, and this is his purpose. He hopes to bring an investment effect of 1.5 billion US dollars through the figure of 570 million US dollars.
Blanca City Hall has carried out some fruitful reforms in recent months. For example, the City Hall Investment Promotion Department was split into the Commercial Department and Blanca Commercial Trading Company, which was completely reorganized and separated government and enterprise.
The equity design of Blanca Commercial Trading Company is that the Blanca City State-owned Assets Committee is responsible for holding the majority of the shares, while internal personnel hold certain shares to encourage development.
The original investment department was too large and bloated, and involved many interest entanglements. After independence, the commercial trading company used internal talents to establish eight major trading departments, completed cooperation with large-scale enterprises in Blanca City, and earned a profit. The first pot of gold, and quickly became one of the five major trading companies in Blanca City.
While Sanjesé lamented the strong R&D capabilities of European and American countries, he also did not forget to encourage these local Argentine scientists.
"The gap between us and the United States and western European countries is not as big as imagined. We can't develop worse than the colonies."
However, Argentina's future development is indeed not as good as those of these colonial countries that became independent. That is a real revolution, not tinkering.
Argentina’s superior agricultural geographical environment is similar to France.
Argentina has fertile soil and perfect natural conditions for mechanized agricultural operations.
The Ministry of Agriculture of La Pampa Province is the department supported by San Jose and one of the departments with the most support funds.
San Jose also adopted a "Green Agriculture Rise Plan" at the meeting, and the Ministry of Agriculture established a large number of extension workstations and agricultural laboratories.
By cultivating and promoting high-yielding grain varieties, increasing the amount of chemical fertilizers applied, strengthening irrigation and management, and using pesticides and agricultural machinery, we can increase the yield per unit area and increase the total grain production in La Pampa Province.
Last year, La Pampa Province completely achieved agricultural self-sufficiency. The total grain output in a year could feed 4 million people, but this was far from enough. So San Jose purchased and stored more grain in large quantities, and cooperated with neighboring Rinegro. The River Province also has a large number of cooperation and purchasing contracts with farms in the provinces of Buenos Aires and Patagonia.
The northern provinces are under the responsibility of Future Agriculture. There are already more than 1,000 farms in cooperation with Future Agriculture. A large amount of harvested grain is transported south by railway and reaches port warehouses in coastal cities.
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