Rise of the Argentine Empire

The outbreak of small-scale wars after World War II was backed by the world's leading power, the second strongest power, and a newly established major power.

This war also affected Argentina domestically, greatly increasing the importance of this military exercise. People from the Ministry of Defense also paid attention. Argentina was also influenced by the military exercises of these two forces and began to implement nationwide military exercises. This was a small butterfly effect that Saint Hesser had not anticipated.

This was a confrontation between a local military force and a national-level combat force.

After live ammunition shooting training, Saint Hesser continued to boast, implementing new ideas in army talks, attempting to change the thinking of this unit.

Of course, the final effect can only be said to be average, merely planting some seeds. Saint Hesser no longer made too much effort, as facts proved that his influence was limited.

In the first month of training, on July 1st, the City Guard unexpectedly held a football match.

This situation made everyone very happy. The training intensity of the Ninth Battalion was the highest, and the soldiers' results were also the best.

However, combining work with rest, the Ninth Battalion organized an army-wide football tournament according to the soldiers' wishes.

Argentina is already a true football country, but Argentina has not participated in the World Cup for the past twenty years. According to later data, the next participation in the World Cup will be 28 years later, but this does not hinder the Argentine people's love for football.

Before Argentina's true national strength affected football, it was a world-class football power, with many talented players, such as Maradona, Messi, and many other star players. However, after entering the 21st century, the football of these South American countries began to decline. After all, for football to develop well, the importance of money is unparalleled.

Some European countries, such as Germany, France, Britain, and Italy, began to exert their strength and surpass these South American countries. Perhaps the so-called mutated ones can't beat the pay-to-win ones?

It is not known. Another typical example is that the United States has the most basketball teams and talents in the world, and there are many African descendants among the top players, but local African basketball players are rare.

The City Guard is one of the groups with the highest proportion of football enthusiasts in Cordoba. It is said that they will also compete with the National Defense Forces.

Saint Hesser is not particularly enthusiastic about football, but he is also excited about the soldiers' enthusiasm. Football may be a way for some small countries to improve national cohesion, which is quite helpless, just like the star player Maradona who rose after the Falklands War, who is regarded as Argentina's national hero.

The more than 500 people in the Ninth Battalion directly formed 24 teams based on squads to compete, and then gradually selected excellent players and teams. This is both a military-wide sport and a sport for soldiers who are good at playing football.

Even a mere City Guard team's game was very exciting, with exciting confrontations and good skills. Saint Hesser was thrilled and even wanted to play, but considering that his performance might affect his prestige, he gave up the idea.

Argentina is indeed a country where many future football kings and superstars emerge, consistently ranking in the top ten of the World Cup, with very exciting games.

The only countries in the vicinity that can compete with Argentina are Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Colombia. This is also related to the strong football atmosphere throughout South America, just like China's table tennis in later generations, Argentina's national sport is football.

Saint Hesser has a superficial understanding of football, but it doesn't prevent Saint Hesser from cheering arbitrarily. It would be nice to have a beer. This is also an important way to release stress.

The football match lasted for two full days, making the squads get along more harmoniously, united and loving. Facts have proved that the military training organized by Saint Hesser was very good, and the soldiers' quality improved quickly.

......

During the holidays, Saint Hesser took the time to go to the cannery. The cleaning, cutting, and production lines of the canned goods had been basically assembled. The 3,000 square meter area was completely filled with canned food production lines, and beverage canning lines were also arranged.

The dilapidated agricultural breeding farm next door was rented by Saint Hesser and completely hardened with cement, an area about twice the size of this side. It used to be an indoor cattle farm, but it was closed due to insolvency. The walls on both sides were opened up, connecting the place.

The Prari Cannery only needs 200 people to operate the machines because the production line has been upgraded and transformed. Saint Hesser also bought tools such as forklifts from Butch Town, and the forklifts were too expensive, which made Saint Hesser feel distressed for a long time.

The improvement of the production line reduced the manpower required. I have to sigh that the efficiency of mechanized production is much higher. The remaining 50 people were arranged to the second factory to prepare to debug and produce orange-flavored soda and apple-flavored soda.

At present, the domestic petrochemical industry is backward, and there are no plastic bottles available. We can only find a small steel factory in the city to produce bottle caps. The glass bottles are also produced according to the appearance patterns provided by Saint Hesser, imitating the design of foreign Coca-Cola glass bottles. Currently, we can only print the product logo on the glass bottles. Since the Fanta brand cannot be used, the Minute Maid trademark will be used.

Cordoba currently does not have industrial parks. There are many breeding farms nearby that have closed down due to poor management. This place is connected to the outside world by a simple cement road. Currently, the transportation of raw materials and finished products is hired by the city's fleet, and the price is quite high.

However, there was nothing he could do. Argentina currently had no presence in the automotive industry. There were only a few car assembly plants in the entire country, and it was estimated that it would take two years to start building car manufacturing plants, and nine years to produce the first car, which was quite backward.

Currently, the country's trucks and freight vehicles are all imported from French Renault, American Ford, and General Motors factories, and the prices are extremely expensive. Cars are even more expensive, resulting in huge transportation costs.

This is a common problem for ordinary second and third-rate countries. They cannot develop their own industrial system, and others can sell them even garbage at sky-high prices. Saint Hecate's current half-month profit can only buy a second-hand truck.

"In the future, we must enter the industrial manufacturing industry. Without our own industrial system, we can only become someone else's market," Saint Hecate thought.

The New China of later generations is really amazing. It was able to build its own industrial system from scratch, and the products it manufactures are ten times cheaper than those of other countries with the same income level. It is truly a miracle.

Saint Hecate carefully directed the construction and cleaning work of the second factory. Argentina also has a good point: it is sparsely populated, and land is relatively cheap, but it can only accept that some ordinary industrial products cannot be produced.

It's a bit like the Soviet Union in later generations, where light industry is really backward, but heavy industry is even more backward.

Saint Hecate had to go to the capital to find a high-end food packaging factory, and then transport it over.

The petrochemical industry is backward and plastic bottles cannot be produced. Electrolytic aluminum production is backward, and easy-open cans, which have been invented for several years, cannot be produced either. Fortunately, there is a factory that can make pressure-capped crown bottle caps, so we can only settle for second best and produce glass-bottled orange soda.

Fortunately, the country has achieved preliminary electrification. Hydropower installation technology was introduced from the United States, and there is a large-scale hydroelectric power plant near Cordoba, otherwise Saint Hecate would not even be able to operate the soda production line.

The freight cars at the central railway station are also old-fashioned steam locomotives, which made Saint Hecate, who had experienced the high-speed rail era, quite critical.

The operation of the two factories is quite difficult. The production efficiency of the No. 1 cannery has increased. In July, the two-day monthly break was changed to one day off per week, but the production volume increased to 14,000 bottles a day. It is not only producing orange and sweet pear canned fruits, but also strawberries, yellow peaches, apples, and sweet orange canned fruits, which have enriched the variety a lot.

It has basically reached the current production capacity limit, and can almost be regarded as one of the largest food processing plants in the country.

Although in Saint Hecate's eyes, this is just a small food processing plant, more than a dozen train cars of raw materials have to be transported every day. It is a miracle that Miranda canned food stores have appeared on the shelves all over the country in an era without advertising.

In order to advertise and sell more canned food, Saint Hecate's salesmen used many small techniques taught by Saint Hecate, such as painting walls, which is simple and effective, posting posters, and even finding printing factories to print brochures, which made the sales of Saint Hecate's cannery continue to rise, creating a small miracle.

The factory's sales are booming, and production is booming. Saint Hecate began to reform the factory to make it closer to later generations. Since he cannot have a say in the reform of the army, he can still do it in his own factory.

The daily working hours have also been changed from 9 hours a day to 8.5 hours a day. Fortunately, the salary and benefits have been improved, and customized work clothes for the factory are produced and outsourced to Chen Lao Bo's Chinatown seamstress workshop. The order of 1,000 sets made the Chinese elders in Chinatown a little dizzy.

They also began to expand production capacity, find outsourcing, and find workers, and they did a good job. The Chinese elders' small garment workshops also became quite decent.

As scheduled, the first batch of 100 sets of factory uniforms required by Saint Hecate were hand-sewn and produced. When these factory uniforms were worn on the workers, the factory was boiling. The cannery even distributed free factory uniforms, which was quite unbelievable in Argentina.

The factory uniforms were printed with the factory logo, and the quality was also good. The craftsmanship of the garment workshops was not bad. The elders also recruited some female workers from other places for training, and may even be able to develop into a clothing factory.

The distribution of factory uniforms has also greatly improved the sense of belonging of the factory workers. Saint Hecate is also constantly improving the environment and treatment of the workers in the factory, such as providing work meals, renting houses as dormitories, improving the working environment, and providing employee skills training.

On the other hand, the second soda factory also began to trial-produce orange soda. Except for the packaging, Sean Glass Factory, a local company, is very supportive and began to produce glass bottles according to Saint Hecate's needs.

Saint Hecate drew the required glass bottle according to the appearance of the soda he drank when he was a child, with an increased capacity of 400 ml, which can allow people to drink enough at one time. The aerated fatty house happy water has a very good taste.

He placed an order for 200,000 glass bottles at a time to the glass factory, and the previous cooperation also revitalized the glass factory, which was about to close down, and the previous stock of glass cans was almost cleared by the Plari cannery.

This gave the glass bottle factory a very optimistic cash flow. The factory director Odyssey is also a very capable person. He quickly reached a deep cooperation agreement with the Plari cannery and issued the overdue wages, and the operation was doing well.

At most, 300,000 glass jars were transported at a time.

This almost made the director of the Cordoba Sean Glass Bottle State-owned Factory treat Saint Hecate as God. Such a big customer, except for the initial establishment, had never appeared before. And the demand of the glass factory was transmitted to the sand mining plant and railway transportation, which made the economy of Cordoba City a small-scale hit, which can be regarded as a conduction effect.

The popularity of the Plari cannery has also indirectly driven equipment factories to produce bottle caps and can lids, printing factories to print bottle bodies, and driven a number of employment positions. The unemployment rate in Cordoba, which has been rising for many years, has actually dropped a lot, which is quite rare in the overall economic downturn trend in Argentina.

I have to say that a small cannery has started a small butterfly effect, and maybe it will get bigger and bigger.

The first step of the Long March, the small cannery has already set sail. Whether it can become a 10,000-ton giant ship, it still needs time to test, but Saint Hecate believes that the future rise of Argentina will definitely be successful.