Rise of the Argentine Empire

Economic cooperation is progressing well, and Saint-Hesse is also trying to let go, allowing his subordinates to get more training.

He established a unified leadership team in the Old Five Districts and incorporated the border area between the New Three Districts and the Old Five Districts to expand the territory of the Old Five Districts.

Three leadership teams were also established in the New Three Districts to connect with these factories. The Lingang Industrial Zone has its own leadership team. In this way, Saint-Hesse dispatched five leadership teams as extensions of the City Hall to manage these areas.

Talents and cheap labor from the cooperative area, under the arrangement and organization of these city halls, orderly joined the Blanca City economic organization.

The labor shortage has been alleviated, and factories and houses in the urban area have slowly expanded to the New Three Districts.

Elena recovered quickly after giving birth. It has to be said that Saint-Hesse was amazed by the difference in physical fitness between people.

Saint-Hesse took a few days off from his busy schedule. His colleagues in the City Hall congratulated him one after another. Everyone was very excited about the birth of the mayor's daughter.

The mayor can lead by example and take the lead in having children, which also infected the civil servants in the City Hall.

With Saint-Hesse's deliberate public opinion propaganda and guidance, it is expected to drive another wave of birth boom in Blanca City.

After all, the mayor personally urged the birth and set a good example. The Argentine people at this time are quite simple, and their enthusiasm for making babies has been aroused.

Blanca City took the opportunity to introduce some maternity protection policies, holiday systems, medical subsidies, and financial subsidies to fully promote Blanca City's enthusiasm for having babies.

The relationship between him and Elena has been heating up. Their daughter, Britney, is taken care of by an experienced nanny. Saint-Hesse often takes care of the baby, allowing Elena to have a good rest.

Britney often cries at night, and Saint-Hesse often goes to class with dark circles under his eyes.

The two who had completed their mission moved out of this special villa and moved to a residence near the City Hall, which is also convenient for going to and from work.

After working hard for a few days, Saint-Hesse had to return to work again.

After having a daughter, Saint-Hesse felt that he was lucky again. This breakthrough was in oil.

He wants to occupy a place in the Argentine oil industry before the American oil companies fully invade Argentina.

In South America, apart from Venezuela, the Americans have always wanted to take over the last two oil-producing countries in South America, Brazil and Argentina.

Since the Brazilian government announced the nationalization of the oil industry in October last year, stipulating that oil resources are owned by the state, American oil companies have completely failed in Brazil.

Brazil, with its prosperous national fortune, can say no to the Americans.

Contrary to Brazil, Argentina's oil itself has been successfully nationalized, but the cash-strapped Peron government decided to open up oil exploitation rights to American oil in order to obtain American loans.

It's outrageous.

Saint-Hesse has always wanted to establish his own oil exploration company, and recently he finally received support from the Argentine National Oil Company.

On April 22, Argentine Southern Oil Company obtained an oil exploration license and obtained oil exploration rights in Neuquén.

He had been preparing for this day for several months, but he lacked key support. The negotiations between the Presidential Palace and the two major American oil companies became the last straw for Argentine National Oil.

The headquarters of Southern Oil Company is located in Blanca City, abbreviated as CPDS. The company address is not far from the City Hall, which is convenient for him to communicate. A building was specially purchased as the headquarters building, and the company name has been put on the outer wall.

Saint-Hesse personally poached a vice president from the National Oil Company. Juan Nielsen was appointed as the general manager of the new company. There are not many oil talents in Argentina, and Juan can be regarded as experienced and has cooperated with several companies.

Currently, the only oil supplier in Argentina is the National Oil Company, which is a complete monopoly.

This situation is about to be broken. Two American oil companies have negotiated with the Peron government one after another. Although progress is slow, it is indeed about to fully open up the oil industry.

Oil is becoming more and more important, and Argentina happens to have this resource, but the Presidential Palace is already at the end of its power, so it simply sells the mining rights cheaply to obtain economic support from the Americans.

This has also become a loosening point in Argentina's national policy, giving Saint-Hesse a chance to get involved.

The cooperation between Saint-Hesse and the National Oil Company began with the original Maria Plastic Factory. This time, the negotiation was successful, and many people behind the scenes provided help.

In fact, the relationship is not bad. The domestic oil demand in Argentina cannot be said to be large, and there are almost no exports.

Maya Chemical is already one of the largest customers of the National Oil Company, and Plari International's fleet is also an important customer.

Many people in the country are extremely dissatisfied with the Presidential Palace's opening of oil, but they lack the motivation to engage in the oil exploration industry. In the country, only Saint-Hesse has the strength to engage in an oil company.

The slogan of the Southern Oil team is "Establish an Argentine national oil company", lobbying Congress and gaining the support of many people.

It was根本无法抵挡这波长达两年的经济制裁，石油出口收入从国有化的4亿美金变成了200万美金.

The Mossadegh government of Persia fell in August last year, replaced by the pro-American Pahlavi King.

The CIA also played an important role in this coup.

Persia will have to wait until * * * * to transform and truly become one of the two strongest countries in the Middle East. By then, the Americans will have no way to do anything to Persia, after all, Persia has already established its own industrial system and is backed by two of the five permanent members of the Security Council.

People rarely notice the important role of oil in the post-war European recovery plan known as the Marshall Plan.

Starting in 1947, the largest single expenditure of the Marshall Plan recipient countries was to use aid dollars to purchase oil. About 10% of the Marshall aid dollars returned to the hands of the Americans through the purchase of oil.

The United States has five major oil giants: Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon), Mobil Oil, Standard Oil of California, Texaco, and Gulf Oil.

Last year, half of Western Europe's oil was supplied by five American oil companies, and this number is continuing to decrease. Countries from the Federal Republic of Germany, Spain, France, and Italy are trying to establish their own oil industrial systems.

Among them, Italy is the most promising and is also the object of Saint-Hesse's current contact. The Germans are half-crippled in oil, and Spain's economic recovery is much slower than Italy's.

The Italians are challenging the Anglo-American oil hegemony and are showing signs of success. Italy's geographical location for developing the oil industry is indeed very good, close to the origin, close to the Middle East, and close to the Soviet Union.

This oil company is the Italian National Energy Holding Company (EMI), and the actual controller is Enrico Mattei.

He can be said to be the person who has made the greatest contribution to Italian industry during this period after World War II.

This person is an important founder of the Italian post-war economic miracle, and his own experience is also a legend.

In February 1953, Enrico Mattei successfully lobbied the Italian Parliament to pass a new law establishing a semi-autonomous national energy holding company (ENI), with oil and gas refining subsidiary (AGIP) and pipeline subsidiary (SNAM) under its umbrella. This company quickly established a fleet of oil tankers and a network of gas stations throughout Italy.

Using the same model as AGIP, Mattei invested in refineries, giant chemical enterprises, synthetic rubber plants using ENI's natural gas as raw material, and a heavy engineering construction company specializing in building ENI's refineries and related facilities. The company also acquired a fleet of oil tankers to transport oil from overseas for ENI, breaking the monopoly of British and American fleets.

In addition to Italian domestic oil, ENI, under Mattei's leadership, also established cooperation with the Moscow government, the Persian government, and the Nasser government in Egypt, all of which possessed oil.

Although Saint Hilaire himself could not go to Rome, he sent a team from Southern Oil, hoping to establish a cooperative relationship with Mattei to help him exploit Argentine oil.

There was even a near-conflict with the Italian Navy some time ago, but this was, after all, Perón's affair and had little to do with the Falcon Bureau.

At the city hall,

Saint Hilaire gathered the Southern Oil team to give them a farewell dinner.

"Juan, you must achieve cooperation as soon as possible when you take the team to Rome this time. I will have people cooperate with you."

Juan, who was just over 30 years old, was a talent from the National Petroleum Technology. He dressed plainly and wore glasses.

Those who didn't know him would have thought he was a scholar or professor.

In Saint Hilaire's eyes, Juan was a very reliable person, a technocrat with a keen business sense.

Being the vice president of a rigid state-owned enterprise in Argentina was quite remarkable, but the current National Petroleum Corporation was bloated and huge, with no way out.

And Saint Hilaire, this guy who combined officialdom and business, was an alternative. He only spent half an hour convincing Juan, and the two hit it off immediately.

Saint Hilaire could provide him with a huge platform, and Juan only needed to give his loyalty and passion for the oil industry.

This trip to Italy was to purchase ENI's refining equipment, mining equipment, and oil company construction plans.

Saint Hilaire also equipped the Southern Oil team with personnel from Plarri International to minimize expenses at the negotiating table.

International funding was supported by Barron Bank and Sequoia Capital.

Not only that, but in order to increase cooperation, Saint Hilaire also sent teams from Rheinmetall Military and the steel plant together.

He hoped to obtain some military cooperation orders from Italy.

Now the opening for German military industry has been completely blocked, and it is difficult to find loopholes anymore.

Among other Western European countries, Italy has the new technologies that can be obtained.

The Italian arms industry is also relatively developed, retaining a complete set of military industrial production systems, which is much stronger than Argentina's current scrap iron, covering the production of tanks, warships, from artillery to light machine guns, a large number of military weapons.

If Rheinmetall Military's rocket launchers, naval guns, submachine guns, pistols, and new firearms could be exchanged for some new technologies and new equipment, that would be great. If not, it would be fine to poach a few people.

If Rheinland Industries hadn't already found a potential partner for automobiles and trucks, Saint Hilaire estimated that he would have sent people from Rheinland Industries.

Now the Italian economy is recovering very quickly and urgently needs to expand overseas markets. There are many Italian descendants in Argentina, and they can even climb relations from their ancestors.

There were quite a few Italian descendants in this large cooperation team.

"I hope we can successfully achieve our negotiation goals."

Saint Hilaire personally sent the team on the ship before returning to the city hall.

This time, crossing from other industries to the oil industry was also a huge challenge for Saint Hilaire.

Now the diesel consumed by Plarri International's fleet every month is countless, and he doesn't want to buy all his oil from the Americans at a high price in the future.

Especially since this oil is produced locally in Argentina.

The oil industry can completely become a cash cow industry. Rheinland Tractor Factory, Motorcycle Factory, and Automobile Factory all need enough oil and natural gas.

The market is very large, and like the Italian experience, it can very well promote the development of industry.

Even if no oil is eventually extracted, that is basically impossible.

With the escort of the Bahia Blanca Naval Port Navy, Saint Hilaire's back is unusually strong.

After establishing a stable cooperative relationship with General Jose, Saint Hilaire dared to completely enter the oil industry.

Even if the warships are broken and old, and even if the protection and maintenance of the ships is a loss, he must get in touch with this navy.

In southern Argentina, no one dares to oppose the Argentine Navy, and no one dares to challenge Saint Hilaire.

He can't control foreign affairs. For domestic oil, he has already organized an exploration team, and he believes that oil will be dug up soon.

Oil, with the wings of capital, will be incomparably powerful.

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Saint Hilaire also did not forget the Hans Steel Plant. He was serious about cultivating the private economy.

Steel is an industry with large investment and large output, which has been verified in La Plata.

Under Saint Hilaire's persuasion, Hans quickly agreed to expand the steel project.

He directly turned the 300,000-ton ironmaking project into 1.8 million tons, which only requires the construction of two large blast furnaces.

Hans was deeply convinced by Saint Hilaire's grand steel industry concept. After all, he successfully built Argentina's largest steel plant.

In order to ensure that the Hans Steel Plant has enough funds, the city hall will help build a deep-water wharf and a super-large storage warehouse for free, which will be used for the steel plant to transport iron ore and coal.

The State-owned Assets Committee invested in the deep-water wharf and warehouse, buying 20% of the shares of the Hans Steel Plant. The steel plant will receive 1,000 acres of land for construction.

In order to strengthen the technology of the Hans Steel Plant, the La Plata Steel Plant will help the Hans Steel Plant build blast furnaces and cultivate technical talents.

The progress of Argentina's steel industry in the past two or three years has been very rapid.

The production of the Londero Steel Plant in northern Buenos Aires exceeded 1 million tons, with a scale of 1.2 million tons. It was formed by the merger of two steel plants, which is almost the limit of domestic investment.

This was one of the seven steel plants that Saint Hilaire generated during the underwriting of steel bonds. The Londero Steel Plant also merged with another steel plant and expanded.

Londero is also currently the second largest steel plant in Argentina, and several private steel plants have a scale of 300,000 tons and 500,000 tons, which have long left the original three major steel plants in Argentina behind.

Rosario Belville Steel Plant, after simple expansion, now has an annual output of 280,000 tons.

Argentina's state-owned steel plant and Buenos Aires steel plant merged and expanded, and now have an annual output of 400,000 tons, which is already insignificant.

La Plata Steel Plant therefore obtained 20% of the shares of Hans Steel Plant and built a 1.5 million-ton steelmaking plant and a hot-rolling steel plant next to the Hans Steel Plant, and will also provide coke.

With the city hall as a guarantee and the technical support of La Plata Steel Plant.

Hans Steel Plant once again obtained the first phase of construction funds of 5 million US dollars from Barron Bank, plus the original 1.2 million US dollars, there are already 6.2 million US dollars.

Now building steel plants is much cheaper than in previous years, mainly because La Plata has obtained many key construction technologies.