Rise of the Argentine Empire

Besides some obvious improvements to the city's infrastructure, San Jose occasionally rode his bicycle around to inspect the city.

Branca City is becoming more and more prosperous. The roads have been hardened, the original dirt roads have been turned into cement roads, and flame trees and royal poincianas have been planted on both sides of the road, with lawns laid out.

The roads in the eastern district have also been greatly widened, and massive amounts of construction waste have been cleared out of the city, with the roads being re-planned.

A group of security personnel followed behind.

The weather was quite nice today.

With strict public security management and the provision of ample job opportunities, Branca City's public security has completely returned to normal.

He noticed that there were significantly more pregnant women on the streets.

Women with children passed by from time to time.

There were even quite a few elderly pregnant women in their thirties, carrying baskets with large bellies to go shopping at the supermarket, which made San Jose break out in a sweat.

San Jose saw a young woman wearing a coat, probably only in her twenties, who was clearly seven or eight months pregnant, holding a three- or four-year-old boy with her left hand.

Her right hand was struggling to carry a basket, which was full of things. San Jose glanced at it and saw milk produced by Praly Foods, instant noodles, fresh beef, and some winter vegetables.

Without much surprise, the facts proved that Argentinians are still quite simple in terms of childbearing.

With several incomes from the State-owned Assets Committee and supermarket business, the finances became ample, and San Jose immediately fulfilled his promise and issued birth allowances.

The recent series of policies and measures have had a significant stimulating effect. In addition to the foreign population, the locals have also begun to do their best to have children.

Branca City's fiscal revenue has increased by an order of magnitude, allowing it to implement a large amount of money-spending actions.

And winter is the best booster for fertility.

San Jose formulated a series of policies in the city hall and issued a large number of birth allowances.

At the same time, he continued to expand the scale of local hospitals and establish new schools to cope with the upcoming population growth.

Under the subtle promotion of Branca City's newspapers, some large, multi-child families were discovered and received publicity and honor.

A healthy and perfect family should ideally have 6-7 children, which is conducive to the development and growth of the family. Some customs of early birth and multiple births, and more children bringing more happiness began to be unearthed and widely publicized.

A family with many children means a prosperous family, and in the future, their family will be more lucky and grow stronger, and the family members will be united, happy, and fulfilled.

Currently, the situation of multi-child families is quite common in rural Argentina, and San Jose's goal is to promote it to Branca City in a short period of time in order to obtain more population.

The current marriage and childbearing age in the Argentine Constitution is 18 for men and 18 for women respectively.

In fact, this is not the lowest in South America. The lowest are Colombia, Paraguay, and Venezuela, where the ages for men and women are 16 and 14 respectively, and no consent is required.

Especially Paraguay, after the War of the Triple Alliance, used all means to restore its population.

Under San Jose's instruction, the Branca City Council passed a law lowering the marriage age to 18 for men and 16 for women, two years earlier than the Constitution for women.

With the consent of parents or guardians, it can be advanced to 16 for both men and women, with the lowest age not lower than 16.

Moreover, it does not prohibit outsiders from registering in Branca City. Branca City has opened 5 marriage bureaus to help with registration.

San Jose estimates that under such policy stimulation, the local population will also grow rapidly. In addition, foreign population can also register in the city and obtain the same citizen status, and Branca City will reach a peak in fertility.

Newly married male workers are very popular in Branca City. They can receive high wages and also have separate birth allowances for their wives.

Praly Foods will also build a milk factory and a milk powder factory here for milk production to produce infant formula in the future to meet the nutritional needs of a large number of newborns in the future.

Satisfying their needs from material to spiritual aspects.

Argentine dairy cows overlap with animal husbandry, and Argentine dairy cows are mainly distributed in the three main provinces of Cordoba, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires.

Now is the time to prepare to enter the milk production industry. The area surrounding Branca City also has the potential to build a large number of dairy farms.

Building indoor farms is the future trend, especially using modern agricultural development measures to build modern farms.

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Sanders Supermarket is still very popular.

The location is relatively scientific, and there are enough people nearby.

San Jose also strolled around the supermarket, watching these people shopping happily.

He walked slowly and quickly, seeing if there were any places that could be improved.

During the visit, he gradually realized a new problem.

That is, Branca City's public transportation system is too weak.

Especially for many people who come from farther places to shop, it is a bit inconvenient to go back and forth to the city.

And most of the supermarket shoppers are women, which is not conducive to their safety.

In order to reduce their shopping troubles, San Jose's idea is to open more public transportation.

But now the price of passenger cars is relatively expensive, and it is quite uneconomical for the city hall to spend a lot of money to buy them.

Even if the finances are now ample, spend a lot of money to import and buy public buses?

This is not what San Jose wants to do.

He would rather spend money to purchase equipment and produce it himself.

But the poor have their own ways.

Looking at the pregnant women all over the street, San Jose immediately thought of an open-top car similar to a sightseeing car.

Recently, several supermarkets have opened in Branca City, and the cheap and good-quality goods have also attracted some wealthy people from surrounding towns to come and shop.

Perhaps it is possible to produce and manufacture a sightseeing car with a driving speed of about 30 kilometers per hour, a small vehicle that can carry 22 passengers at a time, and the cost is quite low.

This simple passenger car technology is very suitable for the current motorcycle factory to develop new businesses.

Or simply set up a new factory directly.

Sightseeing cars in later generations belong to shuttle buses, and the power is generally provided by batteries, which generate power with batteries.

Now there are no commercial or civilian batteries in the world, and a gasoline engine is the best choice.

What San Jose wants to produce is a mini bus, an extended and unprotected version of a van, which can be used as a transitional vehicle without any problems.

It can also accumulate production technology. The technical level of Leiden Motorcycle Factory can fully reach it. It only needs to design a car shell mold and an engine production line, and other supporting products can be produced by Leiden Mold Company.

No electronic equipment is needed, just simple sofas.

Subsequent modification into a van, which is cheap, economical and practical, can be widely used in many industries.

Leaving the supermarket,

He held an emergency consultation with senior executives of Leiden Industries.

The final decision was to set up a separate automobile production plant. The first product to be produced was the sightseeing car, and the second van was developed simultaneously.

The Branca City Automobile Factory was directly established, and a group of personnel from the motorcycle factory were transferred.

Next, it is necessary to customize the engine, car glass, seats, and a series of supporting products.

It is best to purchase an existing car production line.

There are car production lines in Argentina, but they belong to Ford Motor Company.

Buying one is not cheap either.

San Jose's factory can exceed many old factories in terms of production capacity and efficiency because it uses a large-scale assembly line production system.

This advanced management model is also San Jose's winning weapon in export industry.

The assembly line, which is extremely common in later generations, is now a management method that is only used more by the Soviets and Americans.

British large factories produce piecework, and car production is more like a handicraft workshop.

After the MacArthur reforms, the Japanese also embarked on the assembly line production model.

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San Jose not only supports local factories, but also has established a large number of cooperation with Viedma and Santa Rosa.

These two major cities have established institutions similar to the State-owned Assets Committee to build some suitable industrial companies and invest in Branca City.

With the support of Branca City, Viedma City has established Viedma Salt Development Company, Viedma Mining Company, and Branca City has taken the lead in cooperating with Maya Chemical and Thunder Mining. In addition, Viedma Winery, Viedma Wood Development Company, and Fishing Company have been established to develop advantageous industries. Sidek Cement Plant will build a new cement plant here.

Santa Rosa City has established a series of new companies such as Santa Rosa Mining Company, Santa Rosa Energy Company, and Santa Rosa Agricultural Company.

Other small cities have also established some companies according to their local industries. This is also why San Jose feels that there are still too few people.

The development of these industries in the neighboring city of Viedma alone requires approximately 30,000 workers, and Santa Rosa City also needs 20,000 workers.

The three places are connected by railways and highways, and various resources produced are transported point-to-point.

It can also promote the development of their cities.

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