Rise of the Argentine Empire

The civil servant team in Blanca City also began to embark on a path of rejuvenation.

Fortunately, the original civil servant team in Blanca City was not large, so the resistance to urban reform was also slowly decreasing.

He rejected several proposals from important municipal officials, such as implementing free medical care and education policies, which would increase the welfare of Blanca City.

San Jose takes high welfare policies seriously, as they are a policy trap for Western European countries, and impoverished South America simply cannot bear such a financial burden.

Such a series of social security measures includes pensions, medical care, maternity benefits, and work-related injury insurance, among others.

The reason high welfare becomes a trap for South America is that the national finances violate the basic principle of balancing income and expenditure, providing citizens with welfare far beyond what the government's financial resources can afford.

Even if Blanca City's fiscal revenue increases rapidly, it simply does not have enough capacity to develop high welfare.

Social welfare from cradle to grave is something that even advanced Western and Northern European countries cannot afford, let alone the Americans. Moreover, the money now needs to be spent wisely, developing various state-owned enterprises to cope with the competition of the new round of industrial revolution.

Of course, San Jose does not deny the implementation of basic social security policies.

His investment in infrastructure, such as education and medical care, is substantial enough, allowing for industrial construction in these areas, such as building supporting schools, hospitals, and so on.

But things like free medical care and free education are too absurd. Maybe you can buy people's hearts with money now, but it will definitely drag down the city in the future.

San Jose believes that as the ruler of Blanca City, the most important task is to develop the economy, build the city better, increase employment, develop industry, and build more complete infrastructure, rather than pursue illusory free welfare.

This is harmful and unhelpful to the development of Blanca City residents.

However, he still increased the average wage in Blanca City, set a minimum wage standard, and consulted the opinions of most people. He set 3,000 pesos a month as the minimum wage standard in Blanca City.

He would not be ambiguous about basic social security.

This is much higher than that of Buenos Aires. At the same time, he started to reduce wage taxes. In his opinion, guaranteeing employment is the biggest welfare for the people.

3,000 pesos is a relatively dignified wage to live on in Blanca City.

Because the rent prices here are not very high, and almost every month there are new houses entering the market, about 1,000 pesos can rent a very good house.

And 1,000 pesos of living expenses can also obtain sufficient living materials in Blanca City.

Even saving some, you can save more than half of your salary a month and deposit it in Balen Bank to get a good interest.

Moreover, many of the larger factories in Blanca City provide basic dormitories and factory canteens, which are suitable for some young people who don't have too many concerns.

Although the accommodation conditions of these factories and the level of the canteens are limited, the dormitory living environment is acceptable.

In order to balance most people, the taste of the canteen food is a bit worse, but in the eyes of many people, this is a very good benefit.

The reason why the food is unpalatable is also because it has to be cheap and ensure basic nutrition. There are actually very few Argentine local dishes suitable for making canteen food.

At present, most factories in Argentina do not have complete industrial parks like Blanca City. Most factories are fighting alone and are not perfect.

San Jose provided a complete development idea for the construction of industrial parks.

The factory canteen and factory dormitory are one of them.

Of course, San Jose will also develop some low-rent housing to provide to some young couples. The area may be relatively small, at the level of two bedrooms and one living room, but the price is low.

The maternity and child hospital has received the largest financial subsidy, which is also the only welfare for public hospital subsidies in Blanca City Hall.

Under the leadership of San Jose, large-scale real estate development in Blanca City is still profitable.

What's more, even if there are no foreign real estate companies, the construction capacity of Blanca City Construction Company and San Martin Cohen Construction Company are increasing very quickly. It's just that as mayor, he is also willing to support more real estate companies to maintain balance.

3,000 pesos is also an employment price that most factories can accept. The current 3,000 pesos is roughly equivalent to 2,000 pesos four years ago, but after Peron froze wages, it is already a very good employment price.

Most factories, plus some daily overtime, can reach a salary level of 4,000 pesos.

Some jobs with technical content are basically 5,000 pesos, and even 6,000 pesos can be reached.

A monthly salary of over 10,000 is still relatively rare in Blanca City, and some high-end positions will appear.

For most urban poor people, survival is the future, and Blanca City is a city with development potential.

Blanca City's relatively high wage level is also conducive to attracting more foreign population.

Also, due to Argentina's soaring prices, San Jose used several newly established large supermarkets to stabilize the minimum prices in Blanca City, and can even export in large quantities.

And the most important thing is to unite several nearby autonomous cities. Also, the two southern provinces should do a good job in agricultural development. Only with sufficient supplies, raising more people is a piece of cake.

As for whether Blanca City can establish an industrial and agricultural system, that is impossible. Only by uniting more people.

"If we want to establish a relatively complete industrial system, we need more partners."

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San Jose contacted Prari International's London branch and asked them to purchase 500 white pig breeding pigs from various high-quality pig breeding centers in Western Europe, planning to develop the pig breeding industry in Argentina. Compared with beef cattle breeding, he is more interested in pig breeding. The meat yield is high, and the taste is not bad. It is very suitable for large-scale breeding, but the local pig breeding development in Argentina is extremely backward.

He remembered a sketch from later generations, which had something like "Postpartum Care for Sows", which even developed into a meme.

This pork is fishy, ​​smelly, and has a strange taste, and the meat is particularly hard, so it can't be used for cooking.

He also found out after many inquiries that the strange fishy and smelly taste of these porks is because the boar farmers did not turn the young boars into eunuch pigs, so the meat of the grown boars has a strong taste.

Argentina does not have the concept of castrating boars at all, and he did not have the idea of ​​raising pork before.

He has never eaten the pork here again, it is better to eat beef and mutton.

Pork is also a typical representative of red meat worldwide.

I believe that in Argentina, no one knows more about pork than him.

Compared with beef and mutton, pork has a slightly lower protein content and a higher fat content. It may be slightly worse than beef and mutton, but the price is cheap, so many people in Xinhua like to eat it.

San Jose doesn't like to eat beef very much now. For a period of time last year, he stayed in the Lingang Industrial Zone for a month. There were no fresh vegetables in Blanca City at that time, and every day it was potato stewed beef and potato stewed beef, or grilled beef and grilled beef.

This made his teeth hurt for a month, and there are many ways to cook pork, so there is no such trouble.

Later, he thought that eating too much beef would cause internal heat, although Argentina does not have this concept at all. When he first arrived in Argentina, he got inflammation, which was internal heat, but later it was very rare.

He remembered going to Chinatown in Cordoba, and the pork, after the chef's superb cooking skills, was still not pleasing.

Even if he doesn't remember many things, his love for food cannot be changed. Braised pork, preserved vegetable with pork belly, pork balls, braised lion's head, garlic white meat, these are all things from the previous life.

He plans to establish a batch of large-scale pig farms in the outer towns of Blanca City, train some people to castrate pork, and develop the pork breeding industry.

Then turn some high-quality fertile pastures into lower ones, plant soybeans and wheat, develop grain-fed breeding, and then develop feed factories, entering the industrialized breeding stage, so that a large area of ​​land can be vacated for the development of planting industry.

Then arrange all the biogas digesters to reduce the environmental pollution caused by raising domestic pigs, let the people of Blanca City eat better pork, and add a few new dishes to the menu.

After all, food in a place like Argentina, as an immigrant country, immigrants have brought the colors of many countries, San Jose still feels that this is a food desert.

He was already tired of eating those ordinary dishes such as stews, schnitzels, meat-filled pies, pizzas, sandwiches, grilled cheese, and grilled meat, and he was not very interested in eating those big meals and more expensive French meals. One is that he thinks it is too extravagant and wasteful, and the other is that it is not necessary.

Now the daily profit of his company is enough for an Argentine to work hard for two lifetimes.

He doesn't have much material needs for food, clothing, housing, and transportation. He doesn't like the style of Mrs. Peron. Although the first lady's extravagant life does not have much impact on a country, it is not very good for the Argentine people.

As president and first lady, various inappropriate policies and practices are more destructive to the country.

It's like a rich second generation heir inheriting a large fortune. Whether it's eating, drinking, womanizing, or even indulging in serious drugs, they could squander it for hundreds of years without much problem. But if they try to start a business or gamble, they're doomed. This is probably why many wealthy families don't last beyond three generations.

He felt it was necessary to set a good example for his children.

As an Argentine, his inner 'rice-gobbling' nature remained unchanged. On the contrary, places like Peru, with its large population of Chinese descendants, held an allure with their diverse Eastern cuisine.

The Spanish brought dried ham, sardines, broad beans, gazpacho, squid ink rice, garlic mayonnaise, seafood stew, red pepper soup, Spanish sausage, paella, and marinated sardines.

The Italians brought pasta, macaroni, Bolognese sauce, white bean salad with bacon, braised chicken with green peppers, grilled fish, cold chicken, white bean soup, and sliced ham.

Italian cuisine is widely popular in Argentina.

The French brought fish soup, foie gras, pheasant in red wine, and chicken liver steak, all dishes for the upper class and the wealthy.

The British brought fish and chips, smoked fish, muffins, crispy pancakes, apple pudding, red currant jam, and sweet pickles. Fortunately, there aren't many British people in Argentina, so the dark cuisine isn't very popular.

The Russians brought borscht, but there are very few Russian descendants here; most are Jewish.

He needed to create some new delicacies to make this journey worthwhile, such as Chinese cuisine, which he had been longing for quite some time. However, he couldn't be too outrageous. As a mayor, he couldn't very well have a Chinese chef at home, even though he had been considering it for a long time.

It would have a bad influence if word got out. He could show goodwill to these people, provide limited assistance, and even establish some cooperation, but he couldn't do anything excessive.

Pork is an important foundation of Chinese cuisine, leading to a wide variety of dishes.

Of course, this statement is a bit far-fetched, but there are many examples of people becoming wealthy by raising pigs. Compared to raising cattle, raising pigs might be a good way out for Argentine farmers. Before that, however, he needed to prepare a lot of things.

The leading role of pig farms, the production of pig feed, pig breeding technology, the development and promotion of pork products, and the construction of breeding pig farms all required Blanca City to take the lead.

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Northern and central Argentina were already in chaos, but the impoverished southern region seemed very peaceful. Factories were scarce here, so there was no talk of worker strikes. There were fewer troublemakers, so there was even less need for a garrison.

In sparsely populated provinces like La Pampa, Río Negro, Neuquén, and Chubut, a province's garrison was only around two thousand soldiers. More would be unaffordable.

Therefore, San Jose was wholeheartedly focused on development.

Argentina has good natural conditions. Besides weaknesses in agricultural technology and farm management, it also has abundant arable land resources that can be developed and utilized, with great potential for increasing grain production. Its agricultural resources are extremely rich, with a large amount of land available for producing and exporting agricultural products.

Blanca City could completely unite with the southern provinces to establish agricultural cooperatives in suitable locations, planting wheat, soybeans, rice, and other products.

Soybean cultivation, in particular, was a very important breakthrough point. San Jose wasn't too surprised that Argentina's current soybean production was low and its planting area small.

Compared to rice, San Jose's long-cherished future crop, soybeans were actually more realistic.

After all, soybeans are an important source of pig feed and can also be used to feed cattle.

Soybeans were introduced to Argentina in the second half of the 19th century. In the more than half a century that followed, only sporadic planting occurred. In recent years, there has been some increase, but most are ordinary soybeans.

Currently, the domestic soybean planting area is very small, probably not exceeding 1,000 hectares.

Argentina first cultivated soybeans around 1880.

At that time, a French wine merchant in Mendoza Province suggested planting soybeans to improve the soil in the vineyards.

The relative lag in breeding experiments has limited the early spread of soybeans in Argentina.

Nevertheless, Argentina has made some progress in soybean cultivation experiments.

During the Great Depression and World War II, international trade suffered severely. At that time, Argentina could not obtain edible oil through imports, forcing the country to consider developing its own edible oil production. The most important crop at that time was sunflower, and its planting area began to increase, leading to the defeat of soybeans.

This is because, compared to soybeans, sunflowers are easier to produce through mechanization, and new varieties can be obtained faster and more conveniently. At the same time, greater official support can be obtained through national credit.

The main reason is that sunflowers and other grains were included in the minimum price and government support schemes early on, but soybeans did not enjoy this treatment.

Although farm experiments by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1946 proved that Argentina was very suitable for soybean cultivation.

The spread of soybeans in Argentina still faced major problems, such as a lack of domestic market and intense overseas competition. The large supply of edible oils such as sunflower seed oil and the large production of agricultural products available for export hindered the planting of soybeans as an alternative.

Moreover, the oil extraction rate and oil quality of soybeans are lower than those of edible oils and industrial oils such as sunflowers and peanuts.

It is precisely because of these reasons that soybeans, an oriental crop, have not been valued by the Argentine government, resulting in few official measures to encourage research, loans, and prices related to soybeans.

However, in San Jose's view, things have already changed. He wants to expand Argentina's meat production, especially indoor pig and cattle farming. In addition to oil extraction, the remaining by-products of soybeans can be used as high-quality feed, and the vacated pastures can be turned into arable land, creating a virtuous cycle.

Planting soybeans cannot bring high profits to farmers, so the domestic soybean planting area has always been small.

The soybean product will gradually expand as the international soybean market gradually opens up, and a series of tasks such as soybean breeding can also be carried out simultaneously.

San Jose led the establishment of the Blanca Agricultural Academy and Breeding Company, which belonged to the Department of Agriculture of the Blanca City Hall.

Agricultural experts were recruited to establish an agricultural research center to breed and promote high-yielding soybean varieties.

In addition to breeding, there are also field management practice innovations in soybean cultivation, double-cropping technology, and better responses to weed, insect, and disease problems in the soybean production process, thereby increasing soybean yield and quality.

In San Jose's view, Argentina's one-season-a-year agricultural production is a huge waste, not to mention crop rotation, although this is beneficial for ensuring soil fertility.

The Agricultural Academy will increase agricultural seed research and development. In addition to soybeans, corn, wheat, rice, genetically modified organisms, and biotechnology are all research directions of the Agricultural Academy.

In addition to this, there is the development of soybeans and their derivatives, which is the next step, that is, the soybean sales problem. He wants to solve the farmers' and farm owners' worries. In addition to Plarrie Foods, the Blanca City Grain Reserve Company will sign various cooperative sales agreements.

He found his father-in-law and asked the Agricultural Academy to jointly promote soybean research plans and experiments in various places with several national university agricultural departments and seed companies of the National Agricultural Research Institute.

Father-in-law Daros is now basically pre-selected for the position of Minister of Agriculture, because this year he promoted favorable land reforms in some areas, and also promoted cotton planting and other work, expanded the development of Argentine agricultural technology, and raised a lot of funds to develop the Ministry of Agriculture, and also established cooperation with many domestic agricultural companies and localities.

This also allowed his father-in-law to gain political achievements. With some official operations, becoming a minister is not a big problem.

The Blanca City Agricultural Academy has reached cooperation with Sunny Agriculture, National Southern University, Cordoba University, San Martin College, and a series of schools.

All scientific research personnel are publicly funded and have established career establishments. Agricultural experts, seed experts, and biological experts are recruited nationwide and even abroad. The first batch of funding reached 200,000 US dollars and guarantees basic annual investment.

Maya Chemicals will also increase the research and development of pesticides such as insecticides and herbicides, in the hope of continuing to increase the yield of these crops in the future.

The construction of the Maya Fertilizer Plant and the localization process of equipment must also be accelerated.

In the new year's spring, in addition to expanding the planting of rice paddies, he also wants to plant soybeans, and the more the better, and he also plans to raise pigs.

There is also the mechanization of these farmlands, such as the promotion of tractors, as well as the construction of irrigation facilities and various transportation problems.

The issuance of various loans, and even the establishment of a Blanca Commercial Bank or other financial institutions, specifically for agricultural credit and low-interest loans, after all, farming also requires money.

This requires persuading many people and uniting these cities. This is a very large task.