Rise of the Argentine Empire

To promote the development of the food processing industry, Saint Hhesse also specifically designated a food processing export zone in the relatively underdeveloped Makelo district, dedicated to developing the food processing industry.

The planned area is 43 square kilometers, with the first phase of the industrial zone covering 10 square kilometers.

Meanwhile, the headquarters building of the Meinian Da Soda Joint Company has already been built in the East District.

The Makelo district was originally Makelo Town, with most of the area being ranches. The population has only reached 5,000 people, and it is only 14 kilometers away from the East District port.

The location, transportation, and environmental conditions are very superior, freshwater resources are quite abundant, and it also has a Makelo Town railway station.

Saint Hhesse planned food production and manufacturing areas: beverage processing industrial park, dairy processing industrial park, grain deep processing industrial park, oil deep processing industrial park, livestock and poultry deep processing industrial park, aquatic product and fruit and vegetable processing industrial park, and wine processing industrial park.

To conduct classified management and investment promotion.

At the same time, a super-large logistics center warehouse will be set up here, which can not only be quickly transported to the port, but also rely on railways and highways to quickly send goods to the whole country and to export ports.

The Blanca City Agricultural School is also located nearby. Some specialized farms are basically built in the Makelo District of Blanca City, but the scale is not too large.

Among them, the most important in the park is the Meinian Da Beverage and Food Joint Company, whose various wines and beverages produced will be distributed overseas.

Blanca City continues to carry out large-scale construction, and houses in the Rockma Food Industrial Zone are also being built in large numbers.

Saint Hhesse strengthened his control over the economy of Blanca City, and Blanca City became a large construction site.

Within the administrative area of Blanca City, 8 horizontal and 14 vertical main roads are planned, with a large number of residential areas and industrial areas built on both sides of the main roads, staggered and well-organized.

A large number of new immigrants and workers began to pour into Blanca City, and Saint Hhesse formulated many policies to encourage childbirth. Some families with six or seven children were repeatedly encouraged and commended, and awarded the title of Heroic Model Family, and also received tax reductions and other benefits.

Since October of this year, the number of newborns in Blanca City has broken historical records, bringing new hope to the city.

And foreign young couples are most welcome in Blanca City. If they give birth in Blanca City, they can automatically obtain citizen rights, and if they are state-owned enterprises, they can get priority promotion.

Any policy that is proven to be beneficial to the birth rate will be heavily experimented with.

The rapidly increasing fiscal revenue and tax revenue every month also provide a backing for Saint Hhesse's various ideas to be implemented.

The population of Blanca City also officially exceeded 300,000 in early November. A large influx of people from surrounding cities and foreign workers has also increased the number of illegal immigrants.

In more than a year, Blanca City has built housing that can accommodate 200,000 people. The occupancy rate is not high. Many communities have even become "ghost towns." Moreover, Saint Hhesse strictly controls the rent level, attracting many people from surrounding small towns to live here.

After all, there are also very abundant supplies here, and there are many jobs. Along with the construction of residential areas, there are also a large number of football fields, basketball courts, open-air bars, libraries and other facilities. The climate conditions are also good, which can attract so many people in a short period of time.

You can even go fishing, hiking, and barbecuing in Blanca Bay on weekends. The amateur life is quite rich, provided that you abide by laws and regulations and don't cause trouble.

Especially recently, the peso has appreciated, which makes it even more cost-effective. Even 3,000 pesos a month can live very comfortably.

And the bank interest rate in Blanca City is much higher than in other cities, enough to resist general inflation.

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As the zoning adjustment of Buenos Aires Province enters the public announcement period, and the official resolution documents of the Presidential Palace are issued to the three provinces, involving 17 cities.

The administrative division of Argentina has also officially begun to be adjusted and handed over.

La Pampa Province now really has a sea outlet, which represents the change of power in Buenos Aires Province. Many Justicialist Party officials have stepped down because of this. The Radical Civic Union took the bulk of it, and the Republican Party and the Socialist Party also gained some benefits.

The image of the poor and aggressive people of La Pampa Province appeared in the newspapers, making the political correctness of the "upper class people" of Buenos Aires Province a mess.

Civil servants who cannot safeguard the interests of their province are incompetent. Resigning is the lightest punishment. If they are driven off the stage by the people, they are truly and completely out of touch with power.

High officials of Buenos Aires Province resign, high officials resign, three senators resign... The officialdom of Buenos Aires Province is in great turmoil, and Saint Hhesse's development resistance has also disappeared a lot.

The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Only when the people of La Pampa Province make trouble can many illegal resolutions and decisions in Blanca City be made. Otherwise, it would be impossible to cut it out, and even the free port would be cancelled, and the three districts would be re-established as autonomous cities. It would be too late then.

A large number of "La Pampa people" are reported in large numbers in newspapers, sharing their personal experiences and miserable lives, which have earned enough tears. Even this has been acquiesced and promoted by senior Argentine officials, who believe that this can improve the mentality of urban people.

Farmers in La Pampa Province can only herd cattle and sheep every day, and the per capita income is only 1/3 of that of people in La Plata City. They are extremely poor, and there are no decent factories at all. A large number of cattle and sheep can only be sold cheaply to the compradors of Buenos Aires Province in exchange for living materials.

"I didn't expect that there are Argentines who are worse off than me. I shouldn't go on strike so often. Maybe I should work hard too. They are really too miserable."

A housewife in Buenos Aires said, wiping her handkerchief.

Miserable lives are relative. Buenos Aires residents who lose their jobs or experience wage cuts receive some form of social security assistance, while the people of La Pampa Province receive nothing at all.

This brought a sense of balance to the minds of people in Argentina's big cities, and the frequency of strikes even decreased.

It must be said that this public opinion campaign was extremely important. Many Argentinians in the cities slowly began to sympathize with the pitiful brothers of La Pampa Province. Even the people of Buenos Aires Province felt that their province seemed too domineering, after all, occupying so many seaports and blocking the path to prosperity for the people of La Pampa Province.

The impoverished people of La Pampa Province were previously unable to voice their concerns in newspapers. This time, as various newspapers criticized Buenos Aires Province, they also extensively reported on impoverished frontier areas and interviewed farmers and ranchers.

The image of Bahía Blanca also became more positive, no longer a "traitor" but a "savior."

Public opinion seemed to be slowly shifting.

Originally, Buenos Aires Province was supposed to compensate La Pampa Province with land, such as ceding a portion of northern La Pampa Province to Buenos Aires Province as compensation, but this was met with much opposition.

After all, as the wealthiest province in the country, Buenos Aires Province shouldn't be interested in these trivial benefits, especially since Buenos Aires Province is already the largest province in the country.

Moreover, it was just a division of some less desirable land.

Really? Really? With Buenos Aires Province's conditions, zoning, and the most funding, Bahía Blanca's development in the past five years hasn't been that great.

One of the important reasons why Buenos Aires Province has always been a developed region in Argentina is that it has a long coastline, allowing it to engage in import and export trade with European and American countries.

Looking at La Pampa Province, the climate and conditions in the east aren't bad, but it doesn't have even a sliver of a seaport. How can it do business with foreigners? How can it export?

Also, Neuquén's oil is sold at a low price to Argentina's national oil company, or even to the closer Southern Oil Company.

Now, La Pampa Province's economic development isn't even a fraction of that of Buenos Aires Province's remote areas, and it doesn't even compare to some remote provinces. The lack of a seaport is a very important reason.

Although this is the historical reason for Buenos Aires Province's strength, allowing Argentina to integrate as a whole, times have changed. Buenos Aires Province is so rich and prosperous, has it considered the poor brothers in other provinces?

But now that they are all under the same country, Buenos Aires Province can only obey, unless it becomes independent like the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.

San José also manipulated public opinion in this matter, creating a grand Buenos Aires Province illusion, a mix of truth and falsehood, so that many illegal policies could be officially implemented.

La Pampa Province is a small province merging with a large city. Bahía Blanca's administrative population is almost the same as that of La Pampa Province, and its production and exports are far greater than La Pampa Province's, which requires readjustment and integration.

As for some negative reputation, that's perfectly normal. Just like the Americans in later generations, anything can be whitewashed. Besides, public opinion has a short memory.

Buenos Aires Province still has nearly 30 coastal cities. If a few more can truly develop, that would be a great thing for the country and the people.

Under the established resolution, Buenos Aires Province can only complain verbally. High-ranking officials in Buenos Aires Province announced the construction of a new city east of Bahía Blanca, merging Coronel Dorrego and Monte Hermoso, and naming it Dorrego City, to counter Bahía Blanca and prevent the municipalities around Bahía Blanca from being merged by Bahía Blanca again.

This is indeed Bahía Blanca's tactic. Just the municipalities around Bahía Blanca were taken away at once, a whole 17 of them, cutting away a large chunk.

Although, apart from the former Port of Bahía Blanca, the other small municipalities and towns were basically unmanaged and had no financial allocations at all. Buenos Aires Province's essence lies in two areas: the economic belt around the capital and La Plata. The change began a year ago in Bahía Blanca.

Among these cities, the most valuable is Bahía Blanca. The other municipalities are actually small towns. Originally, at most, they would form a combined city like Greater Buenos Aires, with the sovereignty of the surrounding municipalities remaining with Buenos Aires Province. As a result, the area split off in the name of Bahía Blanca was 12,000 square kilometers, and the other 16 municipalities were mostly very backward.

Bahía Blanca's jurisdiction has expanded to 12,000 square kilometers, completely solidifying the original annexation. This scale has already exceeded San Martín.

Just for legalization, the towns outside the three major suburbs temporarily belong to a new administrative body, Bahía Blanca County.

Such a large area is enough for development, and there is no need to expand further. In the future, several medium-sized cities will be built around Bahía Blanca to form a city circle and city belt, playing urban combination punches and getting rich together through industrialization. That is the next step.

The framework has already been built. In order to strive for the provincial capital status, Bahía Blanca has conducted a series of negotiations in Santa Rosa.

The people of Santa Rosa don't really care about the title of provincial capital. Santa Rosa has only been the provincial capital for less than 20 years. 20 years ago, when La Pampa Province was still an administrative region, the capital of the administrative region was General Acha.

Moreover, Santa Rosa's role as the provincial capital for twenty years has not brought any benefits to La Pampa Province.

In order to win the consent of La Pampa Province, San José stipulated that for the next 20 years, Bahía Blanca would remit 20% of its fiscal revenue to La Pampa Province to support the development of Santa Rosa and other backward cities.

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The Presidential Palace promised not to print new banknotes. In San José's view, this decision was the most beneficial to Argentinians, at least prices had actually decreased a little, inflation had decreased a little, and the peso was more valuable than before.

The only worry is that Eduardo can't resist the temptation and secretly prints pesos, which would be disastrous.