Rise of the Argentine Empire

Under the deterrence of the two powerful organizations, the army and the police department, no one dared to cause trouble when the exchange opened, and any signs of trouble were nipped in the bud.

The deterrent power of the regular army is still very strong, which was not formed from the beginning, but also through long-term efforts.

The La Pampa Defense Force, in conjunction with the police department's marine police, formed a maritime defense force to combat illegal smuggling and trafficking, and purchased many fast yachts, but the results were often not very good. It was not until after many failures that they discovered there was an informant. Even after solving the problem of the informant, the situation was still not very good.

Later, when cracking down on black factory crimes, they discovered that many times the snakeheads who were smuggling were unscrupulous and did not enter through sea and land smuggling, but entered through legitimate routes, gradually dismantling the vigilance of those poor people.

Once, the chief of the police department personally led a team to crack down on illegal black labor and rescue illegal black workers, pulling out a huge criminal network.

Some of them even entered through San Jose's official fleet, and were lured into the Blanca city area, and had strongholds in the bustling urban areas of the East and West districts.

Most of these people were served with good food and drink for a few days, spending a few good days in bars and luxury hotels, and then uniformly escorted to farms outside Blanca city. There were no people within a few kilometers or even more than ten kilometers, and there were a large number of armed guards.

After these people were sent to a certain farm, they began to change their faces. About a hundred or so stowaways were crammed together. Most of these people were thin and locked together, coming from Brazil. Some of them could not even speak Spanish. Like slaves, they were auctioned off, and those who resisted were beaten with rattan or rifle butts.

Their eyes were full of confusion. Here, some people would be selected and taken away one after another, entering black factories and black farms in the suburbs of Blanca city to work. There was no salary, and they usually lived in cowsheds. When someone inspected, they would be sent to the basement and locked up. Those who were disobedient would be locked in a small dark room and starved for a few days, or eat pig food.

The stowaways were considered better off. Those rescued from factories and black farms were basically dull-eyed, and even had injuries all over their bodies. They had already despaired of life. Most of them were coaxed over, yearning for a better life, but lived a life worse than pigs and cows. The pigs on the Pampas grasslands were more free than them, and they didn't even have to work.

Fortunately, after many severe crackdowns, confiscation of assets, and serious cases being sent to Argentina's Antarctic prison, these black factory owners did not dare to be too presumptuous. In addition, with the influx of a large number of foreigners, the shortage of labor has improved, and such situations are becoming less and less.

The thugs and criminal gangs raised by these black factory owners once posed a certain personal safety risk to San Jose, so they were simply arrested and stuffed into prison for reform, or sent to the bottom of the sea to let them experience how they treated those poor people.

Argentina does not have the death penalty, but that does not mean that these people cannot be executed. Some subordinates will help him do these things.

Now is not the period of the "Dirty War" in later generations. Urban guerrillas and terrorism have not yet appeared, and perhaps will never appear.

That kind of extreme situation can only occur when the army collapses, the economy collapses, and society is completely chaotic, at least it will not appear in Argentina today.

Even a workers' uprising cannot be achieved now. Argentina has a sparse population, but the proportion of the army is not small. There are only about one million workers in the country, but there are almost 400,000 various troops.

Unemployed Argentines are waiting for relief, and those who are not unemployed have become a little cautious, especially those in non-state-owned factories, who dare not participate in parades and strikes.

Even in Buenos Aires, where there are the most workers, a large-scale strike lasting for a week is only for a wage increase, not for the establishment of a new regime.

Although a large part of the army has a low level of combat effectiveness, it is still very powerful compared to urban workers who have no training and can only fight guerrillas.

At least in San Jose, or rather, under the control of the Southern Radical Party he leads, Blanca city is economically prosperous, has many job opportunities, and people with ability will not take risks because of unemployment.

Of course, in economic development, with the influx of more than 1.2 million foreigners, there are many kinds of chaos and crimes, which is unavoidable.

However, the police department strictly controls gun licenses, and has not issued them for a long time. The circulation of illegal firearms and weapons is also strictly restricted, which has blocked many vicious crimes. Within the scope of Blanca city, non-police and non-military personnel are basically prohibited from holding guns. Even White Harbor Security, this favorite son, has very strict audits of armed personnel.

San Jose organized 30 special action teams, each with 10 people, composed of the most elite police department personnel, known as "Special Police", also known as SWAT.

They are distributed in the core areas of urban transportation and can quickly crack down on armed crimes. If the force is not enough, they can call for heavy force at any time and directly apply for army support.

Cold weapons have become the mainstream of criminal organizations in Blanca city.

Under the police department's investigation, illegal firearms and ammunition are regularly destroyed. Most criminal gangs only dare to do extortion. Murder and arson have rarely appeared in Blanca city. After all, if something happens, they will be locked up for a month, and the loss will be great.

The entire city can be regarded as well-organized.

The Southern Radical Party has controlled the community, but it is not annoying. The Southern Radical Party has also absorbed some elites from the Republican Party and the Socialist Party to join the Southern Radical Party, bringing fresh air to the Southern Radical Party.

Complex and dark buildings are also relatively rare in Blanca city. Most of them have been transformed by San Jose, which has brought great convenience to the police department's handling of cases, making it difficult for criminals to hide. Sheltering criminals or suspects will result in more than half a year of social reform, and serious cases will result in several years inside.

As an elite law graduate from the University of Buenos Aires, San Jose has made a large number of revisions, replacements, additions, consultations, and references to the laws and regulations of later generations to the simple Blanca city law, so that the Blanca city legal system has been improved, and it has been supported by the Supreme Court of Argentina. The current Chief Justice is San Jose's mentor, Professor Pukins.

The integrity of the Blanca city hall is also quite rare. San Jose established a new independent department, not under the jurisdiction of other departments, specializing in cracking down on civil servants and police department crimes.

The image of the civil servants in the city hall in Blanca city has been greatly improved after repeated crises and developments, and the support rate is very high. Many young people are also determined to enter the city hall.

With repeated crackdowns on civil servant crimes, a group of young civil servants joined, bringing many different ideas. Stable salaries higher than the city level and good social status make Blanca city's civil servant level rank in the first echelon in Argentina.

San Jose also regularly conducts crackdowns on civil servant crimes, so it is not difficult to see the governance of Blanca city. Few people want to destroy this beautiful Argentina that does not look like Argentina.

Under the strict control of weapons circulation, it is difficult for a modern country to be defeated by an uprising from ordinary cities.

More replacements come from the struggle between armies. When military leaders believe that there are problems with the civilian government, then it is their time to take action.

After the last workers' army in Argentina, the Labor Federation, was disbanded, it was destined that it would not be possible to succeed in this regard.

The La Pampa Defense Force's uniform and disciplined military discipline has also made many people look at San Jose with admiration.

The equipment of the La Pampa Defense Force is also new equipment. San Jose adopts a method of imitation + independent research and development, no longer limited to the former three axes, that is, a large number of improvements and large-scale production of high-quality weapons.

After all, it is not a time of war, and large-scale production is not necessary. Argentina is not the Soviet Union, and there is no need to spend too much money on reducing the cost of scale.

The newly established New Cohen Heavy Industries rebuilt its military research institute, extensively copying American and Soviet weaponry and equipment. Although the performance was inferior to the original versions, the prices were much lower. Furthermore, they could learn through imitation. While they couldn't reach world-class levels, that would require time and a sufficient number of military research talents.

Saint Hetherege supported a group of gun and weapon parts processing factories in Blanca City. New Cohen now only handles the final assembly work, which greatly saves costs, reduces the complexity of building factories, and eliminates the need to stock too much inventory, significantly reducing risks.

Saint Hetherege's international distributors innovatively offered them barter trade, exchanging minerals, gold, and timber for arms.

Although these knockoffs are not as powerful as the originals, the quality is still reliable. After all, they are not handmade workshops. Even if many processing machine tools are only second-hand or third-hand, under modern production methods, the quality doesn't differ much.

No company or city can resist the allure of continuous growth, especially in this era of uncertainty.

The arms industry in Blanca City has therefore embarked on a different path of development, leveraging cheap labor, abundant imitation experience, and Saint Hetherege's foresight of 60 years to unleash tremendous power.

A massive military-industrial zone is quietly rising in the Alta area, already housing dozens of supporting parts factories responsible for producing various gun and artillery parts.

Operating at full capacity, it can produce 50,000 guns a day, enough to arm an army of 300,000 men in a month.

The military industrial park is very close to the Blanca Special Steel Plant. Maya Chemical has specially established an explosives chemical plant, as well as a special plastics plant, Philip Heavy Industries' machine tool plant, and Pachon Copper's copper smelting plant, all of which greatly reduce production costs.

Under Saint Hetherege's strict requirements, these guns are mainly used for export or to equip the La Pampa defense forces and SWAT teams.

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Among the big shots who came to Blanca City this time were also people from the Argentine Presidential Palace, the Ministry of Finance, and the Customs General Administration. They were preparing to upgrade Blanca City Customs to a first-class port in Argentina, on par with Buenos Aires Customs.

Although Argentine military officers have poor administrative skills, the civil servants are quite talented, but most people are just professional civil servants, and their abilities are very strong.

Currently, Blanca City's import and export trade is increasing rapidly, but the tariffs provided are very small, which has created a very rich source of tax revenue, a large part of which is taken by the Blanca City Hall.

This does not refer to tax revenue, but development revenue, which has created a tariff depression or gray area in Argentina.

Tax reform in Argentina has been slow, which is directly proportional to the speed of centralization.

Argentina once had prosperous trade, but in recent years, the scale of imports and exports has continued to decline, and the status of the Customs Department has also continued to decline, even often delaying the salaries of civil servants.

Blanca City's sudden rise in the past year or so has given the people of the Customs General Administration hope.

The Argentine Customs Department is affiliated with the Ministry of Finance and is Argentina's security monitoring and tax revenue department, mainly responsible for monitoring and collecting taxes on international inbound goods.

Exports are not under the jurisdiction of this Customs Department, but are managed by other tax revenue departments of the Ministry of Finance.

Europe and the United States are currently the two most important consumer markets in the world, and Blanca City's exports to these two super markets are still growing.

Blanca City attracted the attention of the Customs General Administration by building a large number of bonded zones, free trade ports, and export processing zones, but Blanca City did not establish customs, and activities were carried out in the name of the Investment Promotion Department, with the support of the Argentine Ministry of Finance.

The Blanca City Investment Promotion Department is a strong department that can regulate many places and create a lot of revenue. It originally didn't pay much attention to the people of the Customs General Administration. The Customs General Administration originally managed the customs of Buenos Aires Province and the two nearby provinces at most, and the tax law also stipulated this.

The economies of many provinces in Argentina are weak, and the customs departments are small, even with only a few people. In the eyes of many people, there is no need to establish customs in other places except Buenos Aires, which is a waste.

In Blanca City, it is impossible to complete such a large-scale customs tariff work without the cooperation of the City Hall Investment Promotion Department.

Saint Hetherege will not miss this opportunity. The development of Blanca City's Investment Promotion Department is still somewhat deformed.

Therefore, it is also necessary to separate the Investment Promotion Department. The Investment Promotion Department has a tendency to become too powerful, and this is a good opportunity.

In the afternoon, the City Hall Investment Promotion Department team and the people from the Customs General Administration signed a series of agreements and passed the resolution to build a first-class Blanca City Customs, abolishing La Pampa Customs, and Blanca City Customs is responsible for the management of the 4 coastal city sub-customs, carrying out unified management work.

A part of the personnel of the Investment Promotion Department were allocated to form the Blanca City Customs Department, which is affiliated to the Argentine Customs General Administration, to carry out work, and the Investment Promotion Department cooperated.

Saint Hetherege also considered that many things are in a gray area, and it is more appropriate to take a formal path.

Blanca City's population continues to maintain rapid growth. In less than three months, it has increased by another 200,000 people, half of whom have poured into the Bosca area where the new City Hall is located.

The growth in Blanca City not only comes from the influx of foreign population, but also the growth rate of the newborn population has begun to show a continuous "baby boom". Good future expectations make many people willing to have more children, and Blanca City has also made newborn children a long-term and stable incentive policy, which has affected many people's future decisions.

Many cities and provincial halls also took the opportunity of the opening of the stock exchange to learn development experience. The prosperity of the West District is amazing, and the urban planning is quite good. The boulevards are lined with lush green trees, and there are lawns and small parks everywhere. The Fiat 600 cars driving on the road all make people admire the wealth of Blanca City.

The wide roads, the clean municipal environment, the many shops and the Sanchez department store, and the pleasing greenery are all very attractive.

Behind this represents an efficient city hall. Besides that, there is no other reason. The big shots compared the most prosperous streets of Buenos Aires with the West District of Blanca City, and even felt that the narrow and dark streets and the developed slums were so ironic.

People come to the city to survive or pursue wealth, but they become the poorest people at the bottom, penniless, even worse than in the countryside.

For new industries and new companies, the Blanca City Hall provides houses, people, and materials, and fully supports them. Some foreign companies have also seen the sincerity of Blanca City and are willing to move here.

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The summer days are a bit darker later, and the sky is still bright in Blanca City at 7 o'clock in the evening.

Saint Hetherege arranged these powerful big shots in a large luxury manor in the West District. This was the Gayin family that Saint Hetherege had taken down, and was later acquired by the City Hall and converted into a guest manor.

The manor is quite luxurious and has a good environment.

It covers an area of more than 200 acres, and the villa area is very large, with many houses. The architectural style is French, and Saint Hetherege cordially invited them, and most people did not refuse.

The largest villa is as large as tens of thousands of square feet and can accommodate a lot of people.