Chapter 880 Social Faults
It was a high-level meeting, and the intelligence station system that had been operating in Buenos Aires for a long time had an independent means of transmitting encrypted information, so it was generally Foreman who passed on orders from the top and coordinated important actions between the two departments.
Foreman and Cheng Enze entered another room to discuss secretly and coordinate the next move of both parties, and the relevant content was not suitable for his subordinates to know.
Duan Changjiang and Luo Jian'an, the person in charge of the operation, sat in the room, waited boredly for a while, and then poked Luo Jian'an with his elbow and said; "Hey, Lao Luo, is it necessary to be so mysterious?"
"They have their rules, don't listen to what they shouldn't hear, don't say what they shouldn't say, don't inquire about what they shouldn't know, and don't ask what they shouldn't ask."
"Hey, you mean me?" Duan Changjiang pouted a little dissatisfied.
Luo Jian'an, who listened to this rhetorical question, rolled his eyes, and could only look at Duan Changjiang and explained seriously;
"Deputy Director Duan, they are experts in the work of the secret front, and they are also real experts. The evolution of the situation in Argentina to the present day is not unrelated to the secret promoters.
With the help of force, he made a clever effort to push the boat down the river, and magnified the word "greed" in people's hearts.
However, when you use a magnifying glass to look for it, you can't find a trace of deliberateness, and it's natural, and that's where the cleverness lies.
They are the silent ones who walk in the shadows, the soldiers on the dark front, and if they are exposed to the sun one day, it may mean defeat and death.
The director took you over today to see, but it was actually against the rules.
The work you are involved in is judicial screening and trial, which is a means of purging politicians and warlords after the war, and it is a second-line work, and there is no need to meet Mr. Faulkman, which invisibly increases the chances of him being exposed.
There are strict rules in them, and there is no question of who to target, but you think too much. ”
"Ahem, please forgive me, I ......" Duan Changjiang's originally out-of-the-box personality also became solemn at this moment, and he hesitated here and said sincerely; Thank you. ”
"It's okay, just be patient." After Luo Jian'an finished speaking, he closed his mouth tightly.
Until more than two hours later
Chen Enze and Foreman came out of the inner room, and when they opened the door, they stuffed a thick stack of papers into their arms, walked out and looked at the two of them and said; "Let's go."
After speaking, he took the lead and left, Luo Jian'an followed without saying a word, Duan Changjiang felt that something was wrong, and took the initiative to reach out and shake Foreman, and said; "Nice to meet you, sir, and hope to see you next time."
"No, there's no next time, this point of contact will be abandoned soon."
"Uh...... All right! ”
Duan Changjiang didn't know how to answer, so he spread his hands helplessly, and turned around and left a little depressed.
He didn't know...... After he turned to leave, Mr. Foreman had an understanding smile on his face; This young man is quite human, not bad.
It's a pity that he can't have any personal emotions in this secret work he is engaged in, and he can't have any friendship, and if he misses today, he doesn't know what his identity will be in the future?
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The wool textile industry of the Ocean Empire has invested in Argentina for more than 10 years, and has established six large-scale wool textile mills by making proper use of the wool resources abundant in the Pampas, in addition, there are more than a dozen medium-sized wool textile factories with hundreds to thousands of people, all of which are from the capital of the Ocean Empire, and more than 8 percent of the wool resources of Argentina have been acquired and processed.
It mainly produces combed wool tops and carded wool tops, mainly exported to Europe and the United States, in order to replace similar bulk woolen products in Australia, accounting for about 1/3 of the world market.
Australia's products focus on woolen wool, pure wool wool, pure wool fabrics and garments, wool scarves, gloves, socks, wool sweaters, cashmere sweaters and other wool deep-processed products, as much as possible to increase added value.
Monopolizing the wool production of Australia and Argentina monopolizes more than 9% of the world's wool trade, and has the right to monopolize the price trend of the wool industry.
In this case
Argentina also shared in the monopoly profits, but the woollen mills took the lion's share of the profits, except for a small amount of money from the pastures. In the face of capital, the pastures and other raw material suppliers of each household are vulnerable.
Due to the profit-seeking nature of capital, suppressing the price of raw materials has become a common means.
Anyway, if you don't sell it, someone else will sell it, and those white ranchers who take the lead in resisting will be blacklisted, and finally the major woolen mills will join forces to suppress and go bankrupt, which is not uncommon.
The Argentine Wool Textile Association has played an inglorious role here, gradually forming a powerful trade union and operating the industry into a territory where non-Chinese people cannot enter.
When the event was held, the lingua franca was Mandarin, and the white government officials who were invited to the event could not understand a word at all, so they could only stare at the side in embarrassment.
The wealthy Chinese bosses, backed by a powerful empire, did not like these local officials at all, and would complain to the legation when they encountered unfair treatment, and their connections often went to the top of the government, and they were the guests of honor in the presidential palace.
The situation has changed from a few years ago
Three-and-a-half years ago, the new president, Aviglianeda, was a white Italian, enthusiastic, impulsive, radical populist with his own ideas for social reform, and made promises in his campaign, including tax reform.
The so-called "tax reform" is to rob the rich and help the poor, and it can't be implemented in reverse, right?
When the Aviglilane government came to power, it caused the leading British-funded and Chinese-funded consortiums in the region to be worried, and they were worried that Argentina would change its current open economic policy.
Argentina is known as the "country of beef and wine", these two commodities together with the export of grains occupy half of the country, and this happens to be the dominant area of British merchants, Argentina has more than 2,500 acres of farms, accounting for only 8% of the farms, but occupies 70% of the country's fattest land, most of which are owned by British merchants.
According to 1906 statistics, British businessmen invested more than 460 million pounds in Argentina, making them the largest foreign investors in the country, and they had been working in Argentina for more than 150 years, and their influence was the greatest.
Thanks to Argentina's open-door policy, Citigroup and Ocean Empire merchants are latecomers, accounting for a small proportion of the total economy.
Argentina's largest exports, beef and cereals, followed by wool, minerals and wine, grew rapidly from 7 million sheep in 1852 to 110 million in 1898 and 160 million by 1907.
The Pampas in Argentina has the most fertile land in the world, but lacks capital and labor. As a major consumer and exporter of agricultural and livestock products in Argentina, the United Kingdom first brought in a large amount of capital, which was mainly invested in railways, ports, packing plants and public facilities.
After the Aviglianeda government, which vowed to eliminate the advantages and disadvantages, came to power, it caused widespread concern in society, and the first year and a half of the presidency seemed to be thunderous and rainy, and Britain and the Ocean Empire, as well as Citigroup capital, gradually relaxed their hearts.
The change began more than two years ago
From various sources, there is news that the Chinese boss who runs the wool textile industry is rich in wealth;
When the daughter of a woolen mill owner is married, the expensive dowry is worth millions of pesos, and this is only a small part of his wealth.
The Chinese bosses, who are not short of money, have entered the mining industry in a big way, investing tens of millions of pesos in neighboring countries and Argentina, buying farms, buying mines, and waving banknotes to buy and buy wildly.
It is said that the woolen association consumed 1,700 bottles of French champagne at an ordinary annual meeting, as well as all kinds of expensive ingredients, beautiful women like clouds, extravagant, and the luxury cars parked at the door were like car fairs, which really made a fortune.
All kinds of wealth news and news media hunting reports, naturally aroused the eyes of some people, you must know that this is the Argentine wool to earn a huge profit, this jealousy mentality continued to amplify, until there was a voice of tax increases, the target of the Chinese-dominated wool textile industry.
Many people forget that before the entry of the capital of the Ocean Empire, Argentina could only sell wool and did not have the slightest processing capacity.
So, under the impetus of various forces.
Blinded by greed, the government introduced this policy that caused huge waves, and as a result, the wool textile industry always took a tough attitude, drastically cut production and stopped production when negotiations failed, resulting in a large number of wool textile workers losing their jobs, making the situation out of control and causing violent social unrest.
Argentina is known for its affluence, ranking ninth largest in the world, and also has a middle-class group that accounts for one-third of society, and a small group of people at the top of the wealth pyramid are even richer, making people only see the good side of the country, known as the "country of beef and red wine", which is the envy of Europeans.
But Argentine society is rather bizarre, with no small peasant class, creating a fault line between the middle class and the poor class. Fifty percent of the population in society are poor tenant farmers, mainly gauchos, who have no land and can only rely on large ranchers, who cultivate the land for a living, and are at the bottom of the oppressed and oppressed.
Argentina prospered with a large number of migrant laborers, who initially moved mainly into pastures and pastures to become settlers, tenant farmers and agricultural workers.
Later immigrants often moved to cities to seek employment in transportation (especially railways), processing (woollen mills and handicrafts) and services.
Large farmers who often occupy thousands or tens of thousands of acres of land, often using only a fraction of the most fertile land, and white farmers, large and small, divide up arable land in Argentina.
Poor tenant farmers had to work the land for their farmers in exchange for a meager income to support their families.
In this way, there is no social structure of the small peasant class, and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of social groups, which is destined to be unstable and chaotic at the slightest disturbance.
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