Chapter 348: The Dividends of War

Although Luxembourg is nominally still Austrian territory, this does not prevent French businessmen from conducting some normal trade there.

The Austrian officials in Luxembourg had already heard the rumors that His Majesty the Emperor was preparing to give Luxembourg to France as a reward for the latter's deployment of troops against Prussia, so they did not interfere with these "commercial activities".

Moreover, on this speck of land, not even a quarter the size of Corsica, twenty thousand French Army soldiers were stationed, so even if the officials had opinions, they could only grumble to acquaintances in salons at most.

In Tom Square of Luxembourg City, the Secretary-General of the French Steel Technology Association was smiling as he passed the agreements he had signed one by one to the Luxembourg mine owners sitting opposite him.

The mine owners immediately grabbed pens, signed the agreements, and affixed their seals, as if afraid that the French would change their minds.