Investment and Voting (Seeking Double Monthly Tickets!)

Schevenement left everyone ample time to digest it, then added:

"This investment will reach tens of millions of francs.

"But if Wallonia still remains outside France, the French Government, out of risk considerations, most likely will not approve the funds."

A Chamber of Commerce Committee Member in his fifties could not restrain himself and stood up. "Do you know how long it will take for the investment to be put in place?"

Schevenement said, "Earl Mirabeau's assistant arrived last week, and brought the northwest regional manager of the French Reserve Bank with him. If Wallonia's incorporation into France is settled, they will immediately sign an agreement with the newly established Namur Administration Office.

"As you know, the surveying and planning work was done long ago. Full construction can begin around October."

Everyone immediately began discussing excitedly how each family would divide up such a huge cake.

One had to know that if the government directly invested ten million francs, it would drive at least over thirty million in capital flow across the entire industrial chain!

As long as one got even a bite of this, one's fortune could immediately leap up an entire level.

As for Joseph, these investments were actually not a loss at all.

Leaving aside the fact that they would allow Wallonia's massive coal and iron resources to be developed more fully, calculating only according to the Industrial Development Fund's shareholding ratio in Wallonia, at least a quarter of the funds would ultimately flow back into the French Government's pocket.

Adding in the later rail transit income, the capital would probably be recovered in five or six years.

Immediately afterward, Chamber of Commerce Committee Members kept expressing agreement with incorporation into France—basically all representatives of major coal and iron capital—and their number soon exceeded forty.

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