One hour later.
The Minister of Transportation almost had a gleam in his eyes upon hearing that he had received 27,000 free laborers, all robust workers.
"This is wonderful, Your Highness," he quickly estimated in his mind, saying, "The construction progress of the Nancy railway will accelerate by about 30%, and we can reduce the construction cost by 3.5 million francs!"
"Only 3.5 million?" Joseph felt a bit disappointed, "I thought we could save more."
Theresa quickly explained, "Your Highness, actually we won't be able to employ more than 9,000 prisoners of war on the Nancy line. You know, the scale of the construction site is only so large, and sending more people would be difficult to utilize effectively.
"Moreover, some of the work with higher technical requirements, those Russians can't do either.
"At the same time, managing so many people also requires considerable expense, even if we don't pay them wages, we still have to feed them."
