When the French officer produced the already prepared treaty, Muhammad III al-Sadiq merely glanced at it twice before his eyes widened.
The demands of the French were not complicated, but for Tunisia, it was tantamount to handing over everything to the French for management.
Firstly, to ensure that the killing of French people would not happen again, France demanded the stationing of troops in important areas of Tunisia to guarantee the safety of French citizens.
In total, the number of French troops was not large, only about twenty thousand. The problem, however, is that Tunisia itself is a country with a population of just over 700,000, with an original army of only more than ten thousand.
With the French invasion, the Tunisian army had long been scattered and collapsed, which meant that France could completely control the situation in Tunisia with merely these twenty thousand stationed troops.
