Albert I did this precisely from Belgium's interests, and it was a political consideration.
Albert I believed that Shire was a businessman, a capitalist; businessmen's goals were more about profit, which made it much simpler, at least compared to England and France, who constantly wanted to interfere in Belgium's internal affairs or even control Belgium.
Furthermore, Albert I only had to deal with Shire alone, not a group of insatiable and unscrupulous politicians from England and France.
More importantly, as long as Shire was willing, he only needed one command to withdraw his troops, and these regions that Belgium had just recovered would immediately fall into danger again.
And this was something only Shire could do, England and France were helpless.
Therefore, even if General Winter offered generous conditions and proposed gifting artillery production lines, Albert I did not hesitate to refuse.
