Re-Socialization of the Butchers (4)

Although I was the one who proposed it, this is honestly an extremely harsh set of choices.

Telling them to become citizens of Joseon or die is basically holding a knife to their throats and threatening them.

But for the butchers gathered here, that is permissible.

‘If I do not go this far, they will remain outside Joseon's order.’

If they remain in Joseon like illegal immigrants, paying no taxes and living without registering in the household records, they will ultimately be unable to obtain a proper livelihood.

Until now, there may have been many butchers who lived by raising livestock in places where centralization was relatively weak, while refraining from committing violent crimes...

But the moment Joseon starts tightening the noose around their necks, they will struggle to survive and set fires like last time.

This is not because these people called butchers were born with lowly natures and DNA that made it inevitable for them to commit crimes, as Jeong Chang-son claimed. It is because any human being can become like that when driven into a corner.

One of them boldly stepped forward to challenge my terrifying threat.

“My lord, what do you mean? We have already put down roots and lived here as citizens of Joseon.”...