A State-Sponsored Privateer Fleet (3)

Both the Lord of Tsushima and the people of Tsushima are already half-Joseon by now.

It is merely that they do not speak Joseon, nor do they wear hanbok.

Even the Lord of Tsushima, whom the people of Tsushima serve, is earnestly begging to become Sejong's subject, saying that he has no need for an emperor or a shogun.

Therefore, the Joseon court need not take measures such as sacrificing soldiers to protect them, but it is only proper that we reward them generously for supporting Joseon.

They are also the sort of people who must become a shield protecting Joseon when the need arises.

'Investing in them is, in the long run, an investment in Joseon.'

"What plan are you referring to?"

"Ever since we decided to evacuate the people of Tsushima to Ulleungdo, had the court not decided to send them back to Tsushima and Iki once the proper time came?"

If Tsushima and Iki are left as uninhabited islands for too long, other 100-percent Japanese pirate bastards will settle there in place of the people of Tsushima who have become Joseon subjects.

Those fellows must have settled on that harsh land because they had nowhere else to go...