"Here's what we'll do. Once you return, put your heads together and come up with more ideas for me to review. I want to see whether there's any good solution."
After acknowledging his words, the ministers immediately went back to think.
They were deeply troubled as well, not knowing how exactly they should define the Land of Whirlpools' position.
Forget them—even Ran felt like his head was about to split in two.
At first, he had planned to deal with the issues one by one. But after killing those parasites...
Problems began cropping up in batches.
The ill-gotten money had yet to be fully counted, and so many royal descendants were still being held in the great prison.
Their ultimate fates would be execution, exile, sealing, or house arrest.
In any case, none of them would meet a good end, but handling them would require considerable thought as well.
The main issue was that killing them would not solve anything. Their deaths had to mean something, so they needed to be publicly executed.
That would keep certain people with ulterior motives from daring to show themselves.
This matter could be considered temporarily settled, but there were still many other matters to deal with.
The Land of Whirlpools had only just begun.
Early the next morning, Ran got up and went to handle official business.
The ministers also arrived at the administrative hall one after another to help deal with affairs.
They should have held morning court, but there were barely any ministers left after the killings, so there was no need for such empty formalities.
Properly handling matters was what truly mattered.
"Report! Lord Ran, the amount of ill-gotten money seized from the corrupt ministers has been counted."
The previous night, personnel from every department had worked overtime to count