After taking office, Ran selected many talented people to join his team, and they put forward many useful suggestions regarding governance.
As for those who had merely been muddling through, Ran eliminated them all. There was no need to keep people who were useless to the country in their positions; those duties should be handed over to others.
Ran's father had lacked the courage to decisively cut down the diseased trees, which was why he had ultimately fallen into the abyss of failure and nearly burned the country to the ground.
If he had not had such a good son, he would probably have been killed or become a prisoner by now.
"You don't need to care too much about such things. No matter who judges you, it'll be written by later generations, and you won't be around to see it. What you can see for yourself is mostly flattery and falsehood, so you can't take it as truth."
"So there's no need to exhaust yourself over it."
Ran merely smiled and said nothing. This was what he had pursued all his life, so naturally, he placed greater importance on it.
Lord Torikaze would not understand that feeling either, so there was no need to discuss it further.
After all, they were not on the same level. Lord Torikaze was already a successful man. He had conquered the entire Shinobi World, and there were no longer any achievements left for him to obtain.
Meanwhile, Ran had to deliberate repeatedly just to govern the Land of Whirlpools. Naturally, he could not discuss such matters with Lord Torikaze.
"Lord Torikaze, how has Konoha been recently? I heard that construction is about to begin again?"
Lord Torikaze was somewhat surprised. "Your information network is quite well-connected."
"Indeed. Konoha has recently been building a