Dec

The king, the kingdom, if not observed it doesn’t exist

Ok, I imagined this little story as a framework to treat subjet like the government , economy and others.
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A little story, there was a kingdom ruled by a tyrannical king, the population of the kingdom was poor and unfulfilled because they had to pay all sort of taxes to the king.
People also lived in the fear that if they didn’t pay taxes they would be put in the king’s prison and die there of starvation.
The king enjoyed a rich lifestyle he had a large number of servants, 2 women servants cleaned his body the morning, then he had his own barber and when he was finished, other servants would prepare the breakfast. The king had for recreation courtesans, magicians and clowns. The king had also a law that allowed him go in any house in the kingdom and make all the possessions in the house his property this also included the girls and the children.

One day a man known as the Speaker came to the kingdom, he was received by a few families and the speakers told them The Secret. Impressed by The Secret these families started to apply it. The Speaker was happy that the people understood The Secret his task was complete and he left the kingdom to never return. The families were able to grow fruit trees on infertile soil and they were able to do many things their wealth grew considerably, they passed The Secret to other families and soon The Secret was known in the entire kingdom at the exception of the king court. The king could only notice that the people were getting more wealthy, he created a new tax on wealth and sent his taxman to collect. However, as the people got better with using The Secret they enjoyed to use it more and more , they all grew so deeply involved in applying The Secret that soon the people of the kingdom removed their focused from the king and his court.
They went so far with The Secret that they had no longer any thought toward the king and the court, the people were enjoying boundless abundance.
For the first time the taxman came back to the king court with no taxes collected, he said he didn’t find the villages, the king was very upset and put his taxman to jail. The king sent all his army to punish and to collect the taxes.
The soldiers took their horses and swords and left the castle, they ran three days in the forest without finding any villages, they realized that if they were no villagers to collect tax from then the king couldn’t pay them, they decided to left the kingdom completely and they never returned.
In the king castle the servants wondered when the king would pay them, they quietly decided to left and soon the king was alone in the castle almost alone and he remembered that he put in jail his taxman, he decided to ask to his taxman to be his cook, his barber and his clown but when the king went to the prison the taxman was dead , he died of starvation. The king had no choice but to be his own cook and barber.
After a period of time the king ran out of food and he went to the stable but no horses where there, he had to go to villages by foot as he was decided to claim his due.
He took some clothe and sandal and he left , he walked three days in the forest to found no villages , his beard grew and his clothe became dirty, he had been three days in the forest without eating anything, he started to feel sad and desperate when he heard some noise like children singing, he followed the sound and arrived at a farm that was the first house of a village that he knew to belong to his kingdom. He knocked vigorously at the door of the farm. A woman opened the door below her were three small heads that was the children with a surprised air the woman looked at the man. The king said to the woman “Give me your food, give me your gold! ,I’m your king !”
The woman looked at her children, the children also surprised looked at their mother, the mother and the children took a close look at the man again. The mother and the children looked at each others again and they started to laugh very loudly. They closed the door at front of the man. The king was feeling miserable, he thought that may be he should try a more humble approach when he hit the next farm, he slowly walked away from the farm.
Inside the farm one of the child took pity for the man, the child took a bit of cheese, a bread and an apple, he opened the door and he shouted “Peasant! Peasant! Peasant!” the king turned the head and he saw the food, he walked back , took the food , thanked the child and left without a word.
The child had the realization that his ugly man with dirty and smelly clothe and his long beard could not possibly have been a king, most probably he was just a lost peasant with mild senility.