Saturday, June 27, 2015

King’s new law and its consequence- story- part 1


There lived a King who was caring for his countrymen. People were very happy and co-operative with the king and his administration. King was always thinking of making people comfortable and happy.
After some years, thieves started their act of stealing gold and other ornaments. This created worry and tension among people. They were unable to concentrate on their daily work. Many people complained this to the king.
King started thinking about this problem. 
He thought 

"It takes some time to catch hold of thieves and so, there must be a short time solution".
He announced a new law. 
The law was like this: 
"All the people of his kingdom should register their gold and other ornaments with the ministry of the king. Then the valuation of each ornament will be done by experts. If there is stolen, the amount equivalent to the lost ornament will be given to the loser, on confirmation of the theft".
People happily registered everything that the rule permitted. Those ornaments were valued and the records were given to the people. King's office kept a copy of the records.
People were very much satisfied with the correct and impartial valuations of their ornaments .Their worry was no longer there. Again they started doing their work with enthusiasm. They were all happy and so, the King was also happy.
Theft:
 After 4 days, the first incidence of theft happened. The person who lost the ornaments complained to the king and gave all the details. King's Servants came and searched the whole house; this was a part of the procedure. Then it was confirmed that the ornament is missing. 
Then the owner of the ornament signed a declaration stating like this: "To the best of my knowledge, the ornament is not with any of my relatives and friends. Also, if found in such places, I will pay 10 times the value of the ornament to the King"
After the detailed investigations, money was released to the loser. He was extremely happy. Others were also happy on hearing this because, after the release of fund to the loser, they were very sure of getting the money for a loss like that.
Gradually, after about two months, the incidences of theft started increasing. 
After three months, theft increased to three folds, compared that before the implementation of the rule!
King began to worry but people never worried because they were actually not losing almost anything!
King called a few top level ministered and discussed this. Then they decided to travel through the kingdom one night and one day, but in disguise.
Accordingly, the king and two ministers went round the kingdom in one night. To their surprise, they noticed that in some houses, main doors were kept open! They also noticed that some boxes of ornaments were kept near the open window. This never seemed to them as carelessness. They suspected that it has been done with a purpose. But the king and ministers were unable to guess the secret behind this act of the people.
Next time, they went round kingdom during the day, again in disguise. They had noted down the houses in which doors were kept open and the houses in which boxes containing  the  ornaments were kept near open window. They went to one such house and inquired about it. 
Then the owner of the house said (to the king who had dressed himself as a stranger) 
“Our king is good but he is not intelligent. He made a rule of giving money for lost ornaments. So, we want our ornaments to be stolen!”

King: “But what benefit will you get out of it?”

Owner: “Thief will steal our ornaments. King will give back our money. Then the thief will give 50% of the money of the ornament to us. So, we are making a profit in this process”

King: “What is the advantage for the thief? Why should he give 50% of the value back? After all, thieves are thieves. How can you believe them?”

Owner: “If he stops giving that, we will close our doors; then it will be very difficult for him to steal anything. So, they give. Also, thieves in our kingdom are honest, my neighbor got money 5 days back”.

King and ministers came back. They felt that it was a big puzzle for them to solve. King called the ministers again for a meeting.

Guess the next part of the story! What will the king do?

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