A long time
ago three kings
were travelling to
a distant land.
As it was
a long way
from their kingdoms,
they took a
shortcut. On their
way they saw
an uninhabited land.
The kings thought
it was a
good place for
people to live,
so they thought of
developing it into
a city. After
they finished their
work they brought
people from their
kingdom to that
land and built
great mansions, buildings,
schools, universities, etc.
They built the
city beautifully and
it was adored by
everyone. But the
only thing missing
was proper security
.
A cruel king heard of it and planned to attack the city. As the security was not proper the king attacked it easily and looted all its riches, destroyed all the wonderful things in it and it became uninhabitable again. The kings could not rescue their new city and they could not help much as they had spent more than three – fourths of their treasure in building the city. They donated some of the left over treasure to the citizens and helped them build small huts as they could not afford great mansions like before. There were no great buildings, towers or anything except small dirty huts and hungry people.
A cruel king heard of it and planned to attack the city. As the security was not proper the king attacked it easily and looted all its riches, destroyed all the wonderful things in it and it became uninhabitable again. The kings could not rescue their new city and they could not help much as they had spent more than three – fourths of their treasure in building the city. They donated some of the left over treasure to the citizens and helped them build small huts as they could not afford great mansions like before. There were no great buildings, towers or anything except small dirty huts and hungry people.
After
twenty years the
three princes of
the kings came
to the city
which actually was
like a poor
village. The first
prince couldn’t stand
to see such
poverty. He gave
away all his
valuable jewels and
gold. The second
prince also couldn’t
stand to see
such poverty and
gave away all
his food and
drink. The third
prince thought for
a while and
just rode away
on his horse.
The other two
princes said ‘ Hey
look at him. He
lacks decency and
generosity. What a shame
for a prince!’
they said. After
four hours they
saw the prince riding
back towards the
village with a
large wagon. The wagon
contained farming implements,
tools and sacks
of seeds. He
gave it to
all the citizens.
After two years,
the princes saw
that the village
was developing into
a town. All
the small huts
became normal sized
houses and some
buildings were built.
The two princes
who commented about
the other prince
realized that they
had just helped
the citizen so
that they can
feel better about
themselves whereas the
other prince really
worried about the
people and had
given them a
permanent solution out
of poverty. The
jewels, gold, food
and drink could
help the people
temporarily whereas the
farming tools could
help them to
get out of
poverty permanently.
