“So the emperor called the prime minister back in and said, ‘Why don’t we divide the tasks again? You have been doing all the punishing here for quite a while. Now let me do the punishing and you do the rewarding.’ So the prime minister and the emperor switched roles. “Within a month there was a revolt. The emperor had been a nice person, rewarding and being kind to everyone; then he started to punish people. People said, ‘What’s wrong with that old codger?’ and they threw him out on his ear. “When they came to look for a replacement, they said, ‘You know who’s really starting to come around
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