little Prince

Chapter 11

在B612的附近，还有325、326、327、328、329、330等几颗小行星。

The first journey of the little prince was to visit these asteroids. He wanted to find something to do and learn something.

On the first planet lived a king.The king sat on a very simple but very majestic throne, and he wore a great dress made of furs of fuchsia and black flowers on a white background, which almost covered the entire planet.

When he saw the little prince, he cried out: "Ah, my subject."

When the little prince heard the king's voice, he couldn't understand. The king had never seen him, so how could he know him?
How did the little prince know that in the eyes of the king, everything on this planet is his.

The king looked very proud that he had his subjects at last, and he said to the little prince, "Come closer, and let me have a good look at you."

The little prince looked around, trying to find a place to sit down, but the whole planet was covered with the king's gorgeous robes.

He had to stand there, but he yawned a little from the fatigue of his travels.

Then the king said to him, "It is against etiquette to yawn in front of a king. I forbid you to yawn."

The little prince felt a little ashamed, "I'm sorry, I couldn't hold back, I just came here after a long journey, I haven't rested yet, I'm very tired."

The king looked at the tired little prince, "Well then, I command you to yawn. I haven't seen anyone yawn for a long time. For me, yawning is a new thing. I command you to yawn!" "

"Well... I'm a little nervous... I can't yawn..." the little prince said with a blushing face.

"Well," replied the king, "then I... order you to yawn sometimes and sometimes..."

The king muttered, feeling that his authority was not respected and his orders were not being obeyed, and he looked embarrassed.

He is a king, but he is good, and all his orders are sane.He often said, "If I tell a general to turn into a sea bird and the general doesn't obey my orders, then it's not the general's fault, it's my fault."

The little prince tentatively asked the king, "Your Majesty, may I sit down?"

"I order you to sit down," replied the King, solemnly moving his black-patterned fur robe on a white background aside to make room.

After the little prince sat down, he felt very strange, how could a king rule such a small planet?He said to the king, "Your Majesty, I beg your pardon, but I want to ask you something."

"I command you to ask me," said the king hastily.

"Your Majesty, what do you rule this planet?"

The king said very simply and clearly: "I rule over everything here."

"everything?"

The King touched his planet and the other planets, and all the stars, lightly.

The little prince watched the king's movements, "You rule all this?"

"Rule it all."

It turns out that he is not only the king of this asteroid, but also the king of the entire universe.

"Then, do the stars obey your orders?"

"Of course!" said the King to him, "they must obey, and I will not permit indiscipline."

Such power amazed the little prince.If he has such power, then he can not only watch 43 sunsets a day, but even watch 72, or even a hundred, or two hundred sunsets without moving his chair!At this time, the little prince thought of the little planet he had abandoned, and felt a little sad. He boldly made a request to the king:
"I want to watch the sunset, please... order the sun to set..."

The king said: "If I order a general to fly from flower to flower like a butterfly, or to write a tragic novel, or to become a sea-bird, and the general does not carry out the order, So, is he wrong or am I wrong?"

"Of course it is your fault." The little prince replied positively.

"That's right," continued the king, "and everyone should be asked what they can do. Authority should be based first and foremost on reason. If you order your people to throw themselves into the sea, they will rise up and make trouble." Revolution is not allowed. My order must be reasonable before I have the right to ask others to obey my order.”

"And what about the sunset I proposed?" Once the little prince asked a question, he was sure to get the answer to this question.

"Well, you will see the sunset. I will definitely let the sun set, but according to my method, I have to wait until the conditions are right."

The little prince asked: "Then when shall I wait?"

Before answering, the king flipped through a thick calendar, and said slowly: "Sunset is about...at seven forty tonight! Then you can see that my order will definitely be obeyed." obeyed."

The little prince yawned again.He felt a little regretful that he didn't see the sunset.

The little prince got bored, and said to the king, "I don't need to stay here any longer. I'm going, Your Majesty the King."

The king, who had just had a subject and was very proud, hurriedly persuaded the little prince to stay, "Don't go, don't go. I appoint you as a minister."

"What minister?" asked the little prince.

"Hmm... Minister of Justice!"

"But there is no one here who needs to be judged."

"It is hard to tell," said the King, "I am very old, and the place is small, and there is no room for a chariot, and besides, I am very tired when I walk. Therefore I have not yet visited my kingdom!"

"Oh! But I've already seen it." said the little prince, leaning forward to look at the other side of the planet, but there was no one there.

"Then judge yourself!" said the king. "This is the hardest part. Judging yourself is much harder than judging others! You must be very wise to judge yourself."

"Judging myself? I can judge myself anywhere, there is no need to stay here."

The king said again: "I think there is a mouse on my planet. I can hear its voice at night. You can judge it, you can sentence it to death. In this way you can judge its life or death. But you must be temperate." Use this mouse freely, and pardon it every time he is sentenced to death, because there is only such a mouse on my planet."

"But I don't want to be sentenced to death. I think I should go." The little prince replied.

"No!" said the king.

But the little prince did not obey the king's order. After he was ready, he immediately went to say goodbye to the king. He felt that the king would be uncomfortable if he left without saying goodbye. "If His Majesty the King wants me to obey your order, you can give me a reasonable order." order. For example, you can order me to leave within 1 minute. I think the conditions of this order are mature..."

The king did not answer.The little prince sighed, turned around and left...

"I make you my ambassador!" cried the king hastily, with an air of authority.

On the journey away, the little prince said to himself:

"These grown-ups are strange."

(End of this chapter)