By now you have probably heard the old folktale about the emperor’s new clothes Two sly tailors fool a vain emperor into believing he is wearing magical clothes when in fact he is parading through town buck naked The truth is that the story took place here in China and without any tricky tailors Here is the real story
When Ming Da was nine he became the emperor of China His ministers thought the boy emperor was too young to rule and took advantage of him They stole silks to make themselves fine clothes They stole rice from the emperor’s warehouses and sold it to dishonest merchants And they robbed the royal treasury of gold and precious stones
They left the boy emperor with no cloth to dress the poor no food to feed the hungry and no money to run his kingdom Ming Da knew that if he fired the corrupt ministers they would rebel against him Day and night the boy emperor searched for a way to save his kingdom but he couldn’t think of anything Until
