Once King Anushirwan, known for his justness, feigned himself sick and asked his attendants to get him a mud-brick from some ruined village.
He would use it as medicine. But they couldn’t find any ruined village or castaway mud-brick in his reign. Knowing this, the King rejoiced that it was proved that his kingdom had no place ruined or inhabited as if there was one, he wished to rebuild it for people.
In her story to her King, Shahrazad continued to say that olden kings understood that the more populous a country was, the more abundance it would desire and that they believed, that religion depends on the King, the King depends on the troops, the troops on the treasury, the treasury on the country’s populous and the country’s prosperity on the justice done to the lieges.
None of their dependants were upheld in oppression since the kingdoms were not established upon tyranny but the cities only went into ruins by their rulers.
