Vlad “Dracula” Ţepeş and the boyars
This story is actually similar to the previous one. What can I say, the boyars really hated Vlad. They always plotted his death.
When Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş became the ruler of the Mountain Land, the country was full of thieves; no ones riches were safe, not even their own lives; the peasants would take it out on the boyars who were oppressing them and working them as if they were mere cattle, and the boyars were living in hostility among themselves as well for they wanted to become the rulers of the country so they could steal more and better. It has been like this ever since the dawn of time; if a poor person steals, he steals to survive and if he is captured by the law he is punished, while if a rich person steals, he is applauded and praised by the others, because he does not steal to survive, but steals by other means, so for the big people, stealing is a very big thing.
This is how it was in Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş's time, but when he began to rule, everything changed for everyone feared his restless stake; hundreds of human bodies struggled on its pointy top, getting what they deserved for their actions.
Seeing that they couldn't touch anything that wasn't theirs anymore and that Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş didn't spare anyone and punished them for the smallest mistake, the boyars of the Mountain Land plotted to kill him. But he felt this and that was the beginning of the end for the boyars. But he wished to find out how they planned on killing him and for this he did a trick; he took off his royal clothes and dressed as a simple/low boyar and walked around the land like this, unrecognized by anyone. And everywhere he passed by he heard his name; the peasants were praising him while the boyars were cursing him.
One night he met up with the boyars who wanted him dead and he pretended to be a boyar that lived far away from them, but that was still dissatisfied with the way Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş ruled the land and asked them how they planned on killing him; some said that they wanted to impale him, so he could see how it felt, while others said that they wanted to fry his eyes with resin and then let him go, and so it happened that each and everyone of those boyars planned and plotted the most ruthless way of killing Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş. But Vlad said to the other boyars:
"You know what? We don't have to do any of those things, but we have to invite him over one night and party with him and offer him drinks and in the end poison him, or else we will never get rid of this devil.
"Okay" said the other boyars "So then we will meet tomorrow night!"
"See you tomorrow night." Said Vlad and then left the other boyars.
"Aha!" said Vlad to himself, "Now I've got them! Tomorrow night they will be the ones struggling on the spike (stake)!" and he returned to his castle.
The fallowing night all the boyars got together as they talked, all except for the foreigner boyar, but they didn't look too much into this and they continued to drink and to party. And so they drank without a worry in the world until Vlad Ţepeş showed himself at the foot of their door.
"See you tomorrow night!"
And many soldiers entered the building and captured the boyars and the stake did its duty once again and Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş continued his rule over the land, having ridden himself of the boyars
When Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş became the ruler of the Mountain Land, the country was full of thieves; no ones riches were safe, not even their own lives; the peasants would take it out on the boyars who were oppressing them and working them as if they were mere cattle, and the boyars were living in hostility among themselves as well for they wanted to become the rulers of the country so they could steal more and better. It has been like this ever since the dawn of time; if a poor person steals, he steals to survive and if he is captured by the law he is punished, while if a rich person steals, he is applauded and praised by the others, because he does not steal to survive, but steals by other means, so for the big people, stealing is a very big thing.
This is how it was in Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş's time, but when he began to rule, everything changed for everyone feared his restless stake; hundreds of human bodies struggled on its pointy top, getting what they deserved for their actions.
Seeing that they couldn't touch anything that wasn't theirs anymore and that Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş didn't spare anyone and punished them for the smallest mistake, the boyars of the Mountain Land plotted to kill him. But he felt this and that was the beginning of the end for the boyars. But he wished to find out how they planned on killing him and for this he did a trick; he took off his royal clothes and dressed as a simple/low boyar and walked around the land like this, unrecognized by anyone. And everywhere he passed by he heard his name; the peasants were praising him while the boyars were cursing him.
One night he met up with the boyars who wanted him dead and he pretended to be a boyar that lived far away from them, but that was still dissatisfied with the way Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş ruled the land and asked them how they planned on killing him; some said that they wanted to impale him, so he could see how it felt, while others said that they wanted to fry his eyes with resin and then let him go, and so it happened that each and everyone of those boyars planned and plotted the most ruthless way of killing Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş. But Vlad said to the other boyars:
"You know what? We don't have to do any of those things, but we have to invite him over one night and party with him and offer him drinks and in the end poison him, or else we will never get rid of this devil.
"Okay" said the other boyars "So then we will meet tomorrow night!"
"See you tomorrow night." Said Vlad and then left the other boyars.
"Aha!" said Vlad to himself, "Now I've got them! Tomorrow night they will be the ones struggling on the spike (stake)!" and he returned to his castle.
The fallowing night all the boyars got together as they talked, all except for the foreigner boyar, but they didn't look too much into this and they continued to drink and to party. And so they drank without a worry in the world until Vlad Ţepeş showed himself at the foot of their door.
"See you tomorrow night!"
And many soldiers entered the building and captured the boyars and the stake did its duty once again and Vlad 'Dracula' Ţepeş continued his rule over the land, having ridden himself of the boyars
