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A Chinese Emperor is dying and needs to pick his successor. It so happened that this Emperor loved gardening, so he decides to let the seeds choose. He calls all the children to the palace and gives each one of them a seed to grow. They are instructed to return in the Spring with their plant. Whoever has tended their plant the best will be named Emperor.
One little boy, known among the children as an excellent gardener, cannot get his seed to grow. Try as he will, he can't get the seed to grow. While all of the other children bring huge, beautiful plants when Spring arrives, he has nothing but an empty pot to present to the Emperor. But, no one knew that before presenting the seeds to the children, the Emperor had baked each one, assuring they could never grow. Only one child was honest enough to present an empty pot, and he was rewarded with being named Emperor.
Honesty is the best policy.