: Three bears in turn are appointed governors of the forest. The first two bet on bloodshed and lose. The latter does not interfere in the life of the forest and deserves the praise of the ruler.
Major atrocities are often called brilliant and as such they remain in history. The atrocities of small, “shameful” ones are ashamed, and contemporaries speak of them without praise.
Toptygin 1st
The first Toptygin, an old servant, was not stupid, knew how to build dens and turn trees with roots, but dreamed of getting to the tablets of History with the help of bloodshed. In any conversation, he claimed: "Bloodshed ... bloodshed ... that's what you need!". For this, Leo promoted him to the rank of major and sent the governor to a distant forest to pacify the internal adversaries.
Such at that time a freemen between forest peasants went that everyone strove in his own way. Animals - scoured, birds - flew, insects - crawled; but nobody wanted to march in the leg.
The blooming inhabitants of the forest themselves could no longer settle down and waited for the major to find a council on them. Toptygin, having come to the forest, immediately decided to arrange bloodshed, but his plan did not work - the crafty one got it. He decided to celebrate his name day, got drunk and lay down to sleep in a clearing.
In the morning, Chizh, a favorite of the forest people, was so smart that rumors about him reached Leo. Chizh took Toptygin for a rotten block, sat on it and began to sing. The major woke up and, not understanding his sleep, ate Chizh.
For this "shameful villainy" the forest people began to pursue Toptygin and tease him with a fool. Toptygin rushed about and grieved, realizing that with such a small bloodshed he would not get on the tablets of History. Rumors of this reached Leo, and he ordered Toptygin to be transferred to the reserve. Thus ended the career of the first Toptygin.
Toptygin 2nd
At the same time, Leo sent Toptygin the 2nd to the neighboring forest. This Toptygin was smarter, he understood that much depended on his first step, and decided to commit a major crime - to destroy a university or a printing house. But it turned out that the printing press had been burned for a long time, the academy students were taken into the soldiers, and the professors were walled up in a hollow, where they still sleep with a lethargic dream.
Then Toptygin climbed into the courtyard of the peasant, killed his cows, and then climbed onto the roof of the hut to roll it on a log. The roof turned out to be rotten, Toptygin fell through and hung, clutching its paws to the log. Forest men came running, killed the villain, skinned him, and threw the body into the swamp.
Thus, a new forest practice appeared, which established that brilliant atrocities can have no less dire consequences, as well as shameful atrocities.
After this incident, all the atrocities in Forest History began to be considered shameful. Leo ordered that Toptygin the 3rd be informed about the verdict of History - let him dodge.
Toptygin 3rd
Toptygin 3rd was smarter than his predecessors. He nailed quietly and quickly realized that now everyone, even squirrels, has their own rights, and you can’t even think of any atrocities. He decided not to do anything, not even get out of the den, with the exception of the days when you need to receive a salary.
Toptygin lay in a lair to suck his paw, while in the woods, meanwhile, everything went as usual. Toptygin understood that his task was not to achieve “dreamy well-being”, but to maintain order and content with “natural” atrocities - those that happen on their own.
In a word, it was an order that was so established and strong that even the most fierce, zealous governor could not even imagine the idea of any crowned atrocities ...
Toptygin was asleep, and the forest lived its own life and nothing happened in it. Satisfied Leo made Toptygin lieutenant colonels. So everything would go further, but hunters with a horned come, and the bear suffered the fate of all fur-bearing animals.
