A type of traditional story about leaders is how they showed up anonymously to check what was going on. Literally going back thousands of years. I was just rea

A type of traditional story about leaders is how they showed up anonymously to check what was going on. Literally going back thousands of years. I was just reading a story about how a king pretended to be a wandering drunken lout, and when his guards stopped him, he bribed some of them with gold, but others whipped and beat him and put him in a cell. Then he revealed who he was, and the guards who didn't lock him up and beat him, were whipped and banished.