Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Elected a god, Zen the Omnipotent longed royal family were qualified members of the priesthood, though they seldom practiced—and in a low voice, for the door and walls were stipulate a weekly holiday for himself when first this godhood had been thrust upon him, hundreds of centuries before. He'd accepted the perquisites of divinity with pleasure then. It was some little time before he discovered its drawbacks, and by then it was too late he had become the established church. All the aspects of his personality rested ... save one, that is. And thin, summoned Zen the All-Capable. that one, stretching out an impalpable tendril of curiosity, brought hopeful that they would take some of the Divine Work off his hands. After all, since it was they who had originally established the colony, it should be their responsibility. But it seemed that all humans, not merely the Uxenach, were irresponsible. The Earthmen were that it doesn't happen again." He had no intention of losing his divine authority at this stage of the game. lost its interest when new laws prohibited the ancient custom of Zen reluctantly conceded to himself that he would have to investigate this situation further, if he wanted to retain his reputation for omniscience. Sometimes, in an occasional moment of self-doubt, he wondered if he weren't too much of a perfectionist, but then he rejected the thought as self-sacrilege. than Guj, the venerable prime minister himself. And crossing his wrists in the secular xa, he led the way to where Uxlu the Fifteenth was seated in full regalia upon his imposing golden, gem-encrusted throne. Uxlu himself, Zen admitted grudgingly, was an imposing sight to anyone who didn't know the old yio. The years—for he was a scant decade younger than Guj—had merely lent dignity to his handsome features, and he was still tall and upright. could be invisibly present, especially on his day off. Of course, his Immaterial Omnipresence was a part of the accepted dogma, but there is "Curious researches," the king said, emerging from the conference, cannily. He and the king nodded at one another. "Yes, yes, of course I've heard about him," Kendrick said, trembling with hardly repressed excitement. What a correct attitude! even more!" Kendrick spoke almost reverently. "He Majesty ... Your Excellency." And Kendrick dragged his protesting aide off. "If only," said the king, "I were still an absolute monarch, I would teach these Earthlings some manners." His face grew wistful. "Well I remember how my father would have those who crossed him torn apart by wild skwitch." of the tremendous lift to my ego. But nobody thinks of the king's ego "Why else should they come to such a remote corner of the Galaxy? And you will recall that the older one—Kendrick—said something about nuclear beliefs. If only we could discover what it is, secure it for ourselves, perhaps we could defeat the Earthmen, drive them away—" he sighed for the third time that morning—"and rule the planet ourselves." of selective breeding under which the kings of Uxen had seized the the rest of the Galaxy goes by. Our ego has reached its nadir." "Why did you let yourself be conquered?" the princess retorted scornfully. "Ah, had I been old enough to speak then, matters would be very different today!" Although she seemed too beautiful to be endowed with brains, Iximi had been graduated from the Royal University with not to the Earthlings. After all, he had been there first. " Let ourselves be conquered!" Her father's voice rose to a squeak. " Let conquered." "True, but we could at least have essayed our strength against the conquerors instead of capitulating like yioch. We could have fought to "A woman is always ready to fight to the last man," Guj commented. "Did you hear that, ancient and revered parent! He called me, a princess of the blood, a—a woman!" when you came in?" "No, Respected Father," she said, sitting on the arm of the throne. "I continue to submit to the yoke of the tyrant? Arise. Smite the...." The princess sat on the steps of the throne and pondered. "Obviously we must introduce a spy into their household to learn their science and superciliously. "It is obvious that they do not intend to let any of us come near them." Iximi, will so demean myself for the sake of my planet! Moolai Uxen!" "You cannot do it, Iximi," her father said, distressed. "You must not defile yourself so. I will not hear of it!" all menial duties. And you, Your Royal Highness, could not plausibly Making the secular xa, he left the royal pair. Outside, his voice could gathered to watch the novelty, and among them there presently appeared a sinister-looking old man with a red beard, whom Zen the Pansophic had no difficulty in recognizing as the prime minister, heavily disguised. the professor. "You should've told the king we were inventing a vacuum And I still don't see why you refused the priest. Seems to me he'd be just what you needed." "Yes, and the first to catch on to why we're here. We mustn't were all I could get from the government." "And you wouldn't have got me either, if the Minister of Science didn't have it in for me!" Peter said irately. "I'm far too good for this piddling little job, and you know it. If it weren't for envy in high places—" Good old Guj , Zen thought. "I can't figure out what's gone wrong," Peter complained, as he "It's your project, sir. I gathered from the king, though," Peter Those first colonists were very clever , Zen thought bitterly, I'm fettered by my own weakness. Still, I have the glimmerings of an idea.... "Oh, how much could a half-witted menial find out?" Peter demanded. of his Attributes. "The younger one is not at all bad-looking," she commented, patting her The princess stiffened angrily. "They'll pick me or they'll never leave Uxen alive and you, Your Excellency, would not outlive them." Although it meant he had to overwork the other aspects of his multiple we had the atomic power drive, such as your spaceships have—" "You'd shoot right off into space," Hammond assured him. "Speed," said Kendrick, "is the curse of modern civilization. Be glad you still retain some of the old-fashioned graces here on Uxen. You see," he whispered to his assistant, "a clear case of magico-religious culture-freezing, resulting in a static society unable to advance itself, comes of its implicit reliance upon the powers of an omnipotent deity." Zen took some time to figure this out. But that's right! he concluded, in surprise. explained affably. "Or even inanimate ones if they are fragile. For He tends to lose His Temper sometimes when He feels that He is overworked—" Feels, indeed! about. We cannot reprove Him for His misbehavior. After all, a god is a god." "The apparent irreverence," Kendrick explained in an undertone, universal." "Of course we won't," Peter put in, before Kendrick had a chance to The princess gave him a dazzling smile. "Moolai Uxen! We must not allow oldest and ugliest. She shook her head. The others went through the same procedure. "It looks," Peter said, grinning, "as if we'll have to take mine." Iximi gazed at the little prefab with disfavor. "But why are we halting outside this gluu hutch, masters?"

<question>:
Why was the king not a dictator the way his dad had been?

<options>:
A The presence of people from Earth forced him to be more civilized against his will
B He didn't like the way his dad had been such a barbarian
C He was only the second king the people had ever had
D He was too young to be strict

<answer>:

A