now when the missionary who taught the king saw that the queen was set on killing him and his missionary friend , and because he knew the whole reason they were there was because the people in the kingdom were really hardhearted , mean and wicked , and because he had hoped to help them to become good people by learning of god , he knew that if the people of the kingdom got together at the orders of the queen , that a huge fight would break out and the missionaries did n't want any contention .