"But you are a king!"
"All right," he said, "but a king, too, has to eat."
The minister came to him, and said:
"We have no money with which to pay salaries."
"All right," he said, "if you have none, pay no salaries!"
"But they will stop serving you."
"All right," he said, "Let them stop serving! They will have more time for work. Let them haul manure. They have not hauled any for a long time."
People came to Iván to have a case tried. One said:
"He stole money from me."
But Iván replied: