Masims said, sighing in his heart: Even a small traffic issue was considered so thoughtful, which shows that the Dionian officials have already had a very in-depth and meticulous governance of the city. No wonder such a huge city can be managed in an orderly manner. This fully reflects the strength and prosperity of the Dionian Kingdom, and the Roman city was completely incomparable to it.

This made Masims even more anxious to be a citizen of Dionia.

He took the family to speed up, walked for several blocks, asked a few passers-by, and finally found the household registration office.

Household registration offices are located on the same street, including patrol offices, tax offices, fire stations, urban courts and other urban public departments. However, compared with other departments, the area of ​​household registration offices is obviously much larger, because there are obviously more people coming to household registration offices to do business than other departments.

Today, it is estimated that the hall inside the house has been filled with people, and there are still many people clustering outside the door.

So Malsim asked his wife to wait with her children, and rushed over alone.

After getting closer and hearing people's fierce discussions, Masims realized that everyone gathered here because yesterday all household registration offices in Turiyi City posted an announcement: temporarily stop applying for free citizens to Dionia citizens, and wait for notice when they will resume.

Masims came in a hurry, but suddenly a can of cold water was poured on, feeling so depressed.

I think the same is true for other free people. They wandered at the door and refused to leave. While talking to each other, venting their dissatisfaction, they were lucky to see if there was a turning point.

But no one dared to make a big fuss, or even caused riots, not only because there was a row of fully armed patrol members standing at the door, but also because they were afraid that they would leave a record of the case and would affect their smooth success in becoming official citizens in the future.

Masims was crowded with people and listened to them speculation about the reason for the suspension of the application this time.

You should know that this is not the first time. Before the Western Mediterranean War, the Kingdom of Dionia had implemented this measure because there was not much land left, so a few people speculated whether this was the reason this time.

But more people refuted this because after the Western Mediterranean War, the Kingdom of Dionia obtained a large amount of land, and still a lot of land has been idle and needs to be developed urgently.

Someone came up with a possible reason, and someone immediately refuted it, which led to endless disputes at the door of the household registration office.

But someone raised an idea, but no one dared to refute it: He doubted whether Hades sent an oracle to King Davers, so what happened today happened.

This incredible idea was actually responded by some people, who proposed to go to the Temple of Hades to pray and ask the great god to take back his life.

After listening for a while, Masims felt that they were all guessing without evidence. Thinking about it, they were also: these free people who came to apply were all newcomers and had no foundation in the kingdom. How could they get some reliable insider information?

Masims' mood gradually calmed down. He looked back at his wife and children who were looking forward to the corner of the street: Since he could not get an application for the time being, he should find a place to settle down first.

Masims struggled to squeeze into the door of the household registration office, and the inspectors guarding the gate immediately asked him what he was going to do.

"Rent a house," Masims replied.

The inspectors looked him up and down and let him in.

Masims had already found out from the employees in the slave camp that if you want to rent a house, you don’t have to go door to door to Tuliyi City, because most of the rental information is concentrated in the household registration offices in various urban areas.

When Masims walked into the household registration office, there was a spacious hall in front of him, and many people were already queuing up in front of various counters to handle affairs.

The household registration office is certainly not just for the free people to become citizens, it has many other matters, such as: registering the criminal records of the people of the Kingdom, which are mainly provided by the nearby inspection office and the court every day;

Register information on meritorious service from the people of the Kingdom, large-scale meritorious service awards such as wars, large-scale public works... Of course, this department provides this department, but some individual meritorious service needs to bring the certificate from the department to register. If the fraud is found, the punishment will be quite serious;

Also, the household registration changes of the people in the Kingdom. People in the Kingdom need to register from one town to another, or transfer from one city to another city to another city to settle down. All the information about their household registration will be transferred here. However, the procedures are quite complicated, the time is long, and it is easy to lose some materials and cause losses. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the residents of the Kingdom will not easily change their household registration. Of course, except for free people who have not applied for citizens, they have a high mobility, but they must also move to a place to register. This is for easy management. Otherwise, once they are found to be unregistered by the inspection office, they may be expelled...

Anyone who lives in the Kingdom deals with the public sector the most is the household registration office. The household registration office is also the most arduous in various departments, and small towns are better. However, a huge city like Tuliyi with a population of up to hundreds of thousands, and the staff of each household registration office are busy every day, so its subordinates are also the most ranks among the kingdom departments.

The reason why each household registration office covers a large area is that more than half of its space is used to store residents' information.

The unique household registration system of the Kingdom of Dioria has caused two important problems: First, it requires a large number of people who can write records, which may be a big problem for other city-states, but Dioria has been promoting school education for almost 20 years, and the talents it has cultivated are more than enough to meet the needs; Second, it requires a huge amount of writing materials. Since Egypt and Dioria are allies, most of the papyrus produced by Egypt are sold to the Kingdom of Dioria, and the prices are increasing year by year... This not only makes the Ministry of Household Registration a little unbearable, but also the Ministry of Finance continues to complain, because not only the Ministry of Household Registration consumes a lot of papyrus, like the Ministry of Commerce, hospitals, schools... including the Ministry of Finance itself is also a big consumer. The entire Kingdom of Dioria is a country built on data collection, recording and statistics.

This dilemma finally forced Davers to put aside his inner entanglement and resolve to make convenient and practical paper. He told his wife Cristoya some of the processes of the village papermaking workshop he learned when he was a village official in his previous life. She arranged for his subordinates to be responsible for the development, and now some progress has been made.

The walls around the lobby of the household registration office are painted with black paint, which at first glance makes people feel depressed. But this is definitely not that the household registration office wants to please Hades and create an environment of imprisonment, but because they can use a white pen to write the information they want to publish on the black wall. For example, the notice of "suspending the application for free people" is written in large words and very eye-catching on the front wall, and there are also information such as a certain citizen's meritorious service has been confirmed... and so on.

These published information are neatly written on each wall, and they are usually kept for two or three days. After the people who have registered before read the information, they no longer have to queue up to ask, which also saves a lot of time for the staff to answer.

Of course, some information is published here, which allows others who know the situation to raise objections after reading it, so that it is easy to investigate.

Like everyone else, Masims looked up at the wall.

After a while, he felt his neck sore, but he had not seen the information on renting a house. He had to consult the inspectors at the door, and then he learned that the small house next to the hall was where the rented house was.

After he thanked him, he hurried over.

Compared with the lively hall, it is much quieter here, except for a staff member sitting behind the wooden counter, there is no one else.

Seeing Masims come in, the clerk asked enthusiastically: "Are you here to rent a house?"

Masims nodded.

"Have you applied for a citizen, or hasn't applied for it? Or have you been a preparatory citizen?"

"I was originally going to apply, but now it's stopped."

After hearing this, the staff not only did not become indifferent, but became more enthusiastic. They pointed to the opposite wall and introduced: "You have not obtained an application and cannot enjoy the rental house provided by the Kingdom. You can only rent a private house. The private rental information is written on the opposite wall, you can choose it yourself."

Since the establishment of Dionia, Turiyi has developed rapidly and its population has expanded rapidly. The rental market has been very popular, but it has always been privately enjoying this dividend. Later, the Minister of Commerce Mariji made a suggestion: when the towns of the Kingdom, including Turiyi, left a lot of vacant land in the inner and outer cities when they were planning. Instead of leaving it empty, it is better to build a large number of temporary residences on these vacant lands first and rent them to free residents and reserve citizens at a lower price than the market price. This is not only a little benefit for them who have no land at the moment, but also earn more income for the kingdom treasury.

Since the land is ready-made, some free labor is (King of the Kingdom), and the Kingdom has abundant stone ore and endless volcanic ash accumulated by two volcanoes. It doesn't cost much money to build a large amount of public rental housing. Therefore, this proposal was adopted by Davers and was quickly implemented by the Construction Department.

Considering that the main people who need to rent a house are outsiders, free people and preparatory citizens, the place they most often goes to is the household registration office, so the matter of public rental housing was handed over to the Ministry of Household Registration, which is also a little compensation from Davers to this department with a lot of affairs (the Ministry of Household Registration handed over most of the rental income to the state treasury, and a small part was left for their own use, so that more temporary personnel would be hired when there was insufficient staff).
Chapter completed!