Chapter 27 Turiyi Household Registration Office

Maxims said, and sighed in his heart: Even a small traffic problem was considered so thoughtfully, which shows that Dionysian officials have been very in-depth and meticulous in the governance of the city, and it is no wonder that such a huge scale The city of Rome can also be managed in an orderly manner, which fully reflects the power and prosperity of the Kingdom of Dionia, and the former Roman city is completely incomparable.

This made Maximus' desire to become a citizen of Dionia all the more urgent.

He accelerated his pace with his family, walked a few blocks, asked a few passersby, and finally found the household registration office.

The household registration office is located on the same street together with the city public departments such as the inspection office, tax office, construction fire station, urban court, etc. However, compared with other departmental buildings, the area of ​​the household registration office is obviously much larger, because the household registration office is used to do business. significantly more than in other departments.

Today, it is estimated that the halls in the house have been filled with people, and many people are crowded outside the door.

So, Malsim asked his wife to wait beside him with the child, and rushed over by himself.

After he approached and heard people's heated discussions, Maximus realized that everyone gathered here because yesterday all the household registration offices in Turiyi City posted a notice: Temporarily stop applying for Dionysian to freedmen. Waiting for notification when the processing of Asian citizens will resume.

Maximus came in a hurry, but was suddenly poured a can of cold water, and his heart was suffocated and uncomfortable.

I think the same is true for other free people who came here. They lingered at the door and refused to leave. While talking to each other and venting their dissatisfaction, they hoped to see if there was a chance.

But no one dared to make a fuss or even cause a riot, not only because there was a row of heavily armed patrolmen standing at the door, but also because they were afraid that they would leave a criminal record, which would affect their future smooth citizenship.

Maxims squeezed into the crowd, listening to them speculate on the reason for the suspension.

You must know that this is not the first time. Before the Western Mediterranean War, the Dionysian Kingdom also implemented this measure because there was not much land left, so a few people speculated whether it was the same reason this time.

But more people refuted this, because after the Western Mediterranean War, the Kingdom of Dionia obtained a lot of land, and there are still a lot of lands that are idle and need to be developed urgently.

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

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

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 his life back.

Maximus listened to it for a while, and felt that they were all guessing without evidence. Think about it: these free people who came to apply are newcomers and have no foundation in the kingdom. How could they get some reliable inside information.

Maxims' mood gradually calmed down. He looked back at his wife and children who were waiting eagerly on the corner of the street: since he couldn't get the application for a while, let's find a place to settle down first.

Maxims squeezed hard to the door of the household registration office, and the guards guarding the door immediately asked him what he wanted to do.

"Rent a house.

' Maximus replied.

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

Maximus had already inquired about the employees of the slave camps clearly: if you want to rent a house, you don't have to go door-to-door in Turiyi City, because most of the rental information is concentrated in the household registration offices in each urban area.

Maximus walked into the household registration office and saw a spacious hall in front of him. There were already many people queuing up in front of various counters to handle affairs.

Of course, the household registration office is not only for free people to become citizens, it also has many other services, such as: registering the criminal records of the people of the kingdom, which is mainly provided by the nearby patrol offices and courts every day;

Registering the meritorious information of the people of the kingdom, large-scale meritorious awards such as wars, large-scale public works... Of course, it is provided by the department, but some individuals' meritorious service requires him to bring the department's certificate to register, if it is false Once found, the punishment will be quite severe;

There is also the registration of the change of household registration of the people of the kingdom. The people of the kingdom need to register at the new urban household registration office when they move from one town to another town, or from one urban area to another urban area. They will all be transferred, but this procedure is quite complicated and takes a long time, and it is easy to lose some materials and cause losses, so under normal circumstances, the residents of the kingdom will not easily change their household registration. Of course, with the exception of free citizens who have not applied for citizenship, they are very mobile, but they must also move to a place to register. This is for the convenience of management. Otherwise, once they are found not registered by the patrol office, they are likely to be expelled...

Anyone who lives in the kingdom has the most dealings with the public sector is the household registration office, and the household registration office is also the most onerous of all departments. Small towns are better, but a huge city like Turii with a population of hundreds of thousands. , the personnel of each household registration office are busy every day, so the personnel under its jurisdiction are also the largest in the kingdom department.

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

The unique household registration system of the Kingdom of Dioria caused two important problems: first, it required a large number of people who could write records, which may be a big problem for other city-states, but the implementation of school education in Dioria has In the past 20 years, the talents trained are more than enough to meet the needs; secondly, a huge amount of writing materials is needed. Since Egypt and Dionia are allies, most of the papyrus produced in Egypt is sold to the Kingdom of Dionia. And the price increases every year... This not only makes the household registration department a little overwhelmed, but even the Ministry of Finance is constantly complaining, because not only the household registration department consumes a lot of papyrus, such as the Ministry of Commerce, hospitals, schools... including the Ministry of Finance itself is also a consumer The big family, the entire kingdom of Dionia is a country built on the collection, recording, and statistics of data and information.

This dilemma finally made Davers have to put aside his inner entanglement and decide to make paper that is convenient and practical. He told his wife, Christoya, some of the processes of the village paper-making workshop that he had learned when he was a village official in his previous life, and she arranged for her subordinates to be responsible for the development.

The walls around the hall of the household registration office are all painted with black paint, which at first glance makes people feel depressed. But this is definitely not because the household registration wants to please Hades, to create a kind of hell environment, but because they can use a white pen to write the information they want to publish on the black wall, such as "suspend the application of freedmen" The notice is written on the front wall with large characters and a very eye-catching inscription, and information such as a certain meritorious service of a certain citizen has been determined... and so on.

These released information are neatly and clearly written on each wall, and they are generally kept for two or three days. After the people who have come to register before read the information, they can no longer queue up to inquire, and save the clerks. took a lot of time to answer.

Of course, some information is published here, and it is also for others who understand the situation to raise objections after reading it, so as to facilitate tracing.

Maximus, like everyone else, looked up at the wall.

After a while, he felt that his neck was sore, but he hadn't seen the rental information, so he had to consult the inspection team at the door, and only then did he know that the small house next to the hall was where the rental was located.

After he thanked him, he walked over quickly.

Compared with the liveliness of the hall, it is much quieter here. Except for a clerk sitting behind the wooden counter, there is no one else.

Seeing Maxims coming in, the clerk asked enthusiastically, "Are you here to rent a house?"

Maximus nodded.

"Have you applied for citizenship, or haven't you applied yet? Or are you already a pre-citizen?"

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

After listening to this, the clerk not only did not become indifferent, but became more enthusiastic. He pointed to the opposite wall and introduced: "You have not obtained the application, you cannot enjoy the rental house provided by the kingdom, you can only rent a private house, a private rental house. The information is all written on the opposite wall, you choose."

Since the establishment of Dionia, Turii has developed rapidly, the population has expanded rapidly, and the rental market has always been very hot, but it has always been privately enjoyed the dividend. Later, the Minister of Commerce Marigi put forward a suggestion: In the original planning, various towns in the kingdom, including Turiyi, left a lot of vacant land in the inner and outer urban areas. Leasing to freedmen and prospective citizens who have obtained the application at a lower price relative to the market price is not only a benefit for them who have no land for the time being, but also a little more income for the kingdom treasury.

Since the land is readily available, some free labor is available (the kingdom's public servants), and the kingdom has a productive quarry and the endless volcanic ash accumulated by the two volcanoes, building a large number of public rental houses does not cost much at all, so this proposal was rejected. Firth adopted it and was quickly executed by the Ministry of Construction.

Considering that the people who need to rent are mainly outsiders, freedmen, and prospective citizens, the most frequent place for them is the household registration office, so the responsibility for public rental housing is handed over to the household registration department. A little compensation from the department (the household registration department will turn over most of the rental income to the state treasury, and keep a small part for its own use, so as to hire more temporary staff when there are insufficient staff).

Although the kingdom has left some way out for private rental housing, the emergence of public rental housing has caused a great impact on private rental housing. In the past, private rental housing prices were too high, the facilities were not good, and the services were not good enough. Those who prefer to live in hotels in towns and cities first, and then apply for public rental housing immediately after the citizenship application is approved. Even though private rental housing has improved since then, the rental situation is still not optimistic.