Chapter 758: Vol V Chapter 118
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Of course, Sui Xiong would know about Leon’s injury.
After all, Leon was wounded in his own temple. As a god, if he did not even know about what was going on within his own temple, then he might as well buy a piece of tofu and die trying to knock his head against it!
Sui Xiong was very unhappy, but he had no intentions of personally dealing with the Red Moon King.
Firstly, Leon was not seriously injured; secondly, regarding this matter... Leon was in fact, quite at fault himself.
He was the one running over to spy on soone else. As a result, he was wounded by the other’s counterattack. What was there for him to complain about?
Of course, if Leon was severely injured, Sui Xiong would not bother about being reasonable. But Leon was not seriously injured. Under such a situation, Brother Xiong was still willing to talk so sense.
Anyway, the strength of the Red Moon King was just as it was. Leon would surpass him sooner or later. When the ti ca, Leon should be the one to look for the Red Moon King to settle this grudge once and for all. This would make more sense.
In contrast, Sui Xiong was more concerned about sothing else at the mont.
“Na?” he asked. He was feeling sowhat confused as he looked at the report. “You an to say that there are still so many naless people in our Republic of Northwest?”
This report was submitted by Leonard, and its content was about the suggestion to carry out the “Perfect Na” movent in the Republic of Northwest.
Sui Xiong froze the mont he set his eyes on the report—why is there a need to perfect nas? Could the reason be that there were still many people without nas in the Republic of Northwest? Or there were too many strange and weird nas?
As he read through the report carefully, he finally understood what Leonard ant.
In this world, the civilians did not have surnas. They rely had first nas. Because of their lack of culture, there was nothing special about their nas in general. Their nas were usually made up of a few common words or so descriptive words related to their status. This led to a serious situation of repeated nas.
Leonard did the calculations. Just among the permanent residents of Void City, there were 6,296 residents by the na of “Spoolin,” 5,261 by the na of “Joe” and 5,250 by the na of “Jack...” and these were the three most common nas used in Void City.
Similarly, there were many other nas that were also heavily repeated. In short, Void City had a total of 424,500 permanent residents, but only 1,109 people had nas that were completely unique and not repeated at all.
After subtracting these nas, the remaining ones were more or less repeated nas. Adding them up would give a total of 4,991, which did not even amount to 5,000. If nas that were less repetitive were further removed from the list, the final result would be 582 highly repetitive nas that were used by a total of nearly 300,000 people.
Less than 600 nas for 300,000 people would an an average of one na being used every 500 people. Especially for so of the commonly used nas, just by shouting out one of these nas while walking on the main streets could turn many heads around.
In fact, this situation was no big deal, but Leonard could not help finding it disconcerting.
The reason was simple. The ninth most heavily repeated na was “Leonard.” There was a total of 4,006 people with this na.
At first, Leonard did not take this to heart. Or rather, he did not even notice this problem in the first place. Not long ago, he presided over the restructuring of the entire army. In the process of reorganizing the troops, he checked through the army roster with great interest. But he was embarrassed to find out that there were a few Leonards in the army. The norm was that one page would have two to three soldiers by the na of Leonard.
In the entire army of the Republic of Northwest, there were more than one hundred people by the na of “Leonard.”
This was seriously beyond all reason. There were not many army troops in the Republic of Northwest to start with, and the total number of nas on that roster was only around three thousand!
Leonard was so shocked by this incident that naturally he would want to solve the problem. But he could not possibly get so many people to change their nas. After much deliberation, he proposed to promote the “Perfect Na” movent to let people choose their own surnas.
The first nas could be repeated, but the surnas generally would not be repeated.
After all, the people of the Republic of Northwest had a certain level of culture now. They would absolutely not be so slipshod like their older generations when it ca to taking surnas for themselves.
There was another advantage to this proposal. It could greatly boost people’s self-confidence and their sense of pride.
In this world, a “surna” had always been a prerogative of the aristocrats. Even for the well-off rchants, most of them did not have surnas. If the civilians of the Republic of Northwest could all have surnas, that would at least give them a sense of superiority.
Also, this could manifest their culture and highlight the uniqueness of the Republic of Northwest. It could even attract talents who yearned for continuity of the familial clan.
Overall, putting aside the fact that this thod would require a slight increase in administrative costs, it would also bring in many benefits. With only one downside amidst all the benefits, it was certainly a thod worth implenting.
Of course, this was Leonard’s side of the story.
After reading the report, Sui Xiong had no thoughts of objecting. However, he was reminded of another incident.
He recalled a ti when he was in school, and Professor Cheng was giving a lecture on history. Professor Cheng talked about two incidents. One was the “Citizens Take Surnas” incident that happened in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period in China, and the other was the “Popularization of Surnas” incident that happened in the iji Restoration period in Japan.
These two incidents were nearly 2,000 years apart, but they shared a striking consistency. When choosing surnas, civilians without surnas often based their choices on their ho address, job, status, or even their good wishes. They ca up with all kinds of surnas for themselves and their descendants.
However, over ti, out of all the civilians from ancient China who had chosen surnas for themselves, many were unable to pass down these surnas. Therefore, up till now, the commonly seen surnas in China that had been passed down were only those few of the ancient aristocrats. Professor Cheng once jokingly lanted that in contemporary China, the streets were filled with descendants of princes and marquises, generals and ministers, or even descendants of wealthy rchants. While surnas truly originated from the ancestors who were poor civilians, these surnas were on the contrary very few.
In fact, even if the movent for people to choose their surnas had persisted up to the present day—take Japan for instance, with less than 200 years of age since it was established, the situation of the congregation of surnas was already gradually drawing attention, let alone China. Moreover, this was a modern society where it was relatively easy to see the poor having offspring to carry on their family nas.
This ti, if the Republic of Northwest were to promote the movent for people to choose their surnas, it was conceivable to think of how many strange surnas would co into the picture. The thing was, hundreds and thousands of years from now, how many of these surnas would be passed down?
As he thought about this, Sui Xiong could not help lant.
After sighing, he brought this proposal to the eting of top officials for discussion.
Though given his authority, he could easily make the final call, he still felt that it would be better to discuss it. As a result, many opinions were put forward during the discussion.
“It’s good to allow people to choose their surnas, but there must be so restrictions. We can’t have any awkward surnas.”
“True. We can’t have them naming themselves ‘Dog Poop,”Cat’s Ears’ and such. That would be too weird!”
“‘Dog Poop’ is certainly a no-no, but how is Cat’s Ears weird?”
“Well... I’m just saying...”
“A surna like ‘Void Space’ is not good either. It’s easy to be misunderstood.”
“Right! This can’t be made a surna too. If not, a few hundred years later, the later generations might think that they are the sons of Our Majesty...”
“I’m just a jellyfish, how would it be possible for to have so many sons of!”
“Your Majesty, sothing like that has to have preventive asures!”
After so discussion, a number of supplentary suggestions and suggestions for improvent were put forward. Then finally, this proposal was successfully passed.
A few days later, the movent for people to choose their surnas was officially comnced in the Republic of Northwest.
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