Chapter 135: Your Family Na, My Na I
“My na’s Gou Dan, don’t laugh.”
“Right, right. Gou as in dog and Dan as in egg?”
“Yes. My family na is Gou and my na is Dan.”
“Do you know how valuable my na is?”
“50,000,000! And that’s not even inflated.”
“, too! Genuinely good at a genuine price.”
“Do you wanna change your child’s surna? Lowest price guaranteed, 70,000!”
“Wait, why are you leaving? What’s wrong with having Gou as a surna? It sounds better than your Li, no?”
“Bastard! Co back! Try that again! Who’s the dog?”
...
2015, October 11. A news conference, held by the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, announced the implentation of the nation’s two-child policy.
2016, January 1, implentation day, is when all evil started.
The most imdiate effect of the policy was a spike in birthrate.
It has always been a tradition for the first child, male or female, to take his or her father’s surna.
The second child, if a female, could possibly inherit her mother’s.
If the second child is a male, there’s only a 10% chance of him following his mother’s surna.
This was the general research outco of that national policy. However, if this subject was brought up in the news channels, all n would say that they are willing to have their second child inherit their wives’ surnas.
Ultimately, the idea of taking on a father’s family na never changed, which resulted in the collapse of surnas.
By the ti people finally realized it, it was already too late.
They were 30 years late and everything had already turned on its head.
From 2016, January 1 to 2020, January 1, the population of China increased by 80%.
The five most popular surnas were Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, and Chen.
Statistics:
1. Li – 14.94% = 185,300,000 people.
2. Wang – 14.41% = 168,900,000 people.
3. Zhang – 14.07% = 164,800,000 people.
4. Liu – 10.38% = 124,600,000 people.
5. Chen – 8.53% = 104,400,000 people.
These surnas occupied about 60% of China’s population.
The later generations coined this period the Surna War Boom.
This war led to the demise of two-character surnas from 2022 onward.
Nas like Zhuge, Ouyang, Sima, Murong, and so on.
Of course, that was just the beginning. No one really noticed when it was being reported on the news.
So more ti passed and from that period until the year 2025, the top five surnas started phasing out the rest.
They took over 80% of the population by 2025.
dias started reporting the phenonon but again, no one really thought about what that ant for the future.
The governnt ca up with a solution, which was to enforce the law that the second child must follow the mother’s surna.
However, that just worked to slow the extinction of certain surnas, not prevent it.
10 years later, in the year 2035, the second surna war erupted.
The surna Li, alone, gradually took up 63% of all surnas in the nation.
Li beca the official national surna. You could just grab two random people on the streets and it was guaranteed that one of them, possibly both, would be a Li.
This was yet another beginning of the surna war.
It was then that the Book of Family Nas beca the Book of Family Nas.
Before 2016, there were a total of 504 surnas, but by 2035, only 106 were left.
The top three surnas erged from there: Li, Wang, and Zhang.
Liu and Chen beca part of the minority.
By this point, the experts were already predicting that in the next 10 years, only two major surnas would remain.
People would just be either a Li or a Wang.
They were wrong, apparently, since only one main surna was left by the year 2045.
Li – 99.94% = 1700,629,418 people.
The rest of the surnas occupied a ager 0.06%.
Only 10 million out of 1.7 billion had a different surna from Li, and they were scattered all around China, few and far in between.
People finally understood the concept of the collapse of surnas.
20 years ago, the ethnic minorities beca history and the Han ethnic group took over the whole of China.
People understood that those occupying rare surnas were like the ethnic minorities in the past.
Seeking one with a rare surna was akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
The collapse of surnas started affecting lives. Police stations, airports, train stations, banks and the like, were all starting to feel the impact.
Let’s take a police station as an example.
If a robber commits a cri, there is a 99.9% chance that he’s a Li.
Whatever his na is, Li Yi for example, there would be at least thousands if not tens of thousands, with the sa na.
It has beco much more difficult for the police to investigate and identify criminals accurately.
Under imnse pressure, the nation thought up a new strategy that was implented in the year 2046.
No repeated nas were allowed.
All newborns must have different nas.
Upon the execution of the law, naming beca the most important part of having a child.
Naming children beca unimaginably tough.
There were two ways of doing it. The parents could either choose a na themselves or generate one through the computer program.
Nas could contain numbers and case-sensitive letters.
Nas mustn’t contain more than 6 characters, and a letter of the alphabet or a number was considered half a character.
So there were only two outcos.
So would pick a na by flipping through the dictionary and finding so characters that were extrely difficult to write.
Example: Li Goudan (李韝黵)
Even then, such nas were most likely already registered.
The easier thod would be to run through the na generator until sothing you’re happy with pops out.
Example: Li ChenG6d3 (李尘G6d3).
But who would fancy having such ssy numbers and letters?
Of course, nas like Li 6666666666 were extrely valuable.
While it doesn’t make any sense, nas like Li Dabian1 and Li Zhizhang2 wouldn’t be available unless you add so numbers and letters to it.
Nas have beco a kind of luxury, giving birth to a new occupation in the market – Na Reseller.
Resellers would basically snatch a good na before auctioning it up.
They buy low and sell high, basically.
That way, nas beca more and more expensive.
If you want to get hold of a better na, you’d better be ready with at least a few hundred thousands.
It even beca a normal occurrence for the rich to spend millions on a good na.
Last year, after the death of soone with the na Li Xiaolong3, the na was put up for auction.
Its price went up to a hundred and forty million dollars and beca the most expensive na of all ti.
Of course, the resale applied only to the na and not the surna.
Newborns’ surna was another story.
There was another unique profession that erged from the black market – Surna Changer.
As the na implies, the surna changer would help a woman alter her surna because it was too difficult to na her newborn child since both her husband and herself were Lis.
Surna Changers were those who possess the minority of surnas.
They weren’t Lis.
Of course, they charged differently, at tis cheap and at tis costly.
Even then, the cheapest surna would go for hundreds of thousands and the more expensive ones would cost millions.
If a woman was looking to change her surna from Li to Wang, she would get a divorce eight months into her pregnancy and get married to a Wang. She would have her newborn take over the surna changer’s family na before divorcing him and remarrying her child’s biological father.
That way, she could get a child, male or female, with the surna Wang despite the fact that both her husband and herself were Lis.
Thus, the surna changer’s job was to sign a few contracts within two months and earn a big sum from there.
Of course, the governnt knew of this profession and strictly prohibited such behaviors.
Nevertheless, because of the appealing profits, many started forging their identities and placing advertisents in the black markets, walls, and the Internet.
The governnt warned those with rare surnas that they would investigate those who marry more than five tis within a year.
Although those guilty would be punished by law, many surna changers still existed.
The situation was inevitable, unsolvable, and unacknowledged.
People no longer greeted a stranger with a ‘have you eaten?’ but rather with a ‘what’s your na?’.
If you wanted to know if a person is rich, you can easily gauge it from his na instead of looking at the way he dresses.
If he introduces himself as Li Xiaolong, you’d know that he’s worth at least a hundred and forty million.
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Year 2063.
I’m Gou Dan, a surna changer.
Almost all with rare surnas have beco surna changers.
Of course, my surna doesn’t sound too great.
Yes, I know... Gou as in dog.
Because of that, it was impossible for to charge a high price so I’m almost always starving in spite of this job.
“Dear Sirs and Madams, wanna get a different surna for your child? Only 70,000! Lowest price guaranteed!” I shouted, raising my identification card from inside of the black market.
1. Shit
2. Retarded
3. Bruce Lee
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