ancient greece mediterranean ruler

Chapter 1077 Turiyi Household Registration Office
Maximus said, sighing in his heart: Even a small traffic problem has been so thoughtfully considered. This shows that Dionia officials have been very thorough and meticulous in the governance of the city. It is no wonder that it is such a huge scale. The city can be managed in an orderly manner, which fully reflects the power and prosperity of the Kingdom of Dionysia. The former city of Rome cannot be compared with it at all.

This makes Maximus want to become a citizen of Dionia even more urgent.

He led the family at a faster pace, walked a few blocks, asked a few passers-by, and finally found the household registration office.

The household registration office is located on the same street as the inspection office, tax office, construction fire station, urban court and other urban public departments. However, compared with other department buildings, the household registration office is obviously much larger in area, because people come to the household registration office to do business. There are obviously more people than other departments.

Today, the hall in the house is probably filled with people, and there are still many people crowding outside the door.

So Marcim asked his wife and children to wait nearby, and rushed over alone.

When he got closer and heard people's heated discussions, Maximus realized that everyone was gathered here because yesterday all the household registration offices in Turiyi City posted notices: Temporarily suspending applications for Dionis for freedmen. We are waiting for notification when the processing of Asian citizenship will be resumed.

Maximus came here in a hurry, but was suddenly poured with a can of cold water, feeling depressed and uncomfortable.

Presumably the same was true for other freedmen. They lingered at the door, refusing to leave, talking to each other, venting their dissatisfaction, and hoping for luck to see if there would be a turn for the better.

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

Maximus squeezed into the crowd and listened as they speculated on the reasons for the suspension.

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

But more people refute this, because after the Western Mediterranean War, the Kingdom of Dionia acquired a large amount of land, and there is still a lot of land that is idle and is in urgent need of development.

Someone came up with a possible reason, and someone else immediately refuted it, leading to endless arguments at the door of the household registration office.

But someone put forward an idea, but no one dared to refute it: He suspected that Hades sent an oracle to King Davos, so what happened today happened.

This unbelievable idea was actually responded by some people, and they proposed to go to the temple of Hades to pray, asking the great god to take back his life.

Maximus listened for a while and felt that they were all wild guesses without evidence. Thinking about it, these freedmen who came to apply were new arrivals and had no foundation in the kingdom. How could they possibly get some reliable inside information.

Maximus' mood gradually calmed down. He looked back at his wife and children who were waiting eagerly on the street corner: Since he couldn't get the application for the time being, he'd better find a place to settle down first.

Maximus squeezed hard to the door of the household registration office, and the patrol team guarding the door immediately asked him what he was going to do.

"Rent a house," Maximus replied.

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

Maximus had already made it clear to the employees in the slave camp: if you want to rent a house, you don't need to go to Turiyi City and ask door to door, because most of the rental information is concentrated in the household registration offices in various urban areas.

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

Of course, the household registration office not only serves free people to become citizens, it also has many other tasks, such as: registering the criminal records of people in the kingdom, which is mainly provided by the nearby inspection office and court every day;

Registering the meritorious service information of the people of the Kingdom, large-scale meritorious service awards such as wars, large-scale public projects... Of course, it is provided by the department, but for some personal meritorious services, he needs to bring the department's certificate and come to register. If it is fake If found out, the punishment will be severe;
There is also the need to register the household registration changes of people in the Kingdom. People in the Kingdom who move from one town to another, or from one urban area to another urban area, need to register at the new urban household registration office. All the original household registration information about themselves will then be Everyone will be transferred, but the procedure is quite complicated and takes a long time, and it is easy to lose some materials and cause losses. Therefore, under normal circumstances, Kingdom residents will not change their household registration easily.Of course, freedmen who have not applied for citizenship are excepted. They are very mobile, but they must register when they move to a place. This is for the convenience of management. Otherwise, if they are found to be unregistered by the inspection station, they are likely to be deported...

Anyone who lives in the kingdom has the most contact with the public sector is the household registration office, and the affairs of the household registration office are also the most arduous among all departments. Small towns are better, but huge cities like Thurii with a population of hundreds of thousands , the personnel in each household registration office are busy every day, so the number of personnel under their jurisdiction is also the largest among the kingdom's departments.

The reason why each household registration office occupies 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. This may be a big problem for other city-states, but the implementation of school education in Dioria has already For almost 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 year by year... This not only makes the Department of Household Registration somewhat overwhelmed, but also the Ministry of Finance continues to complain, because not only the Department of Household Registration consumes a large amount of papyrus, but also the Ministry of Commerce, hospitals, schools... including the Ministry of Finance itself also consumes Big family, the entire Kingdom of Dionia is a country built on the collection, recording, and statistics of data and information.

This dilemma finally forced Davos to put aside his inner entanglements and determined to create convenient and practical paper.He told his wife Christoya some of the processes in the village papermaking workshops that he learned when he was a village official in his previous life, and she arranged for her subordinates to be responsible for the development. Now there has been some progress.

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 office wants to please Hades and create a hellish environment, but because they can write the information they want to publish on the black wall with a white pen, such as "Suspended free citizen applications." The notice is written in large letters and with a very eye-catching inscription on the front wall, and there is also information such as a certain criminal information of a certain citizen has been determined... and so on.

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

Of course, some information is published here so that other people who know the situation can raise objections after reading it, so as to facilitate tracing.

Maximus, like the others, looked up at the wall.

After a while, he felt his neck was sore, but he still hadn't seen the rental information. He had to consult the patrol team at the door, and then he learned that the small room next to the hall was where the rental was.

After thanking him, he hurried over.

Compared with the bustle in the lobby, it is much quieter here. Except for a clerk sitting behind the wooden counter, there is no one else.

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

Maximus nodded.

"Have you applied for citizenship or not yet? Or are you a preliminary citizen?"

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

After hearing 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 and cannot enjoy the rental provided by the Kingdom. You can only rent private houses. Private rentals." The messages are written on the opposite wall, you take your pick.”

Since the establishment of Dionia, Thurii has developed rapidly, the population has expanded rapidly, and the rental market has been very hot, but it has always been private individuals enjoying this dividend.Later, Minister of Commerce Mariji made a suggestion: various towns in the kingdom, including Thurii, left a lot of open space in the inner and outer urban areas when they were originally planned. Rather than leaving them empty, it is better to build a large number of temporary residences on these open spaces first. Leasing it to freedmen and preparatory citizens who have applied for it at a lower price than the market price is not only a benefit to them who have no land for the time being, but also a little more income for the kingdom's treasury.

Since the land is readily available, free labor is available, and the kingdom has abundant stone mines and endless volcanic ash deposited by two volcanoes, it does not cost much to build a large number of public rental housing, so this proposal was adopted Firth adopted it and it was quickly implemented by the Ministry of Construction.

Considering that the people who need to rent are mainly outsiders, freedmen, and preparatory citizens, the most common place they go to is the household registration office, so the responsibility for public rental housing is handed over to the household registration department. It can be regarded as Daves giving this multi-faceted responsibility. A little compensation from the department (the Department of Household Registration will hand over most of the rental income to the state treasury, and keep a small part for its own use to hire more temporary personnel when there is a shortage of staff).

Although the Kingdom has left some avenues for private rental housing, the emergence of public rental housing has still had a great impact on private rental housing. In the past, the shortcomings of private rental housing such as too high prices, poor facilities, and inadequate services were more prominent, resulting in many outsiders. Those who prefer to stay in a hotel in the town first, and then apply for public rental housing immediately after the citizenship application is approved.Even though private rentals have improved since then, the rental situation is still not optimistic.

(End of this chapter)