Cthulhu Gonfalon Chapter 118:
Of course Sui Xiong knew about Leon’s injury.
You know, Leon was injured in his temple. As a deity, if you don’t even know what’s happening in your temple, it’s better to buy a piece of tofu and smash it to death!
Sui Xiong was very upset, but he didn’t intend to take care of the Scarlet Moon King himself.
One is that Leon is not badly injured, and the other is… Leon is actually really unreasonable.
I ran to spy on others, and was injured by the counterattack. What can I complain about?
Of course, if Leon is seriously injured, then Sui Xiong will not make sense. But after all, he was not seriously injured. In this case, Brother Xiong was still willing to be reasonable.
Anyway, the strength of the Scarlet Moon King is just like that. Sooner or later, Leon will surpass him. When that happens, it is reasonable and reasonable to let Leon go to him and settle his grievances.
In contrast, Sui Xiong is more concerned about another thing now.
“Name?” He looked at the report and asked with some confusion, “In the Northwest Republic, are there many unnamed people?”
This report was submitted by Leonard, and the content is to recommend actions to “improve names” in the Northwestern Republic.
At first glance at the beginning, Sui Xiong was taken aback–why did he need to perfect his name? Could it be said that there are still many unnamed people in the Northwestern Republic? Or maybe there are a lot of weird names?
Looking carefully, he finally understood what Leonard meant.
In this world, civilians have no surnames, only first names. Because of the lack of culture, their names are generally not distinctive. They are just a few common words or words related to their identity. This leads to a very serious situation of name duplication.
Reynard has counted that among the permanent residents of Void City alone, there are 6,296 people named “Spring” and 5,261 people named “Joe”. There are five thousand two hundred and fifty “Jack”…These are the three common names of Void City.
There are many similar and severely repeated names. In general, there are 424,500 permanent residents in Void City, and only 1,109 people whose names are not repeated at all.
Excluding these names, there are more or less duplicate names left, which adds up to 4,991, not even 5,000 names. If you deduct the less repetitive ones, you will end up with 582 highly repetitive names, and nearly 300,000 people use these names.
300,000 people, less than 600 names, on average, about 500 people use a name. Especially for some common names, walking on the street and shouting, you can see many people turning back.
This situation is actually fine, but Leonard feels very uncomfortable.
The reason is very simple. The ninth most repeated name is “Leonard”. A total of 4,06 people use this name.
Leonard didn’t care about it, or rather, he didn’t notice the problem. Not long ago, he presided over the work of reorganizing the army. In the process of reorganizing the army, he checked the roster of the whole army with great interest, so he was embarrassed to find that there was Leonard on the left and Leonard on the right. There are often two or three on a page.
In the entire army of the Northwestern Republic, there are more than one hundred people named “Reynard”.
This is really bad. You have to know that there are not many troops in the Northwest Republic. There are only more than 3,000 people on the roster!
Leonard was so irritated by this incident that he naturally wanted to solve the problem. But he couldn’t let so many people change their names. After thinking about it, he only proposed to promote the “Perfect Names” campaign and let people take their surnames.
The first name can be repeated, but the last name is generally not.
After all, people in the Northwestern Republic are now considered to have a certain culture. When they choose their surnames, they will never call them like their parents.
This proposal also has another advantage, that is, it can greatly increase the people’s self-confidence and pride.
In this world, “surname” has always been the privilege of nobles, even those wealthy businessmen do not have a surname. If the civilians in the Northwestern Republic can have surnames, then at least in terms of feeling, they will appear to be superior.
Moreover, this can also highlight the culture, highlight the speciality of the Northwest Republic, and even attract many talents who desire family extension.
In general, apart from slightly increasing administrative costs, this approach has many benefits. It is indeed beneficial and only harmful, and it is completely worth doing.
Of course, this is what Leonard said.
After Sui Xiong saw it, he didn’t think of opposing, but thought of another thing.
I remember that when I was in school, Professor Cheng talked about the ancient times, and said about the two things about the “surnames given by the Chinese people” during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period in China and the “popularization of surnames” during the Meiji Restoration in Japan.
The two events are nearly two thousand years apart, but they are surprisingly consistent. When civilians without a surname give themselves a surname, they often start from their home address, work, identity, and even some good wishes, and take a variety of surnames for themselves and their descendants.
However, with the passage of time, many of the ordinary people who took their own surnames in ancient China failed to pass on their surnames, so that the common surnames in China are still those of the ancient nobles. Professor Cheng once said half jokingly and half sighing that in contemporary China, the streets are full of descendants of princes, generals, or landlords and wealthy merchants. The real ancestors with surnames have been poor people, but very few.
In fact, let alone China, even in Japan, where the surname-taking movement has been less than two hundred years old, the concentration of surnames has gradually become prominent. This is still the case in modern society where it is relatively easy for the poor to continue their children and grandchildren.
If the Northwest Republic promotes the surname movement this time, there will be many strange surnames. Just a few hundred years later, how many of these surnames can be passed on?
Thinking of this, Sui Xiong couldn’t help but sigh.
After sighing, he put the proposal to the high-level meeting for discussion.
Although he can decide in one word with his prestige, he thinks it is better to discuss it.
As a result, during the discussion, everyone really put forward a lot of opinions.
“It’s a good thing to take the last name~IndoMTL.com~ But you have to limit it. You can’t take some awkward surnames.”
“Yes, you can’t have the last name “dog shit” or “cat ear”, that’s weird!”
“It’s nothing more than dog dung. Why are cat ears weird?”
“…well, I just said casually…”
“The surname’empty’ is not good either, it is easy to be misunderstood.”
“Yes! This surname is not allowed. Otherwise, after hundreds of years, future generations might think it is our majesty’s sons of God…”
“…I am a jellyfish, where are so many gods!”
“Your Majesty, this must be prevented!”
After some discussion, some supplementary and perfect suggestions were put forward, and finally the matter was passed smoothly.
A few days later, the civilian surname movement in the Northwestern Republic officially began. (To be continued.)