Massimus said, sighing in his heart: even a small traffic problem has been considered so thoughtfully, which shows that the Dionian officials have been very in-depth and meticulous in the governance of the city, and it is no wonder that such a huge city can be governed in an orderly manner, which fully reflects the strength and prosperity of the Dionian Kingdom, and the former Roman city cannot be compared with it at all.

This made Massimus even more eager to become a citizen of Dionia.

He took the family to speed up their pace, walked a few blocks, asked a few passers-by, and finally found the household registration office.

The Hukou Office is located on the same street as the public departments of the city, such as the inspection office, the tax office, the fire station, and the urban court, but the area of the Hukou is obviously much larger than that of other departmental buildings, because there are obviously more people who come to the Hukou Office to do business than other departments.

Today, it is estimated that the halls inside the house have been filled, and there are still many people gathered outside the door.

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

When they got closer, and heard the heated discussions, Massimus realized that they had gathered because all the registries in the city of Turiyi had posted a notice yesterday: the processing of free people's applications for Ionian citizenship was temporarily suspended, and when it would resume pending notice.

Massimus came in a hurry, but was suddenly splashed with a jar of cold water, and his heart was uncomfortable.

I think the other freedmen are the same, they linger at the door, refusing to leave, talking to each other and venting their frustrations, while hoping for a chance to see if there is a turnaround.

But no one dared to make a big noise, or even cause a riot, not only because there was a row of heavily armed inspectors standing at the door, but also because they were afraid that they would leave a criminal record and affect their success in becoming a full citizen in the future.

Massimus huddled in the crowd and listened to their speculation about the reason for the suspension of the application.

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

But more people refuted this, because after the Western Mediterranean War, the Kingdom of Dioonia acquired a large amount of land, and there is still a lot of land that is still idle and waiting to be developed.

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

But someone put forward an idea, but no one dared to refute it: he wondered if Hades had sent an oracle to King Davers, which was why today's events had happened.

This bizarre idea was actually echoed by some people, who offered to go to the temple of Hades to pray and ask the great deity to take back his ordination.

Massimus listened for a while, and felt that they were all blind speculations without evidence, and thought about it: these freedmen who had come to apply were all newcomers, and had no roots in the kingdom, so how could they get some reliable inside information.

Massimus's mood gradually calmed down, and he looked back at his wife and children who were waiting on the street corner: since he couldn't get an application for a while, he might as well find a place to settle down.

Massimus struggled to squeeze to the door of the registry, and the patrol officer immediately asked him what he was going to do.

"Rent a house." Massimus replied.

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

Massimus had already inquired with the hired men of the slave camps: if you wanted to rent a house, you didn't have to go door-to-door in the city of Turiyi, because most of the information about renting houses was concentrated in the various urban registers.

When Massimus walked into the registry office, there was a spacious hall in front of him, and there were already many people queuing up at various counters to handle affairs.

Of course, the registry is not only for freedmen to become citizens, but also for many other purposes, such as: registering the criminal records of the people of the kingdom, which is mainly provided by the nearby inspection office and the court on a daily basis;

Register the meritorious service information of the people of the kingdom, and receive large-scale meritorious service awards such as wars and large-scale public works...... Of course, it is provided by the department, but some personal meritorious service situations require him to bring the department's certificate to register, and if the fraud is detected, 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 from one town to another, or one city to another to settle down, need to register with the new urban household register, all the original information about their household registration will be transferred later, but this procedure is quite complicated, the time is very long, and it is easy to lose some materials, resulting in losses, so under normal circumstances, the residents of the kingdom will not easily change their household registration. The exception, of course, is that free citizens who have not applied for citizenship, who are highly mobile, but who must also be registered when they move to one place, for the sake of management, otherwise they will likely be deported if they are found to be unregistered by the inspectorate......

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 onerous in each department, and the small towns are better, but in a huge city like Turiyi, where the population reaches 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 that more than half of the space is used to store residents' information.

The unique hukou system of the Diorian kingdom created two important problems: first, it required a large number of people who could write records, which may have been a big problem for other city-states, but Dionya had been schooling for almost 20 years, and the talent it had produced was more than enough to meet the needs; Second, it required a huge amount of writing material, and since Egypt was an ally of Dionia, most of the papyrus produced in Egypt was sold to the Dionian kingdom, and the price increased year by year...... This is not only a bit unbearable for the Ministry of Household Registration, but even the Ministry of Finance is constantly complaining, because not only the Ministry of Household Registration has to consume a lot of papyrus, such as the Ministry of Commerce, hospitals, schools...... Including the Ministry of Finance itself is also a big consumer, the entire Dionian Kingdom is a country built on data and information collection, recording, and statistics.

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

The walls around the hall of the household registration office are painted with black paint, which at first glance makes people feel depressed. But this is by no means that the household register wants to curry favor with Hades and create a kind of hellish environment, but because they can write the information they want to publish on the black wall with a white pen, such as the notice of "suspension of the application of freemen" is written on the front wall in very large letters and very eye-catching, and there is also a certain meritorious information of such and such a citizen has been determined...... And so on and so forth.

These published messages are neatly and clearly written on the walls, and they are generally kept for two or three days, so that people who have come to register before can no longer queue up to ask after reading this information, and also save a lot of time for the clerk to answer.

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

Massimus, 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 patrol at the door, and then he learned that the small room next to the hall was the rental room.

After thanking him, he hurried over.

Compared to the hustle and bustle of the hall, it was much quieter, except for a clerk sitting behind the wooden counter.

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

Maximus nodded.

"Have you applied for citizenship, or have you not applied? Or are you already a pre-citizen citizen? ”

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

When the clerk heard this, not only did he not become indifferent, but he became more enthusiastic, pointed to the opposite wall, and introduced: "You have not received an application, you cannot enjoy the rental provided by the kingdom, you can only rent a private house, and the private rental information is written on the opposite wall, and you can choose by yourself." ”

Since the founding of Dionia, Touriyi has grown rapidly, the population has expanded dramatically, and the rental market has been very hot, but it has always been private individuals who have enjoyed this dividend. Later, the Minister of Commerce, Mariji, made a suggestion: instead of leaving a lot of vacant land in the inner and outer cities of the kingdom's towns and towns, including Turii, it is better to build a large number of temporary dwellings on these vacant lands and rent them to the freedmen and prospective citizens who have obtained the application at a lower price than the market price, which is not only to give them a little welfare for the time being, but also to earn a little more income for the kingdom's treasury.

Since the land was readily available, the free labor was available (the kingdom was under the government's **), and the kingdom had a large production of stone mines and endless volcanic ash accumulated from two volcanoes, it would not cost much to build a large number of public rental houses, so this proposal was adopted by Davers and quickly implemented by the Ministry of Construction.

Considering that it was mainly outsiders, freedmen, and prospective citizens who needed to rent a house, and that the place they frequented most often was the household registration office, the responsibility for public rental housing was entrusted to the Household Registration Department, which was also a small compensation from Davers for this multi-tasking department (the Household Registration Department turned over most of the rental income to the state treasury and kept a small part for its own use, so that it could hire more temporary workers when it was short of manpower).

In the past, the shortcomings of private rental housing such as too high prices, poor facilities, and poor service were more prominent, resulting in many outsiders preferring to live in hotels in towns first, and when the citizens' applications were approved, they immediately applied for public rental housing. Even though private renting has improved since then, the rental situation is still not optimistic.