"Due to government needs, from now on, all registered citizens of the Republic of Northwest need to register their surnames at the street office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Those who do not have surnames can design their own registration. "
"Note: To avoid duplication, those who have their own surnames must not have more than 200 families. They will be arranged according to the time of registration. First come, first served. After the first batch of registration, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will release the number of families with each surname. If there are no families that can be successfully registered, they can redesign. Or even the second and third redesigns … "
"The Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Republic of Northwest, today."
This notice was posted on the streets of every town in the Republic of Northwest. There were also loudmouthed propagandists temporarily hired by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to shout on the streets to publicize this policy. This was also one of the characteristics of the Republic of Northwest. Every time a new policy was announced, there would be a group of propagandists explaining it.
Of course, hiring these propagandists cost some money. But compared to the administrative efficiency that could be improved, this money was nothing.
Moreover, the Republic of Northwest lacked resources and talents, but it did not lack money.
Did you not see the venue of the Fifth World Championship that was being prepared? Just the renovation of the venue alone would cost enough money to hire propagandists several times.
Not to mention, every time the World Championship would give out a large amount of prize money. Not to mention the real world champion, even the top eight of the junior division could get a shocking amount of prize money.
The higher-ups of the Republic of Northwest had more than once tried to persuade Sui Xiong not to hold this World Championship, which was a waste of manpower and money. Even if he wanted to hold it, he should reduce the frequency. They felt that once every 10 years was too frequent, and once every 20 years was the maximum.
In response, Sui Xiong just smiled.
What was money? Money was not gold or silver, but a circulating currency.
He did not do well in politics, but "the nature of money" was the focus of his freshman politics class. The teacher had talked about it several times, and he would most likely get it in every exam. No matter how bad he was, he still had some impression of it.
The nature of money was a commodity used to support circulation. There was another special term called "general equivalent." On Earth, this thing had developed to the extent that the national credit was used as a guarantee for the book data. To put it bluntly, the national credit was used as a commodity. That was why their politics teacher scoffed at the non-credit currencies such as "Bitcoin" that many IT people highly praised. There were even mocking statements such as "If I were to rob a Bitcoin trading platform with a gun, would they be able to use the electronic data to arrest me?"
In this world, money was far from being developed to the stage of credit. It was still stuck in the era of gold, silver, and precious stones that were portable and expensive. Although the value of each country's currency was not the same, users still recognized the currency itself, not the country behind it.
As for credit currency, even the Goddess of Wealth did not dare to do so. So far, her church could only launch transfer services based on the existing deposits of customers.
In other words, if a gold coin was stored in a warehouse, it meant that there was a gold coin missing from the market. No country could make up for it by printing money.
If there were too many coins stored in the warehouse, there would be too few coins in the market. This would, of course, affect the circulation of the market. The most direct effect was that the prices of goods would fall, and the prices of money would rise.
After all, gold, silver, and precious stones were also commodities, and their prices would rise because of their scarcity. And unlike on Earth, there were many places in this world where these things would be consumed. For example, when mages made golems or set up magic arrays, they would often consume kilograms of gold, several times or even more than ten times the amount of silver, and many precious stones.
In this way, there would be fewer and fewer coins in the market, and it would definitely cause a big mess!
Sui Xiong had been a little worried about this. Over the years, because of the development of the business and entertainment industry in the Republic of Northwest, it could really be said to be making a lot of money every day. Although at the same time, they bought a lot of production materials, most of these production materials were turned into food, wine, weapons, armor, and even luxury goods, and once again turned into money.
So the gold coins in the treasury increased, and it was no longer "piled up like a mountain" but piled up into a small hill. Shuang and Xian, who were very happy to see the mountain of gold coins before, were now even numb.
They were probably the two happiest Crag Dragons in the world, and maybe even the happiest Giant Dragon. Other Giant Dragons had to think of ways to take risks to earn enough wealth, but they only needed to help Sui Xiong guard the treasury, and they could enjoy a happy life rolling around on gold coins and precious stones at will. Other Giant Dragons only had a pile of gold coins in their lairs, but the gold coins in their treasury were piled up like … a mountain of gold.
About two-thirds of these gold coins were Sui Xiong's personal property — it was really his personal property, because the most profitable businesses in the Republic of Northwest were almost all built up by his personal investment. It was completely his sole proprietorship. Even if he later split some shares, the majority was still in his own hands.
More importantly, those who got shares — such as the top officials of the Republic — they had to spend money, and often they had to spend a lot of money. Sui Xiong, on the other hand, had almost no expenses. For him, he could not even spend a copper coin.
He did not have any expenses at all.
In the past, he sometimes split himself into an ordinary person and wandered around the world. When he was happy, it was also common for him to spend a lot of money. In recent years, he did not even do this kind of thing, let alone spend money.
Looking at the increasing wealth in the treasury, Sui Xiong felt that the financial order of the world was on the verge of collapse.
So, he could not wait to spend his money.
It was best to spend it on things that would quickly enter the circulation field, such as giving out money, giving out money, and giving out money …
However, money could not be given out randomly. Sui Xiong had proposed to give every adult citizen of the Republic of Northwest dozens of gold coins every year, but it was jointly rejected by the top officials of the country. Their reason was that giving out money randomly would affect the normal production and life of the country.
Sui Xiong really did not understand why giving out money would also affect the production and life of the country, but since everyone said so, then maybe it was true.
So he could only look at the increasing amount of money and worry.
The World Martial Arts Tournament was already the best way he could think of to spend money. The prizes were secondary. Every time this event was held, a large amount of money was spent to buy supplies and pay for labor, which was the main expense.
Unfortunately, the amount of money spent on a once in a decade event was still too little …
In addition to spending extravagantly, Sui Xiong also muttered to himself, "Both of you don't agree with me giving out money. If I don't think of a way to send the money back to the market, what will I do when the world financial order goes wrong in the future …"
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