[Due to administrative needs, effective immediately, all registered citizens of the Northwest Republic must visit the Civil Affairs Department's neighborhood offices to register a surname. Those without surnames may design and register one themselves.] [Note: To avoid duplication, self-designed surnames may be registered by no more than two hundred families each. Registration will proceed in chronological order, first come, first served. After the first round of registration, the Civil Affairs Department will announce the number of families registered under each surname. Families that failed to register successfully may create a new one. And then a second, third design...] [Northwest Republic Civil Affairs Department, effective immediately.]
This notice was plastered across the streets of every town and city in the Northwest Republic. The Civil Affairs Department had even temporarily hired loud-voiced promoters to shout about the policy in the streets—this was one of the Northwest Republic's distinctive traits. Whenever a new policy was issued, a group of promoters would explain and publicize it.
Hiring these promoters naturally cost money. But compared to the improvement in administrative efficiency they brought, the expense was nothing worth mentioning.
Besides, the Northwest Republic lacked resources and talent, but it certainly did not lack money.
Just look at the venue being prepared for the fifth World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament. The money spent on renovating and refurbishing the venue alone was enough to hire promoters several times over.
Not to mention that every World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament handed out enormous prize money. Forget the true World's Number One—even making the top eight in the youth division earned an astonishing sum.
The Northwest Republic's upper ranks had more than once urged Sui Xiong to stop holding the World's Number One Martial Arts Tournament, or at least reduce its