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Sui Xiong certainly knew about Leon's injury.

You know, Leon was injured in his temple. As a god, if he doesn't even know what happened in his own temple, he might as well buy a piece of tofu and hit his head against it and die!

Sui Xiong was very unhappy, but he didn't mean to personally deal with the Red Moon King.

First, Leon's injury was not serious, and second, this matter... Leon was actually not right.

He went to spy on others and was injured by others' counterattack. What is there to complain about?

Of course, if Leon was seriously injured, then Sui Xiong would be unreasonable. But after all, he was not seriously injured. In this case, Brother Xiong was still willing to talk about reason.

Anyway, the strength of the Red Moon King is just like this, and Leon will surpass him sooner or later. At that time, it would be reasonable to let Leon go to him to settle the grudge.

In contrast, Sui Xiong is more concerned about another thing now.

"Name?" He looked at the report and asked in confusion, "Are there still many people without names in our Northwest Republic?"

This report was submitted by Leonard, and its content suggested launching an action of "perfecting names" in the Northwest Republic.

At first glance at the beginning, Sui Xiong was stunned-Why do we need to perfect names? Could it be that there are still many people without names in the Northwest Republic? Or are there many people with strange names?

After reading it carefully, he finally understood what Leonard meant.

In this world, civilians have no surnames, only names. Because of the lack of culture, their names are generally not distinctive, and they are nothing more than a few common words or some words related to their identities. This leads to a very serious situation of repeated names.

Leonard has counted that among the permanent residents of Void City alone, there are 6,296 people named "Spring", 5,261 people named "Joe", and 5,250 people named "Jack"... These are the three most common names in Void City.

There are many similar names that are seriously repeated. In general, there are 424,500 permanent residents in the Void City, and only 1,109 people have no repeated names.

Excluding these names, the remaining names that are more or less repeated add up to 4,991, not even 5,000 names. If the less repeated ones are deducted, the remaining are 582 names with high repetition rate, and a total of nearly 300,000 people use these names.

300,000 people, less than 600 names, on average, about 500 people use each name. Especially some common names, walking on the street and shouting, you can see many people turn around.

This situation is actually nothing, but Leonard feels very uncomfortable.

The reason is very simple. The ninth seriously repeated name is "Leonard". A total of 4,006 people use this name.

Leonard didn't care at first, or he didn't notice this problem at first. Not long ago, he presided over the work of reorganizing the army. In the process of reorganizing the army, he looked at the roster of the entire army with great interest, and was embarrassed to find that there was a Reynard on the left and a Reynard on the right in the army, and there were often two or three on a page.

In the entire army of the Northwest Republic, there were more than a hundred people named "Reynard".

This is really a dog's shit. You know, there are not many troops in the Northwest Republic, and there are only more than 3,000 people on the roster!

Reynard was shocked by this matter, and naturally wanted to solve the problem. But he couldn't let so many people change their names. After thinking about it, he could only propose to promote the "perfect name" movement and let people take their own surnames.

Names can be repeated, but surnames generally can't.

After all, people in the Northwest Republic are now considered to have a certain level of culture. When they take their surnames, they will never call them as they like like their fathers.

This proposal also has another advantage, which is that it can greatly enhance people's self-confidence and pride.

In this world, "surnames" have always been the privilege of the nobility. Even those wealthy businessmen mostly do not have surnames. If the common people of the Northwest Republic can have surnames, then at least from a feeling, they will appear superior.

Moreover, this can also highlight the culture, highlight the specialness of the Northwest Republic, and even attract many talents who are eager for the continuation of the family.

In general, this approach has many benefits except for a slight increase in administrative costs. It is indeed a hundred benefits and only one harm, and it is completely worth doing.

Of course, this is what Leonard said.

After reading it, Sui Xiong did not think of objecting, but remembered another thing.

I remember that when I was in school, Professor Cheng told stories about the "people taking surnames" in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period of China and the "popularization of surnames" in the Meiji Restoration period of Japan.

These two things are nearly two thousand years apart, but they are surprisingly consistent. When common people without surnames give themselves surnames, they often start from their home address, work, identity, and even some good wishes to take various surnames for themselves and their descendants.

However, as time went by, many of the common people who gave themselves surnames in ancient China were unable to pass down their surnames, so that the common surnames in China are still those of the ancient nobles. Professor Cheng once said half-jokingly and half-sighingly that in contemporary China, the streets are full of descendants of kings, generals, landlords and wealthy businessmen, and there are very few people who were poor from the beginning of the surname.

In fact, let alone China, even in Japan, which has been less than two hundred years since the surname movement, the concentration of surnames has gradually become prominent. This is still in modern society, when it is relatively easy for the poor to continue their descendants.

If the Northwest Republic promotes the surname movement this time, there will surely be many strange surnames. But after hundreds or thousands of years, how many of these surnames will be able to be passed down?

Thinking of this, Sui Xiong couldn't help sighing.

After sighing, he put this proposal on the high-level meeting for discussion.

Although with his prestige, he can make a decision with one word, but 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 a surname, but there should be some restrictions. You can't take some very awkward surnames."

"Yes, you can't take surnames like 'dog shit' or 'cat ears', that's too weird!"

"Dog shit is fine, but what's weird about cat ears?"

"...Okay, I just said it casually..."

"The surname 'void' is not okay either, it's easy to be misunderstood."

"Yes! This surname is not allowed, otherwise hundreds of years later, maybe future generations will think it's the sons of God of our Majesty..."

"...I'm a jellyfish, how can there be so many sons of God!"

"Your Majesty, this matter must be prevented!"

After a discussion, several supplementary and improved opinions were put forward, and finally this matter was successfully passed.

A few days later, the Northwest Republic civilian surname movement officially began.