Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1696 It's impossible to finish, it's simply impossible to finish!!

In two years, thanks to the faith power provided by the Emperor's statue, Zhou Xu's strength, which had been stuck at a bottleneck for many years, finally made a new breakthrough and reached the Gold Three Star of the Out-of-Body Realm.

At the same time, the originally almost transparent soul body has become much more solid, and is now condensed into a semi-transparent and semi-solid state.

As his strength increased and his soul body solidified, his daily coverage area also improved, now reaching the outskirts of the Northeast region and the Green Forest Port area.

However, the daily revenue did not increase much, since the problem of the vast area and sparse population within the coverage area remained unchanged.

However, in the past two years, with the basic elimination of the post-war impact, the internal population growth rate has also been increasing year by year.

Over the years, the Population Registration Bureau has been so busy with the registration of new residents in the Saint Laurent area that it's been driven to the brink of collapse.

It's impossible to finish! It's simply impossible to finish!
The workload of new population registration in the Saint Laurent area was already insane, and the rate of new population growth in recent years has also been rapid.

Over the years, they haven't had a moment's rest. They've been busy until now, and they're still not done!

Of course, putting aside their explosive mentality, from Zhou Xu's perspective, there are still some advantages.

For example, this kind of work forces the Census Bureau and even its Royal Mage Order to use mantras intensively.

In the process of constant consumption and replenishment, their magical skills rapidly improved.

According to the latest report, the number of Transcendent Realm mages in their Royal Mage Corps has increased to fifteen.

John and Sai, who are the leaders of the mage guild, have already reached the peak of the Transcendent Realm. They are currently stuck in a bottleneck and cannot find an opportunity to break through to the Saint Realm.

In addition, several extraordinary level mages have emerged from within the Census Bureau.

However, those from the Census Bureau cannot be used as combat troops.

As is well known, there is a compatibility issue with mantras. If they were able to use some mantras with combat capabilities, they wouldn't have been assigned to the Population Survey Bureau.

Simply put, those who haven't joined the mage guild basically lack the necessary compatibility.

Although they can meditate and cultivate, they have no real techniques to use. At most, they can use mantras like "Eye of Insight" and "Puppet of Secrets," which are highly versatile and have low requirements for compatibility.

Compared to the 'pickiness' of mages, training martial artists is much simpler.

With the popularization of cultivation techniques within the military, coupled with the boost from Zhou Xu's 'Evolutionary Leader' talent, a large number of martial artists at the Hundred Refinement Realm level began to emerge.

It's not quite ubiquitous, but it's not unusual either.

In earlier years, a martial artist at the Hundred Refinements Realm could become a general in the Great Zhou army, but now, at most, he would be a battalion commander.

There was nothing that could be done about it; back then, they could only figure out how to cultivate on their own.

Those who can figure things out and make a name for themselves are all exceptionally talented.

Unlike now, there are readily available and reliable cultivation techniques for newcomers to practice, along with Zhou Xu's buffs, making it much more efficient. Even ordinary soldiers can put up a fight.

The difficulty levels of these two events are completely different.

"Your Majesty, this is the latest report from the Population Registration Bureau."

After the court session ended, a report was immediately handed to Zhou Xu.

Currently, the main work of the Population Registration Bureau is still focused on registering the elderly population in the Saint Laurent area.

As for the new population born within their Great Zhou Dynasty, they haven't yet undergone large-scale registration.

The reason is quite simple. How old are the new people born in the last two years? Even if they are registered and found to be talented, there's no way to put them to use. You have to wait at least another ten years or so until they grow up.

Even if you want to cultivate him from a young age, you'd have to wait until he's at least five or six years old, right?
There's little point in rushing to complete the registration now.

Zhou Xu had experienced this situation before.

In contrast, the population of the Saint Laurent region, once registered and placed in a suitable position, becomes a ready-made workforce that can genuinely create value for their Great Zhou and improve development efficiency.

Once you compare the two sides, is it even necessary to say which side takes priority?

As is customary, relevant departments will directly assign suitable jobs to ordinary people based on their talents.

Only those with outstanding talent will have their files sent to Zhou Xu.

As their population base in Dazhou grows, the number of outstanding talents also increases.

Zhou Xu glanced at the statistics. Among the population surveyed, there were 27 outstanding talents at the three-star level, one at the four-star level, and zero at the five-star level.

It's worth mentioning here that the Saint Laurent Empire originally had a pretty good system for talent selection.

Unlike them, who possess the 'Eye of Insight' and the 'Puppet Eye', the original Saint Laurent Empire selected talent primarily through an assessment and promotion system.

Simply put, if you are truly capable, you will definitely be able to advance step by step, break through the encirclement, and stand out from the crowd.

As it turns out, this approach did have some effect; otherwise, the original Saint Laurent Empire wouldn't have been able to amass so many Vajra Realm warriors. Unfortunately, they were almost all sacrificed by Saint Laurent I.

As for civil officials, take this four-star talent as an example. Although he did not get a position that matched his abilities due to a lack of background, he still held an official position and was not considered to have been buried.

At most, his former superior, who was originally from the elite class, would steal the credit.

After looking at the data of that four-star talent, Zhou Xu pondered for a moment.

"Transfer him to be Huo Qubing's secretary."

While speaking, Zhou Xu briefly flipped through the statistics table of the twenty-seven outstanding talents.

"For the other talents, just follow this arrangement."

Obviously, not every one of these outstanding talents needs Zhou Xu to go to the trouble of arranging positions for them.

Before the item is delivered, the lower-level departments will usually assign it to an appropriate department.

After reviewing the documents, Zhou Xu would adjust them if there were any issues, and if there were no issues, he would simply follow the allocation.

After all, as the Zhou Dynasty grew larger and larger, Zhou Xu probably didn't know as well as the people below him what positions were lacking people and what kind of talents were needed.

Having quickly arranged the matter, Zhou Xu didn't stop and soon returned to his palace.

Today is the day his daughter, Sigriun, is returning to Mystira City to undergo trials, and his son, Zhou Ye, is also going to join the army.

"Father!"

As soon as Zhou Xu returned from court, his two children rushed into his arms.

Zhou Xu was filled with emotion and patted their heads, giving them instructions one by one.

(End of this chapter)