Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 232: Registering households and bringing together the people
The dragon boat was very fast. Even though it did not travel through the void, it still sailed tens of millions of miles within a few hours and arrived at the Water City, which is now the State of Su.

There are nine major cities in Su State, corresponding to the nine tails of the Nine-tailed Fox. Therefore, the names of the nine major cities are also very simple, directly named after the nine attributes of wind, rain, thunder, lightning, gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

The city that Emperor Xin granted to Marquis Su was the water city among the nine major cities. The name of the city was because it indicated that there was a lot of water in the area. As far as the eye could see, there were lakes everywhere.

When the dragon boat arrived at the Water City, Ao Bing dropped off Su Hou and others, then refused his invitation to stay as a guest, and continued to take Daji and five thousand dragon guards to his new fiefdom, Su City.

The reason why it was five thousand instead of ten thousand was because the remaining five thousand people were left behind by Ao Bing to guard Su City.

A war-torn land is never peaceful.

After taking Su City, if he did not leave some soldiers to guard it and led his army away directly, the nearby savages would get the news and would definitely rush into the city to plunder.

Savages are people without country, home, property or land. They have no morals and no dignity, and they are willing to do anything to survive.

Sucheng is such a big city, and it is unguarded. It would be strange if they didn't rob it. As for Ao Bing's reputation, it couldn't scare them at all.

Because they have no vision, and the ignorant are fearless. Moreover, they only care about the present and don't care about the future. They just want to survive today first.

The savages are just a group of desperadoes. There is not much in the world that is worth their fear. The worst that can happen is death, which may be a relief.

Before Ao Bing left Su City, he deliberately left behind five thousand dragon guards to serve as a deterrent so that the nearby savages would not dare to approach Su City.

Apart from the barbarians, no other forces dared to attack Sucheng. The foreign tribes were afraid of the Nine Cauldrons, and the princes were afraid of Ao Bing, so they did not dare to take action. Only the ignorant and fearless barbarians dared to take action.

In fact, Ao Bing was actually expecting the foreign tribes and lords to go to Su City to plunder while he was away. In this way, he would have a reason to attack these forces that plundered Su City and legitimately expand his territory.

Unfortunately, the foreign tribes and princes near Su City did not give him this opportunity.

The journey was uneventful and the dragon boat soon arrived in Su City.

Compared to when Ao Bing left, Su City had not changed much. However, the hundreds of millions of slaves in the city had a brand new look, with more life on their faces, no longer numb.

Simply put, life has more purpose and I see hope for survival.

At this time, almost a year has passed since Ao Bing left.

During this year, the five thousand Dragon Guards who stayed in Su City did only one thing according to Ao Bing's orders, which was to register the slaves in the city.

The slaves in the city were recorded in the household register one by one according to their name, age, place of origin, identity, appearance, wealth and other items.

This was the policy of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period, which was created by Guan Zhong and was called "regulating the people by household registration".

At the same time, the feudal system was abolished, and all local leaders such as nobles, elders, and clan leaders were considered subjects of the monarch, and were called equal people.

The general term is "registered citizens".

This was the beginning of centralization, which liberated the population from the rule of the aristocracy and placed them under the rule of the monarch instead of belonging to the aristocracy, greatly weakening the power and wealth of the aristocracy.

At the same time, this move also improved the status of the savages, making them no longer savages, but civilians who were qualified to own personal wealth and enjoy the rights of education, joining the army, etc.

Guan Zhong's system of registering all people and Shang Yang's system of grouping small towns into counties both greatly disrupted the old social structure and laid a solid foundation for centralization of power.

Ao Bing came from later times and had so much advanced experience that it was impossible for him to just sit there unused.

He didn't know whether other experiences were applicable to this era, but registering all citizens and establishing household registration for slaves were definitely applicable.

Therefore, after taking over Su City and obtaining the slaves in the city, the first thing Ao Bing did was to register the people and establish household registration for the slaves in the city.

With household registration, not only is management more convenient, it also greatly enhances organizational strength and, at the same time, gives civilians more power.

Of course, the most important thing is that after the people are registered, Ao Bing can give them land. With land, they can support themselves in the future.

Ao Bing couldn't keep supporting them forever. It was better to teach them how to fish than to give them fish. He could give them land so that they would have the capital to survive. Then Ao Bing would have less to worry about.

There are tens of billions of slaves in Su City, and it is not a simple matter to compile household registration for them. But the soldiers of the Dragon Guard are not ordinary people, they are all cultivators in the Refining Void Realm, and one person can be used as tens of thousands of people.

Five thousand people together are equivalent to hundreds of millions of ordinary people. Hundreds of millions of ordinary people register and register hundreds of millions of ordinary people. From this point of view, things will be much simpler.

Therefore, within a year, all the 10 billion slaves in Su City had been registered as citizens. Not only that, but even the 100 billion slaves that were sent in later had all been registered.

Ten billion were slaves obtained from Su City, and the remaining one hundred billion were slaves obtained by Ao Bing from other places in Yousu State.

During this period, although he was in Tongtianze, his men transported all the slaves from various places to Sucheng, and asked the dragon guards who stayed there to build households for them. Although this matter was troublesome, no one who did it felt annoyed. It was not because they were kind-hearted, but doing this kind of thing could not only increase their luck, but also gain merit.

Creating homes for slaves and giving them identities makes them no longer objects but living people. This is beneficial to humanity and will naturally bring good luck.

At the same time, when slaves were admitted into the household, they had to be given names and they had to remember their names.

Although this matter is very simple, it is extremely important. It is the first step in education. Therefore, this action has the merit of education and can gain merit.

Being registered as an equal to the people can not only bring good fortune, but also merit. If they don't do such a good thing, there are many people rushing to do it, so how can they not be happy?

If I am not happy at all and my boss sees it, he will replace me directly, and I will have no place to cry.

Therefore, when the people were registered, the attitude of these soldiers was so good that the slaves were terrified and scared to death.

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"Your Excellency, according to your instructions, I have spent a year compiling the household registrations of all the hundreds of millions of people in Longcheng. Now, their household registrations are all in this book, please take a look, Your Excellency."

Ao Bing arrived in Su City, no, it should be said that not long after he arrived in Long City, the members of the Black Turtle Tribe who he had sent earlier to be registered as citizens came to him holding a jade book and reported to him.

Sucheng is now Ao Bing's fiefdom, so it is not appropriate to call it Sucheng. Therefore, Ao Bing changed the name of Sucheng. At first, it was Jiushou Longcheng, which was taken from the nine dragon veins.

But soon, he felt that the name did not sound good, so he simply omitted the word "nine" and named it Longcheng.

In the future there will be the Suhua Domain, or not the Su Domain, but the Nine-headed Dragon Domain, or simply the Dragon Domain.

"Registration?"

Ao Bing reached out, took the register containing the information of the people of Longcheng, placed it in front of him, and began to flip through it casually.

Before they were incorporated into the national system, these people were slaves, but after they were incorporated into the national system, they became citizens of the Renlong Kingdom, so naturally they could no longer be called slaves.

According to the rules, they should be called human-dragon people, or dragon people. Ao Bing thought it didn't sound good, so he just called them common people.

In this era, the term "common people" has a special meaning. Only the nobles, the descendants of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors and the ancestors of the human race, have surnames. The rest of the people, let alone surnames, do not even have names.

Ao Bing called his people the common people, which was just short of saying that his people were all descendants of nobles. This move would undoubtedly increase Ao Bing's prestige in the hearts of his people, but at the same time, it would also cause dissatisfaction among other princes.

If it were someone else, they might have some reservations, but Ao Bing didn't care. He was not afraid of the princes causing trouble for him, but was afraid that the princes would not cause trouble for him.

In order to get the princes to agree to build the void passage, Ao Bing had agreed with them that he would never initiate a war. This meant that he could not attack other princes without reason, and the other princes had to provoke him first.

This made Ao Bing, who was eager to expand his territory, very embarrassed. How could he expand his territory without attacking other vassal states? He couldn't just buy it with money, right?
In order to make other princes provoke him and give him a reason to attack, Ao Bing now needs to do something to stimulate the other princes.

Calling his subjects common people was just the beginning. He would go further and further out of line, even more outrageous than Emperor Xin, until the rest of the princes could no longer bear it and took the initiative to attack him.

"There are more than 120 billion people near Dragon City, totaling more than 12 billion households, 2.4 billion neighbors, 480 million miles, 120 million tribes, 24 million clans, 4.8 million states, and 960,000 townships."

When Ao Bing was flipping through the register, the members of the Black Turtle Clan gathered together.

All citizens are registered in the household system, and the household is only the most basic unit. Above the household, there are neighbors, villages, clans, parties, states, and townships.

According to the standards set by Ao Bing, ten people form a household, five households form a neighborhood, five neighborhoods form a village, four villages form a clan, five clans form a party, five parties form a state, and five states form a township.

One township has about 12,500 households and 125,000 people. 120 billion people is a lot, but 960,000 townships seem a lot less.

The register is the size of two palms and the width of two fingers, but it can record the information of 120 billion people. It is obvious that this is a magic weapon.

Originally it was just an ordinary magic weapon, used to record information for easy reference. But because of its function, it became linked to the cause and effect of hundreds of millions of people.

At this point, this treasure began to transform. It first gained the favor of the human race, and then gained the attention of humanity, making it a treasure of humanity.

At present, although it has no attack power, it can separate out jade talismans, which serve as identity proof for the people on the register. It is similar to the ID card in later generations, but it is more advanced.

Each person has one jade talisman, which not only represents identity, but also shows whether its owner is alive or dead, and his or her location.

　I'm so embarrassed. I thought I could finish it by six o'clock, but I ended up getting a writer's block.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)