In fact, today's Chinese Empire, after just a few years of development, like other dynasties, has slowly begun to have a certain division of social classes.

The division of classes, as Lenin, the later revolutionary mentor, put it, is the important criterion of the ownership of the means of production, followed by the role and position in the process of production, and then the mode of distribution. Instead of being directly and simply divided into the propertied class and the proletariat, according to Feng Yunshan's view, the Chinese Empire now has more social classes.

First of all, the interest groups of the former Taiping Holy Kingdom headed by themselves, the core class of power in the Chinese Empire. According to Feng Yunshan's setting, these classes are not only high-powered, but also extremely high-level, and there are also a series of investment opportunities, such as the Erma Company, which is a tool for themselves and these officials to seek money for shareholders. The reason why Feng Yunshan adopted such a method was naturally to apply the system of high salaries and incorruptibility, but not completely high salaries, but to mainly invest in foreign countries and colonize overseas, and use the rapid expansion of foreign countries to earn profits, support the bureaucracy for the empire, and avoid large-scale corruption.

Moreover, in this way, using the platform of the super giant overseas company of the Second Horse Company, a huge and incomparably large common interest group, in fact, it is not only limited to high-ranking officials and other officials, and even many officials in counties and townships have invested in the Second Horse Company, and they can earn dividends from the Second Horse Company every year. In fact, because of the huge reporting rate of the second horse company, more people are unwilling to receive profits, but want to make additional investment, resulting in the development of the second horse company again and again.

This is the top class. It is precisely because of this interest that the officials of the entire empire, at least most of them, are extremely supportive of Feng Yunshan's rule, and this huge synergy has pushed the Erma Company to a situation of rapid expansion and rapid development, and in just over a year, it has become a larger commercial empire than the original Dutch or British East India Company.

Secondly, the second class was the local gentry and merchants who had fallen to the Chinese Empire after the original Manchu Dynasty. In fact, with the establishment of the imperial industrial system and the rapid development of the commercial trade industry, more and more local gentry and merchants have kept pace with the times and began to transform into new capitalists, that is, the capitalist industrial class.

This is actually divided into two groups of people, one is the small and medium-sized gentry in various places, because they defected to the empire before or at the beginning of the establishment of the Chinese Empire, so they survived. During the land reform policy, these people voluntarily donated or semi-forcibly sold most of their land to obtain a fortune, plus the money accumulated by their families over the years, and after the establishment of the empire, they began to privately contract the fields, hiring people to farm to earn the difference in rent and other prices. However, under the continuous application of holy fertilizer and the training of local peasant training centers, agriculture in various parts of the Chinese Empire has increased year by year, and the gradual reduction of grain prices has made it difficult to make a profit at all. In addition, it coincided with the historical moment of the great development of the empire, and the business engaged in was rarely loss-making, and gradually realized the benefits of non-agricultural profits, and more and more assets were invested in industry and commerce, so under the effect of wealth accumulation, this class became more and more, and finally became a powerful force.

On the other hand, there are the gentry who were originally large businessmen in various places. Just like the Jiang family in Lizhou, northern Hunan Province, when they found that the Chinese Empire was about to seize the world, they immediately surrendered, donated a small half of their wealth to the empire, became a legitimate big businessman, and actively participated in the imperial court at the beginning of the investment, not only set up Duojia Industrial Factory, and even established the Industrial Bank in the subsequent business development, and then, with the help of this platform, widely involved in the business of the two Guangxi regions, and through Guangzhou, the capital was developed to the entire Nanyang and even the Western Ocean, and the transportation industry, mining industry, plantation and so on in the Nanyang were widely involvedIn the past few years, the Jiang family's wealth has increased several times?

And this kind of large-scale businessmen, although the number is not too many, but the number is not so rare. The thirteen lines of Guangzhou, the wealthy merchants in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the Jin merchants in Shanxi, have all developed and become the best among them. For example, Hu Xueyan, headquartered in Suzhou and Hangzhou and Shengjing, has now developed into a domestic wealthy businessman with assets of more than 100 million yuan, except for Feng Yunshan, the emperor's designated Erma Company, and the Nanyang Company under the Trade Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, and other three major trading companies, it is difficult to have other daily trading companies or industries in China that can be compared.

Although there are less than 100 top domestic wealthy businessmen such as Wu Chongyao, Hu Xueyan, and Jiang Mingxian, the wealth they have gathered and mastered has reached as much as two or three billion holy yuan. With their energy and the value of their time, a few of them together could buy all of Japan or Burma. However, today Japan and Burma are all vassal states or even territories directly under the Chinese Empire.

Of course, people like Hu Xueyan and Jiang Mingxian, they never thought that they or their families would one day grow to such a point, so they also knew that all this was because of the policies formulated by Emperor Feng Yunshan.

The next class is naturally the emerging skilled industrial workers. In today's Chinese Empire, with the development of industry, some young people who have studied and received education are widely used in the small officials or factories of the local government, especially some of the skilled people who came out of some secondary schools, under the teaching of a group of foreigners or skilled old people, they have mastered a skill and become the emerging industrial workers of the empire. They generally became leaders or managers among the workers, and their salaries were so good that almost one person's salary could support most of the family.

These people, like the professional technicians or high-level craftsmen of later generations, became a new class, and continued to grow in power as the empire's industry grew.

Behind these industrial workers, there is a group of the lowest strata, of which there are two kinds: the so-called proletarians, who earn their living entirely on the income of hired workers given by their employers, and the peasants at the bottom, who live entirely on a few acres of cultivated land. The former is mainly those coolie miners, hired laborers, and the like who do not have any technical content, but although this group is more numerous than industrial workers, it has little influence and has little right to speak, while the other poor peasants, this kind of group of people is the largest in number, and it is also the poorest in the entire Chinese Empire at present.