In fact, the Chinese Empire paid the most attention to the lowest strata, but because the group was too large, even if Emperor Feng Yunshan and cabinet members repeatedly emphasized that the policy should be tilted towards them, the implementation was still a difficult and long-term process.

For the urban workers, the local government has set up technical training schools for free training, and correspondingly cooperates with some workshops and factories to help them work at low or even free prices, which is actually equivalent to apprenticeship in later generations. After half a year or a year of apprenticeship, you can become a qualified general employee. It's just that wages can only support one's survival, and it is difficult to maintain one's family if you want to start a family or support one.

However, there is still a small group of hired workers who stand out as skilled workers, who are welcomed by workshops or factories, and prefer to be hired at the cost of skilled workers, and, through slowly learning technology, eventually become skilled workers or even senior technicians, leaving the bottom class to become a member of the group with better incomes.

In fact, the largest number of people are still the vast number of ordinary villagers. The entire Chinese Empire has a population of nearly 500 million, of which about 450 million people are in the original native Chinese circle, and more than 400 million of them are rural farmers distributed in various places.

Except for less than one-tenth of the gentry from all over the country or the large rich peasants with many fertile fields, the rest of the huge part were ordinary peasant households, and at least half of them had only a dozen or twenty acres or even a few acres of thin fields and dry land. However, in the case of a disaster year or as in the previous Manchu Qing Dynasty, officials at all levels could not even meet the requirements of food and clothing, so they could only rent the fields of the landlords or rich peasants to supplement their livelihoods.

Therefore, after the immigration policy of the imperial court and the local government of the Chinese Empire came out, those peasant households who were really difficult to survive began to divide their families, dividing one or two strong laborers from their families to go out to earn a living, or emigrate, or to work in the city, and the remaining fields could be enough to feed the family. However, immigrants often have to travel thousands of miles at every turn, either to pioneer overseas, or to make a living in the northeast or as far away as Siberia or even in western Xinjiang. However, according to the deployment of the cabinet, the local government still has a way, that is, to direct the surplus labor from the countryside to the cities.

In order to develop basic industries, but also to develop local and national strength, the imperial court allocated funds and the local government raised funds to set up industries, and set up sheng fertilizer factories, cement factories, iron and steel factories, paper mills, printing factories, daily chemical factories, textile factories, flour mills, rice factories, machine factories, carriage factories, match and candle factories, porcelain factories, acid and alkali factories, oil mills, traditional Chinese medicine factories, and so on. If there are minerals, mining and smelters are also established, which requires the employment of a large number of laborers and workers. The source of these workers naturally came from the surplus young and strong people in the countryside, which made the city attractive and attracted a large number of peasants from the suburbs and countryside to work in the various factories of the city to earn a living. With the addition of these factories with this batch of cheap labor, the production capacity has been greatly improved, and the operation has become hot, so that the salaries of these migrant workers have also increased, and the wages of the villagers are much stronger than those of the countryside to do farm work, as the wages are sent back to the countryside, the benefits of being a worker in the city are also brought back to the countryside, and more and more rural farmers run to the city, and join the factories under the leadership of the villagers, and a mutually reinforcing cycle begins.

Of course, not all rural people are able to adapt to working in a city factory. As today's factory, it still needs some technology. And those who have no skills and cannot master it are driven out of the factory, and when they see that their fellow villagers are rich, some of them will not be able to return to the village, so they can only continue to look for other livelihoods. And most of them were brought to the mines around the city or even hundreds of miles away by the recruitment information published by the occupations in the city, and began a tiring miner career.

However, even if you work as a miner, the salary is not high, but it is still much better than farming in the countryside. Often after a year or two of hard work, you can save more than 20 or even 30 saint yuan, compared to farming in the countryside, if you want to earn so much money, I am afraid that you may not be able to do it in five or eight years. It is precisely for this reason that many villagers come to underground mines to earn money with the idea of working hard for three or five years to earn money. Prisoners of war from the Manchu Dynasty, as well as prisoners of war from Korea, Vietnam, and the Americas, were sent to the mines in large numbers, but the number of these people alone was not enough, so there was room for these farmers to act as miners.

However, this is also what the imperial court of the Chinese Empire is happy to see. First, it promoted the development of the mining industry, and secondly, it also gave farmers in the countryside another way to earn a living, which in turn led to the process of urbanization and industrialization.

In the process of urbanization and industrialization consciously carried out by the imperial court, a large number of small towns were established, and the original large and medium-sized cities, after several years of development, have also changed their appearance.

In particular, the rich lands in Liangguang, Huguang and Jiangnan were rich in life, because of the large population and the small per capita land, many villagers and peasants lived in misery, and even because of the establishment of the empire and the improvement of policies, they could only barely make ends meet. Because of the development of transportation, they have the opportunity to go to the county seat or town to see the life of the people in the city, and they are extremely envious, and the population begins to flow, and some of the neighbors around them work in the city, and even mine outside, but they send a lot of money home every year, which makes them very envious. As a result, some people followed suit, and the population of the city grew dramatically. Moreover, with the development of industry in the city, commerce and service began to develop, and the families of those who worked in these jobs also followed to the city. In this way, after several years of development, not only Shengjing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou, Fuzhou, Hangzhou, Wuchang, Tianjin, Fuzhou, Chengdu and other cities began to become super cities, with a population of more than one million, and even Shengjing and Guangzhou are megacities with a population of more than 2 million, and other cities such as Hangzhou, Changsha, Anqing, Ningbo, Xiamen, Wuzhou, Qiongzhou, Beijing, Shengjing, Kaifeng, Guilin and other cities also have a population of more than 500,000.

Not only that, but some other small counties and towns with only a few thousand people have also developed with the establishment and development of several factories and the existence of thousands of workers and their families, making the city grow and become tens of thousands or more than 10,000 towns. Some villages have become towns directly because of transportation, industry, commerce, etc., and there are not a few.

Although the urbanization rate of the entire Chinese Empire is not high, the absolute number of cities and the number of urban population are already the largest in the world.

Compared with the United Kingdom, which is the most urbanized, the population of the entire British mainland city is only 145 million, while in France, there are only about 10 million. In today's Chinese Empire, even if it does not include some small towns with less than 3,000 people, the entire urban population has reached at least 45 million if you count the towns with more than 4,000 or 5,000 people. Moreover, with the development of cities and the growth of industry, the urban population is still increasing at a rate of about five or six million per year.

The level of industrialization and commercial trade activities of the Chinese Empire also increased significantly in line with the rapid increase in urban population.