At the pinnacle of power: parachuted into your hometown as a leader right from the start!

At this point, Jiang Feng couldn't help but change the subject to ease the tension among everyone.

"As you may know, when I was a kid, my brother Wu wanted to eat meat, so he would give me a lollipop and ask me to go to his house to steal a hen. Then he would kill it and ask me to take it back to his house, saying that I was the one who did it."

"So Grandpa Wu was too embarrassed to say anything, and he even left me a chicken leg to eat."

Everyone laughed when they heard this.

Especially Wu Hao's father, who spoke directly to Jiang Feng.

"Xiaofeng, actually I knew at the time, but I thought it was fine for a young man to have a little something to eat."

Wu Hao scratched his head, looking embarrassed.

"Hehe, I was young and didn't know any better back then."

Jiang Feng waved his hand and continued speaking to Wu Hao.

"Brother Wu, don't be nervous. We're from the same village, neighbors, and we see each other all the time. What's there to be embarrassed about?"

Wu Hao nodded, then looked at Jiang Feng with some curiosity.

"County Magistrate Jiang."

"Hey, just call me Xiaofeng. It's after get off work now, so I'm just Xiaofeng, not some County Chief Jiang."

Upon seeing this, Wu Hao immediately changed his tune.

"Hey Xiaofeng, I heard our village has twenty factory job openings? How are these openings allocated?"

Jiang Feng waved his hand, looking at everyone with a serious expression.

"Let me explain first. These entry slots are not allocated by us, and the number of slots is not fixed. It's all decided by the investors."

"We're not saying that we'll definitely get twenty people in; it's possible we'll have one more or a few less."

"Ultimately, it depends on the investors' thinking. We're saying this spot is highly likely, do you understand?"

Everyone immediately nodded.

Then Jiang Feng continued.

"Then, how to select these spots depends on the investors' ideas. However, according to the suggestion of our county party committee and county government, priority should be given to families with poor financial conditions, such as families with sick elderly members?"

"Or families that have fallen into poverty due to some unexpected event, let's start with those families in bad circumstances."

"Of course, this is just our suggestion."

Jiang Feng would pause slightly after each sentence to make sure everyone could hear him clearly.

Finally, he emphasized the principle of helping the poor but not the lazy.

"There's another point. We don't give priority to all impoverished families. Some people are lazy and don't even farm properly. There's nothing we can do about those."

"Otherwise, you'd just get fired for being lazy and not doing any work, which would be a waste of a spot."

Everyone nodded in agreement upon hearing this.

But there was a hint of disappointment in their eyes, because many of these families were not actually poor.

At that moment, Jiang Feng's next words brought them hope.

"Of course, there aren't many spots to begin with, and if you give some to impoverished families, there aren't many left."

"So the county government officials stepped in and discussed it with the investors again, and they are prepared to add ten more job openings."

Upon hearing this, everyone's faces lit up with excitement. With ten more people now, their chances of getting in were much greater.

After Jiang Feng finished speaking, he reiterated that the investors would determine the recruitment standards and had the right to dismiss everyone before looking at Wu Hao.

"Brother Wu, do you understand now?"

Wu Hao immediately nodded.

"Okay, I understand."

Jiang Feng smiled, then looked at Chen You and continued.

"Uncle Chen, please proceed to the next person."

Seeing this, Chen You chose another villager.

The villager immediately raised the issue that everyone was most concerned about: the land requisition.

"Xiaofeng, we heard your county government is going to acquire land? How will the compensation be calculated? If we take over the land after the redevelopment, will we need to redevelop it back to its original state? How will the redevelopment costs be calculated?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Feng immediately realized that the main issue had arrived, and the matter of recruitment quotas was a minor matter compared to this.

"Hehe, that's a good question. Our county government has indeed made a lot of arrangements in this regard. Since everyone has asked today, I'll give you a brief explanation."

"But let me make this clear first, this arrangement and announcement haven't been finalized yet, so just take it with a grain of salt."

Everyone nodded, but they didn't believe a word that Jiang Feng, a high-ranking leader, said—that it was just something to listen to.

When a high-ranking leader like Jiang Feng says something, it's basically a done deal.

"Firstly, we have tentatively set the scope of the land acquisition as 2,000 mu of paddy fields, which are fields specifically for growing rice, and it would be best if they were contiguous."

"I remember we had two large paddy fields, right? Both were over two thousand mu (approximately 133 hectares)?"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and Jiang Feng continued.

"As for the compensation for land acquisition, it has been decided, it is a temporary decision, that each mu of land will be rented according to its quality, with a minimum of 150 yuan per mu and a maximum of 200 yuan per mu."

"The government splits the rice and crayfish we grow with us in half, so we also pay the three taxes and five unified taxes, but we only pay according to the share of the land we rent."

"Don't think that just because the county government rented one acre of my land, the county government will also have to pay for the remaining dozen or so acres. That's impossible."

"We rented this experimental field for everyone's benefit. If the experimental field is successful, everyone can follow this standard for breeding and planting in the future."

"If each acre yields a few hundred yuan more per year, won't everyone's lives be better?"

The crowd looked on in shock. A few hundred yuan more per mu?

You have to understand that they work hard all year round farming, and if they can save 200 yuan per mu (unit of land area) after paying taxes and other expenses, they are considered lucky.

Now Jiang Feng says that if it succeeds, he can earn several hundred yuan more per mu (unit of land area).

If they could really achieve that, would they still be living such a hard life? If their income doubled, their lives would be much better, wouldn't they?

Even Wang Qing, who was sitting next to Jiang Feng, looked at him with some excitement.

"Xiaofeng, are you serious? Can you really harvest several hundred more yuan per mu?"

Jiang Feng smiled and shook his head.

"I can't guarantee that, but after calculations by the experts we invited, it's ideal that we can achieve that income."

"But since the experiment hasn't started yet, we can't be sure."

Upon seeing this, everyone immediately started talking at once.

Jiang Feng explained the situation of the experimental field to everyone in detail.

After everyone had finished understanding, there was a brief silence before someone spoke up.

"Xiaofeng, isn't the minimum compensation of 150 yuan per mu a bit too little?"

Jiang Feng couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, because their compensation standard was calculated based on the remaining profit per acre of land in the village.

Of course, this calculation will definitely result in a lower figure, since everyone will inevitably underreport when handing over grain and compiling statistics.

He understands all of this; his family did the same thing when he was a child.