"You don't need to thank me, the person you need to thank is yourself, I just said that it was your filial piety that touched me. It's nothing else, so the only thing you need to thank is that you have this filial piety, if you really want to be grateful, please keep this filial piety all the time. The Kuroda family has their own school, and the students in the school can eat for free, and they are given a place to live, and if you want, you can go to a nearby school, and there should be a school in Himeji Castle. Yoshitaka Kuroda touched the child's head and said very gently.

"Can I still go to school?" The child asked innocently.

"Of course, as long as I say you can go to school, you can go to school." Yoshitaka Kuroda said to him solemnly.

"Thank you so much, but please go and see my mother first! She's really, really sick. The child seems to be most concerned about his mother's illness.

"You're leading the way?" Seeing that the child is so filial, Kuroda Yoshitaka is still very moved.

The scene just now was seen by many people around him, and many people didn't know who this very plainly dressed young man was, and why he was able to take a few guards in the city so freely, but at least one thing was certain, he was definitely a big man of the Kuroda family, and only a big man could appear in the city with such a strong samurai.

One thing they know is that this old man is very kind, and he can take care of such a child very carefully, which shows that the Kuroda family is indeed very different from the samurai of other famous families.

"That one just now seems to be the current head of the Kuroda family, Kuroda Nakashitaka, Secretary of State!" At this time, a guy from a wealthy merchant who happened to be passing by said it.

"Don't talk nonsense, the lord is a big man in his family, if you say it wrong, you will be killed."

"You can't be wrong, you can't be wrong! I had been to Kuroda Castle once with the chief treasurer of our family, and I had met Kuroda Castle once, and I had seen Kuroda-sama's face when he was giving food to the poor people in the castle. And the person just now, I have looked at it carefully, is the Secretary of State, yes. ”

"You won't lie to us, how could the Secretary of State care about such a little beggar?"

"He is indeed the Secretary of State, I have seen the appearance of an adult in Kuroda Castle before, and now that I think about it, there is nothing wrong with it, he is definitely the original deity of the adult." At this time, another person in the crowd said.

"Lord Lord seems to be really a kind person, I heard before that in order to save an old man in Kuroda City, he fought against a few villains with his bare hands, and he did not pity his identity, now it seems that all this should be true, Lord Lord is really a good person, the Kuroda family can have such a lord, it is really hopeful!"

"Yes! There is really hope for the future! ”

Soon Kuroda and the child arrived at a large house in the far corner of the downtown area of Joshita, which had been built by the Kuroda family to accommodate the nearby homeless.

What the kid said just now was right, the Kuroda family's treatment of these homeless people is generally to give them a place to live, and then ask them if they have their own craft, if there is a craft, just like the old man in Kuroda Castle before. The Kuroda family allowed them to engage in small handicraft activities to support themselves, which was what the Kuroda family would like to see the most.

If they don't have any craftsmanship and can't make any products, they will be trained to adapt to a certain job position, and then find a job that allows them to live.

After all, now that the Kuroda family is under the rule, there are many small handicraft workshops in the castle town, and the development of the handicraft industry means that many jobs can be provided, which is something that the Kuroda family encourages very much.

And if it is said that they are very strong, but they are not willing to work to make money, and they are idle, these people are likely to be taken away by the Kuroda family by recruiting soldiers.

If it's really because of his strong body, he is very suitable for being a soldier, he will indeed be accepted as a soldier by the Kuroda family. And if it turns out that they are just homeless people from other places and are not in good health, after screening, they will be sent to work in the Kuroda family's mines in various places, or on the construction sites of roads, in this way, they can also support themselves, but how long they can live depends on their own ability.

And generally, such a person, after two years of labor, is released, and will honestly go to a productive labor, and is not willing to be caught again on the various construction sites of the Kuroda family, which is not a human life.

But in short, the Kuroda family's policy is very simple, it wants these people to be self-reliant, and if they can't be self-reliant, the Kuroda family will choose to help them destroy them humanely.

Some people will say that this is very cruel, how can they ignore it and let them fend for themselves? But to be honest, compared to other daimyos, the Kuroda family's policies are already very good, and I can't blame them for anything.

But for vulnerable groups like this child and mother, the Kuroda family does not show a particularly superior place, after all, the Kuroda family does not open a welfare home, and there are many situations that the Kuroda family is unwilling to face, but they have to do it.

Like her mother, who is also incapable of living now, and is seriously ill, the Kuroda family really has no obligation to take care of her, and for this child, it is likely that she will go astray later.

But this child was lucky, he met Yoshitaka Kuroda, and this chance encounter also made him change the trajectory of his entire life.

When Yoshitaka Kuroda appeared at the door of their house, he found that the door was open, and there seemed to be someone talking inside, and when the child entered the room quickly, he saw a plainly dressed girl who was treating his mother in his mother's room.

The word "medical treatment" was added by Yoshitaka Kuroda, because he could clearly see that the girl's hand was on the mother's wrist, and it was a very standard pulse check. Yoshitaka Kuroda has seen this action too many times, so there is nothing to doubt at this point, this girl should be a doctor.