In 1417, I, a 20-year-old citizen of Boris, joined the Guild of High Sailors on the recommendation of my father, who was a decent man, and who had earned a lot of money in recent years, so my joining went very smoothly.

After joining the Senior Sailors' Guild, with the foundation laid by the Enlightenment Academy and the academy helpers, after a few months of running-in, I adapted to my new job and followed my own chamber of commerce to the sea.

By the way, the Chamber of Commerce I joined was not a small Chamber of Commerce, but a Germak Trade Caravan, although it was not the top large Chamber of Commerce in Bourbon, but with the name of the Germak family, it could be regarded as a mixed wind and water, and there was a good income every year.

When I joined the association, my usher told me proudly that because Bourbon has often been fighting in wars over the years, the Germak Chamber of Commerce, which has special news channels, can always be one step ahead of those chambers of commerce that have no news channels, and is often hired by the army to perform some auxiliary tasks, which is very profitable.

At the end, the receiver also pretended to tell me mysteriously that in the past few years, because of the frequent wars and the severance of overseas markets, now only the war-type chamber of commerce like Germak has been mixed, and the original commercial chambers of commerce have gradually gone bankrupt, and there are countless unemployed workers and sailors, and I remember that the law and order deteriorated sharply in those years, and Luhr VIII had to issue a severe punishment order, hanging more than 3,000 and exiling more than 7,000 mobs to stop this deterioration.

Nowadays, the price of sailors is not cheap, and those who are single are the most popular, they only ask for a bite to eat, a place to sleep, and agree to volunteer to help the chamber of commerce to do black work.

As for the sailors who dragged their families with their families, they could not compete with single sailors in the competition of the Chamber of Commerce, and there was still a family to support, and Bourbon launched martial law again, and hanged the troublesome sailors every day, and in the end they either fled to Pokang, or signed a death contract with the military, and went overseas to fill the ditch.

The inducer nagged me so much, and tried his best to describe the miserable situation of the bottom sailors today, and there is only one implication, since the employment environment is so poor today, as a senior sailor who easily joined the Chamber of Commerce with money and connections, I am not grateful to Dade for his dedication to the Chamber of Commerce?

I have to admit that the alarmism of the inductor really scared me when I was only 20 years old, because I had never paid attention to the situation of the bottom sailors before, and I thought that the truth was really what he said.

Therefore, in the first two years of joining the Chamber of Commerce, I have been working diligently, steadfastly, and hard-working, for fear of being expelled from the Chamber of Commerce for slackness, and then becoming an unemployed sailor with my family, I can only sign a death contract with the military, and I am transferred to an unknown ditch to fight barbarians.

I worked so hard for two years, and at first I saw that other senior sailors who were not much different from my family were very slack, and thought that they were because they had paid more money than me, so I could only grit my teeth and continue to work, but it was not until the end of 1418 that the Chamber of Commerce privately organized a sailors' celebration that I was unexpectedly deceived.

Amid the laughter of the sailors, I realized that what I had said more than a year earlier was pure exaggeration, and that although there were unemployed sailors at the time, it was not at all as serious as the one said. I remembered that in the past two years I had been so frightened by the words of the introducer that I was a cow and a horse, I couldn't help but bow my head in shame at the ridicule of the sailors.

After a few days, however, the sailors could not laugh, for one of the principals, seeing my work, and noticing that I was the second son of the celebrants, decided to promote me, and to the astonishment of the sailors, I was dismissed as a sailor of a ship.

In fact, in a few years, the sailors should have cried, because although my usher's words in 1417 were exaggerated, he was not only an exaggeration of the present situation, but also an accurate description of the current situation of Bourbon twenty years later.

By the way, what kind of business did our Germak Chamber of Commerce do, my Chamber of Commerce used to do everything, but from the beginning of the Bonn Barbarian Rebellion, the Chamber of Commerce, under the leadership of the then president, began to turn in the direction of war, and as a result, within a few years from a so-so and profitable Chamber of Commerce, into a profiteering industry.

And my wise president, because of this contribution, was exceptionally promoted to a high-ranking slave by the Germak family, which can be regarded as a promotion of a class.

In the past few years since I was on the ship, I mainly helped Bourbon transport supplies and act as a transport ship, which could only be done by the military, but a few years ago, in order to save money, Luhr VIII contracted this business to a private chamber of commerce - but how could a real private chamber of commerce compete with our kind of chamber of commerce, which has a big aristocratic background? So this business finally fell into the control of the major aristocratic families.

When I started my own family, my father said that he would only support me for five years, but with the high income of a sailor, I was able to support myself by the time I was 23 years old in 1720.

And it was also this year that Luhr VIII issued another tax increase order, and unlike before, this time the tax increase order was unprecedented in terms of tax increase on us, on us old waterway civilians! Oh my God! What did Lul VIII think? I remember just raising taxes three years ago, right?

After receiving the tax increase order, the Chamber of Commerce issued a notice, saying that because the Chamber of Commerce had also apportioned a tax, our wages would have to be temporarily reduced within a few years.

Oh, bad resolution, but although the salary has been reduced, it has not been reduced too much, so don't take the trouble to protest, really, I want to buy new clothes for my wife on his birthday this year, I promised to buy her when I gave birth, and it looks like this initiative is going to be pushed back again.

A few months later, as soon as I returned from my voyage, I heard a message from my father telling me that since I was able to live independently, his financial aid could be stopped early. It's a pity that the income has been reduced for a while, but because of the tax increase, my father is not comfortable, so I should be considerate of him.

I can understand that the captain of my ship did not like the Lul VIII either, and when I passed by the sailors' room a week ago, I saw several drunken sailors scolding the Lul VIII, but the captain heard him. If it had been normal for the captain to hear the commoners insulting the nobles, he would have whipped him, but that time there were only a few words of criticism, and the captain's inclination could be seen from this incident.

In the years that followed, my ship's most frequent action was to transport supplies to the Bourbon stronghold in the Indoctrination, and it was during that voyage that I saw for the first time the Melami, the native Melami!

We have occasionally brought supplies to the Tenglong Colonial Guard, where we often see the fierce Bourbon expatriates of Ingona who are dying of death, and the Bourbons infected by the Ingona are indeed savage to death, even the lowliest, most smelly beggars of Boris are much more civilized than the expatriate.

We haven't been to the Southern Passage, although there is still a rebellion going on, and it is said that the Germak Chamber of Commerce cannot enter because it is the sphere of influence of other chambers of commerce.

I went to the Northern Passage once, it was a class of a brother chamber of commerce, and the task was to transport supplies to Lorne, and the official at Lorne's dock was also called Lull, with a look of dark circles, as if he hadn't woken up, and he didn't feel like a good person, if he was given a chance, he would definitely make money wantonly.

As I continued to sail with the fleet, I sailed more and more seas, and grew from a chick to an old fur seal, and soon I became the boatswain of the ship in 1426 at the age of 29.

The past few years in Bourbon have been really troubled, at least compared to my childhood, there are wars in the north and south, and occasionally when I go home, I often hear my father complaining about soaring prices, and there are fewer private celebrations, although there are more and more official small-scale celebrations, but this cannot hide that the overall situation in the celebration industry is still deteriorating.

Another 1 year later, in 27 years, Luhr VIII issued the third tax increase order, fortunately this time the tax increase was aimed at people in the northern and southern districts, and I was not among the tax increase targets belonging to the central district. But that's the only thing to be thankful for, because the tax hikes inevitably affect us.

With the increase in taxes in the North and South Districts, many sailors were really unemployed, as the original inductor said, and then they were willing to join the Chamber of Commerce at a lower price, which forced the sailors in the Honbu District to lower their own wages, and the two sides began to fall into vicious competition.

And this kind of competition is not only a competition in wages, many sailors who were kicked out of the chamber of commerce because they did not want to be too low in price, hated those unemployed sailors in the north and south, and this trend became stronger and stronger as time went by, and they began to bully the sailors in the north and south as time went by, and those unemployed sailors were not easy to bully, they also held together, so the two sides often started group fights, causing chaos.

As the law and order became more and more chaotic, I restricted the children's travel, telling them that they had to stay at home honestly, and that if they went out at will, they might be abducted and sold by the unemployed sailors.

In 1429, another terrible thing happened, I followed the fleet to transport supplies to Amada, but when the supplies arrived, the guards detained the ship and the people. Because a military operation organized by the Guards needed some manpower, and he had his sights on us.

So, for the first time, I went to war, mingling in the ranks and fighting enemies who spoke a language. When I first went into battle, I trembled, and after nine deaths, I was finally left with a dark disease in my hand, and I was able to pick up a life.

After counting the ship, it was found that 7 sailors were missing, and I don't know where they went, and after waiting for another day, only 2 came back, and brought the news of 2 deaths, and the information of the remaining 3 people is still unknown.

Because everyone was afraid that the guards would detain the ship again, the captain could only set sail ahead of schedule at our urging, and as for the three sailors who had not yet returned to the ship, they could only say sorry.

After returning to the Chamber of Commerce, the principal said that this kind of thing could not be pursued now, and Germac would not fall out with the generals who were fighting bloodily on the front line for a group of sailors, so the compensation given to us by the Chamber of Commerce was only to give us three months of vacation, nothing more.

However, during the holidays, even though I had the position of boatswain, I could only get a meager salary, and I was all supported by the family's savings, so I only stayed for a month, so I returned to the Chamber of Commerce early in order to support my family.

Unlike before, when I returned to the caravan this time, I no longer had a longing for the sea, only the helplessness of being bound by life, and the exhaustion of needing to support my family.