The 'Cloud Water' Lu Family had held the post of riverway inspector in Ludong County for at least a century.
The rivers and lakes throughout Ludong County had practically all become the Lu Family's private domain.
In truth, such a situation was extremely common across the prefectures and counties of the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty.
Back then, Emperor Jin Yang had founded the Great Jin Immortal Dynasty in alliance with several cultivation families, granting those families many powers and conveniences from the very beginning.
Later, when the Immortal Dynasty established the Nine-Rank System as the foundation of its state, the system only worsened the situation.
The powerful families of every prefecture and county might not all be local emperors, but they had at least held many substantial local powers for generations.
After eight thousand years, the problem had become so deeply entrenched that even the imperial court had no good way to change it.
More than eight hundred years ago, the court had established county schools, commandery schools, and prefectural schools throughout the regions, as well as the Imperial Academy in the capital, in hopes of breaking this deadlock.
Yet the results were plain to see: nearly all the local schools existed in name only.
The 'Cloud Water' Lu Family had monopolized the post of riverway inspector for years. One could well imagine how many shady dealings and loose ends lay hidden within.
The reason Liang Zhaohuang had not gone to the Inspectorate to complete the handover of the riverway inspector's post with Lu Shiming over the past two months was, on one hand, indeed because the Liang Family could not do without him during this time; on the other hand, it was also to give the Lu Family enough time to settle their connections and loose ends within the