After the Salt Transport Commission corruption case ended, Yang Zhengshan had thought the matter had nothing more to do with him. But he had not expected that, just as he received the news the very next day, the Zhang Family of Liao'an Prefecture would come calling.
In the main hall of the Yang Family's front courtyard, Yang Zhengshan looked at the trembling Zhang Maosheng and smiled faintly. "I wonder what brings Family Head Zhang here?"
This time, the Zhang Family could be said to have bled heavily. Not only had all the silver deposited by the Salt Transport Commission's officials, high and low, in their Zhang Family's Datong Bank been confiscated, the Zhang Family had also paid a fine of one million taels of silver.
So-called fine silver could also be called dirty silver. It belonged to illicit gains. To put it simply, the court felt these salt merchants had earned too much, so it took some from the salt merchants' pockets.
Speaking of it this way made it sound somewhat unreasonable, but the fact was that these salt merchants had indeed taken part in bribery.
And compared to those salt merchants whose homes had been directly confiscated, the remaining salt merchants could already be considered lucky.
"This old man has come to thank General Yang!"
Zhang Maosheng's attitude was humble as he bowed solemnly to Yang Zhengshan.
Behind him, the two brothers Zhang Qingsong and Zhang Qingyun also followed suit and bowed in thanks.
"This general did not help you!" Yang Zhengshan said with a calm expression.
"When the general did not imprison us back then, you were already helping us!" Zhang Maosheng said.
There was nothing wrong with those words. At that time, Yang Zhengshan had only sealed up the Zhang Family and had not imprisoned the Zhang