"Wait a minute..."
Chen Mo found Fu Bi's words increasingly strange as he listened and immediately interjected, "The people of Nanyang can't even afford to eat, their money is almost entirely plundered by rebels, and you're raising the price of rice, who can afford it?"
"Please, listen to me, sir." Fu Bi smiled and continued, "If this notice is issued, it'll attract rice merchants from surrounding counties to flock to Nanyang. Once a lot of rice merchants come here, you can have people guide them, and wouldn't the rice price drop?"
"What if the rice merchants refuse to sell?" Chen Mo asked.
"Easy to come, not so easy to leave."
"You mean rob them?" Chen Mo shook his head and said, "I don't do things that violate the law."
