As for the current chaos in national governance, Liu Bei relies on tiered household registration management to barely control village levels, while Cao Cao and Sun Ce can only depend on the aristocratic families for oversight.
Thus, stabilizing the price of goods across the Han Dynasty cannot bypass these aristocratic families. Otherwise, if these people pretend to comply but secretly resist, aside from relying on the intelligence system to investigate and deal with them one by one, Chen Xi really has no other methods.
"One stone for a hundred coins?" Representatives Weii Ji, Weii Zi, and Wu Yuan, representing the three major merchant families, all frowned. Although state monopoly on salt and iron is the King's Way during this era, when the market has been expanded to the level of the Weii Family and Wu Family, whether state-operated or privately operated doesn't really matter. From one perspective, they are state-operated.
