Of course, Zhu Houwei is not completely ignorant of the use of gasoline, for example, he can make oil bombs, which is not small in power and is indeed very lethal, but Zhu Houwei is not very interested, after all, when it comes to military industry, Zhu Houwei is most interested in artillery and muskets.

If the military workshop in Tongzhou can make ultra-long-range howitzers and Makqin machine guns, then Zhu Houwei dares to say that all the armed forces on the earth are rubbish.

Of course, this is not an unrealistic luxury, but at least in more than ten years or twenty years, Zhu Houwei has not thought about it, after all, if you want to achieve this step, the first thing to achieve is the industrial assembly line.

Now, after more than ten years of hard work, Zhu Houwei has become a flintlock gun to make the bird gun a flintlock gun, and the breech gun has become a breech gun, and then he is familiar with the rifling, which has made Zhu Houwei feel very satisfied.

Zhu Houwei has a lot of ideas, he still wants to have bombers and nuclear bombs, if there are these, then he will not hesitate to throw one hundred and eighty bombs on the island first, and it is best to blow it up.

In addition to gasoline, there are also diesel fuel and kerosene, these two have nothing to say, the role of diesel and gasoline in the current is also not obvious, and kerosene, Zhu Houwei only knows kerosene lamps......

As for asphalt, it's a good thing, because it can pave roads, and the paved roads are smooth, beautiful, and strong, at least better than concrete roads.

Generally speaking, the refining value of oil mines is still too small at present, so Zhu Houwei did not include oil mines at all.

As far as Zhu Houwei is concerned, the only mines that really need to be inventoried and then nationalized to realize the contract system are silver mines, iron mines, copper mines, and coal mines.

The reason why gold mines are not considered is because of the value, not that the value of gold is low, but that the output of gold mines is really low under the current gold panning technology, so it is directly ignored by Zhu Houwei.

Copper ore is not important, because copper is the most important circulating currency in the market today, but the copper ore reserves in China are not abundant, so copper mines, especially those with large reserves, such as Dexing copper mine, must not be let go.

Of course, Zhu Houwei's ultimate goal for currency is always paper money to replace precious metals, but this matter is not urgent, to restore the Ming people's fear of paper money, to let paper money get rid of the shadow of treasure money and completely establish credit, it is not something that can be successful overnight.

Now several businessmen can use their own industries to force paper money settlement to establish credit, which has made Zhu Houwei very satisfied.

If you want to make paper money become the hard currency of the Ming Dynasty, the establishment of credit and not indiscriminate printing is the key, and the reason why the treasure money has depreciated to the point that it is worthless to the last point is that the root cause lies in the indiscriminate issuance.

This is indeed a bit ridiculous, ridiculous that the people in power have no economic common sense at all, thinking that crazy printing money can get the country out of financial difficulties?

But it never occurred to me that it was a quagmire, and the more it was printed, the lower the purchasing power of the paper money in the market, and then there was inflation, and the price of inflation was depreciation, complete depreciation.

How much gold and silver reserves, whether to establish a gold standard or a silver standard, the number or value of paper money is constant, for example, if there is a reserve of 10,000 taels of gold, then the amount of paper money issued can only be at most twice as much as the gold reserve, or a little more.

There are only 10,000 taels of gold, but you have to print 1 million taels of banknotes, and it is strange that the currency is not inflated, and even a run on the bank can make the bank go bankrupt directly.

The price of losing credit is that at least during the time when Zhu Houwei was emperor, he no longer had to think about paper money becoming the mainstream currency.

As for whether the banknotes will be counterfeited, there is no need to worry about this, the banknotes circulating in the bank, including large silver bills, are electroplated by the electroplating process, and if you want to forge them, you must first learn to use electricity.

Moreover, in order to prevent counterfeiting, banknotes are updated, and anti-counterfeiting means are all conventional means.

Counterfeiting banknotes is nothing to say for Zhu Houwei, dealing with this kind of people is no different from dealing with human traffickers.

Only by re-enforcing the canon can we deter, which is Zhu Houwei's unswerving creed.

There are also silver mines, the silver reserves on the land of China are also not rich, and where there are many silver mines, Zhu Houwei knows that one is Bolivia in South America, but that place is too far away, and Zhu Houwei can't reach it if he wants to.

Then there is the Korean Peninsula and the Wa State, but North Korea is a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, unlike the shameless South Korea in later generations, the current Joseon Dynasty is quite respectful to the Ming Dynasty, and he really can't make up his mind to let Zhu Houwei conquer for silver, and it is estimated that the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty is enough to drown him.

It is worth mentioning that at this time, the Wakuni had not yet officially developed the Iwami Ginzan, and after the Wakuni set off a mineral exploration boom a few decades later, Iwami Ginzan contracted one-third of the silver production on the entire earth!

Iwami Silver Mountain has been mined for more than 200 years, and its abundant silver reserves can be seen.

Whether it is to grab the silver mountain or to integrate into the unforgettable hatred in Zhu Houwei's bone marrow, one of the most important and must achieve goals in his life is to set foot on Wa Island.

This goal is even heavier than the rise of the Ming Dynasty, which is a typical non-stop!

Although the silver mines on the land of China are not abundant, there are still a lot, such as the Tongbaipo silver mine in Henan, which has a silver content of two or three thousand tons, and if all of them are mined, it will be tens of millions of taels of silver.

However, like gold mines, they are subject to backward mining and refining technologies, and the possibility of developing all these silver mines is too low.

Therefore, Zhu Houwei plans to let it go, and wait for the technology to be advanced before starting the gold and silver mine.

Zhu Houwei's targets have always been copper, coal and iron mines.

Copper ore is for currency, in order to increase the treasury reserves of the Ming Dynasty, and iron ore!

Iron ore Zhu Houwei didn't think about contracting out at first, but later changed his mind because of manpower.

He has decided to rely on the big iron mine to build a big iron plant, and if he wants Daming's steel production to grow by leaps and bounds, the first thing is to have a large amount of iron ore crushing and refining.

Constrained by the transportation capacity of the times, Zhu Houwei could only build the large iron plant on the edge of the mine, so as to save a huge amount of transportation costs, contract out the iron ore, let the contractor hire people to mine, and he was responsible for the acquisition.

It seems to be a bit troublesome, but in fact, it eliminates the direct way for iron factory officials to cheat from ore.

The last is the coal mine, the name of the coal boss in Shanxi, almost everyone in the country knows, the use of coal in these years is still a lot, hold the coal mine, the profit will definitely not be much lower than the copper mine!

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