 Since mercenaries at that time formed a large part of the army and the loyalty of the Hungarian nobility in particular depended on cash payments, he advocated a consistently mercantilist policy, the main aim of which was to increase available funds.He primarily called for securing important sources of income such as ore mines such as the Transylvanian gold mines in the Apuse Mountains.In his opinion, the wealth of an empire depended primarily on the raw materials it contained and less on trade, which at that time was mostly limited to luxury goods.