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@ramones1986 @Timaeus @Simeon

I am doing a timeline wherein the Spanish still conquer the Philippines but Northern Luzon's connections to Java, Sunda and Bali are not severed..in this TL Luzon has an elite related to the balinese/javanese ones

I think the Balinese/Javanese design can do good churches as well..

Mejores Filipinas

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On 1570, Linfeng was captured by the authorities in China due to his piracy activities, he was captured, causing him to be imprissoned and released later on, due to his imprisonment he was not able to continue his own piracy activities.

On 1572, the nobility of Kaboloan and Sapa or the Saludongese Kingdoms, known to the Spanish collectively as Reino de Luzon would make a treaty with the Spanish treaty of loose alliance and tributary relation with the Spanish and they would allow missions to happen in their domain and the recognition of the Spanish rule of the lands of Faru, Samtoy(Which includes Vigan) and Macabebe(includes Calumpit and Hagunoy) aka Pampanga, in this point in time Miguel Lopez de Legaspi is dying, he died in the same year as a treaty was ratified between the two sides although he is alive to see the treaty happen.

The petty kingdoms north would attract Hindu refugees from the Islamicized Java after the island would be heavily islamized.

The Balinese and the Saludongese Kingdoms would interact with each other which will cause the beginning of the Catholicization of the Kingdom of Bali in the South.

The Spanish would clear the lands of Faru and Macabebe of the Japanese pirates and christianize the moros or muslims living there.

Sometime afterwards Kaboloan and Sapa gradually became one entity named as the Saludongese Kingdom due to its dynasty being one which would be a sister kingdom of the Balinese and Sundanese Kingdom which are both daughters of the old Majapahit Kingdom.
 
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Verse 2

Spain declared war against war against Brunei in 1578, capturing the capital of Brunei which was Kota Batu. This was achieved as a result of the assistance rendered by them by two noblemen Pengiran Seri Lela and Pengiran Seri Ratna. The former had travelled to manila to offer Brunei as a spanish vassal or tributary in exchange of the throne usurped by his brother, Saiful Rijal.

The Spanish agreed that if they succeeded conquering Brunei, Pengiran Seri Lela would indeed become the ruler of Brunei, while Pengiran Seri Ratna would be the new Bendahara. In March 1578, the Spanish fleet, led by De Sande himself, acting as Captain General started their journey towards Brunei. The expedition consisted of 400 Spaniards, 1,500 Filipino natives and 300 Borneo. The campaign was one of may which included action in Mindanao and Sulu.

The Spanish succeeded in invading the capital on April 16, 1578, with the help of Pengiran Seri Lela and Pengiran Seri Ratna. The Sultan Saiful Rijal, Paduka Seri Begawan and Sultan Abdul Kahar were forced to flee to Meragang then to Jerudong. They made plans to chase the invading army away from Brunei. The Spanish would incur heavy losses due to a cholera or dysentery outbreak. They were so weakened by the illness that they decided to return to Manila on June 26, 1578, after just 72 days. Before doing so, they burned the mosque, a high structure with Five Tier Roof.

Pengiran Seri Lela died in August- September 1578, probably from the same illness that had afflicted his own Spanish allies, although there are some rumors of foul play by the ruling Sultan. Seri Lela's daughter, a Princess of Brunei, left with the Spanish and went to marry a Christian Tagalog, named Agustin de Legazpi of Tondo and they later have children.
 
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The mastermind of the plot was Don Agustín de Legazpi; the mestizo grandson of conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, nephew of Lakan Dula, a relative of Rajah Matanda. Being a Moro, he was the son-in-law of Sultan Bolkieh of Brunei, whose first cousin was Martin Panga, the gobernadorcillo of Tondo.

Besides the two, the other leaders were Magat Salamat, son of Lakan Dula and the crown prince of Tondo; Juan Banal, another prince of Tondo and Salamat's brother-in-law; Geronimo Basi and Gabriel Tuambacar, brothers of Agustín de Legazpi; Pedro Balingit, the Lord of Pandakan; Felipe Salonga, the Lord of Polo; Dionisio Capolo (Kapulong), the Lord of Kandaba and brother of Felipe Salonga; Juan Basi, the Lord of Tagig; Esteban Taes (also Tasi), the Lord of Bulakan; Felipe Salalila, the Lord of Misil; Agustín Manuguit, son of Felipe Salalila; Luis Amanicaloa, another prince of Tondo; Felipe Amarlangagui, the commander-and-chief of Katanghalan; Omaghicon, the Minister of Nabotas, and Pitongatan (Pitong Gatang), another prince of Tondo and two governors from Malolos and Guiguinto.

The cause of conspiracy was the continuous injustice committed by the Spanish Encomenderos against the people of the Sultanate and their lack of respect to treaty obligations with the local aristocracy, which reserved them the right to still exercise nominal suzerainty over their vanquished kingdom, being vassal kings of the King of Spain but still, the Generals of Conquistador Legaspi refused to listen to them. This eventually forced the surviving Maginoo (royalty) to secretly plot to overthrow the Spanish.

The mestizo, Augustín de Legazpi and a group of conspiring Rajahs had contacted the Japanese captain, Juan Gayo, through a Japanese Christian interpreter, Dionisio Fernández, who had also joined the conspiracy. A secret meeting ended with an agreement in which Gayo would supply arms and warriors to help in the rebellion against the Spanish and recognize De Legazpi as king of the entire Philippines. In return, Gayo and his men would receive half of the tribute to be collected from the Philippines. A significant group of merchants known only as the "Sakai Merchants", with their leader Luzon Sukezaemon, had also been known to conspirewith the royal families against Spanish rule.

Apart from the Japanese, there were other secret arrangements that needed to be accomplished before the final plan of the uprising could be completed. First, a secret delegation would travel to Borneo to secure troops and ships from the Sultan of Brunei would be sent.

Second, there was the need to obtain the support and participation of the Datus of La Laguna and Komintang in the struggle for freedom from the Spanish. Once a full commitment was received from the Brunei, Kumintang and Laguna, the full armed rebellion would begin upon the arrival in Manila Bay of the Sultan of Brunei's warships with warriors on board. The conspirators and their armed warriors would then launch a ferocious attack to completely annihilate the Spaniards and then set the city of Manila on fire.

On the way to meet with the Sultan of Brunei, Magat Salámat, Juan Banál, and Augustín Manuguit stopped at Cuyo, Calamianes, to meet with its chief, Datu Sumaclob. The datu was swayed to join the conspiracy and pledged to contribute 2,000 of his men for the cause against teh Spanish. However, Salámat made an error in judgement by recruiting another Cuyo native, Antonio Surabao (Susabao). Upon learning of the secret plan, Surabao rushed to expose it to his master, Captain Pedro Sarmiento, the Spanish encomiendero of Calamianes. Once Salámat, Banál and Manuguit were arrested, Sarmiento hastily traveled to Manila on October 26, 1588 and informed Governor-General Santiago de Vera of a brewing conspiracy against Spanish rule.

Governor-General De Vera immediately ordered the arrest of all the rebels. Tried and found guilty of treason, Augustín de Legazpi and Martin Pangan were hanged, their heads cut off and exposed on the gibbet in iron cages. Their properties were seized by the Spanish authorities and their lands plowed and sown with salt so that they would remain barren. Dionisio Fernández was hanged and his property confiscated. Dionisio Capolo (Kapulong), the lord of Candaba, Pampanga, was exiled from his town and paid a heavy fine. De Vera eventually pardoned him. Later, he served as a guide and interpreter for two Spanish missions into the Kingdom of Saludong or Reino de Luzon.

The Spanish would organize the three provinces that surround the forming Kingdom of Saludong, namely Faru, Samtoy and Macabebe into the Commandancia de Nueva Ecija on 1590.

In this time in 1590's the Spanish and Portuguese missionaries would start to seriously spread the catholic faith in Bali and Lombok which is near the island of Java, causing the two kingdoms to completely convert to Catholicism.

 
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