Permanent not Temporary - Mananatili at di Pansamantala MK2
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On 1661, after the defeat of Maniago, due to the town leaders in Pampanga being deceived by the Spanish, Maniago decided to go to his ally, Andres Malong who also led a rebellion in the Island centered in Pangasinan since the majority of his faction had already surrendered to the Spanish, in this point in time there is a leader of this revolt in Ilocos named Almazan.
The Maniago-Malong revolt have been considered a threat to the Spanish control in Luzon due to the people actually supporting it and because the Spanish abandoned their war against the moros in Mindanao, the revolt caused the Spanish to lose most of their gains in the wars against the moros, this was due to the fact that the revolt became a threat to the Spanish rule in Manila and the Manila-Acapulco trade.
After the time the Maniago-Malong revolt change its center to Pangasinan, the Chinese in the island of gold also revolted which coincided with the victory of Koxinga, it is rumored that Koxinga wanted to ally with the 17th Century revolters in the Island of Gold.
The Merdicas (also spelled Mardicas or Mardikas) were Catholic natives of the islands of Ternate and Tidore of the Moluccas, converted during the Portuguese occupation of the islands by Jesuit missionaries. The islands were later captured by the Spanish who vied for their control with the Dutch. In 1663, the Spanish garrison in Ternate were forced to pull out to defend Manila against the Maniago-Malong revolt (sacrificing the Moluccas to the Dutch in doing so). A number of Merdicas volunteered to help, eventually being resettled in a sandbar near the mouth of the Maragondon river (known as the Barra de Maragondon) and Tanza, Cavite, Manila.
Although the Spanish were able to defeat the leaders Maniago-Malong in Luzon, namely Maniago, Malong and Almazan in 1665, when the Spanish had a solid army with collaborators, Merdicas and Spanish and it ended with both Maniago and Malong hanged in 1670.
The remnants of the rebels would hide amongst the infidels and the tribes that are not yet fully converted such as the Apayaos, Sambals, Irraya/Gaddang, Yogads, Isinay, Ifugao and Tagarugs, which would later cause the expulsion of the Spanish missionaries in their areas due to the tribes admiring the rebels and the Spanish trying to eradicate them by assimilation and resettlement of Christians and the rebels would also lead the wars of the Pagans in Luzon against the Spanish missionaries in the late 17th century, the Maniago-Malong revolt also had an impact to the Spanish controlled Christian people.
this revolt would inspire future revolts and the Christians in Luzon or the Island of Gintu or Nueva Castilla would not resettle the sparsely inhabited inland flatlands of Luzon which is majority inhabited by Infidels such as Upper Cagayan, Tarlac, Zambales and Upper Pampanga river basin, further missions in those lands would fail after the revolt and the Spanish would focus on pleasing the nobility of the lands they already control in the island and the Tobacco monopoly in Cagayan would only be found in Lower Cagayan which is in Spanish control, the Spanish would favor the Kapampangans over the Tagalogs and the Ilocanos who made rebellions and a further famines would happen in Batangas and Ilocos regions.
Due to the consequences of the strong revolt started by Maniago, the people would be more assertive of their rights to stay in their ancestral lands and would not leave due to famines but rather chose to defend their own rights.