Why was the Philippines mismanaged in the 19th Century?

Why was there a lot of mismanagement in the Philippines in the 19th Century? It seemed that it was an 'Anglo-Chinese Colony with a British Flag'. If Spain lost all of it's colonies by the 19th Century, shouldn't they have enough money to invest in the Philippines? Why were the friars and colonial officials fight each other. Why wasn't the Captaincy-General promoted to a Viceroyalty? Why did the colonial government imported a lot of Chinese in the Philippines? If they wanted foreigners, they could've asked for them in Latin America or Spain? I think this is bad because The Spanish would lose control of their country to the Chinese and there would be power struggles between the Chinese and the Spanish.
 
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Why was there a lot of mismanagement in the Philippines in the 19th Century? It seemed that it was an 'Anglo-Chinese Colony with a British Flag'. If Spain lost all of it's colonies by the 19th Century, shouldn't they have enough money to invest in the Philippines? Why were the friars and colonial officials fight each other. Why wasn't the Captaincy-General promoted from the Viceroyalty? Why did the colonial government imported a lot of Chinese in the Philippines? If they wanted foreigners, they could've asked for them in Latin America or Spain? I think this is bad because The Spanish would lose control of their country to the Chinese and there would be power struggles between the Chinese and the Spanish.

The biggest problem for the Spanish that there were parts that wanted to join the dutch - there is a cultural connection between parts of Luzon and Java..for me sharing Luzon with the Dutch like the Portuguese did with Timor might be a better solution, give the areas not beneficial to the galleon trade to the Dutch..the Central Philippines is more loyal to the Spanish
 
The biggest problem for the Spanish that there were parts that wanted to join the dutch - there is a cultural connection between parts of Luzon and Java..for me sharing Luzon with the Dutch might be a better solution..the Central Philippines is more loyal to the Spanish
I had no idea??? I thought that the people of Luzon were already Christianized and would probably forget about their connection with Java.
 
I had no idea??? I thought that the people of Luzon were already Christianized and would probably forget about their connection with Java.

Actually, the Spanish did some resettlement and genocide in order to pacify the certain Parts of N.Luzon since parts of it were actually rebellious against the Spanish, there were a lot of revolts in the 16th and 17th century and those resulted in genocides and the upland of Luzon remained pagan even to the present.

There were also multiple attempts of the Dutch to gain the Philippines.
 
Actually, the Spanish did some resettlement and genocide in order to pacify the certain Parts of N.Luzon since parts of it were actually rebellious against the Spanish, there were a lot of revolts in the 16th and 17th century and those resulted in genocides and the upland of Luzon remained pagan even to the present.
I thought that Northern Luzon doesn't have a connection with Java, and that Metro Manila would have a connection with Java.
 
I thought that Northern Luzon doesn't have a connection with Java, and that Metro Manila would have a connection with Java.


It is Northern Luzon that remained hindu and pagan, while Southern Luzon and Metro Manila is more connected to Borneo...some tribes people of Northern Luzon did not like the treatment of the Spanish and a lot of them did not like the mandatory conversions and reducciones..which resulted to genocides..and resettlement, the Portuguese treated their East Indies colonies much better..in my opinion..
 
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@kasumigenx I don't think the Portuguese were better. This is because the Portuguese were neglectful and exploitative to their colony of East Timor and that there were no universities or significant religious institutions. Tell me more about the Central Philippines' loyalty to the Spanish government?
 
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@kasumigenx I don't think the Portuguese were better. This is because the Portuguese were neglectful and exploitative to their colony of East Timor and that there were no universities or significant religious institutions. Tell me more about the Central Philippines' loyalty to the Philippine government?


The Visayans are more dependent on the Spanish since the Spanish protect them against the Moro/Muslim incursions/raids..

Regarding the chinese connections in the philippines..Northern Luzon prefer the Japanese traders over the Chinese..
 
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It is Northern Luzon that remained hindu and pagan, while Southern Luzon and Metro Manila is more connected to Borneo...some tribes people of Northern Luzon did not like the treatment of the Spanish and a lot of them did not like the mandatory conversions and reducciones..which resulted to genocides..and resettlement, the Portuguese treated their East Indies colonies much better..in my opinion..
I thought that Northern Luzon was more connected to China with the Huangdon of Pangasinan. I don't think that the Majapahit ever reached that far. So I'm skeptical about the Hindu influences.
 
I thought that Northern Luzon was more connected to China with the Huangdon of Pangasinan. I don't think that the Majapahit ever reached that far. So I'm skeptical about the Hindu influences.

Actually, the Northern Luzon people preferred the Japanese traders over the Chinese in the prehispanic era, the problem is that the history of the Philippines had lots of problems in records I was told by a historian that those articles in wikipedia are false due to lack of 1st hand evidence..
 
I believe the problem in the 19th century is social rather economic.

There was indeed economic growth in the Philippines in the 19th century. philippines was better off than its Asian neighbors roughly same per capita as Japan by 1890s revolt. But the development is not as the same level as Britain nor Germany. More or less like Spain or Argentina, due to agriculture economy, which is backward in western European standards.

The problem stems with someone born in Iberian peninsula having more rights/benefits than any other person born in the Philippines which is social in nature. In short, equal rights. So, the competency of the colonial government, Friars is based on where you are born rather than competency of the individual handling the job. This is the root cause of all Philippine rebellions in 19th century from Novales down to aguinaldo.

If you want better economic development for Philippines, you need to butterfly Spain since Philippine development is limited to Spain's knowledge and capability which is backward for otl 19th century standards. Or remove Philippines from the limitation being under Spain either thru independence or being under a more advance colonial master.
 
@kasumigenx I would like to know the sources of the information that was presented on this thread. I think that Central Luzon was influenced by the Bruneian Empire rather than Java. The Huagdon of Pangasinan was also influenced by China because there were Chinese silks and Chinese records had called the place (feng-jia-xi-lan)
 
@kasumigenx I would like to know the sources of the information that was presented on this thread. I think that Central Luzon was influenced by the Bruneian Empire rather than Java. The Huagdon of Pangasinan was also influenced by China because there were Chinese silks and Chinese records had called the place (feng-jia-xi-lan)


The chinese records have no primary source, however, there are alot of epics linking central and northern luzon with java and Luzon was mentioned in its old name in the eulogy of Hayam Wuruk, the records that wrote the chinese links to central luzon is not a primary source because they don't have a personal knowledge about the topic.

The Bruneian History is scant before 1500's..
 
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