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>When de León eventually complied with the request, Queen-Regent Mariana expressed shock and horror at the decision. She stressed in her letter that “you cannot and should not” send these prisoners to him, as their “crime being so grave and averse to our sacred Religion…they were so justly condemned by the Courts.”193 She correctly believed that Zheng’s actions essentially treated the Chinese residents of the Philippines as his own subjects and grossly interfered with Spanish legal procedures. However, the Spanish officials in the colony could do very little except tolerate the extraterritorial interference and continue their policy of appeasement. Their well-armed but tiny garrison stood no match for the tens of thousands of soldiers Taiwan could muster in the event of armed conflict.194 In fact, by 1670, Zheng Jing and his officials were already seriously considering an invasion of the Philippines, and appeared, for all purposes, to be repeating the precedent set out by Chenggong toward the Dutch, until the outbreak of Rebellion of the Three Feudatories in 1674 put an end to their preparations.
>The expeditionary force planned to attack Manila after the monsoon season, in early 1671. Both the Dutch and English, who followed his maneuvers closely, believed that Jing would prevail, since the tiny Spanish garrison proved ill-prepared for any external threat.95
Samuel Hawley claims Ming China was so weak when mere Chinese merchants killed Spanish governor generals and southern Ming rump remnants forced Spain to lose one of its colonies forever. The Spanish also failed to conquer the Moro Muslim Sultanates to its south for centuries right up to the end of Spanish rule in the Philippines.
Spain also lost its colony in Keelung, Taiwan to the same Dutch East India company that Koxinga defeated in 1662 and his father Zheng Zhilong defeated at Liaoluo bay in 1633 and that the Ming defeated earlier in the Pescadores Penghu islands in 1624.
>When de León eventually complied with the request, Queen-Regent Mariana expressed shock and horror at the decision. She stressed in her letter that “you cannot and should not” send these prisoners to him, as their “crime being so grave and averse to our sacred Religion…they were so justly condemned by the Courts.”193 She correctly believed that Zheng’s actions essentially treated the Chinese residents of the Philippines as his own subjects and grossly interfered with Spanish legal procedures. However, the Spanish officials in the colony could do very little except tolerate the extraterritorial interference and continue their policy of appeasement. Their well-armed but tiny garrison stood no match for the tens of thousands of soldiers Taiwan could muster in the event of armed conflict.194 In fact, by 1670, Zheng Jing and his officials were already seriously considering an invasion of the Philippines, and appeared, for all purposes, to be repeating the precedent set out by Chenggong toward the Dutch, until the outbreak of Rebellion of the Three Feudatories in 1674 put an end to their preparations.
>The expeditionary force planned to attack Manila after the monsoon season, in early 1671. Both the Dutch and English, who followed his maneuvers closely, believed that Jing would prevail, since the tiny Spanish garrison proved ill-prepared for any external threat.95
Samuel Hawley claims Ming China was so weak when mere Chinese merchants killed Spanish governor generals and southern Ming rump remnants forced Spain to lose one of its colonies forever. The Spanish also failed to conquer the Moro Muslim Sultanates to its south for centuries right up to the end of Spanish rule in the Philippines.
Spain also lost its colony in Keelung, Taiwan to the same Dutch East India company that Koxinga defeated in 1662 and his father Zheng Zhilong defeated at Liaoluo bay in 1633 and that the Ming defeated earlier in the Pescadores Penghu islands in 1624.
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