>>17900143
It gets even funnier:
The guy who planned on conquering China for Spain was Luis Perez Dasmarinas, Governor of the Philippines in the late 1500s and a wannabe conquistador who wanted to be like his early 16th century idols like Cortez or Pizarro.
In reality, he was fucking pathetic as Philippine Governor:
>Tried fighting Southern Moro Muslims & got booted off.
>Forced to end his Muslim Campaigns when Toyotomi Hideyoshi threatened to invade the Philippines if Spain didn't stop sending missionaries.
>Dasmarinas panicked, and took every Spanish soldier to Manila to defend the capital.
>Hideyoshi invaded Korea instead, but all soldiers were in Manila, Muslim Moros raided & enslaved Spanish subjects who were left defenseless.
>In 1593 Dasmarinas announced his plans invade China for Spain.
>He thought Cambodia was a nice place to start since Khmers were weak..
>Ridiculously fucking lost to the Cambodians who were undergoing the worst period in history: the Khmer Dark ages.
His term as governor ended in 1596 but he remained in the Philippines to pursue his conquistador dream so his retardation continued.
>1596.
>He attempted another expedition to Conquer Cambodia.
>His fleet got blown off-course by a typhoon and landed near an Island near Macau.
>Portuguese got pissed off and attacked the expedition, driving it back to the Philippines.
Dasmarinas met his end in 1603 when the Chinese merchants & immigrants in Manila rebelled against racist Spanish decrees. After 20,000 Chinese rebels- just mere peasants & rebels- surrounded Manila, Dasmarinas demanded that the Spanish should counterattack, but the new Governor told him to wait for reinforcements instead. Dasmarinas got pissed off, yelled "TWENTY-FIVE SPANIARDS ARE ENOUGH TO CONQUER ALL OF CHINA" and sallied out with like a hundred men.
The Chinese peasants merely lured him into a swamp and slaughtered his conquistadors piecemeal. His head was propped up in the siege lines the next day.
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