The Alternated History of The Philippines

Chapter 12 - The Death of a Hero

    While at the same time, the Spanish began to mistreat the Filipinos and forced conversion was happening left and right, despite the oppositions by the Baybayin Church and other European powers. And then, the Spanish began to persecute the Baybayin Church as well.

    By the 19th century, another thing had happened. A writer named Dr. Jose Rizal published his two famous novels, Noli Me Tangere, in the year 1887, and El Filibusterismo, in the year 1891. This spread across the Philippine islands, to all European elites, and to many educated Baybayin Filipinos. Their views and opinions are really mixed and unbalanced. While the Baybayins, French, and the British really liked the book despite its contents and language, the Spanish really hated it, considering it as offensive and insulting. It is because the books exposed the evils of the Spanish colonial government, which is supposed to protect the Philippines and made trade agreements with them. But it seems that the Spanish became corrupt in their own right, and began to exploit the Filipinos, enforcing their laws and religion into their lives.

    Then, in the year 1892, when they heard that Dr. Jose Rizal was exiled to Dapitan, Zamboanga del Norte, the Baybayin king of Cebu, Manuel I, was furious at the Spanish, and, alongside the British and the French, began to give the rebel groups arms and ammunition in order to overthrow the Spanish from the country. Since they really liked Dr. Jose Rizal, both foreign governments and the Baybayin monarchy decided to support him financially until his exile is over.

    But, it didn't last long. On January 1st the following year, with Dr. Jose Rizal being executed by firing squad at Bagumbayan, the French and the British finally cut ties with the Spanish for good, deciding to support the revolutionaries.