((Private: Senor Scruvera))
Senor Scruvera,
Your concerns are certainly legitimate, though I feel that they may perhaps be overblown; this investment that I propose, and more specifically the oversight, would be in regards solely to promote the military and commercial vessels of the Crown, whilst the shipyard would have largely free reign over the remainder of its other business, so long as it follows the pertinent laws that all other industries must follow.
Furthermore, your fears that the company will not grow are, in my estimation, largely a non-issue; the Crown can and likely will be a valuable customer, whilst in all matters with which we have an active interest, we ensure that our vital industries are protected and promoted; as was outlined in my previous letter, the Crown would be willing to devote time and funding to not only expanding the shipyard, but also taking measures to ensure that, even in the event of a deficit being run by your shipyard, it will receive enough support to ensure that any and all royal projects are well provided for, to the extent that most every concern regarding growth or stability or the like would rendered largely unimaginable.
~ El Marques de Pontevedra
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Reports of further, and increasingly belligerent, pamphlets from the Philippines reached the Marquis; however, it seemed that these radicals did not even have their facts correct. Thus, as an immediate fail-safe, in addition to issuing a formal ban on these pamphlets to be enforced by the local authorities and by his secret policemen, and ordering the arrest and interrogation of those in possession of such subversive material, he also penned the following tract:
The Kingdom of Spain has, despite the onset of a recession brought about by the Liberal States of Europe, recovered by and large by virtue of the pragmatic and effective policies of the Royalist government; further industrial expansion, and therefore greater availability of goods and access to an increasingly developed and expansive market are now available to His Majesty's Filipino subjects. Whilst the liberal parties of Spain did little more than complain and debate, the Royalists enacted meaningful changes to the budget, whilst simultaneously preserving the safeties enjoyed by the workers of the Kingdom, as evidenced by the Royalist-led opposition to the repeal of several laws that guarantee the safety and security of all His Majesty's workingmen. The Filipinos, like all subjects of His Most Catholic Majesty, enjoy freedoms many of their fellows throughout the rest of the world lack; who amongst the Chinamen are free? The Dutch rule their colonies with an iron fist, as do the British in India. Spain has, since the reign of Great Carlos V, actively worked to advance the status of all of its colonial possessions - trade has been made easier, laws protecting the worker from predations made and enforced, and countless other benefits, from modern infrastructure, schools, administration, and security from other, less scrupulous powers.
Though he had little evidence as to who was behind this spree of sedition, and even less about its origins, Pontevedra began taking greater interest in the colony, as well as precautionary measures. Pontevedra instructs the clergy, after having been so egregiously attacked, to make more stalwartly pro-Spanish sermons and speeches, whilst supported by the bureaucracy. In a similar vein to elsewhere in the empire, Pontevedra attempts to reform and improve the bureaucracy of the Philippines to further bolster Spain's position on the island.
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