Dominic Sandbrook
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And they said, we've already taken steps to start hoarding it.
We've got a big storehouse there.
We've got blokes guarding it.
Great.
And Pizarro and Almagro say, oh, my God.
So Cusco's next.
So this is a thing.
See, they're going to want to go on to Cusco.
On the 17th of June, Pizarro starts to share out the gold.
A fifth of it is set aside for the crown.
After that, all of his horsemen will get 90 pounds of gold.
That's 40 kilos.
and they'll get £180 of silver, 81 kilos.
Anyone who's not a horseman gets half of this, except for the priests and friars who get even less.
I don't know why.
They're pledged to poverty.
I suppose so.
And, of course, the bigwigs get a lot more.
Fernando de Soto gets double.
Francisco Pizarro gets seven times what a horseman gets, and he gets Atuelpa's solid gold throne, which is very expensive.