Dominic Sandbrook

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.

So Almagro says to Pizarro, I think the fair thing to do would be to split this equally between us, between your men and my men.

And Pizarro says, I don't know, because...

We kind of did all the dirty work by arriving and catching Atuelpa and you came late.

So I think what would be best is for you to get just a little token amount.