Peru showed its most self-governing face—as much as the colonial system allowed— during the interregnum caused by the dead of Philippe IV and the childhood of prince Charles, later Charles II, the viceroy of Peru at that time, Count Santisteban, proved with his decisions to be a man of no resources. In addition to the survey that the territory was receiving, the fact named caused a powerful rise of the surveryors, the members of Real Audiencia at Lima and those at Tribunal del Comercio, supported all of them by a deeply established clientelism system.