Kabul City is now completely under the control of the Mughals.

Under high pressure rule, the Kabulans were completely a group of lambs of suffering.

What's even more terrifying is that their communication and connection with the outside world are very poor.

Therefore, Li Dingguo and Guyire were unable to understand the situation in Kabul City as soon as possible.

This has had a great impact on them.

So the first thing Li Dingguo did after coming to the periphery of Kabul was to collect intelligence.

The best candidate for doing this is either someone else or Liu Xingming.

Liu Xingming is now the number one general valued by Li Dingguo.

Those veterans in the Ming army would joke and say that Hao Yaoqi was the one who charged in the battle, and Liu Xingming must be the one who collected intelligence.

One of them uses skill and the other uses brute force, which is also very interesting.

After receiving the task, Liu Xingming of course immediately led his troops to go there.

But they all put on makeup as Guyle suggested.

It was completely in the way of the locals, and even put on a big beard and smeared the skin.

Only by being cautious in the absolute sense can one be invincible.

Guyer is a very experienced person. He knew that the Mughals would definitely set up many levels to check the people coming and going.

On the one hand, it is to collect heavy taxes on merchants, and on the other hand, it is also to check whether there are suspicious people.

After all, if someone infiltrated the city of Kabul and took away important information, it would be very unfavorable to the Mughals.

They finally managed to control this important hub on the Silk Road, so naturally they didn't want to give it up again.

Liu Xingming had been to Kabul before and later, but he had a little knowledge of the folk customs of this area.

At Guyle's suggestion, he only brought dozens of followers and put on makeup to form a caravan, claiming to be from Ottoman.

This identity is more suitable. On the one hand, they come from the west and are not easy to make people suspicious.

On the other hand, the Ottomans had just lost to the Persians, and the Persians lost to the Mughals.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and the identity of the Ottoman merchant is likely to arouse the sympathy of the Mughals.

Of course, the Mughals did not know what language the Ottomans used. Although both empires were very powerful, they had never had any intersection before due to their geographical location.

However, to be on the verge of caution, Liu Xingming and others still learned some of the Ottoman languages.

Guyle is an expert in this regard.

The Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire intertwined, and they had been in contact with each other for many years, and they had a very good understanding of each other's language and culture.

Guyle was also easy to speak Ottoman.

After some language training, Liu Xingming resolutely led the caravan toward Kabul.

The army led by Li Dingguo and Guyier was only a hundred miles away, waiting for news from Liu Xingming at any time.

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The yellow sand is long, and when you meet an oasis, you can feel its value more and more.

This is especially true for caravans.

People need to stop to replenish supplies, and animals need to stop to drink water.

Oasis is undoubtedly their best choice.

Of course, where there is an oasis, the card will be available.

In order to impose heavy taxes on past caravans, the Mughals set up levels in all oasis.

This thirty miles outside Kabul City is no exception.

When Liu Xingming and others led the horse team and came to the level here, they were of course interrogated.

The Mughals could not understand Ottoman language, so Liu Xingming tried his best to explain with gestures, hoping that the other party could understand one or two.

Logically speaking, this is an extremely difficult thing, but the Mughals are obviously more concerned about tax collection.

As long as they can collect enough taxes, they don't care where the other party comes from.

Anyway, the other party’s identities are all businessmen, so what big storm can a businessman cause?

Of course, Liu Xingming didn't want to get involved with these Mughal soldiers, but he still had to do what he should do.

Because if he agreed too happily, the other party would definitely show doubts.

So Liu Xingming made a painful expression and accepted the Mughal blackmail with helplessness.

As a caravan, at this time, it is just spending money to buy peace.

Instead of stalemate like this, it is better to spend money to buy a smooth pass.

After handing over a sum of money, Liu Xingming was able to continue leading the "caravan" to pass.

They were really carrying goods, which were bought by the Persians from the Ottomans, so even if the Mughals had to unbox and inspect the goods, Liu Xingming would not have any fear.

This time he wanted to understand the Mughal situation clearly. He would find out the truth if there were any clues.

Only by doing this can he live up to the entrusted entrusted by the King of Jin.

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Liu Xingming finally successfully led his troops into the city.

Kabul City is not big, at least not as big as Liu Xingming imagined.

Naturally, there is no comparison between Kabul City and big cities like Isfahan, Samarkand and Damascus. Even compared with some border towns, it is not much larger.

Liu Xingming knew very well that he had to enter the city to find useful information. So he spent a lot of money to successfully avoid all suspicions.

There are no business opportunities in Kabul today. Not only are there no business opportunities, but even the vitality is very dim.

This is not exactly what a major town on the Silk Road should look like.

This made Liu Xingming very moved.

A city falls into the hands of the barbarians, even if it is brilliant, it will become lonely.

What they want to accomplish next is the conquest of civilization over barbarism.

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After a period of contact, Liu Xingming has already learned a lot about the current situation in Kabul.

What the Mughals did is actually easy to summarize, which is to charge heavy taxes through high-pressure rule and exploit the people to the extreme.

But this method is obviously not lasting.

But the Mughals don't think so.

They will not stop until they squeeze the last interests of Kabul.

Anyway, for the Mughals, this is an enclave I got.

Since what you get is easy, it is not so difficult to accept after squeezing out the benefits.

At worst, the Mughals could find another enclave and then adopt high-pressure rule as if they were exactly the same to exploit the interests of the local people.

After understanding this, Liu Xingming immediately took action as soon as possible and informed Li Dingguo about the situation in Kabul City.

Liu Xingming not only stated the facts, but also suggested that Li Dingguo not take action easily.

At least so far, Kabul City is still very well-defended.

If you want to attack, it is better to cooperate inside and outside.

Liu Xingming needs time now. It is obviously a better choice to wait until he has thoroughly understood the reality of Kabul City before taking action.

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Chapter completed!