The specific matters of the alliance were handled by Smith and his team, who named the alliance the Afghan Mujahideen Alliance, and then refined some of the rules and regulations of the alliance...... That's not something I'm interested in, and it's not something I'm good at...... That's probably my strength, and I never bother with things outside of my abilities.

I also mentioned this matter to Pessel...... The reason why I met with Pesur again was because the mountain road was almost finished, and I wanted to know his opinion on the quality of the weapons we offered...... Actually, my main purpose in meeting him was to find out if he had read through my mind and taken possession of the Hijeo Valley for himself.

To my surprise, Pesul seemed completely unaware of my real purpose in building roads and equipping them, and instead was very enthusiastic about me when we met......

"Dear Chinese friends!" It was still in the same cave where we met before, and Pesul's attitude towards me was obviously much better than the last time.

"Thank you so much for your help!" After giving me a salute, Pesur said with a grateful face: "The equipment, ammunition and food you have given us are very useful and have solved many problems in the valley of Sijeo, may Allah bless you!" ”

"This is what we should do!" I said, "The other mountain roads are already about to open, and it will be much easier for us to deliver supplies to Sigeo, and I'm glad we can solve the problem in the Xigio Valley!" Thank you for your help and support on the road! ”

After a while, I mentioned the idea of forming an alliance, and I wondered if he would be interested in participating...... After all, the armed forces of Pesur are already a force to be reckoned with in the guerrillas...... It's not that there are many of them. It's because they occupy a very favorable terrain.

Pesul just smiled. Handed me a cup of black tea as usual...... Afghans rarely eat vegetables. This may be due to the fact that Afghanistan has little arable land and is not easy to irrigate, and their limited arable land is also used to grow food, or to grow more drugs...... As a result, black tea has become a source of vitamin supplements for Afghans, and they usually chat while drinking food when they have nothing to do.

"Dear friend!" Pesul's style of speech was a bit confusing, and as he was now, he didn't give me a positive answer at all, but asked, "I wonder what you think of this alliance?" ”

"I don't think he's an alliance!" I'll be honest: "This coalition is more of a temporary structure formed for the continued funding of the U.S. government...... The Afghans are so disunited, it is difficult for them to unite! ”

"You're half right!" Pesur said: "Half the wrong again! ”

"Half the way back?" I'm a little confused. I don't know where I said it wrong, and it seems like it's just one thing.

"For this alliance...... You're right! Pesul replied: "But the Afghans are not disunited, on the contrary...... It's so united! ”

"This ......," I was a little puzzled by: "How can it be so united?" In the case of foreign invasion, there is constant infighting......"

"That's because you don't know Afghanistan!" Pesur interrupted me and said, "Remember I sued you...... Does Afghanistan mean 'man of the mountain'? Because we Afghans live in the mountains...... And this mountain cannot be farmed and hunting, and some are only merchants from Central Asia and West Asia who are constantly passing through Afghanistan...... So what do you think the Afghans can do? ”

I thought about it, and said in a tone of uncertainty, "Is it ...... Robbery? ”

Pesul nodded: "That's why the Afghan people are fierce...... Coupled with the difficult realities of the environment, Afghans have to unite in groups...... But because each piece of land can accommodate a small number of people, it ...... This solidarity is destined for only a small group of people, and it is exclusive! ”

"Oh!" I nodded in a sudden realization, this is actually the same as the truth that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers...... Tigers eat a lot. If there are two tigers in a mountain at the same time, then the food on the mountain is simply not enough to feed two tigers at the same time. Thereupon...... In the long process of evolution, the exclusivity of the tiger has been developed...... They will occupy the mountain as kings, and they will make a hill and not allow other tigers to encroach on their land.

The same must be true of the Afghans...... Robbery is not an easy business, on the one hand, they must not be too small...... Too few of them can't defeat the merchant armament at all, and on the other hand, they can't have too many people, too many things to grab are not enough points, and it will also discourage the caravan.

So it developed for a long time...... The result is the small tribes that Afghanistan is now incompatible with.

"So ......," said Pessul, "dear guest...... You should have seen it, too, if it's within a tribe, or within a guerrilla group...... Then they are united, and precisely because of this unity...... It makes them resistant to people or things outside the tribe...... So the problem in Afghanistan is not that there is no unity, but that it is too united! ”

I nodded, having to admit that Pesur had a point...... So the word "unity" should be seen in two ways...... Too much unity is not necessarily a good thing, and not being united is not necessarily a bad thing, because disunity represents very few small groups of interests like Afghanistan.

Isn't there a saying? "One Chinese is a dragon, and three Chinese are worms......

Of course, this is ironic Chinese lack of unity, and I used to think that was true, because it is rare to see three or five Chinese in life who are united or partner in business to succeed...... But now I feel that this sentence should be added to the end: "A country's Chinese is also a dragon...... Moreover, it is also a giant dragon, because what the Chinese pay attention to is not the unity of three or five people, but a kind of great unity of the people of the whole country developing in one direction, and the great unity centered on the interests of the entire country.

Then I thought it was strange that when I was talking to Pesul...... I feel that he is a very wise person, and he is able to study things in a very comprehensive way, especially by combining the history of Afghanistan with the current situation, so he has studied the problem very thoroughly...... I think that's why so many guerrillas fought with him in the Jessio Valley.

But...... Objectively speaking, he is not the right leader. (To be continued......)