I'm trying to call my own laravel api with POST method.. these are the routes

I'm trying to call my own laravel api with POST method but I am not getting the post values in get_cities_list method.

LocationController.php

public function get_cities(){
$params = array('country_id' => 1);
$req = Request::create('api/get_cities_list', 'POST', $params);
$response = json_decode(Route::dispatch($req)->getCOntent());
print_r($response);
}

Api/CommonController.php

public function get_cities_list(Request $request){
print_r($request->all()) //empty array
print_r($_POST) //empty array
}

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