Bumin Qaghan vs Genghis Khan

Okay so I just watched this documentary about the Mongol Empire and now I’m reading this comparison. Genghis Khan’s military score being 98 makes total sense—he basically invented modern siege warfare on the steppe with that whole feigned retreat thing. But Bumin Qaghan’s score at 60.5 feels way too low. The dude crushed the Rouran Khaganate with like one big battle and then set up a political system that lasted for centuries. I know he didn’t conquer China or anything, but the Göktürks basically paved the way for all later Turkic empires. Also the political score difference—60 vs 76.3—seems fair because Genghis’s succession was a mess, but Bumin’s dual khaganate idea was genius. Still, Genghis wins overall because his influence literally changed world history. Just my two cents from reading “The Secret History of the Mongols” and some Wikipedia rabbit holes lol.

This whole scoring system is a joke. How do you quantify ‘influence’? It’s not like you can measure it with a ruler. Genghis Khan’s 88 influence score is based on his conquests opening the Silk Road—but that’s just correlation. The Silk Road was already functioning. Plus, who decides that conquering more land equals higher scores? Bumin Qaghan created a legal code (the Töre) that actually structured governance for centuries—that’s a concrete, measurable achievement, yet his political score is only 76.3? And the military comparison: Genghis fought mostly settled civilizations, while Bumin destroyed a nomadic empire. Those are completely different skill sets. The whole ‘military 98 vs 60.5’ is just Western bias privileging large-scale territorial conquest over strategic state-building. This is pseudoscience dressed up as history.

拿Genghis Khan跟Bumin Qaghan比，就好比拿成吉思汗跟北魏道武帝拓跋珪比。Bumin建立的突厥汗国，本质上跟中国北朝时期的鲜卑政权类似——都是游牧民族入主中原前的“热身”。但Genghis是真正的世界征服者，他的军事体系（十户制、怯薛军、闪电战）直接影响了后世所有草原帝国，包括元朝。而Bumin的突厥汗国，虽然立了《土烈》法典，但本质上还是部落联盟，政治成熟度远不如同时期的北魏（北魏有均田制、三长制）。评分给Bumin政治76.3，我觉得偏高了。中国史学家更看重“定制度、兴文化”，Bumin在这方面跟拓跋珪比差远了。Genghis的政治分60倒是合理，他的帝国靠军事维系，死后立刻分裂。总之，这个评分系统明显是西方中心论，Bumin被高估了。

这个评分系统看着专业，但仔细一算问题不少。军事分Genghis Khan 98 vs Bumin 60.5，差37.5分，可政治分Bumin 76.3 vs Genghis 60，只差16.3分。请问这是用什么权重算出的总分？按我的估算：如果军事占40%、政治30%、影响20%、领导10%，Genghis总分约82.4，Bumin约72.8，勉强合理。但军事和政治权重差这么大，明显偏袒征服者。再对比中国史：汉武帝北击匈奴，军事成就未必低于Genghis，但若按此评分体系，他的军事分恐怕给不到90以上，因为他的“征服范围”不如西方标准里的“横跨欧亚”。这套评分对中国历史人物明显不公。