博学的阿根廷作家博尔赫斯曾经在他的一篇名为“骑手的故事”的小说中讲到了这样的一个故事。当成吉思汗发动的对汉人的战争进入到最后阶段的时候,他的一位将领曾向他建议:汉族人建立的众多城市对我们没有任何意义,不如全部焚毁,将这个几乎是无边无际的中央帝国变为放牧马匹的巨大牧场。这样做,至少这块土地还可以得到利用。幸亏历史上的成吉思汗没有这样做,否则我们根本无法想象今天 Bordeaux, an erudite Argentine writer, once told such a story in his novel The Rider’s Story. When Genghis Khan’s war against Han came to the final stage, one of his generals had suggested to him that many Han-built cities did not make any sense to us, so it would be better for them all to be burned down. This almost endless Central Empire Become a huge pasture of grazing horses. In doing so, at least this piece of land can still be used. Fortunately, Genghis Khan did not do this in history, otherwise we simply can not imagine today