The reality of blood and soil, race and empire

What the original people of an empire must understand is that once an empire has acquired enough land and peoples, the descendants of the people who did all the fighting will not get the credit if they suffer from degeneracy. It is the descendants of the peoples acquired who will end up receiving preferment because they are more anxious to please their imperial masters.

There must be parents who prefer their adopted children more than their own offspring if the former is industrious and deferential while the latter lazy and insolent.