17.Later on, if you are sent to the frontier you can accomplish meritorious deeds for the Emperor and thus get your wife and children rewarded by heritage.
18.If Your Lordship were to raise an army to put His Majesty back on his throne, that would be a meritorious act earning you ten thousand years of acclaim!
19.If the Emperor wants us to return, and help him to achieve meritorious deeds then we shall he honored, and shall be able to gain promotion in official rank.
20.Because only in this way, the meritorious group as vested interests can be most easily protected, or to put it bluntly, these people can more easily control the emperor.