They never stopped to consider, if the Huang family indeed had no rewards for their ancestors' contributions, then where did everything they were enjoying come from? They could, for a time, make no contributions whatsoever while continuing to enjoy life with enough money for them to enjoy the wealth of their sons, but where did all that money come from? Although nobility is a status, they lacked a business mindset and had no means of making money outside, so they always had to rely on their own efforts to ensure the royal family provided them with a certain level of wealth.
So, was effort alone sufficient? In practice, fighting on the battlefield naturally resulted in casualties, which was inevitable. Or assisting the royal family was also somewhat dangerous; one could not guarantee that everyone around you had no ulterior motives, or that the people around you belonged to your race.
