This is an age old strategy that has worked on all sorts of peoples I mean to just name a few you could say the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths and the Lombards and the Vandals. The Romans cooked them using the recipe into nice civilized states now the term cooked is the way the Chinese used to describe this process when they used to do almost the very same thing to the so-called barbarians on their borders. In effect what the recipe is is destroying the culture of the people's you're targeting and then replacing it with one more like your own. This sort of a dual use kind of strategy for a Frankish ruler or a Byzantine ruler by dual use can be