You make a regular practice of taking bribes. For the most part they only mean that one family rather than another will gain advantage. However sometimes you are bribed to ignore people who cheat the Imperium by providing shoddy goods. In one case an army was lost in a desert campaign because their food was rotten. The loss of the army led to the loss of a province to the barbarians. Nothing was brought home to you, but you decide to be more careful as to the sort of bribes you accept.