The king also took positive measures. He emphasised the symbiotic relationships between the royal and the noble families. On the same occasion, he announced the creation of Family Order, designed to reward those noble families who had loyally served kings of the Bangkok dynasty. The move borrowed a western practice and was intended to guarantee the adherents of old siam a place for themselves and their descendants in the westernisation process. Thus the old families were shown that there would be places for them in the reformed state.