On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth month of the fourteenth year of Xuanping, it was the end of the year again.

In a few days, the Spring Festival will be ushered in, thus kicking off the prelude to the fifteenth year of Xuanping.

On this day, Li Xuan did not deal with government affairs in the outer hall as before, but handled household affairs in the harem.

A few days ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that the women who were sacrificed by the Warat people and the Turpan Khanate had arrived in Beijing one after another, and were sent to the palace together yesterday.

In other words, yesterday, Li Xuan sacrificed himself for the safety of the Tang Empire in the northwest region, and fought fiercely for most of the night with the daughters, granddaughters, and sisters of foreign rulers.

Yesterday's battle was quite intense, and Rao is an ancient saint like Li Xuan, and he had to spend a lot of physical strength to conquer these alien women.

And the sequelae is that today's legs are a little weak, and it happens to be close to the end of the year, there is nothing important, he simply gives himself a day off.

Speaking of which, he is also very hard to be the emperor, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, there is no holiday, even those ministers, there are still holidays, but he, the emperor, does not.

In the twelfth year of Xuanping, the Tang Empire issued new regulations on statutory holidays, stipulating that the Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival, Winter Solstice and the birthday of the Son of Heaven were all statutory holidays, and officials were given a unified holiday ranging from one day to three days.

Subsequently, the half-monthly leave was introduced, stipulating that one day off can be taken every half month on weekdays.

Therefore, during holidays, most of the officials, except for the officers on duty, can get rest time.

But Li Xuan, as the emperor of the empire, is not good, he is busy on the first day of the new year, and all kinds of etiquette are waiting for him to host.

Not to mention on weekdays, I have a morning meeting in the morning, and after the morning meeting to review the excerpts, and after reviewing the excerpts, I will start to meet with the ministers and deal with some important matters in person.

Then it was lunch time, but many times in order to save time, he would give a banquet, let the ministers who met him accompany him to eat, and talk while eating, of course, most of the time he was eating and listening, and the ministers would at most symbolically eat two bites, and then seize the time to dictate the report.

Therefore, although it is a very glorious thing to accompany the Son of Heaven to lunch, in fact, the process is not very comfortable, because the Son of Heaven is short of time, so they can only seize the time to report as much as possible at lunchtime.

This meal must be insufficient.

But they can't be hungry, the Holy Son of Heaven is used to extending his work until lunchtime, listening to reports while eating, that is the custom, a little experienced ministers know, before going to the audience to fill their stomachs, or wait until lunch time, either you choose to eat to fill your stomach, or choose to make a report in this precious time.

Even if they have no experience, the ministers who meet the Son of Heaven for the first time will often be told to eat first before going.

After lunch, the Son of Heaven would take a short break and wait for the afternoon to continue summoning his courtiers, and at the same time dealing with some of the excerpts sent that day.

Wait until six o'clock in the evening, and the Son of Heaven will leave work on time!

Unless there is a major military event, such as an emergency military report or something!

Otherwise, no one would want to expect Li Xuan to stay and work overtime.

But after work, he is also busy, and hundreds of concubines with official titles in the huge harem are waiting for him to pass, and then spread out for the royal family to consolidate the country, not to mention that dozens of dancers and musicians in the dance troupe are waiting for him to guide them one by one.

These things, if they are placed on ordinary people, they may be pleasures, but when they are placed on Li Xuan, the Son of Heaven, this is not pleasure, this is a state affair!

Giving birth to a few more sons, leaving descendants for the royal family, so that the Tang Empire has an heir to continue, this is the most important responsibility of an emperor, and there is no one.

Last night, Li Xuan worked hard for several hours for state affairs, and whipped more than a dozen women sent by Warat and Turpan Khanate, which can be regarded as raising the prestige of our country.

However, Li Xuan, sometimes he didn't recognize people when he mentioned his pants, and he slipped away as soon as he finished it, and he didn't even give these women a title, even if it was a stunning woman with several national colors and fragrances.

For Li Xuan, it is just a taste, but he will not be stunned by these beauties.

Besides, beauties, he has seen a lot, there are all kinds of types, beckoning, a lot of people lined up to send those stunning women to him, two years ago, there was even a Fuso woman in Osumi County.

She is not small, but she is the concubine of the contemporary Fuso Emperor.

How did it come about?

Naturally, Emperor Fuso volunteered to offer it, crying and shouting that he wanted to give his daughter to the emperor of the Tang Empire, the Holy Son of Heaven Li Xuan.

Of course, the prefectural order of Osumi County naturally will not report, and the reason why Emperor Fuso cried and shouted to sacrifice women was because a daimyo under the control of the Tang Dynasty directly entered the emperor's dilapidated palace, and aimed his bayonets at the neck of the new emperor because he had no money, and even the enthronement ceremony was dragged around the neck of the new emperor, which had not been held.

Emperor Fuso had a very hard time in these years, he didn't even have enough money for the enthronement ceremony, and the palaces he lived in were all in tatters, as for the ghosts of force, not to mention, a medium-strength daimyo under the support of the Tang Dynasty could easily enter the emperor's palace.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been thinking recently that since this Fuso Emperor is useless in the first place, and what kind of emperor he is engaged in, it is really a big rebellion, so he should simply abolish it.

It's just that considering that it is easy to arouse the disgust of many daimyo in Fuso and affect the entire Fuso strategy, it is not action.

They directly adopted a simpler and more straightforward method, directly snatched the emperor's concubine, and then presented it to the Holy Son of Heaven, and if the woman had a man and half a woman, she would be sent back to Fuso as the new emperor.

In this way, in the future, the entire Fusang can be justifiably included under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, which is simpler than conquest by force.

Of course, I don't know if the Fuso people agree with it.

However, within the Tang Empire, few people care about the thoughts of the Fusang people, they just find a reason for themselves, so as not to be too ugly.

In the final analysis, the Tang Empire is still a benevolent and righteous country, and as the only superpower on the earth and even in the whole universe, it still needs face, and it can't be too ugly.

In fact, it's not just Fusang, in fact, most of the surrounding vassal states such as Vietnam will offer a few royal daughters to Li Xuan.

Well, mind you, this is not a marriage, it's an offering!

The Tang Empire never marries with foreign races!

The bullish Tang Dynasty never relies on marriage to win over foreign races, and basically foreign races take the initiative to contribute.