Luu Ngoc Nuong - The most stingy and greedy queen in China, at the end of her life, she died with two empty hands

With a poor background, Luu Ngoc Nuong became a powerful Chinese queen but still kept her greedy and money-loving nature. This queen tried to force her courtiers to pay tribute to her, "suck blood" from the people without any tricks.

The Queen "beautiful - ugly"

Luu Ngoc Nuong (without a clear name in the official history, Luu Ngoc Nuong may be the name given to her by later generations) was born in Thanh An, Wei Chau region in the late Tang Dynasty. Luu Ngoc Nuong's family was extremely poor. In her childhood, she always lived in poverty. She often followed her father to perform in the street to earn money.

In the year Luu Ngoc Nuong was about 5-6 years old, Tan King Ly Khac captured Thanh An. General Vien Kien Phong accidentally encountered Luu Ngoc Nuong. Although she was very young and lived in poverty, Luu Ngoc Nuong still made people laugh because of her beautiful appearance. It was predicted that after she grew up, she would become a beauty, so Vien Kien Phong gave Luu Ngoc Nuong as a gift to the King of Tan. After that, Luu Ngoc Nuong became a servant of Madame Cao, the biological mother of King Tan. Here she was taught to play musical instruments and dance. Luu Ngoc Nuong became more and more beautiful as she grew up, so when Ly Cun Uu inherited his father's royal throne, he recruited Luu Ngoc Nuong as a concubine.

Not only possessing a more beautiful appearance than people, Luu Ngoc Nuong is also very intelligent and multi-talented. Not long with Ly Cun Uu, she gave birth to her first son, Ly Ke Ngan, and relied on him to defeat other beauties in the palace, becoming the most pampered and loved by Ly Cun Uu. In 924 AD, Ly Cun Uu, after destroying the Later Liang Dynasty, founded the Later Tang Dynasty, and ordained Luu Ngoc Nuong as Empress, despite all the objections of the mandarins. After Luu Ngoc Nuong was made Empress, her father looked for her daughter. Not only did he not accept his father, Luu Ngoc Nuong also gave him a spanking and then kicked him out.

Perhaps because when he was a child, he had to live in poverty and poverty, which greatly influenced Luu Ngoc Nuong's thought. After growing up, she was extremely passionate about money and treasures. Becoming the Empress lived in glory, but Luu Ngoc Nuong still did not change this bad habit but became more and more serious.

She wanted a lot of money and wealth, so she let the palace maids and eunuchs go out to sell firewood and fruits at the market. When she could not sell, she forced the people or mandarins to buy her goods to make money.

Not only that, Luu Ngoc Nuong also ordered the mandarins when preparing tributes to the king, they had to prepare an extra part for themselves.

In order to have gold, silver, and jewels to give to Luu Ngoc Nuong, many mandarins plundered and exploited the people, making people's lives increasingly miserable and complaining. Meanwhile, Luu Ngoc Nuong's palace is full of wealth and gold coins are countless.

However, no matter how much, Luu Ngoc Nuong still did not find it enough. Despite being the empress of a country, she adopted Truong Toan Nghia of Ha Nam as her adoptive father because he was famous and rich.

She repeatedly asked Truong Toan Nghia to give her gold and silver tribute. Becoming the adoptive father of the Empress is the dream of many people, that's why Truong Toan Nghia plundered all his wealth to meet Empress Liu's request without complaining.

Riot happened because the Empress was too stingy

Being so rich, but Luu Ngoc Nuong is also very stingy and stingy, she has never spent a dime to help the country overcome riots or danger.

In early 926 AD, the Weizhou army rioted, the prime minister begged the Emperor and Empress to take their own money to reward the generals. When Luu Ngoc Nuong heard it, he became angry and prevented Duong Trang Tong from accepting the invitation.

She even pushed her youngest son out in front of the mandarin and declared: "There is no money to ask for. It is not as good as you selling the prince for money!".

Although the prime minister was very angry, he could not do anything, finally had to leave. It was not until the riot grew bigger and could not be stopped, that Luu Ngoc Nuong accepted to reward everyone with money.

The soldiers took her money while cursing: "My wife and children all want to starve to death. Now, what's the point of wanting to reward them?"

In March of the same year, General Quach Tong Khiem rebelled and led his army to surround the Emperor. Li Cun Yu was seriously injured and wanted to drink water. Empress Liu asked the eunuch to come and serve, but she did not appear or pay any attention to him.

Waiting for Ly Cun Uu to die, Empress Liu brought a lot of gold and silver with Prince Ly Cun Evil and fled to Thai Nguyen. Perhaps witnessing firsthand the cold, selfish Empress Liu, Ly Cun Evil had no feelings for her, but just wanted to take advantage of this stingy Empress.

Arriving at Thai Nguyen, when Empress Liu was careless, Ly Cun Evil collected all her possessions and ran to another place. With no money, no bodyguard, Empress Liu only had to enter the temple to pretend to be a nun, avoiding the pursuit of rebels.

In April of the same year, Ly Cun Uu's adopted son, Ly Tu Nguyen, ascended the throne. To reassure the army and the court as well as to show his determination to become a wise king, Ly Tu Nguyen sent people to track down and arrest Liu Empress and then forced her to commit suicide.

Luu Empress was greedy, plundered money and jewels for her whole life, and then died with two empty hands at the end of her life.

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