Li Er was also in a dilemma at this time, it was neither right nor wrong to continue to extort a confession, he was so angry that he picked up the sword that had fallen before, and hacked in the hall to vent his anger.

"Go, continue to extract confessions, even if you beat them to death! I don't believe it anymore, they are not afraid of death!" Li Er still angered and ordered Mi Tuo.

Seeing what Li Er said, Mi Tuo turned around and was about to leave, but was stopped by Li Wangyou.

"Mi Tuo, wait!" Li Wangyou turned around and cupped his hands at Li Er: "Uncle, my nephew has a way, maybe he can pry the two girls' mouths open, but I need my uncle to give my nephew an imperial edict. And pardon the crime of one of them, and forget the past."

"What? Ziyou, are you crazy? Such lowly servants who have no king and no father, it is already kind for me not to punish their nine clans. You want me to pardon them? This is absolutely impossible!"

When Li Er heard what Li Wangyou said, his lungs were about to explode.

"Uncle, now, is it important to find Li Zhi or kill them? Please think again, uncle!"

"You..." Li Eryi was speechless for a while, and waved his hand dejectedly after a long time: "As long as I can find Prince Zhizhi, I will do as you say."

"Thank you uncle! My nephew will try my best to find Li Zhi!" Li Wangyou bowed to Li Er, then turned to Mi Tuo and said, "Mi Tuo, go and tell people not to torture them, separate them. Detain them and don't let the two of them talk to each other."

Mi Tuo looked at Li Er suspiciously, wondering if he should listen to Li Wangyou's words.

Li Er nodded slightly to him, signaling him to follow Li Wangyou's words.Now that things have happened, Li Er can only pin his hopes on Li Wangyou, hoping that he can create a miracle...

440 Prisoner's Dilemma

After Li Er nodded, Mi Tuo naturally did not hesitate, and immediately followed Li Wangyou's instructions.

But in the bottom of his heart, Mi Tuo sneered at Li Wangyou's move.

None of Baiqisi's criminal case veterans were able to pry the mouths of those court ladies. He, Li Wangyou, wanted to find the prince who was transferred and disappeared with a pardon decree?

Mito didn't believe it at all.

Even at the bottom of his heart, Mi Tuo still thought that Li Wangyou was a fool, and he didn't know why he dared to cause trouble for him at a time like this.

But of course he would not speak out against it, because in Mi Tuo's view, Li Wangyou's "fool" behavior was very beneficial to him.

Due to his poor handling of affairs, he has already lost a lot of points with Li Er today.

Whether it was the transfer of Prince Zhizhi, or the investigation of a court lady who was suspected of a crime, Mi Tuo, as the provincial supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was slow to realize that he was really sorry for Li Er's trust in him.

Mi Tuo is now overwhelmed and helpless.

At this time, Li Wangyou said that he had a way to take over the interrogation of the two maids, how could Mi Tuo be unhappy.

Regardless of whether Li Wangyou will make it or not, this hot potato is temporarily thrown out, which can also let Mi Tuo breathe a sigh of relief.

Naturally, Li Wangyou didn't know what Mi Tuo, the chief eunuch of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was thinking. The reason why he suddenly opened his mouth to take over this matter was not because he felt pity for the beauty and fear that Mi Tuo would beat the two maids to death, but because he had just thought of it. a way.

He remembered a classic topic in game theory, the Prisoner's Dilemma.

The two committed the crime together and formed an offensive and defensive alliance.

The police interrogated the two prisoners and issued the following conditions:

Both lied, each sentenced to one year;

Both confessed, each sentenced to eight years;

One lied and one denied. The liar was sentenced to ten years in prison, while the confessor was acquitted.

So two prisoners who are separated from each other, facing interrogation, should they lie or confess?

The Prisoner's Dilemma is the most representative example of a game where the individual's best choice is not the group's best choice.

This is a test of human nature, the idea that people will benefit themselves.Li Wangyou felt that the two court ladies, Yueran and Niantao, might not really be able to be so united. When facing the game test of the prisoner's dilemma, they could resist the temptation of human weakness.

Regardless of success or failure, this is the only way to find Li Zhi now.

Since torture is ineffective, it is better to let yourself try the game method of the prisoner's dilemma.

After Mi Tuo ordered people to separate the two maids, Yueran and Niantao, into custody, Li Wangyou held the edict that Li Er had written hastily, and entered the room where the maid named Yueran was imprisoned.

In these rooms, where the maids under trial are held, there is nothing else in the room except a wooden stool.

After Li Wangyou entered the room, he sat down on the stool, stared at Yueran who was lying on the floor, and didn't speak for a long time.

This palace maid had already been beaten and bruised all over during the torture by Baiqisi.His face was covered with bruises, blood stains overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and the clothes on his body were even more tattered and blood-stained.

Obviously, the woman had been beaten to the brink of death, and now she was lying on the floor, if Li Wangyou hadn't seen her breathing rising and falling in her chest, he would have thought she had been beaten to death.

Li Wangyou was a little speechless, rolled his eyes, and looked at Mi Tuo aside: "Can she still talk like this?"

"Don't worry, Uncle Huxian, he won't die for a while, just ask if you have anything to say."

Li Wangyou was helpless, he felt that he was really unlucky.

Since traveling to this Tang Dynasty, I have been doing this kind of thing to drive ducks to the shelves.This is true whether it is performing a surgical operation on someone or running to torture a "suspect".

However, Li Zhi's disappearance is indeed related to him.In order to find Li Zhi, Li Wangyou could only do his best.

"Yueran, you are from Luoyang, right?" Li Wangyou asked.

Following his questioning, Yue Ran struggled to raise her head: "Yes, slave, slave is from Luoyang."

"Your lord, Lu Chang, makes a living in Luoyang by playing Sanle Baixi, isn't that right?"

What he said made Yue Ran's body stiffen, and it took a long time before she replied: "Yes."

"Hehe, if my prediction is correct, before you entered the palace at the age of 15, you should have learned that Sanle Baixi with your adults, right?"

Yueran struggled and wanted to shake her head, but Li Wangyou didn't wait for her to speak, and continued on her own: "Actually, I already know who did the replacement of the prince. Yueran, you don't have to deny it, it must be That Wen Po, and what you and Niantao did."

"No, no, the slave is wronged, and the slave doesn't know anything." Yue Ran shook her head desperately, expressing her innocence.

But Li Wangyou ignored her, and continued: "The Wen Po has hanged herself, and now it's just you and Niantao. I'll give you two three choices now, it's up to you how you choose."

He stood up, walked in front of Yueran, squatted down, stared into her eyes, and raised a finger: "First, you and Luantao both insist that you don't know about this matter. You can bet on it , to see if I can get away with it. But I can tell you responsibly, if the prince is not found, the saint will be furious, and you twelve court ladies will be beaten to death, there is no luck."

Li Wangyou raised his second finger: "Secondly, you and Luan Tao will tell you the truth. After the prince is found, I will intercede with the sage and leave you a whole body without harming your family."

When Mi Tuo heard this, he almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

Is Uncle Huxian joking?

Co-authoring someone else's confession is death, and not confessing is also death, then they will be crazy to tell the whereabouts of the prince honestly.The second condition, shouldn't it be to promise them that as long as they tell the truth, they will not die?

But even if it is said like this, it is useless. The veteran criminal case of Baiqisi has already said similar things to these court ladies, so it is useless.

Mi Tuo didn't know what kind of ecstasy drug Yue Ran and Luan Tao had taken to make them so tough.The two maids gritted their teeth, even though they were beaten to death, they still complained, insisting that they didn't know.

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