Be honest and try to lie as little as possible, because telling a lie often requires countless lies.

Tang Ning can't explain it now, what did he come to Yi'an County to do, and solve the case?

But he only told Li Tianlan two days ago that he didn't know how to solve the case.

He looked at Li Tianlan and asked casually, "What is Master Li doing here?" ”

Li Tianlan's eyes looked at the inner hall and said, "What was lost this time is not trivial, I'll take a look at how the case is investigated." ”

Zhong Mingli had already walked to the door at this time, looked back, and said, "Ning'er, come in." ”

Tang Ning walked into the hall, Li Tianlan thought about it, and followed in.

Zhong Mingli handed him a booklet and said, "This is the file they sorted out, you can take a look at it first." ”

Tang Ning looked at Li Tianlan and explained, "I'll just take a look." ”

Li Tianlan looked at Zhong Mingli, and then at him, with a thoughtful look on his face.

This case is quite important locally, and there are many files recorded, and Tang Ning picks the most important ones.

They first arrested all the famous habitual thieves in Lingzhou City, and then used the elimination method to eliminate the people with alibi certificates one by one, and finally only three people remained.

The time and place of the crime coincided, and the three were all habitual thieves, and at least 80 percent of the time they did it.

But these three, no matter how interrogated and tortured, firmly denied that they had stolen the things.

Tang Ning thought about it, if it was him, he wouldn't admit it.

The matter is so big, it is obviously different from ordinary theft cases, and it is not something that can be done by playing a few boards and being locked up in a prison for a few days.

If you don't do it, you have to take this life and your life into it.

Downing read the dossier and put it down.

Zhong Mingli and Zhao Zhijie's eyes both looked over, and Li Tianlan's eyes did not take their eyes off him from beginning to end.

He looked at Li Tianlan, and Li Tianlan also looked at him, and the atmosphere was slightly awkward.

Li Tianlan thought for a while and said, "If Tang Jieyuan has any ideas, he might as well talk about them." ”

Miss Li, who will give people under the stairs, is very attractive, Tang Ning thought for a while, and said: "First ask those three habitual bandits and envoys, whether they stole them." ”

"If we could ask, would we still be standing here?" A catcher looked at him, then at Zhao Zhijie, and said, "Lord Zhao, those three people have been severely tortured, and there is no result, don't waste time on them, let your people think about it carefully, is there anyone who has been missed?" ”

Zhao Zhijie looked at him and said, "It's not in a hurry, it's better to let Tang Jieyuan try." ”

Xiu surnamed Catcher put his hands around his chest, and looked at Zhao Zhijie with an indifferent expression, when the deadline came, it was Zhao Zhijie who was in trouble, and it was not him, so he liked it.

When he walked to the door of the prison, Tang Ning turned around and said, "Everyone, stay behind, just leave three catchers and go in with me." ”

Zhong Mingli, Zhao Zhijie and the others originally wanted to go in together, but when they saw him speak, they had to wait outside, Zhao Zhijie picked three catchers to go in with him, Li Tianlan stretched out his hand, stopped the last one, and said: "The things lost by the mission are extraordinary, I will go in with Tang Jieyuan." ”

The county government prison is naturally not a good place, and when Tang Ning walked in, there was a musty smell on his face.

He looked back and saw Li Tianlan following up together, but he didn't say anything, looked at a catcher behind him, and asked, "Where are the three of them locked up?" ”

Na Catcher immediately said: "Tang Jieyuan, please come with me." ”

Downing followed him, and soon came to a cell.

He looked at the three people leaning against the wall and said in surprise: "The three of them are locked up like this?" ”

The catcher looked at him suspiciously and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Tang Ning sighed and said, "Find two more cells and separate them, and the cells should be far apart from each other." ”

Although Na Kuai didn't know his intentions, but before he came in, Lord Zhao had already ordered, everything was arranged by Tang Jieyuan, he looked at the two jailers beside him, and said, "Find two more cells, the ones that are farther apart, and separate them." ”

The two jailers opened the door, walked up to the three men, looked at two of them, and shouted, "You two, get up!" ”

Under the frightened eyes of the three, the two guards dragged two of them out and locked them in the two cells farthest apart from each other.

Downing walked into the cell, and the rest of the man was already shouting.

"My lord, we were wronged, and we really didn't steal it!"

Tang Ning walked up to the man and asked, "Do you know what the result of the person who stole the things this time will be?" ”

The man shook his head in horror.

"It was the envoys of the Chu State who lost things, and the things they lost were very important." Tang Ning looked at him and said: "You have also seen that the entire Lingzhou has turned the sky upside down, once it is caught, but the ...... who wants to lose his head will die anyway, if I steal it, I won't say it, I won't say it if I kill it." ”

Li Tianlan looked at him, his brows furrowed slightly, the envoy's seal is not trivial, it is related to the handover of tribute, if it is really lost, the entire mission cannot afford such a consequence.

And what he said strengthened this person's determination not to say anything.

"Don't take chances." Tang Ning looked at him, sighed, and said: "If you do this, someone must lose your head, it is a matter of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and even the nine clans are light, no matter which of you three brothers did this matter, none of you can escape." ”

The man panicked and said, "My lord, we really don't have ......."

"Now for you a chance." Tang Ning waved his hand, interrupted his words, and said: "Let's be honest with you, even if you confess, it is impossible to let you out, but for the sake of your meritorious surrender, you can be released after two or three years, and after two or three years, you will be a good man." ”

When he said this, his voice changed: "But if the other two people confess first, then you have to wait for eighteen years, of course, whether you can be reincarnated as a hero in the next life depends on your luck......"

Tang Ning noticed that the face of the man in front of him flashed with extreme horror for a moment, although he quickly calmed down, his clenched fists and slightly trembling body showed that his heart was not calm.

The man subconsciously looked left and right, but there were only two walls.

He looked at Tang Ning and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, we don't have ......"

"It's okay." Tang Ning waved his hand and said, "You still have a little time to think about it, I'll ask the other two." ”

With that, he didn't look at the man again, turned and walked out of the cell door.

Li Tianlan glanced at the man who was paralyzed on the ground, and also turned around and walked out.

After leaving the cell, Downing did not go to the other two cells, but stood a little farther away and waited.

Li Tianlan looked at him and said, "Those three people are brothers, will your method be useful?" ”

As a very representative example of game theory, the prisoner's dilemma has long been verified by a large number of experiments.

When life is at stake and there is only one chance, brothers may not be reliable.

Tang Ning looked at her and smiled: "Whether it's useful or not, we'll know later." ”

Li Tianlan looked at him and asked, "Didn't Tang Jieyuan say that he couldn't solve the case?" ”

"It's not about solving the case." Tang Ning looked at her and said: "This involves a profound science called "game theory", this knowledge can be applied to all aspects of life, solving cases is only one of the applications, if Master Li is interested, I can explain it to you in detail when I have time." ”

"Tomorrow." Li Tianlan looked at him and said, "There will be time tomorrow." ”

Tang Ning was stunned in place, are they all so upright in the Chu country?

In Chen Guo, "having time" actually means "not having time", which is just a polite way of saying.

It's like "I'll invite you to dinner another day", this sentence means that I don't have time to invite you to dinner today, and I probably won't have time in the future, but this meaning is not very good to express in person, and it needs to be changed to a euphemism.

He looked at Li Tianlan and said with some embarrassment: "I'm really sorry, I have something to ...... tomorrow."

"The day after tomorrow." Li Tianlan looked at him and asked, "Does Tang Xie Yuan have time the day after tomorrow?" ”

"The day after tomorrow ......" Tang Ning is still a little embarrassed.

"The day after tomorrow." Li Tianlan looked at him and asked, "Is there something wrong the day after tomorrow?" ”

The water that was spilled out of the words was difficult to collect, and Tang Ning didn't expect that the envoys of Chu State were not only idle, but also persistent.

He sighed, looked at her, and said, "Then the day after tomorrow......"