As early as when Hirota was prime minister, negotiations between China and Japan were going on. Due to the constant conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union on the northeastern border of our country during this period, the Japanese were actually a little panicked, and they desperately hoped that China would compromise at this time, so that they could deal with the increasingly powerful Soviet Union. Therefore, the Hirota Cabinet began a policy of luring China to surrender, but the Chinese government did not accept him and directly threw him a cold face, which led to the bankruptcy of the banner slogan of the Hirota Cabinet and had to fall.

During this period, two major events occurred that made the Japanese Empire feel the seriousness of the situation and the determination of the Chinese people to resist the war. The first thing is the Suiyuan incident, this incident is not clear to many people, in fact, it is a local war between General Fu Zuoyi and the former Qing Dewang and other Mongolian separatists supported by the Japanese with the support of Chairman Jiang of the Nationalist Government, and the result of the war ended with the complete victory of the Central Army of the Jin Sui Army, and smashed the Japanese conspiracy to occupy Chahar and Suiyuan provinces and establish the so-called "Great Yuan Empire" or "Great Yuan Republic".

After the Suiyuan incident, the Nanjing Nationalist Government terminated negotiations with the Japanese government.

The second incident was the Xi'an Incident, which was known to both China and foreign countries, after which the Nationalist Government officially abandoned the policy of "suppressing the Communists" and began to unite with our Party to resist Japan. The occurrence of these two events caused deep unease within the Japanese Empire.

Therefore, after Hayashi came to power, he changed his previous hardline policy towards China and began to play soft with China. He proposed a so-called "equal diplomacy" -- which is equivalent to indirectly acknowledging that the previous diplomacy with China was unequal, and re-formulated a clause to resolve what they called the "Sino-Japanese outstanding case", including: China banning the anti-Japanese movement, hiring Japanese nationality consultants, opening up the route from Shanghai to Fukuoka, reducing tariffs, and so on. Generally speaking, the clauses he proposed were still beneficial to the Japanese side, but there was one clause that he did not mention, that is, "autonomy in North China."

The reason why he didn't mention this article was because he adopted his subordinate, Ryosuke Isoya, who was then the director of the Military Affairs Bureau of the Japanese War Ministry (this person will have a major role in the future, and I hope you will remember him).

The reason why he suggested that Prime Minister Hayashi not mention the autonomy of North China was not because he did not want to invade China, but because he thought differently from other people. In his eyes, the Nationalist Government headed by Chiang Kai-shek is fundamentally different from the old warlords before him, they have a strong national complex, and they have a strong sense of the country, unlike Zhang Zongchang, who can betray his mother and son for his own interests.

Therefore, he believes that in dealing with such a Chinese government, it cannot be blindly brutal, so he did not mention the so-called autonomy of North China, so as not to excessively provoke China.

Generally speaking, the overall policy of Hayashi's cabinet was to be soft with China, hoping to paralyze China in this way and make China abandon its anti-Japanese policy.

In the spring of 1937, when Hayashi was in power, relations between China and Japan became confusing. The cabinet sent an economic delegation to visit China and put forward the slogans of so-called "economic cooperation" and "Sino-Japanese friendship" to help China develop its economy.

In North China, there was even an incident in which the Japanese garrison sent the 29th Army to China on the orders of the government, which could be said to be unprecedented at that time. Moreover, Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 38th Division of the 29th Army and mayor of Tianjin, also visited Japan upon invitation. Zhang Zizhong not only went by himself, but also brought a football team composed of Tianjin college students to play a friendly match with the Japanese. At that time, the level of Chinese football was much higher than that of Japan, and the Chinese football team won four games and four victories in Japan, which made the Japanese disgraced and faceless.

Generally speaking, in the past few months when Lin Mijuro was in power, he frequently threw olive branches to China, but the Chinese government was not stupid and knew that they would not give up invading China, and this was just an expedient measure for them, so they did not appreciate it and poured cold water on the heads of the Japanese.

As mentioned earlier, Japan's army is very strong, and they do not dump the cabinet at all, and often act alone around the cabinet. In March this year, they summoned the Japanese military attache in China, Kita Seiichi, the staff officer of the Chinese garrison in Tuntun, and the second Zhiying, as well as a staff officer of the Kwantung Army, back to China and asked them to report on the situation of the Xi'an incident.

Eventually, the Army came to the conclusion that "the anti-Japanese policy of the Nanking regime will not change until China recovers Manchuria, and Chiang Kai-shek, under the anti-Japanese policy, is strengthening internal forces, enriching armaments, and relying on Europe and the United States to actively promote the integration of North China and Nanking." It is inconceivable that the current situation of Sino-Japanese relations is deteriorating day by day by day and can be adjusted by ordinary means. Before advancing north into the Soviet Union, it was necessary to strike a blow at China and destroy the foundations of the Nanking government. ”

It can be said that this conclusion is very army. However, the War Department still had no bottom in their hearts, and they sent groups of so-called travelers to investigate the mood of the Chinese in the name of traveling to China. These travelers, who traveled to many places in China under the watchful eye of the relevant Chinese authorities, saw the anti-Japanese sentiment of the Chinese at this time very high, and there was no sign of compromise with Japan.

Under these circumstances, the cabinet of Hayashi Mijuro, who had only been in power for a few months, collapsed, because this man's China policy did not work at all, but instead gave China a few war guns for nothing. The Japanese have no less mean evaluation of him, that is, this prime minister is not a qualified military man, this military man is not a qualified prime minister, or even a qualified person. When Lin Mi Shilang heard this, he probably slapped the table and scolded the street.

After the fall of Hayashi Juro, in the midst of a thousand calls, the infamous Konoe Fumima finally came to power on June 4, 1937. Konoe Fumima has a lot of background, his family is the head of the five regents closest to the emperor of Japan, and this force can be regarded as a bit talented, and he was only in his early forties when he was the president of the noble house. This time, after the fall of Hayashi Mijuro, he became recognized as the best candidate for the prime minister.

However, there are also people who do not think so, and a secretary of Saionji Konobo once commented on Konoe Bunma and said that Konoe Bunma is like Mt. Fuji, which is beautiful from a distance, but bare stones up close, which means that he is flashy.