The August 15 Incident shocked Shijie, and Quanshijie's eyes suddenly shifted from the Tang Empire in the Pacific Ocean to Northeast China.

Recently, two major shijie incidents have been related to Japan, and the international community cannot help but exclaim, "The Japanese are crazy."

If the Sino-Japanese War was just a blow to the Japanese by the British in order to save face, then the fall of Northeast China after the August 15 Incident touched Britain's tense nerves, and when 18 bombers of the Japanese Kwantung Army began to bomb Jinzhou, Britain judged that the Japanese army had a tendency to advance into China's Guannai, forcing Britain to join forces with the United States and France to exert further pressure on Japan to ensure that their interests in China were not threatened.

Britain, the United States, and France have always pursued a policy of working together to weaken Japan's military and prevent Japan from turning from an island country to a landlocked country, that is, to prevent the Japanese army from invading and seizing China's mainland resources. Because Japan, as an island country, lacks resources, Britain, France, and the United States can easily balance Japan, and once Japan gains a foothold in Chinese mainland, then Japan will be out of control.

As a result, the League of Nations, led by Britain and France, passed Resolution 1013, which ordered Japan to stop its aggression against Northeast China, and the United States openly supported this resolution and worked with Britain and France to put pressure on Japan.

Until then, Britain and the United States had been waiting for Japan's exact answer because their military attache had been killed by a Japanese naval warship.

But the Japanese are very cunning and have been prevaricating Britain and the United States on the grounds that Kotaro Aso is dead and there is no proof of it. At this time, the Japanese government made public the news of the assassination of Yuyuki Hamaguchi, and skillfully avoided the questioning of Britain and the United States.

Rejiro Wakatsuki, who is also a member of the Democratic Party, served as acting prime minister, and he was seen by Japanese politicians as a continuation of Yuyuki Hamaguchi.

However, in the face of intense political pressure from Britain, France, and the United States against Japan, Wakatsuki Reijiro convened an emergency cabinet meeting on August 16. Minister of War Minamijiro emphasized that this was an act of self-defense by the Kwantung Army, but Foreign Minister Kishigero Bihara suspected that it was a conspiracy of the Kwantung Army and tried to resolve the incident through diplomatic means. The Japanese Cabinet decided on a policy of "not further escalating the situation." However, the Kwantung Army ignored the government's decision and continued to expand the front in the name of self-defense.

Reijiro Wakatsuki wanted to withdraw his troops as soon as possible in response to the "Manchurian Incident" and not to escalate the situation, but he was worried that if he overstimulated the Japanese military, he would follow in the footsteps of Yuyuki Hamaguchi's assassination.

The Japanese military believed that Reijiro Wakatsuki was more fortunate than Yuki Hamaguchi, so the head of the Kwantung Army, Minister of War Minamijiro, repeatedly claimed to Prime Minister Reijiro Wakatsuki that the Japanese army was "self-defense".

Rejiro Wakatsuki is not a fool, he understands that the Kwantung Army does not listen to him at all, and the reason why he is still "lying" to him now is because he is still the nominal prime minister. Reijiro Wakatsuki knew that the Japanese Kwantung Army Jihua had invaded and occupied the whole of China, and the current occupation of the three eastern provinces was just the beginning, he couldn't stop the Kwantung Army, and he didn't want to bear the blame for the Kwantung Army, let alone be killed by the Japanese military, so in desperation, the cabinet of Reijiro Wakatsuki resigned collectively before the end of the year.

On the same day that the cabinet of Reijiro Wakatsuki resigned en masse, the Japanese Kwantung Army sent troops to invade and occupy Jinzhou.

Although the Nationalist Government had clearly recognized the Japanese Kwantung Army's attempt to invade and occupy the whole of China, and under the pressure of domestic public opinion, it repeatedly ordered the Jinzhou Northeast Army not to retreat half a step, but at the same time stressed that it was not allowed to take the initiative to attack and provoke the Japanese army. Zhang Xueliang then ordered the Jinzhou Northeast Army to withdraw to Shanhaiguan and surrendered Jinzhou to the Japanese.

The Japanese military believed that according to the current situation, the Nationalist Government would not resist, and the Japanese army could advance until it occupied all of China. Therefore, the Japanese Navy's West Sea Fleet was ordered to enter the Bohai, Yellow and East China Seas and blockade the Second Fleet (Northeast Navy) of the Republic of China Navy in Yantai and the First Fleet (Yangtze River Fleet) at Wusongkou.

The Japanese army's full-scale war of aggression against China was on the verge of breaking out.

At this time, Inukai succeeded as Japan's prime minister and foreign minister, and he was considered a lifesaver for Japanese politics to stop the military.

As soon as he came to power, he immediately ordered the Japanese Kwantung Army to stand by and not to move forward, otherwise it would be punished for treason and all supplies to the Kwantung Army would be interrupted. At the same time, the Japanese West Sea Fleet was ordered to lift the blockade off the coast of China and return to China immediately, on the grounds that Japan's current main enemy was the Tang Empire, and the main force of the Japanese Navy would make an expedition to the Tang Dynasty, during which the home sea was empty, and the West Sea Fleet was required to withdraw immediately.

The Japanese military immediately put forward a solemn opposition to the decision made by Inukai Takeshi's cabinet, but Inukai immediately froze all appropriations and logistical support for the Japanese military, forcing the Japanese Military Command headed by Kato to carry out Inukai's order.

On December 19, 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army withdrew its troops from the halfway point of the attack on Shanhaiguan, and at the same time, the Japanese Navy's West Sea Fleet also withdrew from Yantai, Jiaozhou Bay, and the Yangtze River estuary. The Inukai Cabinet ostensibly achieved a victory over the Japanese military, but it also made the Japanese military very dissatisfied, leading to a new round of assassination of the disobedient Japanese prime minister by the Japanese military.

At the same time, because the Kwantung Army stopped the offensive, the Japanese military put the matter of a naval expedition to the Tang Empire back on the agenda.

In the early morning of December 28, 1931, more than 100 large fleet groups composed of battleships, aircraft carriers, heavy cruisers, light cruisers, destroyers, submarines, supply ships, and troop carriers were assembled in Tokyo Bay, led by Vice Admiral Tatsuzo Kobayashi, and set off for the Central Pacific Expedition to the Tang Empire.

After nearly five months of preparation, the Japanese Navy is finally about to take revenge on the Tang Empire.

Inuyangyi's agreement with the Japanese navy to expedition to the Tang Empire was actually to divert international attention, especially since the Tang Empire was surrounded by overseas colonies of Britain, France and the United States, and he thought that he could divert the attention of Britain, France and the United States.

However, his calculation did not start, although Britain, France and the United States began to care about the Tang Empire more than before, but compared with Northeast China, the Tang Empire is still not worth mentioning in their hearts. In particular, Britain, France, and the United States all believed that the Tang Empire could not defeat the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet and was destined to be destroyed by Japan. The outcome of a war without any suspense naturally did not attract much attention from them, so Britain, France, and the United States still focused on the issue of northeast China and continued to put pressure on Japan.

The Inukai Cabinet has one thing in common with the Japanese military, that is, since it has invaded the three northeastern provinces (excluding the Soviet Shili area in the northeast), there is no idea of returning to China. Although the Blue Fox Special Service of the Tang Empire destroyed most of the military facilities and heavy industry factories of the Northeast Army, which was very annoying to the Japanese, their original purpose was achieved, because the rich mineral resources of the three northeastern provinces would bring extremely low production costs to Japanese industry and inject a shot in the arm for Japan to get out of the economic crisis.

However, this is also the result that Britain, France, and the United States are most unhappy to see, because they do not want Japan to gain access to the rich mineral resources and industrial goods consumption market in Northeast China, so the governments of the three countries continue to support the Nationalist Government in pressuring Japan around the Northeast issue.

At the same time, the Chinese Nationalist Government faced tremendous pressure from domestic public opinion, and constantly complained to the League of Nations, using all diplomatic resources to persuade the European and American powers to take back the three northeastern provinces.

But Chiang Zhongzheng was not able to compete with the Japanese, but the domestic public opinion pointed to him, and the Kuomintang had just ended the Central Plains War, and all parties hated him to death and did not buy him. At the end of 1931, Chiang Zhongzheng announced his resignation from the posts of chairman of the Guangzhou Nationalist Government, president of the Executive Yuan, and commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force, agreed to reorganize and establish the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and asked Lin Sen to serve as chairman of the Nationalist Government.

In addition to continuing to rely on the mediation of the League of Nations, Lin Sen strengthened preparations for war against Japan, and the 19th Route Army was ordered to march into the Shanghai garrison, but it did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Japanese, and supported the national non-violent non-cooperation movement to boycott Japanese goods.

What Japan is most worried about is the upsurge of national anti-Japanese sentiment in China, which is far more violent than that of the Nationalist Government, and the war is still raging in various parts of Northeast China, and the Anti-Japanese Salvation Organization has been resisting the Japanese invasion. And the rest of China has a total boycott of Japanese products, which is the most serious thing for Japan, which is suffering from economic crisis.

The Cabinet knew that the Nationalist Government did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Japanese Shili, but the Japanese military deliberately insisted on sending troops to Shanghai on the grounds that the 19th Route Army had entered Shanghai and threatened the Japanese Concession.

After all, Inukai Takeshi did not have the seniority of Yuyuki Hamaguchi to suppress the Japanese military, so he agreed that the Japanese military would launch a local war in Shanghai in order to divert the attention of Britain, France and the United States and force the Nationalist government to submit.

Inu's compromise means that the Japanese political party is no longer able to restrain the Japanese military, but Inuyang does not know that a military assassination operation carefully arranged against him is secretly planned, and the entire Japanese political circle does not know that the Japanese military's tolerance for politicians has reached the limit, and a larger conspiracy is already brewing.