Zheng Xing was the Chief of Staff of the Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the General Operations Department. This time, he had indeed received the Empress's full authorization to preside over the campaign, so all the pressure fell on him.
Before he could figure out how to keep his position, the Chiefs of Staff jointly removed him from office.
They moved even faster than when they had driven out Huo Yushen last time.
As Chief of Staff of the General Operations Department, Zheng Xing himself came from a commoner background, but his wife came from a distant branch of the Rong Clan. So, in truth, he did have a slight connection to the nobility.
One important reason he had defeated other officers of commoner birth to become one of the five leaders of the Chiefs of Staff was that connection.
But that bit of connection was not enough to earn the Rong Clan's full support and cultivation.
Putting him in that position had merely been a symbolic gesture to placate those commoners who always felt there was a career ceiling preventing them from advancing.
Now that someone had to take the blame, he naturally became the most useful scapegoat.
So, up to this point, aside from the officers and soldiers of the Zijun Interstellar Fleet who had already suffered total annihilation, Zheng Xing was the only one who had received any harm or punishment.
After Empress Tantai Zijun ended her livestream, the Chief Imperial Physician announced that her condition had worsened, and she entered a Medical Cabin.
It was said that she required long-term recuperation and could not even handle daily affairs.
However, before entering the Medical Cabin, Empress Tantai Zijun also issued an Imperial Edict, announcing that she was entrusting military authority to the Military Department and the Cabinet,