Bai Zhizhan arrived just as the meeting was about to start, in fact, he was the only one missing.
Zheng Jiangming did not go to the meeting center. Although his personnel file remained at the Navy headquarter, and he was considered part of the Navy, his actual work unit was the Military Intelligence Bureau, which is the Sixth Bureau of the Imperial Guard. He was only stationed at the Navy headquarter for intelligence liaison and thus was not accountable to the Navy headquarter.
Moreover, intelligence personnel were never welcomed.
Not just in the Navy, but in the Army as well.
The reason was simple: the precursor to the Empire's military intelligence agencies was the military law department, which had a nature similar to the Western military police, also known as the gendarmerie.
Obviously, no troops or officers liked dealing with military police.
