My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 1070

Chapter 1070 

At Baroque’s headquarters, Lauren and Harrison were having tea with the general managers of various departments in the chairman’s 

office. Everyone present had been with the company for over 20 years, making them veteran figures. 

“We received another order worth 3.5 billion dollars from Sagen. I suggest allocating some of it to the branch offices!” The first to speak was Seamus Chezk, the general manager of the Business 

Department. 

Despite being 55 years old, he exuded vitality. He had a pair of sharp eyes that held more authority than even the chairman, Harrison. 

Jalen, the general manager of the Production Department, frowned and glanced at Seamus coldly. “The branch offices only have a little over 400 employees and are lacking in technical personnel. They’re facing even more terrifying backlogs of orders than we are here. 

“Hera, that girl, is still young. Her workload is no lighter than ours!” 

He lifted the teacup from the table, took a sip to wet his throat, and 

casually added, “Mr. Chezk, are you not familiar with the saying that 

greed leads to the swallowing of the snake by the elephant?” 

It was obvious he was blaming Seamus for taking on too many 

orders. 

“I understand that, but the chairmen of those companies had personally come over, and these are all well-known entrepreneurs. 

How could I refuse?”. 

” 

Seamus was also helpless. If it were just some small businesses 

sending orders to them, he could have perhaps found an excuse to decline them. However, these were all medium to large enterprises with assets exceeding a hundred billion or even 200 billion. 

Baroque could not afford to offend them, let alone a small general manager like himself. 

“Let’s think of ways to raise funds.” Jalen Cross shook his head with a bitter smile. He was not targeting Seamus. They had worked together for over 20 years, he knew Seamus inside out. 

There was a time when Baroque had no orders and Seamus had been worried sick, causing half of his hair to turn white. 

Seamus looked at Harrison and Lauren, “Madam, if we can’t manage 

it, let’s just send out the orders and get them done. With Innovate Collective missing out on the cooperation with Universal Group, there should be a lot of vacancies in equipment. They probably won’t refuse! 

“No.” Lauren’s expression changed instantly. “They’re our archenemy. They’ve been suppressing our company for years. Baroque will never 

work with them.” 

She did not mention the most important thing, which was that Innovate Collective had sent hitmen to assassinate herself and 

Harrison this morning. 

Harrison, who rarely smoked, lit a cigarette and took a deep drag 

before speaking, “If we continue like this, Baroque will inevitably be overwhelmed. The only way to change the situation is to expand our 

production lines infinitely.” 

Three essential conditions were required to expand production lines- space, employees, and equipment. The cost of renting space and hiring employees was not too high, but purchasing the equipment needed was the biggest problem. 

Lithography equipment was extremely expensive, especially since most of the orders received required 12nm chips. Previously, Baroque had a billion prepaid by Drake Group to buy seven 12nm lithography 

machines. 

However, the production capacity was still far from enough. Not only that, it did not even meet Drake Group’s demands. 

Seemingly having made an important decision, Harrison stubbed out the half-smoked cigarette in the ashtray and turned to Lauren. “With our company’s current qualifications, how much money can we 

borrow from the bank?”