Before the construction of Mahajanga's Deutsche City, a huge competition was held in Germany for the design of a tropical arid city, and ironically the winner was the work of a French architect, who seems to know Madagascar best. His entry is called "Traveler's Banana", which is a characteristic plant in Madagascar, because the leaf sheath is cup-shaped to store a large amount of water, and its sap can also be drunk to provide emergency water for desert travelers, hence the name Traveler's Banana.

The branches and veins of the traveler's banana are very exquisite, the branches are like fans, the vascular bundle is of course the fan bone, and the leaf veins are also quite regular symmetrical bifurcation, this design mainly considers the strict water supply trunk and branch line, which are symbolized by the fan bone and leaf veins respectively, and the water pipe is bifurcated like the vascular bundle of the traveler's banana. This neat and symmetrical design immediately conquered the hearts of the German architect jury and became a big hit in Deutsches City, and Downing also liked it.

The design of the city is mainly the design of roads, water supply, and power supply pipelines, and the buildings that grow on these branches are much looser.

Probably the most organized city ever built by mankind, the Traveler's Banana complex is a favorite of the rigorous Germans, and Mahajanga's real estate industry was the first to develop, with a number of holiday villas being pre-sold. Its initial construction can accommodate 30,000 people, but all the facilities can be expanded, and the main road that has been built can immediately build a new "fan bone" as long as there is a demand, and there were originally 10 fan bones, each of which can accommodate 3,000 people.

These 3,000-person settlements are equivalent to a single leaf, with 20 symmetrical veins, each of which can nourish 150 people. The residents of this vein share a large water tower, which can ensure that the residents of the "vein area" can supply water for two days without any interruption if the main water road fails, so that the most important survival needs of the residents can be guaranteed.

Even in the Sahara Desert, there is water vapor in the sky, but most of it is evaporated by the hot near-earth air before falling to the ground, so in the event of a failure that cannot be recovered in a short time, the water tower can also be tied to an airship-style water collection system, which can be used by the residents of the pulse area to drink at this time, and limit bathing.

In view of the fact that Madagascar is often hit by tropical cyclones, the windmills that supply the power to Deutsche City must have sufficient hurricane protection capabilities, so most of them are designed with a well-balanced H-shaped and Q-shaped shape. Like the distributed water supply system, the windmills are also located in each vein area, and there are branches of the main road and the terminal of the leaf vein, and the two windmills located at the end of the leaf vein can also shoulder the responsibility of ensuring the electricity consumption of residents when the main power supply road fails.

In terms of design alone, Deutsche City is certainly the place with the highest quality of life in Madagascar, and the superior execution of German engineers and workers will not disappoint the wealthy who have pre-purchased holiday villas. Madagascar is an extremely inaccessible place, and as long as the main transportation routes are protected by troops, the colony can basically be protected from attack.

On the other hand, with the assistance of the Windsor Empire, which is the "first air force", the aborigines are not so comfortable, and once the patrolling airships find that a slightly larger army is gathering near the colony, they will send UH64 helicopters (multi-purpose helicopters with large ammunition loads, suitable for dealing with backward enemies) to sweep away, as long as a formation of three or five helicopters can beat the backward army of the aborigines to the ground.

Soon, about a quarter of Madagascar's territory in the vicinity of and north of the city of Mahajanga was under the firm control of the invaders. A huge construction of the colony will also begin. In poor Madagascar, there was no money for real roads for a long time, and dirt roads looked interesting in the dry season, but when it rained, they became waste, and people walked on them as if they were walking in swamps.

The colonists' first priority was to build a cement and steel mill to provide raw materials for prefabricated buildings and roads. The highly motivated Federal Geographical Society soon discovered ilmenite because of its weak magnetic properties, and the exploration airship soon discovered magnetic anomalies, thus becoming the first industry with economic potential for a Malagasy company. Its reserves are quite large, and this property alone can enrich the colonists of Mahajanga.

Needless to say, titanium is a metal of excellent quality, which surpasses iron and aluminum in terms of high mechanical properties, light weight, and corrosion resistance, and titanium alloys will be used as shells for high-speed aircraft in the future. Today, ilmenite titanium dioxide compounds are known as "the whitest substance in the world", and only 1 gram of titanium dioxide can paint an area of more than 450 square centimeters into snow white, which can be used in paints and papermaking.

The Baden Aniline Soda Ash Company, a pigment producer in Ludwigshafen, soon joined the industrial construction of Madagascar, which later became BASF, the world's largest chemical company. The ilmenite discovery was purely accidental, but it once again spurred the shares of the Malagasy company to rise, and seemed to confirm the legend that the sword of the Windsor consortium must never be returned empty.

It seems that Madagascar's metallurgical industry can supply sub-Saharan Africa, and the North African market can be handed over to Italy and Israel, and the Windsor consortium will soon be able to reconcile the internal distribution of the market. Spurred on by the news of ilmenite's discovery, the staff of the Federal Expeditionary Force intensified the invasion, and the expeditionary force soon approached Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar.

Alarmed by the German offensive and alarming the Government of the Kingdom of Madagascar, the Queen fled south with her brother, Prime Minister and husband, and called on all Malagasy subjects to fight the invaders to the death, as the Emperor of Brazil did.

When the Germans occupied Antananarivo, it was internationally declared that the Malagasy Company was the owner of the Falklands, and that a liberal policy would be implemented in Madagascar, with all prisoners of war released and entrenched as necessary. This was the first large-scale military operation in history to use helicopters as the main force of attack, and it made rapid progress, announcing the arrival of the era of air supremacy.

For the first time, the Blue Whale-class airship participated in the logistics of the war, and its huge load capacity and speed of 100 kilometers per hour created the first record in history for the invasion speed of 600,000 square kilometers of core cities. An unusually arid region has the advantage that minerals are easily discovered, as is the case in Australia, but also in Madagascar. The German Federal Geographical Society has discovered that Madagascar is a mineral museum, with rare metals such as cobalt, nickel, platinum, zirconium and even oil, and the shares of Madagascar companies have risen tenfold.

Although this is good news, Downing did not pay much attention to it, he is concerned about how the big island will develop agriculture in the general dry season for half a year, this is the challenging problem, agriculture is called the primary industry, if a place is not guaranteed to eat, it often cannot develop industry, Downing believes that this is the biggest reason why the people of Madagascar have been living on the verge of extreme poverty.

He found that the Falklands had a lot of similarities with the Cerrado Wilderness in Brazil, where there were as many baobab trees as there were termite mounds, and it was so outstanding that there were no decent plants around it that could compare to baobab trees. Identified by botanists, these gigantic plants, which are generally more than 30 meters tall, often have a lifespan of more than 1,000 years! It's just auspicious in the trees. Their elephant-like belly holds 100,000 litres of water, enough to feed a family of five throughout the dry season.

The edible part of the fruit of the baobab tree is like a bread cube, it is very satisfying and tastes good, and its leaves also taste very good, and can be eaten as a vegetable, the only big problem is that it is not easy to collect the fruits and leaves, they are usually thirty meters high, and the trunk is like a bottle that can hold an elephant, and it is difficult for even a monkey to climb up.

Only the Windsor consortium has the ability to create a zào's airship harvester, and it has appeared on the stage of history so shiningly. With this product, the entire "non-agricultural area" shrouded in the highland rain shadow area has been turned into a natural plantation. Thousands of years of life have given this strange tree a strong vitality, and it also has the thick cork of the Cerrado Wasteland tree to withstand wildfires, and the thick trunk to withstand the ravages of wind damage.

Half a year of sustainable agricultural harvesting can bring enough economic value to local residents to cover the cost of food for the whole year. The company only needs to hire a small number of farmers to feed the inhabitants of this 100,000 square kilometers, and through the redistribution of guò, it is almost like obtaining all the labor force in the region with the primary industry, so if you think about it, it seems that the economy can really develop.

As for the central plateau region, where there is plenty of rainfall, it is even better to do nothing, and if you do nothing, you can spread the agricultural technology of the University of Munich, use high-yielding seeds, and use high-quality fertilizers, and Madagascar's agricultural economy can be taken to a great level. A further measure is to transform all the original narrow terraces that are not very smooth into high-standard terraces that can be mechanized on a large scale, and the productivity will increase by a hundredfold.

The barren mountains can be due to a variety of reasons, some are acidic or alkaline, some are due to nutrient deficiencies, which can be scientifically transformed to bring them to life. Demand stimulated the development of science and technology the most, and German engineers soon developed the theory of reclaiming mountains and fields, and designed special machines for terraced fields, which could not only move the soil, but also filter out small stones in the soil and other factors that interfered with planting. The specially designed and mechanically leveled terraces of Tong Guò look incredibly beautiful in the air, a pattern of Euclidean geometry. All of Europe is excited about Madagascar's coming era of mechanized terraced farming.

Not only the terraced fields of the central highlands, but also the tens of thousands of square kilometers of thorny forests in the southwest have taken on new meaning under the hands of the masters of innovation. Everyone knows that the cactus is home in the desert, and this most famous prickly plant has clearly pointed out what our thorns are for. Madagascar's spiny forests are unique in the world in terms of biodiversity, spiny flora, not unlike cacti in the desert.

Trees, shrubs, vines, and herbs are covered with sharp spikes, and in the cool of the morning, these rare tenacious creatures on earth astonishingly collect a considerable amount of dewdrops, which are similar to the high-altitude dew nets invented by Downing. Their leaves are so small that they are hidden deep in the spikes, and it is difficult for ordinary leaf-eaters to eat them.

Due to the diversity of these plants, some species with good ornamental and usable properties can be selected to be used as fences for the garden. In order to achieve the ultimate in viewing, the Madagascar company invited a large number of German architects to visit the thorny forest and asked them to design the thorny fence.

The simplest and most brutal design is to enclose the thorny vines like barbed wire and place them at the top of the fence to prevent climbing. These vines will gradually wither, so they are not perfect from an ornamental point of view. A better design is a wire mesh with vibrant, self-climbing thorny vines. （http:／／.)。 Downing personally chose a very complex assemblage of prickly plants, with flowers, leaves, and vines, as a hedge for his personal home.

The walls of Downing's home in London are invisible, a "hidden wall" made of rivers. Similarly, thorny shrubs that are more than a meter tall can also be used as a hidden wall, as long as the width is insurmountable to ordinary people, but the eye can see through it, which is a better hidden wall than a small river. Because the creek is easy to swim through, the thorny bushes are not so easy.

Such a wall can be used on railways, highways, etc., to block pedestrians who are eager for shortcuts, without affecting the line of sight of travelers, and is an ancillary facility for high-class transportation, and the problem of scenery should be taken into account when building railways and highways in wealthy areas.

Immediately, the Federal President announced that a thorny shrub found in Madagascar would become a hidden block of the German Autobahn Project, and that the colonial government would carry out scientific and sustainable harvesting of thorny forests in southwestern Madagascar. Germany's motorway network will serve as a model for the use of thorny shrubs, and future highway engineers may think of Madagascar's thorny shrub hideaways when they think of high-end highways.

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