Twelve Metal Colossal Statues

The first emperor of China, Shi Huang Di, who established standards of weights and measures, ordered the bronze weapons of those he conquered to be cast into twelve enormous statues.

This can be interpreted as a message of converting war into celebration of peace, similar to the story for the creation of the colossus of Rhodes.

Is it possible that the apparently megalomaniac emperor had dozenist tendencies?

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Metal_Colossi
  
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes