During his reign, he also sent off more than one expedition in search of the Elixir of Immortality, built the highly advanced irrigation system Dujiangyan Weir that worked flawlessly for over 2000 years to date, and constructed a private garden (Afang Palace) that occupied over 10 km2 of land. With his many astonishing accomplishments such as the 5000km long Great Wall and the miraculous defeat over the Xiongnu barbarians, First Emperor Qin also ordered outrageous acts including Burning of the Books and the killing of scholars who opposed his way of rule. China was at last a unified empire, and the Qin Dynasty was established under the First Emperor Qin Shihuang.
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