Why did Yang Guang from the northwest love the south so much that he "visited Yangzhou three times"?

Yangzhou was located in the south of the Yangtze River in the Sui Dynasty. Since ancient times, it has been a place with rich products and beautiful scenery. Yang Di naturally likes the scenery of Yangzhou and appreciates the literary works in the south. He specially built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which also showed his love for Jiangnan.

Emperor Yang Di, I believe everyone is familiar with him. Although Emperor Yang Di gave people a sense of arrogance and enjoyment, he was also a monarch with lofty ideals and ambitions. He was born in Guanzhong area, which is now Shaanxi. He is an old gentleman in the northwest, but he only loves the beautiful Jiangnan culture, and his queen also married Jiangnan, and there are many concubines in the court.

Yang Di opened the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Although this project was criticized at that time as wasting people's money and exploiting people's labor force to satisfy their own desires, in fact, Emperor Yang Di did not build it entirely for his own hobbies. Although he also built the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which is convenient for him to go to Yangzhou frequently in the future, it also connected the north-south traffic and played a great role in the future economic development and water transportation.

Therefore, it can be seen that Emperor Yang Di loved Jiangnan so much that he dug the Grand Canal not only for his own enjoyment, but also for the future economic development. However, because he was too impatient and hoped to build the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as soon as possible, there was a phenomenon of squeezing the people, which also aroused public anger and resistance.