Looking for novels when I was a child, I heard about it 93 years ago.

Dan Tianfang's The Prince Sweeps the North

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Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was ill and fatuous in his later years, and Ma Huanghou was able to take power, which made Han Xu, Jin Hu and other treacherous officials control Chaogang. They used the Hu and Lan incidents to expel Xian Xiang and kill heroes. The fourth prince wrote a letter to dissuade him, so he was hated by Ma and Han, and sent him to Peiping in the name of making him a prince, but his soldiers were weak and full of difficulties. In fact, he expelled the prince from the capital and set a trap for him. The prince was forced to sweep across the north. Despite all the hardships, it finally became a great cause. He raised the flag and returned to Beijing, where he ascended the throne "except treacherous court officials" and eventually became a unified country.