Yáng Róng 楊榮 (1370–1440), original name Zǐróng 子榮 (per Míng shǐ), zì Miǎnrén 勉仁, posthumous title Wénmǐn 文敏. Native of Jiànān 建安 (Jiànníng, Fújiàn). The second of the early-Míng Sān Yáng (Three Yangs: Yáng Shìqí 楊士奇 楊士奇, Yáng Róng, Yáng Pǔ 楊溥) cabinet ministers. Hóngwǔ 33 (= Jiànwén 2 = 1400) jìnshì; entered the cabinet in early Yǒnglè (1402); served the four reigns Tàizōng (Yǒnglè), Rénzōng (Hóngxī), Xuānzōng (Xuāndé), Yīngzōng (early Zhèngtǒng); rose to Shàoshī, Gōngbù shàngshū, Jǐnshēndiàn dàxuéshì. Particularly trusted by Chéngzǔ for dá zhèngwù shàn yìngbiàn (mastery of state affairs and skill at responding to changes); accompanied Chéngzǔ on the northern campaigns and authored the Hòu Běizhēng jì 後北征記 (catalogued in KR2c). One of the five participants in the pact-of-mutual-death at the Yān-army’s entry into Nánjīng (1402; cf. KR4e0077 tíyào). Míng shǐ j. 148. Surviving works are KR4e0091 Wénmǐn jí and the Hòu Běizhēng jì. Joint founder, with Yáng Shìqí, of the Táigé tǐ 臺閣體 (Cabinet Style). CBDB id 28347 (1370–1440).