Wáng Yǒngjí, zì Xiūzhī 修之, hào Tiěshān 鐵山, was a native of Gāoyóu 高郵 in Yángzhōu prefecture (modern Jiāngsū). He was a jìnshì of Tiānqǐ 5 (1625) under the late Míng and served as a Censor and Inspector before the dynastic transition. After the Qīng entry, he transferred his service to the new dynasty in 1645 and rose to become Grand Secretary (大學士) under the Shùnzhì emperor. In Shùnzhì 12 (1655) he received the imperial commission to compile the Yùdìng rénchén jǐngxīn lù 御定人臣儆心錄 (KR2l0022) — the great Shùnzhì-era imperial admonition to officials, occasioned by the executions of Tántài, Shí Hàn, and Chén Míngxià. He died in 1659; posthumous title 文通 in some sources. His birth-and-death years (1599–1659) are confirmed in CBDB (id 56840). As a Han Chinese career official who served two dynasties, his appointment to compile the Jǐngxīn lù — itself a piece of bureaucratic discipline directed in part at his fellow Han Grand Secretary Chén Míngxià — was a distinctive event in early-Qīng court politics.