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After Choi Chung-hyeon(崔忠獻) removed Lee Eŭi-min(李義旼), he entirely held the right of personnel affairs over Nasis who attended on the king around. That was because he intended to put in his close associates as Nasis, and to watch and check the king's political action through them. But after King Hee-jong(熙宗) came to the throne, some friendly Nasis with the king began to appear. Most of them were his friends[春坊公子] when he was a Crown Prince. Finally they took an action of killing Choi Chung-hyeon who was a military ruller at that period, but it ended in a failure. And with this as a momentum, Choi Chung-hyeon blocked the appearance of Nasis close to the king throughly. This political situation continued to the period when Choi Woo(崔瑀), Choi Chung -hyeon's oldest son, succeeded to the ruler. He picked his faithful servants as Nasis, as he wanted. On the contrary, the king couldn't appoint his respected teacher as Nasi at his own will. He had to try to read the military ruler's mind to carry out his will. But after Choi Hang(崔沆), Choi Woo's second son, succeeded to the military ruler, some Nasis who had different political view against the ruler appeared again. And the king partly regained the right of personnel affairs over Nasis. With that, some friendly Nasis with the king began to appear again. That was because Choi Hang's ruling power was weakened. We can find two characteristics when we analyze the persons who took a role of Nasi at the ruling period of Choi's family. One was that many Nasis were produced out of the same family, relatives and ones by marriage. And I'd like to name 'Jokdanwha[族團化] of Nasi' this tendency. This was the result that some families which produced Nasis before and after military revolution had developed their political power and dignity continually, and many new families began to have interest in entering into Nasi at the period of King Myoung-jong(明宗). The other was that the ratio of Nasis from military officials was much lower than one of Nasis from civil officials when compared with the period of early military rule. That was because the military ruler prevented the other military officials except his close associates from entering into Nasis throughly. In this way, Choi military rulers controled the other military officials and kings at one time, and confirmed their political foundation. It was one of the reasons why the kings had no power at the period of Choi's military rule differently from the period of early military rule.