Fang Yun continued, "I won't use my own childhood as an example, because I grew up relatively poor, and families like mine account for less than ten percent of the Human Race. I'll use my friend Lu Zhan as an example. His intelligence and family background were ordinary in every respect. According to the Sacred Academy's census, roughly thirty percent of families were better off than the Lu Household. Among the children raised in that better-off thirty percent, about ten percent had no significant advantage over Lu Zhan. So we can make a rough estimate: around eighty percent of human children are affected by similar external factors during their studies. That isn't too unreasonable a claim, is it?"
Zeng Yuan nodded slightly. "Yes. If we're only discussing factors that affect children's studies, there isn't much difference between children from families earning fifty taels of silver a year and those earning five hundred. But when a family's annual income exceeds a thousand taels, the influences on their children are clearly different in every respect."
"Exactly. It seems you understand what I mean," Fang Yun said. "In other words, eighty percent of the children on the Saint Origin Continent aren't much different from Lu Zhan. As for intelligence, those genuinely brighter than Lu Zhan account for no more than five percent. We can discuss them last. All right, let's begin comparing Lu Zhan with you."
"First, let's compare your diets. The Medical School has already conducted extensive research showing that diet plays an enormous role in human development. Compared with a child who can only eat ordinary meals, by the age of sixteen, the bodies of children from aristocratic clans like yours will be at least ten percent better developed. Do you agree with that statement?" Fang Yun asked.
Zeng Yuan hesitated