Aegon V

[Moiraine Sedai]

This is the Aegon of Dunk and Egg.  Truth is hard to find.  We only have historical accounts of his unlikely reign.  He wanted to start making reforms.  We can guess these reforms were not going to be popular with the establishment because he felt the need to birth dragons. 

What were these reforms?  

 

[kissdbyfire]

It's literally spelled out in the WB. Not the specific reforms he wanted to make, but that these reforms were aimed at improving the lives of the smallfolk. 

TWoIaF, Maekar I

“Prince Aegon was the obvious choice, but some lords distrusted him as well, for his wanderings with his hedge knight had left him “half a peasant,” according to many. Enough hated him, in fact, that an effort was made to determine whether his elder brother Maester Aemon might be released from his vows, but Aemon refused, and nothing came of it.”

TWoIaF, Aegon V

“Though beloved by the smallfolk, King Aegon made many enemies amongst the lords of the realm, whose powers he wished to curtail. He enacted numerous reforms and granted rights and protections to the commons that they had never known before, but each of these measures provoked fierce opposition and sometimes open defiance amongst the lords. The most outspoken of his foes went so far as to denounce Aegon V as a “bloody-handed tyrant intent on depriving us of our gods-given rights and liberties.”
It was well-known that the resistance against him taxed Aegon’s patience—especially as the compromises a king must make to rule well often left his greatest hopes receding further and further into the future. As one defiance followed another, His Grace found himself forced to bow to the recalcitrant lords more often than he wished. A student of history and lover of books, Aegon V was oft heard to say that had he only had dragons, as the first Aegon had, he could have remade the realm anew, with peace and prosperity and justice for all.”

 

[Euron III Greyjoy]

To make better lives for the smallfolk. Its the reason he wasn't very popular with the Lords. 

[Canon Claude]

And in the end it’s all for nothing thanks to Tywin removing what few reforms Aegon made, just to make the ruling class happier with the Mad King’s reign.

[Wm Portnoy]

3 hours ago, Canon Claude said:

And in the end it’s all for nothing thanks to Tywin removing what few reforms Aegon made, just to make the ruling class happier with the Mad King’s reign.

Westeros was fiscally sound under Aerys.  

[Canon Claude]

4 hours ago, Wm Portnoy said:

Westeros was fiscally sound under Aerys.  

I guess it comes down to whether you value economics or human rights more. 

[Kandrax]

Improving lives of peasants